Wordiezett
So much average
Beanbioca
As Good As It Gets
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
colinmcsloy
When I was kid growing up in Scotland, there used to be a really cool cult film show called MOVIEDROME. It was hosted by Alex Cox (director of Repo Man) and each week he would pick a film, talk about it very honestly (often pointing out shortfalls and foibles of the production) and then show it. This was before DVD of course, so it was a great opportunity to see some pretty weird and wonderful films, things like RIVERS EDGE, NEAR DARK, and something with Dennis hopper escorting a dead body across the united states on a train(don't remember what this was called).This is exactly the kind of film that would have been on moviedrome, great and improbable casting (Crispin Glover and Eric Roberts together at last!), unachieved potential etc. Busey really impresses as Rick, he really takes his character on a journey, and towards the end he really starts to impress. I think the pairing of Busey with Indie film legend Crispin Glover, helped Busey achieve this performance. Whether because of the good on screen chemistry they obviously have or because Glover sets the bar pretty high acting wise.Other plus points include the credible and snappy dialogue, and a great cameo by Eric Roberts as Jennifer Tilly's husband/manager/pimp. On the downside, we have a pretty uninspired performance from Tilly, and a meandering plot that doesn't seem to get its act together until the last 20 minutes or so. There also parts by played by Goldberg and Lyon (is that right?, the girlfriend) that are so underwritten that they could almost have been left out they do that little to forward the action. The terrible split screen sequences are extremely half-arsed and should have been left on the cutting room.All in all very interesting failure. BBC bring back moviedrome and might even pay my license fee this year.
Annette83
32 people out of 138 gave this movie an 8, 9, or 10. That means that over 23% of people who watched it and bothered to vote were smart enough and thoughtful enough to actually get it... that's not too depressing.I thought this movie was awesome. I couldn't stop thinking about the psychology of the characters and how much thought must have gone into writing this. Natasha Lyonne's and Adam Goldberg's characters are boring and "normal" characters, whereas Crispin Glover(Jules), Jake Busey(Rick), and Jennifer Tilly(Ginger) are caricatures of three different types of people. Rick is completely driven by hormones and impulses, Jules lives in his head and observes the world but doesn't really live in it, and Ginger is addicted to attention and mental abuse. Their attempts to live life this way eventually fails for each of them.
Tiger_Mark
I liked this film, I liked it a lot. I like all trashy films that deal with the Southern Cal porn industry. Moreover, include Crispin Glover, Busey, Goldberg, Tilley and Lyone? Man, this is a great cast! The story is an odd little mixture of various weird characters trying hard to make a happy existence in a somewhat ugly world. You want further proof that this is a great film? Ron Jeremy is cast as a sleazy restraunt manager that hits on his young waitresses. What more can I say? This film has sex, drugs, rock n roll and a bunch of unique actors being given the freedom to be crazy. Good Stuff!
J. Wellington Peevis
Enjoyable but totally off the beaten path film, which might be why i found it so likeable. Gets kind of old seeing the same old crap with different titles if you knw what i mean. Besides, I am a complete sucker for almost any road film. Its a bit on the rough side, language, and the sex kind of pushes the envelope, but for some reason it really brought me back to my days of living out in crazy LA.
