Alicia I love this movie so much

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

RipRap At first, I had no farkin idea WTH I was watching, but the music sounded familiar. The channel Guide on Comcast is freakin USELESS ever since TV Guideless took it over, since 9 out of 10 descriptions are WRONG, so I just watched for awhile and I was hooked. The way that the film just ambles along until you expect something crazy to happen is great. It has a home-made licker feel to it, you know, Corn-licker. I loved the way it made me feel. Not many flicks make you feel anything anymore. Not so with Greendale. This is an addictive film, and I think Neil made it that way. I just hope it hooks the rest of this lost nation of Apathetic Zombies that call themselves........'Merkins....

John Seal I had the distinct misfortune of catching up on two of 2004's worst films back to back this morning: first, the incoherent CGI-driven emptiness of The Chronicles of Riddick, and then, the embarrassing vanity project known as Greendale. One cost multimillions and the other cost pennies, but they're both bad. Really, really bad. Up front I should state I'm not the world's biggest Neil Young fan, but he has contributed his share of classic tunes: from Buffalo Springfield (whose best recordings were Young compositions) to Rust Never Sleeps, Harvest, and Mirror Ball, the man has penned some really great songs. Sadly, there are no great songs in Greendale, and precious few good ones, and the film around which they are built is truly cringeworthy and simplistic political sloganeering. Completely without merit as art and unimpressive as polemic, Greendale is best left forgotten. Buy the book if you feel compelled to contribute to Young's bank account.

alexduffy2000 "Greendale" is Neil Young's unbearably pretentious movie about the Green family of Greendale (pretty imaginative, eh?). It's basically an 87-minute-long music video, emphasis on LONG. Some of the songs are really good, such as "Devil's Sidewalk" and "Be The Rain", other songs are okay, and some just go on and on... like this movie. When it was over, I was so relieved!I certainly don't begrudge or knock Neil Young for experimenting in a medium outside of rock 'n' roll. This is the fourth movie he's directed (the third as Bernard Shakey), so he has some experience with the medium. And he's chosen to tell the story in an experimental fashion, with grainy film and characters lip-syncing the words to the 12(?) songs that are part of the Greendale soundtrack. Fair enough. The problem is the story itself, or lack of one. Neil Young is making a lot of left-leaning points in this movie, but they're thrown at the audience without context, without a comprehensible plot or story. The movie reeks of pretentiousness and self-importance. I half-expected the town to become a character called Greendale that would leap down from the screen, and would personally make each audience member (including me) bow down and admit the importance of this movie, and what a work of utter genius it was.Neil Young is one of the most famous living songwriters in the world, one of the few people who can be mentioned in the same breath as Bob Dylan. I'm 39-years-old as I write this, and I've heard most of Neil Young's albums spanning from his 1969 release "Neil Young", to his 1983 release "Everybody's Rockin'", where I completely lost interest in him. On almost all of Young's albums from that 1969-1983 period, there were one or two good or great songs on each album, and the rest completely forgettable. Even the one album I did own, "Rust Never Sleeps," had just one great song, I couldn't tell you what was on the rest of the album.I mention this because I want to draw an analogy between his albums and "Greendale". Young should have felt obligated to give me more than two good songs to make it worth my 87 minutes and my $9.25 (in 2004 dollars). At least give me a story that's comprehensible. But there's no story here, just a lot of "save Alaska" sentiment in a muddled mess of a movie. I'll come right out and say it: this film has NO PLOT and NO STORY! What the hell did I just see? I should probably mention at this point that I'm a left-leaning guy who has never voted Republican, so I had high hopes for this movie.If this movie is about a cause Neil Young wants to convert us to, he's not going to win any converts with this arty-elite meaningless jumble. I respect Neil Young, but this movie... What the hell did I just see?

Matthew-40 I'd seen the concert version of Greendale (rock opera?) in Phoenix, AZ, and was impressed. The film was shot all in Super 8 which I think fits perfect with Neil Young's style over the decades. It's rocky, rainy day feeling goes hand in hand with Neil's music. The original way in which the characters mouth the lines that Neil sings (the albumn Greendale plays through the whole film) made me think that the film would be boring in the beginning. But the images on the screne, along with the music, complete the story nicely. Young focuses on the Green family and their stuggles in the town of Greendale. Basically, their a family of hippies dealing with the media, law enforcement, and environmental destruction. Young expresses his opinions though song and the characters act them out. I recommend this film to anyone, especially if you're a fan of Shakey...