Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

SnoopyStyle Becky Fine (Zoe Lister Jones) is struggling when her affair with her college professor is discovered by his wife. Casper Phillips (Sam Rosen) is back in town after his father's death. After a bar fight, Becky finds out that Casper is actually an old school mate.This is one night in Minneapolis. It doesn't have the same energy as one night in New York or Paris or any of the big world city. The movie seems to be trying to manufacture a lot of wacky setups. It feels a bit fake especially with Josh Hartnett showing up as a slacker biker.Then there is writer Sam Rosen who takes the lead role. He's not the most compelling actor. He stands out when compared to some pretty big actors in this movie. Zoe Lister Jones is more reserved in this role trying to project a troubled person. Michael Imperioli plays the cheating professor. I don't necessarily buy him as a professor.Then there is a big surprise reveal of Becky's rape in South America in the last 15 minute. It comes out of nowhere and doesn't have any setup. It comes off as over written. That's what most of this movie feels like. His experiences in Afganistan is at least better foreshadowed. Compare it to another movie like 'Before Sunrise', this one lacks the poetry and the chemistry.

The Doctor I was forced to watch this snore fest by my girlfriend who wanted to see it because Josh Hartnet is in it. He appears a third of the way through for a total of 3 minutes. He is utterly boring, in keeping with the boring direction, dialog, and lack of action the producer and director of this "movie" seem to be hell bent on subjecting us to. My girlfriend was so bored she quit watching after Hartnet's useless character disappeared. (Josh was probably too bored to continue). If you want to see boring people saying and doing boring things (at least for the half of the movie I saw), or, if you have misplaced your sleeping pills and need to become comatose quickly, this movie is for you. Seriously, we are forced to watch people saying and doing things that would be boring to us if we did them ourselves in real life. We get to watch people go to 3 or 4 bars and play video games! We get to see people ride bikes! A half hour of my life I'll never get back. Now I'm off to watch the Japanese film Hausu, a really GREAT movie!

The Goo Movies like 'Stuck between Stations' epitomize the principle that you don't need a great storyline, a great cast, a great set designer etc. etc. in order to please the average audience. Partly owing to the theme of the movie, and partly owing to my own pre-conceived notions about unidimensional romantic movies, I had started off with fairly low expectations on this one - but over the course of the next 80 minutes it hooked me to such an extent that I'm willing to stretch my neck out and say that it is as good as similar movies like 'Once', 'In Search of A Midnight Kiss' etc. etc. In fact, writing this, I'm only acutely aware that I may not be the best judge of future movies of the same genre as this one, as I will undeniably be favourably inclined towards them!If you want to watch a movie that will make you want to look at your old, dusty high-school photographs - to reminisce and compare, what you were then and what you are now, and how everyone you knew back then has changed so much or not one tiny bit at all - then this movie will definitely bring back those bittersweet memories.This review will also be incomplete without a cursory mention of the great score accompanying the movie. To be honest, the music is so ethereal it deserves more, much more than a cursory mention, and a great debt is owed to Grant Cutler for providing a breathtaking score to an equally breathtaking movie.My Vote: 8 out of 10 The Goo

davidgduncan I'm not one for romantic movies, and i've only written a couple of IMDb reviews, but I have seen a ton of low budget movies over the last few years, and frankly this is one of the best - certainly of the US variety. In fact I'd say it's as good as Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, I can't quite remember those movies names.This is a very cool movie. It just flows. The main protagonist starts off as a complete dooch. He's in his early 30s and rides a BMX. I almost quit the movie then, but somehow the movie trickles on and before you know it he's striking up a relationship with his high school dream girl.I won't spoil the movie, but it's a very nice trip, that despite it's obvious basicness doesn't seem like a low budget movie at all. I personally think that this movie was completely engrossing, engaging, thought provoking, interesting, if not inspiring, engaging, no I said that already, and enchanting right from the almost beginning to the end.Well played to all participants.