film: punch drunk love

[BA]

Film: Punch Drunk Love

This might be the worst movie I've seen in recent memory. Adam Sandler plays a weird, quirky role (again) of a guy who calls a sex hotline, falls in love with a girl one of his sisters set him up with, and winds up the victim of extortion by the phone sex company.

Leave it to my girlfriend to bring home something as ridiculous as this piece of crap. I snickered at a couple things here and there, but overall I thought the movie was lamecore. Although it's not surprising, given the lead actor was Adam Sandler.

 

[Finder]

Perhaps you were expecting fart and piss jokes? 8)

I really enjoyed this movie. Especially the way it makes you feel about Barry--I felt bad for the guy, yet I laughed anyway--quite a strange feeling indeed. While not radically different from other films Sandler has done, it's a step in the right direction if he doesn't want to be labeled as a one trick pony. I thought he did a great job as well as the other actors in the film--Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the Mattress Man was hilarious.

The music and editing was superb. I don't think there could have been a more appropriate soundtrack. The water color-esk dissolves were very cool, as well.

 

[n2ofiend]

I thought this movie was pretty decent even though I watched a cam bootleg of it d/l from the net. Sandler was really good and played a great character. This was a very strange movie which I enjoyed thouroughly while extremely high.
I didnt pay to see it and I was highly intoxicated so my view may be skewed.

 

[BA]

I wasn't really expecting anything, like I said, I didn't even pick it out.

And what was the significance of that little piano?

 

[whited19]

the movie was awful...sandler needs 2 stick 2 his knee-slapping stupid funny ha-ha gigs...

"i'm coming outta tha booooooth!!"

 

[cravNbeets]

that film was very short on plot and character development. i think its a flaw of flicks like this, thinking that imagry and other tools can substitue for plot and character develpment. the movie just begs the question "AND?????" yeah i get it he sucks at meeting women he's being extorted, his sisters are crule, he finds a chick and????? why do i care? why do they fall in love??etc that being said there were some really sharp looking scenes in this, most notably the scene where they're kissing and people are walking past them in both directions. piece of crap movie w/ dellusions of grandure imo

 

[LapDawg]

Well...not everyone loves P.T. Anderson films.

 

[djwhirlpool]

i was confused while watching this movie and then i fell asleep.


oh well.

 

[onetwothreefour]

imo, it was *just ok*. it was quite well made, in a cinematic sense, as you would expect from anderson, but the narrative is far too short, and hardly compelling. whilst something like magnolia was quirky in a very amusing and interesting sense, this film's quirks were just stupid...

i wrote a review btw: http://www.inthemix.com.au/p/np/viewnews.php?id=10398

 

[DJWhat]

I can't believe everyone hates this movie so much, it was easily one of the best movies of last year! Everyone I know loves it too, but maybe that's because most the people I know are fellow film students.

I thought it was great in every way...the acting, soundtrack, cinematography, story. The story wasn't complicated, but it wasn't supposed to be...it was just trying to be a simple love story. Adam Sandler surprised me...when I first heard he was the lead for PTs latest last year I wasn't sure it was a good decision for PT (though I also heard it was the studio's decision to cast Sandler, not sure which is true), but he was perfect for the role. Say what you will about Sandler's movies, but the guy is talented, no doubt about that.

I thought the story was compelling, I could definately identify with Sandler's character. The guy had 7 sisters, how could that not warp his attitudes towards women and his love life in general?

I don't know, this is just one of those movies that's hard to like if you're not a film buff/PT Anderson fan/movie geek/etc. Then again I can't stand 90% of the stupid, cliche, lowest-common-denominator shit that passes for film these days...maybe becoming a film snob is inevitable once you start really studying it? Or maybe PT Anderson only appeals to such a small niche he'll never be really appreciated by the masses? I heard he's never made a profit on any of his movies, even though all of them have been critically acclaimed...and because of that studios are becoming weary of financing his future projects, which will be a shame, since he's such a talented director...

 

[onetwothreefour]

Originally posted by DJWhat
I can't believe everyone hates this movie so much, it was easily one of the best movies of last year! Everyone I know loves it too, but maybe that's because most the people I know are fellow film students.

that's a little arrogant isn't it? i'm a film student too (and i'll be doing honours...might even do masters later on), but i don't *love* the movie. i think it's ok. is my opinion any more valid than someone else's *just* because i study film? i think if i can demonstrate that i've learnt certain things, then yeah, but it's possible to learn just as much about film without going so much as near a uni/college.

 

[DJWhat]

^^^ I wasn't being arrogant, just pointing out that film students (at least the ones I know) like artsy-fartsy type movies.

 

[onetwothreefour]

point taken

 

[wendisoul]

Geesh I just watched this and I think I would have liked it better if I watched it with the sound off and my own mix playing.... especially during the wierd cool watercolor sections.
Yeah what was that piano about anyways?

 

[The Neoracle]

Yeah, you guys just didn't get it.

 

[cravNbeets]

^^^ I wasn't being arrogant, just pointing out that film students (at least the ones I know) like artsy-fartsy type movies.

it came off snobby just like this film did. my basic problem w/ the film is the story. yeah its not a complex story. ok neither was dude where's my car. its not particularaly funny, cleaver, well written, well played etc. its ok

 

[djwhirlpool]

film students are always snobby about movies.

 

[DJWhat]

If it came across as snobby, you are reading too much into my post. 8)

And Whirlpool, don't make sweeping generalizations like that, it's a waste of time, adds nothing to the argument and isn't cool.

 

[xtcvitality]

I enjoyed it...it was very...different than the usual garbage that comes out today. It definately did lack a main "point" of focus, besides a love story, but I enjoyed the cinematography and Adam Sandler's character. I really wish they explained a little more and had a little more character development, but overall I thought it was very entertaining.

 

[djwhirlpool]

And Whirlpool, don't make sweeping generalizations like that, it's a waste of time, adds nothing to the argument and isn't cool.

see, there ya go again.