Gerry

this movie has determined for me that i don't like gus van sant movies. he hit a home run with good will hunting, but i'm blaming that on matt damon and ben affleck.
i will start off saying that i was excited for this film. i wanted to see matt and casey on film together. when i heard they helped write it i was even more encouraged. but then i watched it. i swear to god the script is only thirty pages long. the rest of the movie is just unneccesarily long, boring shots of nothing. at least if the compositions were pretty that would be something, but no. the movie opens with ten to fifteen minutes of drivig and road shots with no dialogue and it's all down hill from there. the movie was a huge disappointment. now some critics hail it as this groundbreaking work that has a lot to say about today's world. some argue that the desert is society and that the gerry's are a sort of american everyman. i think this is crap. i think these people are trying to read into it a little too deeply to find meaning in a meanless film. and if that is the point of the film then sant failed because most people missed that point and were just really bored. part of being an artist to make a point, especially in mass media, is to make that point clear enough so that your audiance will get what you're saying. to make a film that is so dense with nothingness as to push the viewer away is useless. sant has been riding the gwh wave for too long, i can't believe he even made it past his hack job of psycho.
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