BEST MOVIE EVER


A black comedy road trip movie with Flea, Drew Barrymore, Meat Loaf, Larry Zito, Garret Morris, etc. So many movies are boring and predictable, and this movie is strange, funny and unique...the best part is that it's nothing you've seen before (except maybe the "Wizard of Oz" type ending). Cool premise, well executed. Way better than most of the Hollywood drivel they put out these days.

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Chances are, someone owed someone a favor and they cashed it in by attempting to make the worst movie ever. it lacked all of the requirements of being a good picture. some movies are so bad they are woth seeing, but this one needs to be wiped from the face of the earth for the good of mankind. oh yeah, any ideas where i can find a copy? i have been looking for one since i rented it back in the very early nineties.

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its not the best, but its oddity status alone makes it a gem in my book... it seems overly surreal, but i like the landscape shots and escpecially the Jack Nance cameo, the shot in the hotel room panning across to the bathroom ( very Lynchian) and "the last state", essex... very weird, maybe thats why i like it, cuz i'm a weirdo

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That's because Joseph Minion is a mad genius. He has his own indefinable style of fantastical realism, and off-the-wall, darkly comedic, deadpan everyday absurdist happenstance; making the dark and poignant glances all the more pure. Things in his scripts snark their way out of nowhere, no, not even nowhere, a place beyond nowhere where only Joseph Minion lives. This kind of thinking must run in his blood because his stuff has a genuineness that is devoid of pretension. His stuff is subtle and so unarticulable that it passes by most people who have a banal senses of existence. He is an avant-garde weirdist. His films are for me a definition of the concept of "bizarre" (a word I take very seriously, never use lightly and save for only the highest and purest praise). He should be exalted on high above all the other wild card, eccentric phonies; this guy is the real deal. See: Vampire's Kiss (1989), Motorama (1991), After Hours (1985) and even On The Run (1999).

-michael L.
allcluesnosolutions.com

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Absolutely.
I first saw this movie when I was about 11, and immediately fell in love.
And now rewatching it at 23 - damn, it still brilliant.

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No doubt this movie is gold!
We need more movies with the magic of this Motoroma!

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I wish they had an edition of the DVD.

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Which is in fullscreen and doesn't have any extras. Ah, well.

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No doubt this movie needs a special edition, with: commentary by the director, writer Joseph Minion the same writer of another piece of art the movie After Hours!!!, producers or actors!
This movie is very special, in my opinion this movie is unique!

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I absolutely love this movie. I watched it when it first came out and thought the reason I couldn't understand it was because I was so young- but I still loved it. Watching it again today I still have no idea what it's about but it's probably one of my favorite movies EVER. An absolute gem. And I love that the DVD has no special features etc.. I love it just how it is. It's better not to know what Joseph Minion or the director intended us to know- just watch it and get lost in another world.

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This review is obviously a publicity plea to purchase this film.

I say this because the reviewer immediately mentions the presence of Drew Barrymore.... who is only in the film for a few seconds, and she never says a word.

The film is indeed hypnotic.... although it is very cheaply made. There is one major error in the editing of this film, where a gas station attendant is supposed to be running down a barren highway in the middle of "nowhere", as he chases after a kite... but we can see a bunch of people running alongside the highway on the left side of our screen.

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This movie is bloody weird. I saw it when i was pretty young, didnt see the beginning and only remember a few scenes but ive been trying to find out what it was for years, I remember being really upset by the depressing ending and the fact that the kid never really got anywhere, I couldnt understand the point of the sex scenes either but they are probably the reason I remember the movie. And now that ive found it, I never want to see it again! Thank god this search is over. Id like a small taste though - just the beginning.

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Yeah okay it may be a very good.. but BEST MOVIE EVER? You think you can just throw words at people? Man...

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Best Movie Ever...
while stoned.

It's been a while since I seen this but when I used to catch it late at night on cable, I made sure I was baked when I watched it.

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Talk about the wrong stuff!

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I was completely drunk at a hotel in Thailand when I saw this movie...it blew my mind.

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I recommend also "Interstate 60" - beautiful film by Bob Gale.

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BEST MOVIE EEEEEEEVEEEEEERRRRRR.... YEEEEAH!!!
I WON MOTORAMAAAAAAAAAA

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