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Anyone else think...

posted 18 years ago by jb24seven
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that the movie had a great concept, but in the end, some bad editing , which was so annoying, especially in the second and third scene, just dropped it down by a couple points....

good overall... entertaining...

[–] yeoldevincente 18 years ago

Well, personally I thought it was absolute garbage and a true waste of time and the rough annoying and fidgety editing didn't help at all. But if you liked it then your perfectly entitled to and I'm not going to ridicule you personally or anyone else simply for liking a movie.

[–] ToXic8 18 years ago

I totally agree.

*Happy endings are stories that haven't finshed yet*

[–] frank1985 18 years ago

I just finished watching it, and this is exactly what I was thinking.
The bad editing was especially clear in the (first?) scene where they walk in the street, and the movie is cut every few seconds. But you could also look at it from a brighter point of view: they tried something non-standard, and it just didn't work out...

The movie picked up when Alan took the LSD, the scenes with the voices in his head were quite disturbing and did a great job at transferring the confusion he had to the viewer (although the effect of the drug seemed quite theatrical).

The plot was a bit shallow, and I certainly know better movies, but I can't say I'm disappointed. And there's always Sarah to look at ;).

[–] toren-3 18 years ago

I just got done watching this move on OnDemand. I didn't think it was that bad. It was bad, but not bad enough to get me to turn it off. At least it kept me entertained a bit. I can say that I couldn't look away during the LSD scenes. And I really enjoyed the Al Franken cameo.

But the voices thing made me stop and go, "Oh my god, the migraine from hell." While not exactly what I experience during my migraines, I usually get caught in a track of one or two words (or a couple of notes from a song or something) that keeps repeating in my head until I'm able to pass out.

But that had me totally identifying with the character on that point. But most of it was too out there. Still it's nice to see Eric Stolz in anything.

[–] bacci40 18 years ago

weird cinematography (i got a headache watching)....terrible editing....grenier cannot act (sorry all you entourage fans), how much did the republicans pay the director to show a film about the evil of drugs,and when did ivy league schools play in high school gyms?

[–] verusum 18 years ago

I found the yellowish/sepia tint to the entire move irritating, and the professor sounded like Meg Tilly. Other than that, it was the best choice at 4:00 AM.

[–] TruthSpeaks 18 years ago

Besides the dirty water in Boston, I think any tinting was exclusive to your TV, 4:00 A.M.

So it was the editing that ruined the concept? The concept of a Harvard student sleeping with his hot blonde philosphy professor and who is, in turn, sleeping with tri-sexual FBI agents who seek to bring down a mob family and a druggy Harvard studentfor rigging a basketball game but they can't because the student takes pictures of them getting it on with a women they meet in a bar when they are set up by the philosophy professor, therefore the mobster's daughter doesn't have to have the student wacked after all?

[–] instant_noodles 18 years ago

The reason why the editing was done that way was to give the audience a taste of what it feels like to be on LSD. The way they shot the movie was no accident. You're right, I started feeling dizzy throughout the movie too, but that's how the director wanted you to feel.

Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
- Mark Twain

[–] twob_ornot 16 years ago

Mine was orange too. Otherwise, I enjoyed all the realistic points TruthSpeaks mentions.

[–] nintendoarena 18 years ago

Kbcomp - I agree with you on most of your points aside fromt he gym comment - Ivy league school mostly suck at basketball, and most therefore actually do play in very crappy gyms. School like Kentucky, UNC, and others - big basketball schools - are the ones with the professional-sized arenas.

Yeah, I'm nitpicking, but I just felt like pointing this out.

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[–] outsider-2 8 years ago

Just watched it for the first time - actually enjoyed it a lot until about the last 1/4 (I loved the lsd bit but the plot went off).

Really liked the music pieces including the classical, was really interesting how the camera moved around rather voyeuristically for most of the first 1/2.