Impossibly Bad

youve read one too many movie reviews. when someone incorporates phrases like "woefully inept dialogue" into everyday speech, you know it's too much.

I liked your review. I remember Lori Petty from "Tank Girl." She's castigated for good reason too. I liken her film to getting teeth pulled out of one's head, one tooth at a time (that's how they do it Nepal!). Much of the audience who saw this film with me moaned as it endlessly chugged along -- Petty didn't just hit us on the head with the film's "heavy-handed message," as you say; rather, she shot us point blank, right between the eyes, like Javier Bardem's "Anton Chigurh" (NCFOM). I think I've spent enough time typing about this dreck.

I don't think Lori Petty intended to make this a blockbuster, MTV Teen Choice Award, Myspace Promoting, "Love Conquors All" kinda film...I read somewhere that it was loosely based on her life growing up in horrible circumstances.

What I truly appreciated about this film is how real it was..like it or not people, but little girls ARE growing up in these exact types of settings. "Moan and groan" as much as you want while you're watching it, but that still doesn't negate the fact that to some people, this "boring, Impossibly bad" movie is actually a reality.

I give praise to Lori for being brave enough to direct/write this and giving us a gritty look at children who live on the other side of the tracks.

Oh and by the way, the acting was SENSATIONAL. Look at it that way, those little girls were INSTANTLY likeable, and I have new found respect for Selma Blair for her protrayal as that 'damaged woman' character.

You guys are getting too jaded, go watch Transformers 2 or Avatar if you wanna be on the edge of your seat and BLLOOOWWWWW AWWWAAYYYYY. Jeesh.

Didn't see the whole thing. Walked in while my girlfriend was watching it. And it didn't take much for me to size up exactly where it was going.

Right after the rape scene, I sarcastically said, "Oh, it's okay. I'm sure the rapist will get it in the end. And it won't end with some 'Life is absolute hell and suffering, but it's okay, because whatever will be will be and life goes on etc' nonsense."

Then I hit the info button and saw it was directed by a woman.

I tire of people saying "You just can't handle a movie like this. This is reality." Blah blah blah. Sorry, but I get enough reality with actual reality. With a movie, is a little escapism too much to ask for?

Selfishly written? What is wrong with you? This is not some story she cooked up on a friday night.. this was her life. How jaded do you have to be to see something like this and only come out with that drivel. The way the story intertwined the horrors of their home life with little moments of playful happiness was extremely touching. You see these girls in situations you wouldn't wish on your enemies and are shocked and surprised at how they manage to handle them. I'm not even going to go into how impressive the acting was by every single performer, especially the girl who played Agnes.

We apparently didn't watch the same movie. Are you sure you're in the right place?

Everything about the film was good except the film itself. I know that might not make a lot of sense but this movie is just not that good. It had some good moments and I liked the characters, the young girls in this movie all did a great job but the story is just not very interesting. We've seen the "growing up in a whore house" film before. I watched this because I was expecting something new from this type of movie but it really wasn't anything outstanding. But if this is what Petty's life was really like then I feel sorry for her. However, was this the reason she did this movie or was she genuinely trying to make a good film? I can't decide on that one.

I agree, it was a terrible film. I also thought that the way the story was told was for very selfish purposes. This is the ultimate in poor me films. I'm not saying that people shouldn't make films about this kind of subject matter. However a person should never attempt to make a very tragic film about themselves, or else they will probably just get too wrapped up in it and lose sight of anything but their own selfish motives. This film may have some realism to it, but much of it is lost because it is overly feed to us as the OP has noted, in a way that gives only a very narrow minded and emotionally shallow vision. Bottom line, this movie is garbage.

My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!