Well it looked good in the preview - but my other half and I could stand no more than about 20 minutes before we gave up. Utter tripe and what we saw of it was not funny. How Gugino and Olyphant ended up in tis, i'll never know.
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You base your movie reviews solely on the first 20 minutes of the movie? That's like saying, yeah, I started the book, but after 5 pages I gave up, too much text.
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5 pages of what? A 20-page book?
Since you're obviously lacking in basic maths, 20 minutes is almost a quarter of the movie. That would equate to more like 50 pages of a book. Who wouldn't quit reading a book if it was still boring after 50 pages?
Besides, a successful writer generally is skilled enough that they should be able to hook the reader easily within 5 pages.
I have to agree, 20 minutes is more than enough time to give a movie. Most movies at the 20 minute mark will at least let you know if it is midly interesting or not.
Heck I just got done watching Invictus and I was ready to turn it off after the first 20 minutes but forced myself through thinking maybe it is slow. I should have stopped after the 20 minutes.
yeah me and my partner starting watching it too, we got 30 mins in, and my boyfriend was the one who told me to turn it off cos it was boring, i was bored way before hand but thought he might like it, but he didnt.
You hate us 'cause we're beautiful, Well we don't like you either
I only made it through 7, which was enough time to rub one out. I picked it up about 15 minutes later, but lost some of the story.
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Good call
sharewell, go watch a disney movie instead! this movie is smart and provocative at the same time.. some people can't handle that combination.
shareYeah, this is crap.
I don't for the life of me understand how the director manages to get so many good actors to sign up for his quite frankly terrible movies.
Is he blackmailing them?
It's like a really, really terrible Almodovar movie...in English.
Ok, I've seen the low rating and read some of the bad reviews...this movie wasn't groundbreaking cinema but it wasn't as bad as some are making it out to be either. I'm going to go ahead and talk about the elephant in the room, go out on a limb, and suggest that people who didn't like it were pissed that it was a movie about a porn star that didn't have a butt-load of nudity. The whole movie was very tongue-in-cheek and I thought that it was pretty funny.
As to the people who turned the movie off after 20 minutes, the book analogy is very apt. No, you can't really tell how good a book will be in the first 50 pages; if everyone thought like that no one would have ever read the Fellowship of the Ring because absolutely nothing interesting happens in the first 50 pages of that book, though by the end it's hard to put down. Good books, and good movies, occasionally take some time to build up momentum...though in this case the comparison isn't really appropriate since this movie started out being funny and engaging.
But hey, that's my opinion, I could be wrong.
I've got me git-finder set to pansy...
Hi, ppl
I'm an hour into the movie and i feel like turning it off. I don't know what happened. "Women in Love" had no plot and i loved it. This one has no plot either and i'm bored with it. It's mildly entertaining and the dialogue is amusing but there just doesn't seem to be a story to hold on to.
Palicki is as hilarious as she was in the first movie. Gugino is sexy and watchable. All the characters are amusingly silly. But the plot just seems aimless.
And as for all this book analogy stuff, yes, you can tell if you'll be interested in something 50 pages in or 20 minutes in. To each their own. If it's not doing it for you, then by all means, turn it off.
Unfortunately, you can't really criticize something on IMDB without hurting the feelings of someone who has a personal connection or love for a movie. Crtiticize and prepare to get a beatdown. For me, though, this movie is NOT crap. And it has enough strip teases and sex scenes for people looking for titillation. It's just too meandering and aimless.
Lucky for me i got to know the characters in WOmen In Love and so will stick with this movie to the end. Disappointing movie, though.
Tried watching this film for about 40 minutes, it was all over the place and so badly put together. None of the characters were 'believable' enough to make this film enjoyable. The film ran like loosely sewn together episodes of a sitcom. I almost fell asleep.
shareThought both "Electra Luxx" and "Women and Trouble" were suprisingly quirky, courageous, well written and well acted by a first rate cast.
I get that they may be an acquired taste movies in the same way that Robyn Hitchcock (who did both soundtracks) is an acquired taste musician.
But beats me how anyone could dismiss them (or him) as "bad" in the "Twighlight", "Steven Seagal", "Sex in the City 2", etc... sense of the word.
So I'm genuinely curious what movies you haters DO like? Serious question.
Eg: Mine include a spectrum from "Amadeus" and "2001 A Space Odessy" via "Terminator" and "Magnolia" to Woody Allen's "Love and Death" and Abel Ferrara's "The Addiction".
If only you could see what I have seen through your eyes.
you lucky bastard i watched the whole BS to it's end and it got worse, more random dialogs, more unconnected scenes, I begged my friends to turn it off but they hoped for nudity or flat jokes at least, well not even that was in the movie!
What a horrible piece of junk! My first 1 star rating ever!!
if life gives you lemons break out the tequila
I watched a little over an hour and it was just not good. It was disappointing because I thought it looked funny from the trailer. I don't know what happened but its bad and a lot of good actors are in it which is even more disappointing.
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lol. carla gugino is terrible in everything she does. i took a look at the parental advisory about nudity and it says 8/10 yet all the nudity is implied or is verbal. There doesn't even seem to be any actual nudity... Another case of uptite, conservative church worshipping cun-ts. They still think they can ban all forms of pornography as well as censor all language on television and film. If only we could execute these people the world would be much better off. Amen.
share"Boring"? "Piece of crap"? What no explosions? No gore? No gratuitous violence? No constant movement to keep little snookie amused? I admit it's not for everybody like some with half an imagination or a reasonable intelligence. So tired of dumb ass comments and generalizations about movies. Oh and dumb *beep* Carla Gugino is a fine actress. If you don't like her why do you even watch her? So you can bitch bitch?
shareSince this last guy pretty much repeated himself in another post, I'm gong to do the same. Here was my Netflix review of the film:
"If I didn't know better, I could have sworn that this movie had been released direct to video in 1998, as it looks and feels like any of a dozen other movies that appeared on video store shelves in the wake of similar (but much better) movies like Chasing Amy, Swingers, and selections from the Great American Parker Posey catalog. It thinks it's funnier than it is, it thinks it's smarter than it is, it thinks it's wittier, more provocative, and more touching than it is, but it's really just a mess of a film. It seems like it was made by someone that saw those better films and said "I want to make a movie like that", but had no original or good ideas of their own to bring to the table. It's still better than Women in Trouble though, but that isn't saying much, if anything, at all."
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"Boogie Nights" is pretty much my favorite film of all time, and it did everything right that this film and "Women in Trouble" did so, so wrong. These films both had some terrific actors in them, but they didn't bring it at all in this pair of films, which makes me think that it comes down to the script, as the writer of "Women in Trouble" and "Elektra Luxx" clearly don't know how to write one.
... and you came to tell a lot of strangers who don't know nor care about you what you did?
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