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Incredibly Disappointing


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While Glass Chin sets up an interesting configuration of characters who could go any which way, everything goes exactly as you’d imagine. Stupidity is the engine that keeps Glass Chin moving along and it gets frustrating and downright unbearable by the film’s half-way point. Why should we invest anything into a character who willfully puts his head into the oven time and time again? All the more insufferable is the film’s own air of self-importance and the permeating notion that it thinks it’s making some grand statement about “surviving” and the American dream, or whatever – who cares? This is a dumb, dumb movie that is oblivious to its own shortcomings, so much so that it thinks you’ll just forget about the plotlines it leaves hanging in favor of more “juicy” dialogue from Stoll and Crudup. It’s also blatantly apparent that much of Glass Chin is sitting in the trashbin on someone’s Macbook, not that more of this film would save it.

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Hmmmmm
I thought this movie was refreshing, simple, modest and smart.
If you're going to call it "stupid", let's be specific Jeff.
1.What plot lines did it leave hanging? Exactly? Interested to know. Exactly. Which plot lines?
2.How is it blatantly apparent much of the movie has been cut? Exactly?

Everything goes exactly as you'd imagine? Really? The story maybe, yes. But I've never seen a noir quite like this one. New style and feel, to me.

You know that noir is a genre that has always been used to tell simple little stories like this one about regular people, often doing dumb things, and using those little tales as a way to look at class and politics, right? You understand that is what noir is, yes?

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That's what she said.

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