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Summary: Finally, a "real" movie. Adam Sandler, Luis Guzman.
Review: Intelligent man has good luck in front of him and bad luck in front of him. All in one morning, strange things begin to happen. But he can handle himself very well. However, he would like someone to talk to because he doesn't feel himself sometimes. He says he feels like crying sometimes. The next morning gets even worse. Oh, the pressure...the stress...My God what else can happen. Well it does. Watch this film to find out. Another strange film by "Boogie Nights" Paul Thomas Anderson. Luis Guzman, one of my favorite actors, is clean-shaven in this one. Disc 2 contains over 12 minutes of deleted scenes and other stuff. Shown in wide-screen.
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Summary: I love Punch-Drunk Love
Review: If any of you reviewers gave this movie a less than perfect score. Read this next line... Mature a little. Maybe in time you'll be able to appreciate films like these, films that aren't just explosions, car chases, and shoot-outs. Many of you only saw this because Adam Sandler was in it - "Hey look! Another Adam Sandler movie! Maybe he'll do some more slapstick unintelligible comedy that only appeals to idiots like us! Hoowee!" Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the greatest directors in Hollywood today. This is not a movie for the untelligent. Sadly, that means very few will see it, let alone like it.
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Summary: a different but rewarding Sandler flick
Review: Adam Sandler will probably forever have the reputation for being the loveable and endearing SNL goofball in such movies as Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison. Though he made Punch Drunk Love, probably his most serious role since The Wedding Singer but it's different. Sandler plays Barry Egan, a somewhat socially disoriented owner of a small business, daily harassed by seven sisters, whose taunts of his childhood lead him to paroxysms and fits of self doubt, rage and violence. He calls a phone sex hotline more for company and an attempt to make a friend with a girl, something he seems to have trouble doing due to his timidness and insecurity, rather than for carnal purposes (likemost men do when they call one of those hotlines), but he gets himself involved with a major problem, both emotionally and financially.Then, one of his sister's friends, Lena, played by Emily Watson, meets Barry, and a romance blossoms. Though, Barry still has to go through many troubling obstacles so that he can find true happiness w/Lena. I don't want to give the film away. The cinematography itself is bizarre. It's almost like a Clockwork Orange, the Radiohead video "Fake Plastic Trees" (the supermarket scene is a testament to that), and your average Hollywood romance movie. It shows Adam Sandler in a new, more serious light, though his romantic side is still evident, and whether you like the film or hate it, you must give Adam Sandler credibility for trying something different. I ultimately found the film rewarding and interesting, better than most 'romance' movies though I had no idea what to expect when I saw the film.
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Summary: not PTA's best picture, but still good
Review: Punch-Drunk Love is the fourth film by one of my favorite directors, Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia). It stars Adam Sandler and Emily Watson as well as several PTA regulars (Luis Guzman, Philip Seymour Hoffman). Despite the fact that the film is directed by PTA, I was skeptical about seeing Sandler in this movie. It wasn't that I didn't think he could do the job, but it was simply that I didn't think he could do the job. Happily, I was wrong. Adam Sandler was spot on in the role of Barry Egan. Barry Egan (Sandler) is a business man. He owns his own business, but is a lonely, slightly neurotic man. He finds himself unable to approach women and his relationship with his sisters does not help matters any. They remind him of when he was a young boy and they teased him and he got so mad that he smashed the glass door with a hammer. Barry still has that same explosive anger inside him. He is restrained (a rarity for Sandler), but is still capable of flying off the handle when he gets mad enough. He has no ability to control his anger. Several times throughout the movie he gets angry and destroys things. Barry is lonely one night and calls a phone sex line. While there is very obviously a scam going on, Barry is trusting and gives far too much information. This turns ugly and the phone sex operator has her boss (Philip Seymour Hoffman) send three men to extort Barry and beat him up. They do, and they will come back into the film later. Barry meats a woman named Lena Leonard (Emily Watson). Lena is a friend of Barry's sister and wants to get to know him. Barry is initially too shy and awkward but somehow they begin a friendship and then a relationship. While Watson does a fantastic job as Lena, the relationship isn't quite believable. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be any reason for Barry and Lena to get together, except that they had decent conversation when they were out on a date. This is a very good movie, but I'm hesitant to say that it is one of PTA's best or that it is as good as the best of 2002. It falls short of both Boogie Nights and the masterpiece that was Magnolia (that's right, I said Magnolia). Everyone turns in excellent performances but there is just no reason to really care for Barry nor does the movie have the heart that Boogie Nights and Magnolia did. Paul Thomas Anderson is a fantastic young director and I look forward to his future work, and Punch-Drunk Love is a good movie, it just isn't a great one.
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Summary: And why didn't Sandler get an Oscar for this?
Review: Oh good lord! When "He Need Me" started playing it sounded so familiar; I was perplexed, almost freaked out; I didn't know why... Then it hit me... This is one of Shelley Duvall's numbers from the Robin Williams musical, "Popeye"! What more perfect theme song for this brilliant tale of damaged love? Using "He Needs Me" in this way is possibly the most brilliant stroke of art of the new millenium.
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: First off, if you are going to watch this movie because you are a fan of Adam Sandler movies, then don't waste your time, on the other hand, if you enjoy films, (not hollywood driven movies), then you will love this. The direction is amazing. also, the score fits the movie well. Because of the score and the direction together, you can get a feeling of what Sandler's character is going through during certain scenes. You can get an uneasy feeling when he is freaking out about stuff, and you get a emotional feeling when he falls in love with his girl. I suggest renting it first because this film is not for everybody, then buy it if you enjoyed it. I hope my review helped out.
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Summary: punch drunk love
Review: This has to be the worst movie I have ever seen. Adam sandler is the ony reason i kept watching. No plot, No real story to the characters. SAVE YOUR MONEY!
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Summary: Didn't Get It
Review: It just seemed like the director was trying to make some artsy-fartsy movie and failed.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: I didn't like Magnolia, but I thought this was great. Very well done, when Adam Sandler feels stressed out and is panicking, you feel the same way because of the way it's filmed and made. Good ending, very satasfying. Very good. It's still odd, but it's not too out there.
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Summary: Gorgeously surreal, one-of-a-kind tour de force
Review: With the average Hollywood movie, you can usually predict the entire plot, themes, and character development (or lack thereof) after the first 10 minutes, and the spend the rest of the movie waiting for it all to come true. Watching the first 10 minutes of "Punch-Drunk Love," I didn't have the slightest clue about WHAT was going to happen to WHO or WHY---all I knew was this was by far the best (most original, imaginative, and daring) damn American film to come out in years. It never stopped surprising, confounding, and challenging me as a viewer; just when I started to think I knew what was coming next, WHACK! Something totally different happens, and it all comes to sort of make "sense" within its own surreal yet extremely-real, context. Unlike a lot of art films that also take a lot of chances aesthetically, PDL is always absorbing, engrossing, and exhilarating to watch, even if there are a lot of things that go over your head---perfect for repeated viewings!
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