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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS OR RENT IT!!!!!
Review: I love Adam, but this is one of the worst movies I have ever
seen in my life.Thank goodness I only rented it.
I saved my money, so please save yours! THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!
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Summary: Most surprising, original movie of its year.
Review: I finally saw Punch-Drunk Love, and it was everything i was expecting and more. I been waiting half a year now - b.c i missed the theatre release, and have finally seen it on DVD. I wanted to see it since i heard a radio review of it calling it a romantic comedy on the edge and a movie like none you've ever seen before, and of course, that P.T Anderson had made his first movie after magnolia, and that he'd given himself the project of making Adam Sandler into a respectable actor - and if not for Anger Management coming out at the same time, and the mass populace going to see that instead of this due to the macro millions those producers shelled out on advertising, this would have totally done it for him. I'm just bitter that in central hollywood more money is spent advertising a picture than making the picture itself - so how can artists like P.T Anderson compete? Ppl judge the quality of a movie by how much they've heard about it (how many ads on tele they see for it - but who has the money for that?). In any case, Sandler gives a striking performance in this movie, and should be given the opportunity to do more good work. Only problem is he seems to have been born for this role, and i'm not sure how many other parts will suit his particular sensibilities (his angry/quiet persona which is here put to great use by master auteur P.T Anderson - who is a man to look out for). Sandler gives a performance rich in subtlety and heart, which is what separates this from his own comic movies. That, and his juvenile sense of humour. Punch-Drunk Love is the most magical film i've seen since Mulholland Drive. For someone who's seen an awful lot of movies it opens your eyes as if for the first time to the magic of movies. Watching Magnolia, in fact, felt a bit like this - but for me Punch-Drunk is a much more enjoyable experience. And for the first time a romance story has not seemed hackneyed or cliched. Not since Annie Hall has the romance genre been truly seen afresh, as if the director were writing the first and ultimate example of the genre. Not to say that P-D Love is just a romance - don't expect that. Like Magnolia, this P.T Anderson feature can not be pigeonholed in any genre. Don't think of it as a comedy or a romance - if you like, watch it as a "drama" and then you'll be relaxed enough to laugh when its funny; be upset when its tense, virtually weep with joy when its ecstatic. There is a beautiful montage on the DVD called "Blood and Blossoms" which is a perfect alternative title to Punch-Drunk Love. If one-line summaries are your thing (then P-D Love probably will not be! But if you're still curious) then P-D Love can be said to be about what romance and violence (blood and blossoms; Punch-Drunk Love) have in common. They're both unpredictable, edgy, often uncontrollable, coming in fits and bursts, and at any moment could break out or cease. In short, Clifford's Comments are: the most exciting movie of the last year, indeed of recent times. Compared to Tarantino's comeback of Kill Bill (which i actually have nothing against), this is a rewarding masterpiece which actually furthers P.T Andersons' already rich contribution to modern cinema. If i were any more superlative i'd be on commission.
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Summary: An unbelievable film
Review: Adam Sandler most of the time plays roles of goofoffs or idiots. But in this film he takes a totally different role. When you watch this film you would notice that through out the whole film Adam Sandler wears the blue suit. He is still very funny in this film. Barry Egan(Adam Sandler)works in a warehouse which sells plungers. His seven sisters always pick on him, which is very funny. They set him up with Lena Leonard(Emily Watson)who which then the both fall in love. But Barry made a call to a sex hotline,which screws everything up. They ask for his credit card number and he gives them all that then the girl needs money, which they have his credit card number. So then the mob is after Barry and Lena which isn't good. The performances in this are superb. This film can be a bit confusing the first time you watch it so you will probably have to watch this more than once. This movie is still very funny and can be disturbing to people which I can't see why. This is the best character Adam Sandler has ever played. This is an awesome movie which if you haven't seen, it is a definite must see. It's also a must buy once you've seen this or even if you haven't. And trust me Rob Schneider doesn't say "you can do it" in this film. You need to see this film.
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Summary: I hope they used the word "comedy" loosely...
Review: I sat through the whole movie, and I didn't really see the appeal of it. There were a few things I thought were funny, but mostly the entire movie just felt drab and lifeless. Adam Sandler gave an excellent performance; really, all the performances were very good, but that doesn't help to breathe any life into this off-the-wall nod to mentally unstable people who still manage to lead fairly normal lives. I'm not even entirely happy that I watched it, I'm kind of vaguely wishing for my hour and a half back, and I don't do that very often. I guess this kind of movie just isn't my thing.
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Summary: Enjoy the JoyRide
Review: The best way to watch this movie is not to know where it's taking you. I find it utterly funny in a dark sense. Adam Sandler fit the profile of Egan, a shy and lonely introvert who's constantly repressed by his seven sisters (who loved him at the same time). He's constantly mocked by them & that, he's rendered as their public entity. Once in a while, he would go for a rage rampage. One fateful evening, he called a sex-line only to be extorted by the man behind the operation. A man who runs a matress & bed shop right in the heart of Mormon land, Utah! Emily Watson played Egan's love interest. Anyhow, Emily's character is sympathetic & emphatic towards Egan's plight & I guess, when we love someone, we love someone unconditionally despite their strengths & weaknesses. Overall, a rather interesting movie to watch. Highly recommended.
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Summary: It Sucked
Review: I like Adam Sandler, but I could not even finish watching this. I gave me a headache. It was boring and annoying.
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Summary: not his best work
Review: I am a big Adam Sandler fan but, this wasn't a favorite of mine. Watched the whole movie and then I wondered why. I understand what was being protrayed...it was just a long and boring way to do it. Was very sorry I bought this movie. Big waste of $15.00. Have loaned it out to other and they have all had the same reaction to this movie. Good luck if you buy it.
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Summary: Misunderstanding pop movies
Review: Ok Punch Drunk Love has been a topic of much debate in my world; many people I know argue the line that it is PTA's weakest film, and I believe that it's his strongest. Why? First of all, I'm a big PTA fan. I enjoy his work almost across the board - he occupies an important place in the new group of emerging American idiosyncratic auteur generation (which I believe, incedentally, to be a direct response to the staleness of blockbuster Hollywood). At any rate, the issue at hand is really this movie versus Magnolia. My assailants and I generally agree that those are the two movies with the cinematic gravity to really talk about - or at least we agree that about Magnolia. Here's how I see it: Magnolia is like a Miles Davis composition - it's long and meandering, its interweaving textures form a sort of bizarre experience of cinematic continuity over time. At the end, you are impressed by the intense structural development of the movie, probably were emotionally moved, and quite possibly are confused as to why it was three plus hours long. Punch Drunk Love is like a great Beatles song. It is wound tight, nothing unncessary escapes, and what's left is a perfect rhythm of light, color, and bizarre content. Every shot counts, every glare was thought out perfectly. It's a perfect pop song of a movie. The beautiful textures from Jeremy Blake reiterate the majesty of the light-and-color show, punctuate the insanely tight rhythm of the shots and story, and also tie in to the content of the story; just like in the best pop songs. Also, and get ready for this: it stars Adam Sandler, who couldn't play as perfectly as he does (or perhaps even well) in any other format. In other words, where Magnolia is a tour-de-force designed to awe you with its success in pulling off an amazing feat of cinematic structure, Punch Drunk Love leaves you at the end wanting more, knowing that that wanting is the point of the film, and humming incessantly Adam Sandler's vibrant blue suit.
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Summary: An ingenuous headrush of love in the Valley
Review: I'm as conflicted, enraptured, and provoked by this movie as I think Paul Thomas Anderson wants me to be. For instance: despite that it received seemingly just criticism as thematically uncertain and thinly developing its supporting characters, I ask myself the following questions: Why did I see it three times in the theater? Why do I watch it regularly on DVD? Why do I empathize so completely with the social anxiety of Barry Egan such as when he reaches out to strangers on the telephone or tells a bad joke at dinner? Why do I laugh hysterically at Barry's awkwardness during the phone-sex exchange ("This is Back"- a hybrid of Barry and his code-name Jack)? Why do I find the 'violent' bedroom naughty talk between Barry Egan and Lena Leonard more tender and erotic than most Hollywood sex scenes? Why do I get so walloped by Jon Brion's percussive score that I can practically feel the tribal beats thumping in my heart? People will always dismiss this film as "minor" for PTA after the complexity and gravity of Magnolia, but just as that film succeeded on its own terms, so does this one. PTA wanted to create a rapturous mood piece on "getting in tune" via love in the San Fernando Valley. Perhaps incidentally, it is intellectually advanced (as a social commentary on a male identity crisis) and somewhat falters in fully developing such ideas. But this is not a movie with pretentions of profundity. Its delighftful whimsical sense of punch-drunk romance is what prevails. And wasn't that the point afterall?
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Summary: Tries too hard to be artistic, improves seond time around
Review: I am a big fan of PT Anderson, but I found this to be his weakest effort to date. It was refreshing to see Adam Sandler play against his usual types of characters, and play a sweet, meek, insecure man who is looking for something in life. He finds it in an alluring woman who knew one of his sisters. Their budding relationship is interrupted by a visit from the cronies of a phone sex company trying to extort money from him. My wife could not stay awake through he film and just said it was boring, and I tended to agree with her. However when Barry makes the call to the phone sex line, the movie picks up and gains momentum. Anderson uses some filming techniques that do not really add anything to the film for me. he likes to experiment with colors and scenes are separated by Scopitones, I could have done without both. I think Anderson could have worked a little more on the story than on visual feel. The way a movie looks can add to it greatly, but when it becomes obvious that the filmmaker seems to be sacrificing story and character development for artistic creation with a camera, the movie suffers. About the DVD: On the extra disc you get a special called Blossoms and Blood, which may as well be called Deleted Scenes. With extra artwork, three theatrical trailers and actual deleted scenes, the extras on the DVD flesh out the characters a little more making the actual film a little more enjoyable, but not much. However, true to PT Anderson's history, this DVD is missing a commentary track. It would be nice to see PT's thought process. T
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