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Summary: Bizarre!
Review: I went through 3 months of intensive psychotherapy after watching this. The puppeteering is cool.
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Summary: Wha? Didn't like it.
Review: I hate EVERYTHING about this cruddy film. Ugh. I hope they all died. Mind you, I haven't anything against J Malkovich or the real-life thespians but the characters...! Terrible. No stars.
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Summary: Just...brilliant.
Review: Being John Malkovich is not only a salute to the great actor Malkovich himself, but a tribute to comedy cinema. Never before has such a stunningly original idea even been hinted at the movies - and Charlie Kaufman scriptwriter and Spike Jonze director have dished up exactly what we want; a crude, cool and appealing fantasy that beams with brilliant character creations and stunning acting to match up. Catherine Keener is awesome, John Cusack and Cameron Diaz perfectly fill up screen space and John Malkovich is outstanding, playing many different versions of himself. But, it's mostly the script that gets the biggest ticks in this film, and that is a comment I haven't made about any movie for a very long, long time.
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Summary: wonderfully bizarre
Review: This is one of the very rare films that keeps alive my hope that there is some originality left in film-making. At a time when it appears that every second movie coming out is eiter a remake of some sort or features an unimaginative deadbeat plot, Spike Jonze's film comes as a fresh breeze of original thinking. What a script! What great actors! I am tempted to say very little about the actual plot, because this movie is even better when you have no idea what to expect, just as I did when I first saw it. The plot is outlandish to the extreme, yet the superb acting of John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and John Malkovich carries this tale along so effortlessly that even the most bizarre of circumstances seem to fall into place quite naturally. Buy this DVD because you will want to revisit this film often!
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Summary: good... but read the script
Review: OMG.... i just saw the movie the other day ...i read the script about two months ago and loved it... the movie was great but i was very very upset when the changed the end.... so it is a movie worth getting... but read the script...
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Summary: Original, subtle, and extremely witty
Review: I think almost every reviewer will agree that this is one of the most original American films in years. "Being John Malkovich" is wild, outragious and bizarre on many levels. But it is also lyrical and superbly witty. Every time I saw this film I felt like one of my surreal classmates from second grade had grown up and made a movie. But somewhere along the way it seemed that that kid had developed a tremendous understanding of life, of literature and of the audience. One of the refreshing things about "Being John Malkovich" is that it manages to be wild and unique without trying too hard. It balances an outlandish plot with a subtle and intelligent wit that permeates the entire film. Even the best American films tend to be a little too full of themselves at times. The great thing about this one is that it threw out all assumptions about film making and pushed everything to the envelope WITHOUT any visible trace of effort.
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Summary: NOT a shallow meaningless comedy !
Review: I must protest the editorial review that stated, "Does it add up to much? Not really." The writer of this review needs to take another look. At first glance many things may seem like random nonsense such as the low cielings and all the animals and the "Malcovich Malcovich" scene. But if you look again you will see that these and many many other things are symbolic and many have reference to other parts of the film and to deeper meanings. And the best part is that it manages to be funny at the same time. In my opinion this is easily one of the most ingenious movies ever made.
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Summary: There is nothing like it! Full of surprises. A marvel!
Review: In all my years as a film-art student I have yet to see a finer example of Post -Freudian Existentialism in cinema! A fist rate film! Acting is kept to a believeble but subtle mean to allow for the transvergence of comic delivery. I love the straight faces and dead pan comedy in this movie. I want to see more like it! If you like low angle "box" style photography you are in for a treat too! This film is essentially art within art; context within context and culmination within culmination. Some great puppet work too, from a master of the art. If you want a plot that rivals "Twin Peaks" and a subtle blend of character that upstages "Please Brush My Seed, My Donkey Has Become A Jackdaw" then you want to see this classic. "Being John malkovich" is unique! see it and you know you have seen the best in cinematography and plot EVER. And it's based on a true story too!
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Summary: Out of nowhere...
Review: This is the movie to restore your faith in all that is modern American cinema. In a time when so many movies are either remakes of stories we've heard time and time again, or they just feel that way, this movie is a breath of fresh air. From Malcovich's great scenes essentially playing himself (proving what a good sport he can be) to the visually stunning puppetry sequences, it is clear that this has never been done before. And then there's the strange unexpected twists and turns that, if handled by an incompetant director, might have made the viewer's head spin in a desperate attempt toward comprehension... yet here just serve to provide a lovely aura of unpredictability that will keep one guessing. Clearly, a stellar movie, and one for the home library if at all possible, because you'll want to view it again.
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Summary: Stupid plot and proding story
Review: Waste of time. This is not good SciFi, it is explotation. I presume everyone involved had some very long arms to pat themselves on the back for getting paid for this. Yuck!
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