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Summary: Hugh?
Review: Sorry, when I watched this movie, I sat there with my mouth open watching in curosity as to when I'd finally be free of this torture. Maybe I just didn't get it. It had promise, but it just didn't deliver. I'm still trying to figure out why so many people are saying it was such a good movie.But hey, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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Summary: WHATCHAKNOWABOUTIT?
Review: All I have to say is "...". this was by FAR the absolutely, positively, without-a-shadow-of-a-doubtly clever, innovating, refreshing and plain-out-weird movie i ever saw. i have nothing else to say to describe it. e
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Summary: HELP
Review: Has anyone else had problems playing this disc? I have a relatively new DVD player but when I play it I'm told that the disc cannot be played. I obtained another disc at my video rental store and I get the same message. Is there too much information on this disc and has my Pioneer 414 become obsolete?
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Summary: At last something original from Hollywood
Review: Definitely a strange idea - a portal into the mind of John Malkovich. An office with unusually low ceilings. This is the kind of thing that you don't get away with, unless you do it well. Fortunately for all it is done well. Funny, oddball and entertaining. Charlie Sheen was an unnecessary adjunct, but otherwise good.
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Summary: A good movie that takes you on a laid back rollercoster ride
Review: I liked this movie but I thought it was choppy in some sence but other wise this movie was grate it was nothing like the usuall movies and thats a big part of why people like this movie so much. Well for me anyway. You get sick of the same old stuff and this movie was defintly not the usuall stuff. It was also not based on anything that is another big part of why it is such a good movie I mean we only see the same things over and over again because when you look at it they are the same thing over and over again.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: Wow. Thats all you can say after seeing this movie. With all the horrible movies out there, you begin to wonder if there are any good movies left. Well, here's one. Being John Malkovich has got to be one of the most intriguing movies I've ever seen. John Cusack plays a pathetic waste of human life named Craig. He becomes obsessed with a girl who works with him (Catherine Keener) in one fo the craziest places around. The find a portal to travel "inside" John Malkovich. Eventually, John himself finds out setting up a hilarious 'Malkovich scene'. It follows the lives of Craig, his wife (Cameron Diaz), and Maxine, the girl Craig is obsessed with as they travel through Malkovich's life. Man, I can't say enough about this one. You have to see it. One of the top three of 1999.
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Summary: Quirky? Unique? Original?
Review: Fargo was quirky, as was Raising Arizona, The Gods must be Crazy, Waiting for Guffman,,,etc. This was the most dis-jointed film I have had to endure in a long time. I like to watch films that have a somewhat plausible relationship with reality. I agree with the reviewers who compared it to Alice in Wonderland. Also, I couldn't get the humor about the secretary who couldn't understand someone speaking, she was just irritating. There were a few humorous, original scenes but not gut wrenching. I watched this just like I did Chariots of Fire, hoping for it to get better and it never did. I'm glad I didn't buy it, just rented it. I did hurry back with my copy to get the $1 credit for early return. I guess I'm from a different era than the ones who loved it or I haven't done enough drugs.
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Summary: Original, Weird And Wickedly Funny.
Review: "Being John Malkovich" is some sort of weird movie experience. You look in awe at the ideas the film has and how it executes them. I admired it more than I liked it for it's skillfull blend of dark humor, originality and sweetness. It's daredevil fun, but it has the potential for more. Though I enjoyed and do recommend it, I sort of expected more from a movie about going into someone else's head. A tour of Malkovich's mind would have been more entertaining than just looking out through his eyes sockets. Still, it's a fun movie and sometimes thrilling in it's own special way. "Being John Malkovich" is in a sense, some sort of achievement. None of it seems barrowed, it all seems fresh and new. All the actors are great. If only a little more had been added, if it had dared more, than it would have been a masterpiece.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: "Being John Malkovich" is both one of 1999's best films and also THE weirdest. A brief summary: a man (John Cusack) finds a portal which you can go into to enter John Malkovich's head. After fifteen minutes, you are dropped out of the sky just off the New Jersey turnpike. He and a co-worker decide to sell tickets into John Malkovich's head. That is, until he finds out. And that's barely the first half of the film. It just gets weirder aftrer that. "Being John Malkovich" is the product of a brilliant script and very creative directing by Spike Jonze (who starred in "Three Kings"). The acting is incredible and very believable. John Malkovich ("The Messenger," "Dangerous Liasons") was both intelligent and brave to take a role in which he is deserving of a Best Supporting Actor nomination and haillarious as he makes fun of himself. Anyone who can appreciate the bizarre (think "12 Monkeys" bizarre, but this is far better) will love this movie. It is not science fiction for those who dislike such films. It is a hillarious comedy with so many twists and turns one viewing does not serve this amazing film justice. Definetely worth buying.
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Summary: "Being JM" is incredibly original thanks to cast, screenplay
Review: "Well, there's this guy...." That's all that some viewers could really come up with when asked to describe "Being John Malkovich", the latest film starring Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and John Cusack. Oh...and John Malkovich is in it, too. This movie is so original, I can't even begin to explain this movie, other than that it was intelligent, fascinating, and hilarious. Because of the originality, it is completely unpredictable: you are so completely in the dark trying to guess what is going to happen next, that you end up not even bothering to guess-which makes a great movie-going experience.
Cusack plays Craig Schwartz, a puppeteer who believes he is not just a puppeteer, but an artist. Diaz, in a wig that makes her nearly unrecognizable, plays Schwartz' animal-loving wife, Lotte. Cusack, upon the realization that he might not make it as a puppeteer, decides to get a day job, at a place on the seventh and half floor of a New York skyscraper. It is here at this odd office floor, that Cusack stumbles upon a portal to John Malkovich's brain-where he is allowed to experience what it is like to be a celebrity for 15 minutes, and then be spit out somewhere outside the New Jersey turnpike. Hilarity ensues, and metaphysical questions are asked.
This movie is like a dream-and not in the sense that it's an incredibly great movie, although it is. It's like a dream because of the way that the logic is formatted. Things that have seemingly little significance, have a large significance by the movie's end. We are whisked away from plotline to plotline, that soon the rhythm of the rapidfire plot becomes catchy. Things that would not make sense in most movies makes complete sense here. Being John Malkovich's intentional irrationality make this a dadaistic masterpiece, a trend that I am unsure if I would want duplicated, because perhaps then motion pictures would become a medium for the insane.
The writer, Charlie Kaufmann, is quoted as saying that he wrote it not thinking that it would ever turn into a film. In response, John Malkovich said that only a writer who did not think that their script could become a film would write such a script. I'd have an inclination to agree with Malkovich, unless it has become hip to produce scripts that are risky, odd, and seemingly drug-induced. This may well be the one movie that you should see this year. Josh Bob says check it out. Five stars.
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