In the Company of Men

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Summary: Great Movie, Okay Transfer
Review: Okay, don't get me wrong I loved In the Company of Men but the copy I purchased had a flaw. My copy had a slight sound fade out on the actors commentary track, so I naturally exchaged it for another copy, whereas that copy had the same exact thing. I am assuming at this point that the disc was messed up during the pressing. All in all it's a good disc, I just hate imperfections.

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Summary: The worst film ever.
Review: This film is disgusting. The acting is terrible and irritating. The direction is styleless and the dialogue is cringeworthy. I hate it. It makes me puke to even think of it.

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Summary: Amazing!!!
Review: It takes a lot to shock me, but I was absolutely overwelmed by In the Company of Men. I honestly caught my jaw dropping several times during this film. Clearly one of the best films of the year.

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Summary: Interesting
Review: I bought this on DVD before I saw it but it was the right thing to do. This film is exceptional. The acting is fantastic.

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Summary: Unlike any other movie I have ever seen
Review: This movie knocked me for a loop. When it was over, I stared at the screen, dumbstruck. I had trouble sleeping that night. I couldn't get any work done the next day, because I kept thinking about the movie. And if my measure of a good movie is one that makes me think (and it is), this one gets no less than 5 stars.
In an interview I read, Neil LaBute, the director, said that he considered the movie a kind of "cinematic inkblot test" for the viewers. I think everyone should see this movie, and if you hate it, do some deeper thinking, and try to figure out why. For example, do you hate the MOVIE, or just Aaron Eckhart's slimeball character?

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Summary: THIS MOVIE RULES
Review: Neil Labute is a great writter and this film rocks!! The movie is controversal but great..and if you like it check out Labutes new film Your Friends and Neighbors!! END

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Summary: An American Tragedy
Review: An exciting debut film by Neil LaBute. Powerful and seductive, "In the Company of Men" has the good sense to suck the viewer in with comedy and then beat them senseless. Wicked laughs, heartbreaking and vicious all in one package. So well acted it's frightening, this film will blow away anyone who dares to cross its path. A great literary ride as well as a precise, rigorous visual style. Everything a movie should be: angry, challenging, hilarious and most of all, alive. Great stuff! END

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Summary: The Independent Film of the Year
Review: This is the one...the best of the American Independent films this year, bar none. A film with depth, humor, a provocative subject and the guts to see itself through to the end. Great performances, a chilling sense of style and economy and the best screenplay of this or, arguably, any year. Director Neil LaBute and his gifted actors are fearless in depicting the heart of darkness that lies within us all. Scorching and unforgettable. A great DVD transfer and (finally!) interesting follow-along voiceover from cast and crew. This is a keeper and a must for any discerning film viewer. END

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Summary: a great movie for the jaded
Review: In the Company of Men is a wonderful movie that I watch at least twice a year. I first saw this movie at a University Film Festival. I was hooked. Not only does this movie reach me on an entertaining level but at the time it called up all sorts of feelings as myself and my buddies had been in a slump with the laddies. In fact, we made up a holliday called National I Hate Chicks Day. It is still celebrated every year, on March 13, all over the country where we all have landed. One of the festivaties that March 13 brings is a viweing of In The Company of Men.

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Summary: Searing, sobering, unforgettable
Review: There is a chilling scene in this brilliant film in which a misogynistic man, after having pretended to fall in love with a frail, deaf woman and finally coldly told her the truth, says to her, "So how does it make you feel inside at this moment, knowing what you do? It hurts that much? Then I guess I must be going; the deed is done." You may notice that during this cruel psychological assault, the deaf woman at one point looks away from him, and (thankfully) may not have heard all he has said to her. But that's beside the point. The psychological assault is targeted at US. The movie is asking us, how does THAT make us feel inside.

The triumph of the movie (apart from being made by first-time writer-director Neil LaBute with only a $25,000 budget) is that it unrelentingly confronts us with the most callous and apathetic of human behavior and makes us think about OUR behavior in the real world. It paints a frightening picture of moral decay, relational malaise, emotional backruptcy that is increasingly common in our society at large.