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Summary: Amazing
Review: This is simply one of the greatest films ever made. Wes Anderson obviously has more respect for movie goers than all of Hollywood. This film is intelligent. Probablely too intelligent for most people. If you don't like this film then chances are you like stupid hollywood action flicks. If you consider yourself an intellectual or have lost faith in the movie industry than see this movie.
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Summary: Wonderful movie, if I could give 10 stars I would.
Review: The Criterion Edition of Rushmore is a jewel. This movie is so untouched with the Hollywood Brass Committee storytelling that it seems like a miracle that the film was even made. The film focuses on a strange teenage boy named Max Fischer who attends a posh private school called Rushmore Academy and his misadventures there. The film is a coming of age odyssey, a romantic comedy, and a quirky drama all at once. The film has been compared to coming of age classics like "The Graduate" and "Harold and Maude". It is a fair comparason for "Rushmore" will be remembered for years to come.There is such honesty in the storytelling and the performances in Rushmore, that I don't even fell like I'm watching a movie but a documentary. Much of that is due to Bill Murray's perfomance as Max Fischer's older millionare friend. Murray has usually been the focus of his films giving appropriately off beat and showy performances, but in "Rushmore" he's much more restrained. Murray gives a true performance showing that not only can he be a great star but a great character actor as well. There are many quirky and off beat characters in "Rushmore", some are even very touching. The Criterion Edition of "Rushmore" has an insightful commentary by Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson. While listening you get the impression that both Wilson and Anderson have great affection for their effort here. There are other goodies on the disk, some that I don't want to spoil. If you decide to view the film, I feel this film will unexpectedly touch and tickle you. It's a true gem.
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Summary: War does funny things to men...
Review: To those of you who have seen it and loved it, I don't need to tell you what you already know. This is brilliant, brilliant stuff. To those of you who didn't like it, check it out again. And whatever you do, do NOT listen to any reviewer who compares this film to a 90210 episode or refers to it as shallow. They're obviously out of their gourd. An almost perfect film, with great performances and a lingering sense of sadness underneath all of the goings-on. And the Criterion edition is a msut buy. There's no need to buy the other DVD if you can get this.
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Summary: High Quality and High Quantity
Review: I must confess a bias as Rushmore was already my favorite film after seeing it on the big screen and on video rental. The Criterion Collection DVD, though, has made the best even better. If you love this movie, this disc is a MUST OWN! Feature length commentary, a making-of-documentary, and more provide HOURS of tremendous behind the scenes insight. If you only kind of like the movie, give this a shot. And if you dont like the movie or have never seen it, you are really missing out. Certainly not without critical acclaim, it is my belief that Rushmore never found its niche upon its release, but over the course of five or ten years will become a premiere "cult classic," a term which I guess is a backhanded sort of compliment implying a narrow audience, but that audience (including me) is all the luckier to be a part of it. Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson are an incredible writing team and composed one of the few scripts Bill Murray had ever seen that was nearly perfect. (Yes, I learned that in one of the many other extras on the disc.) Its charming, whimsical, hilarious, bittersweetly romantic, and my favorite film of all time...and Ive seen a lot of them. The Criterion Collection DVD bumped it up from number one on my list to NUMBER ONE on my list.
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Summary: a 'high brow' dog is still a dog....thank you.
Review: This is really a pretty bad film. One gets the impression critics were over-identifying with the geeky main character, or at least that the film's direction was different enough to merit accolades based solely on this. Save your money. It's a different kind of film and the acting is good-particularly Murray's and female protagonist. But it's skillet deep. Weird kid has crush on teacher, competes with friend, has irrelevant or at least undeveloped romantic subplot with an Asian student. The is as ponderous and heavy as a three-legged elephant. It doesn't matter to me if a main character is antisocial as this would exclude many great works of art (Crime & Punishment, the stranger, Goodfellas), but the character's struggles are overwrought. It's like if Beverly Hills 90210 decided to have a 'Pained Intellectual' Episode. It would produce jason schwartzmann at the Peach Pit. that's it.
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Summary: ???????
Review: I think I've figured out that everyone connected with the making of this over-long skit (the bad ones are always over long)wrote the rave reviews. What a pointless piece of drivel. No plot, no laughs, no thought provoking, nothing, that about sums up this total waste of time.
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Summary: Boring and pretentious
Review: I really can't believe that a person would find this movie interesting. The story is unbelievable and simply stupid. I cannot describe to you how little sense this movie makes. One reviewer felt it necessary to use Latin, so why shouldn't I add to the pretention? Hic est malus, Pater optime (in the spirit of Julien Sorel). This movie has no plot. The lead character is not even intelligent enough to shoot himself.
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Summary: Buy This DVD Now!
Review: This is one of the best DVD's you can get. It's loaded with extras, all of which are worth the price. This is one of the best films of the nineties- funny, smart, touching, and original. It's a film which defies labeling by including virtually every category of films, all rolled into one. Bill Murray has his best role since Caddyshack, and Jason Schwartzman is great as Max. This is everything the follow up to "Bottle Rocket" was supposed to be.
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Summary: Wes Anderson is my hero
Review: Well... As disappointingly empty "Bottlerocket" is as a DVD(Don't get me wrong, it may be my favorite movie), Rushmore, the criterion edition, is probably THE best DVD I have ever bought. I don't own it anymore because it was stolen from me(because it's SOOO incredibly good), but I'm sure to buy it again soon. It is stuffed to the gills with goodies. aside from the amusing color bars that you can chose to watch, or the Charlie Rose interview with Bill murray, you could spend a good three days just watching the extras before you even get to the actual movie. So, rather than telling how awesome Rushmoreis as a movie, you can just read the other reviews that people have submitted, just rest assured that DVD lovers will wet themselves when they see all the goodies they get with this ultimate edition...
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Summary: Who is your Rushmore?
Review: This is a precious movie. No, the characters are not specially sweet and tender, and they all have warped motivations. Nevertheless, the movie shows, by utilizing caricatures, some truths about people and trust. Rushmore is the name of a highly prestigious preppy academy. Max Fischer, wonderfully played by Jason Schwartzman, is a sophomore who dreams of being a scholastic genius, but who has to compensate for his lack of academic capacity by involving himself in extra-curricular activities (or maybe his academic failures can be attributed to his extra-curricular activities). To list all the clubs that he is a member, president, or founder would easily go over the Amazon.com 1000 word limit, so let's just say that if one can imagine any sort of school or after school activity, Max has done it. His greatest passion is theater, for which he writes, directs, and acts; the plays he concocts are hilariously extravagant productions, and unfortunately cannot be described without giving away some great moments and visual effects. Simply put, Max does not believe in half measures. Max attends Rushmore on a full scholarship provided by Mr. Guggenheim, the principal, but that scholarship is in jeopardy due to his poor grades and extravagant behavior. To further complicate matters, Max comes from a humble family, his father is a barber, and he feels shame, lying about his family to his friends. The plot centers around Max and two adults. Mr. Blume, a steel magnate played by Bill Murray, is rich, but not one who can be considered part of the elite. He does drive a Rolls Royce, but for him, it might as well have been a Buick. He drives it everywhere, without care or pride. He has two annoying, spoiled sons and has been having marital difficulties. After giving a speech at Rushmore, where his sons attend, Mr. Blume , and they both become friends - one a precocious child and the other an adult that never really grew up. The third player of this comedy is Miss Cross, played by Olivia Williams, a new elementary school teacher at Rushmore. Max falls desperately in love with her, but so does Mr. Blume, and the race is on. The humor can best be described as oblique. The situations are funny because they are strange, but they take place in an extremely matter of fact way. The score enhances this perception by its constant pace. It is muted, calm, unlike most comedies where the music serves as the laugh track for the movie, and the audience clearly know where they are supposed to laugh by just listening to the crescendos in the score. The movie raises interesting questions about trust and friendship. Who are our friends and our enemies, and if trust is broken, can it ever be repaired? Can one trust in others without trusting in oneself? The movie takes the audience in a journey of self-discovery, using Max as the little paranoid/compulsive child in all of us, the child that wants to be loved and admired, even though it is painfully aware of its own shortcomings. The lessons, although sometimes funny, can also hurt. All in all, it is a satisfying movie that has depth and humor. There is much to be learned from Max Fischer, and the audience will have a blast while doing so.
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