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Summary: great movie
Review: This is an amazingly well done movie, but it's definitely not one you should see if you want to laugh. I don't even think it's that much of a comedy, although there's a few funny parts in it. It also manages to be pretty surreal and arty, without being too pretentious.
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Summary: A modern classic
Review: Rushmore has been advertised as a comedy, which is completely inaccurate. While it's sometimes very funny, it's basically a serious and touching love story that has been skewed through a unique vision. Bill Murray has rarely been better than he is in this film, and Jason Schwartzmann makes a highly impressive debut.I also really liked the low-key performance of Seymour Cassel as the father. But the real star of the film is the script, which is unpredictable, beautifully erudite and always completely truthful. This is the sort of film that I loved so much that I wanted to tell everyone to go and see it, yet, at the same time, keep it to myself, because it spoke to me, and in a sense, it was about me. Best of all is the soundtrack - the music I grew up loving. The use of John Lennon's "Oh Yoko" is inspired, and the same goes for Cat Stevens' "The Wind". But the trump card is the joyful ending accompanied by the fabulous original version of "Ooh La La" by the Faces, surely the most quirky love song ever written. I ended the film with a huge grin on my face.
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Summary: Absolutely fantastic!
Review: This film is one of the best movies of the decade. It contains a brilliant performace by Murray (the scene in the elevator should be an all time classic) phenomenally nuanced charcters, and one of the best soundtracks to a film I've evert heard, ranking up there with TRAINSPOTTING, BOOGIE NIGHTS and Tarantino's films for a brilliant sense of music to set a mood and theme, rather than merely for nostalgia purposes (such as NBC's "The Sixties", which dragged out overplayed music dinasurs without any real innovation as to the story.)
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Summary: Witty and different. Too smart to be popular.
Review: Along with last Spring's "Election," this one of the best teen films ever done. And it's for this simple reason, it's not really a teen film at all. There is no god-awfull Kevin Williamson dialog, no Gap tie-ins, no cast members from those WB TV shows, and no MTV friendly soundtrack. This is a smart and completely original film. All those giving it 1 star have been brain-washed by watching too much MTV. Bill Murrary underplays his role perfectly and young Jason S. is fantastic. It's sad that films like this are flops, but trash like "American Pie" end up being blockbusters.
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Summary: Meoweriffic
Review: My name is black cat and I'm a cat. My housemate watched this movie and she loved it. I thought it rocked too. The music was really awesome and the story was great. I was nervous that things weren't going to turn out the way they did. Magnus was a great character and we got to see him in a kilt, which I liked very much. Bit like Catcher in the Rye if it was a movie and if it was funny.
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Summary: It was about as good as a good kick in the Head
Review: I laughed for roughly 2 seconds when I watched this movie. That was when he just about had the tree fall on the Man. The play at the end wasnt all that bad either. Other than that I would gladly take a good beating rather than watch this movie again.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a movie that will stay with you a long time (for good reasons of course). BTW, no one is really mentioning the great soundtrack to this movie!!!! Excellent all around.
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Summary: This is not a run-of-the-mill movie.
Review: This movie reminded me of the "Chocolate War" from the eighties. I like unique and orignal movies like this. I thought the plays were hilarious because they were really adult plays being performed by children. I love the part where the ten year old kid fetches the box of dynamite.( Of course this is not a movie to show a kid. ) I also like how the girl gets the main character's attention finally by using a radio controlled airplane because (one) the girl is having to get the guy's attention because he is preoccupied with changing winnig the teachers heart( a statement about how the person who may really best for us is missed because we are busy pursuing the person who isn't), and (two) the girl is engaged in doing something which is usually assumed to be a boy's thing (flying model airplanes). This is illustrative of what makes this movie funny and interesting. This movie makes you throw away some of your assumptions about kids, adults, boys, girls, women and men, which is where the humor comes from. I think, perhaps, the people bothered by this movie did not like the way this movie crossed their own little set of boundaries of how things are or should be and as a result didn't go where the humor was leading them, of course the only way to know for YOURSELF is to rent the movie and find out for YOURSELF. Were all individuals here so there is no way for me predict how you may or may not like it. In my book it gets 5 stars and I am about to buy the DVD.
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Summary: Top Ten Best Ever
Review: This is an exquisite and wonderfully poignant film, mercifully void of sentiment. It's an extraordinary achievement and one of a handful of films that I've been compelled to watch 3, 4, or 5 times. Personally, I hope Jason Schwartzman never does another film, so that he'll always stay Max Fischer. Besides, nothing else will compare.
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Summary: Competitor for greatest rite of passage film ever
Review: Brilliant. The Academy should've recalled the ballots on this one. Max Fischer is voice for the angst of the generation of the 1990's by looking for a place in the world. He overvolunteers, he overdoes everything, for the attention of others. Beautifully acted by Jason Schwartzman and with the addition of Bill Murray became a bridge of two generations with big questions in their minds. Vietnam meets the 1990's. The style and cinematography are reminiscent of Harold and Maude and The Graduate, both of which are great coming of age films.
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