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Summary: Very good relationship, men vs. women, movie
Review: Great movie, a little had to sit through with a significant other, about the differances between men and women.
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Summary: The Most Overrated Filmmaker Ever
Review: I'm not sure how many reviews I've written about Kevin Smith's films. Probably about three or four for each one. Every couple of months, I write another one. And Amazon.com deletes them. I don't give away anything, I don't use bad language...I'm not sure why they keep deleting them. I skewer complete sewer sludge like NOTTING HILL and NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, so it's not that they won't run bad reviews. So here goes (again): Kevin Smith is the most overrated filmmaker in Hollywood. Perhaps ever. You would think someone who reads comic books all the time would have at least some visual style, but no. I've seen better camera work by a drunk fourteen-year-old with a camcorder at a relative's wedding reception.
And I'm still not sure how continually casting yourself in your own movies as a mute while having everyone else spout your snide and cute remarks translates into "genius," but maybe we're drifting into comedy's Bermuda Triangle of Jerry Lewis and the French and all that.
And, yet, somehow, he's reaching "auteur" status. Please, somebody, make a good comedy and remind us what they were like!
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Summary: Opening doors.
Review: Good job of directing a minor masterpiece - Kevin Smith! The acting is wonderful, the story is lively, funny, sad, and full of surprises. I felt like I was given a born again insight into the problems of same gender, different gender, and both gender sexual feelings and expressions or repression there of. All of this and everyone's relationships are set in the world of comic books because the protagonists played by Affleck, Adams, and Lee all work as comic book creators. If you get queasy over rauchy language be warned - the film is full of it, like every other word from Jason Lee, Joey Lauren Adams, and everyone else except for Ben Affleck- but in the end it all makes sense and it all has pretty profound meaning. Read behind the lines and behind the comics. Clear your mind of stereotypes and you will find that truly "Chasing Amy" is a contemporary morality play. Not since Gone with the Wind....has an ending left me hanging like this one did. No hints, though, just see it. This time I think Siskel(who was still alive then) and Ebert are right....thumbs up!
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Summary: The BEST Kevin Smith Film
Review: I first saw Chasing Amy in my college's theater and was told that it was the sequel to Mallrats. I had no idea what that was or who Kevin Smith was - but when I saw it, I instantly recognized the genius of the writing. Smith has impressed me with Dogma and his works on Marvel Comics. But I believe Chasing Amy is his best film work ever. The story, dialogue, and just how everything played out was truly beautiful, rare for love stories. I got the sense that it was real, not sappy, not pathetically romantic or predictable, as so many love stories are. The last love story I saw was How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days - hilarious film, but it was an amalgam of relationship generalities. Chasing Amy was not - it felt real. I learned later that the movie was based on Smith's former relationship with Joey Lauren Adams. I think Chasing Amy is a masterful work - a great story. If you are looking for a movie that is real, a romance story that is real, or just a really good story - you have to watch this movie.
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Summary: Smith's best
Review: this one is my favortie out of the Jay and Silent Bob movie because it has great writing and Smith apologizes for his last one MallRats which was ok. I liked the chemistry between Affleck and Adams I think they worked great and it helped with Jason Lee too. Silent Bob telling the Amy story is the best. other people like Matt Damon(Dogma, Courage Under Fire), Dwight Ewell(Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) and mostly a lot of people from the other Smith movies contribute parts as well.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: Kevin Smith's movies had never appealed to me. I think I saw part of Mallrats once and thought it was kinda funny, but never had any desire to see the rest of it or any other of his movies. I take that back, I did watch Jay and Silent Bob, which was ok, but not something I'd watch over and over. This one I could. I remember when this one was in the theaters, the trailer made it out to be a comedy, which in some parts it was. But suprisingly, it is very deep, emotional and real. I think everyone did a wonderful job, you could really feel what the actors were portraying, and it was put together well.
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Summary: One of the best movies ever!
Review: You can't miss this movie. It was truly great cinema. It will make you laugh, think and cry. If I were locked in a room for the rest of my life with only one movie, I might pick this one. Do not watch it on TV. Just buy it and enjoy it for years to come.
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Summary: A Perfect Movie.
Review: This will be a short review, but I just want to say some things. Chasing Amy is not an immature movie and is in fact quite complex and touching. If you think Kevin Smith is a bad filmmaker, watch this movie. Everything in this movie was perfect. The acting, writing, directing and music couldn't have been better. This is the best Kevin Smith film, and possibly one of the best movies ever. Do NOT miss it.
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Summary: wow is this my life
Review: Bob Pedroli
Movie Review
Chasing Amy 97
Sociology Chasing Amy starts out with two hit comic strip creators Banky and Holden. Their gay friend Hooper introduces Holden to this good looking girl who also writes comic strips. Holden finds out Alyssa is a lesbian. Holden still peruses only acting to want to still be friends till one night he breaks it to her that he wants her, he can't live without her and he is in love with her. She however is a lesbian and feels obligated to the lesbian kind to reject his courtship initially. She stomps out of the explorer and up the street in the rain. Holden chases her and tells her how this all happened. She tells him to go home and then she chases him and the get together. Now Holden's partner Banky is getting mad at the whole situation of her being a lesbian. He tries to explaining once a lesbian always a lesbian. Holden can't agree with him yet because he is in love. Banky then comes to Holden with a story about Alyssa having sex with two guys at once. Holden confronts her at a public event and she flips out and tells him all of the bad things your boyfriend does not want to hear and admitting to the story. It is hard for Holden to take this all in at once and leaves the scene with Alyssa crying on the ground. So thought the whole plot Banky has had much animosity toward Alyssa for taking his best friend away. So Holden comes up with that they should all have a three some and looses both his girl friend and his best friend. In the end Holden sees Alyssa at a comic convention and shows her the comic he wrote about their whole situation called Chasing Amy. The whole movie was a slapstick romantic comedy. It was funny and I recommend it to all who have not seen it yet. It has many plot turns and was well directed by Kevin Smith who also plays the role of Silent Bob. It is also past of a set of movies with names such as: Dogma, Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
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Summary: It's the perfect anti-Romantic Comedy.
Review: "Chasing Amy" is Kevin Smith's most down to Earth comedy in this loose series of alternitive culture films. That is why it's my favorite of the bunch. Don't get me wrong, "Dogman" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" are a riot, but this one has heart to go with the laughs. Ben Affleck plays Holden, a comic book artist who falls in love with Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adems), a lesbian comic book promoter. They begin as friends, and as his feeling progress, his best friend and partner Binky (Jason Lee) tries to warn him away. Then they finally do get together, but Holden feels threatened by Alyssa's way wild past. This is more than silly sight gags, it's a real look at impossable relationships, and why they fail so miserably. As a testement to the honesty of the movie's treatment of the charactors, "Chasing Amy" has become more than the title of a movie and has become a phrase for this kind of situation, that happens more often than you'd think. The end is as sad as it is inevidiable, and that is where I give Kevin Smith a "well done" for not backing out and giving it a "happy ending". This movie is more than funny (and indeed, the Star Wars speech at the beginning is worth the price of buying this movie), but is right on.
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