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Summary: It had its moments
Review: Ok.. I didn't enjoy this film. May be I do not have an appreciation for "creative" edges, maybe I was tired at the time and I need to watch it again. It just reminded me of fiction books I use to read when I was 8 (With the exception of the Adult content). But in all seriousness, I think the "originality" angle is severely overhyped. Its original... BIG DEAL, its boring!!
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Summary: A Unique and Beautiful Movie
Review: This has got to be one of the strangest movies I have ever seen, and also one of the best. The only word that will fully describe what this movie is, Beautiful. The unique storyline, the hidden meanings and metaphoric elements, the puppetry... Art, pure and simple.Right up there with American Beauty and Fight Club as best movies of that year. PS: The the reviewer who refered to American Beauty as the "so called academy winner"... ??? There's no "so-called" about it, it won several academy awards. And it deserved every one.
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Summary: A refreshing and entertaining video
Review: This is an inane and yet intriguing comedy/drama, and I'd highly reccomend it to anyone. The acting is superb, as is the story. Basically, a failing puppeteer takes a filing job in a building, and ends up working on the seventh and a half floor. He discovers a door with a long, grimy tunnel in his office, and when he goes in it he is whisked down several hundred feet while the door slams shut behind him. Suddenly, he's seeing through the eyes of John Malkovich. After fifteen minutes, he's spit out into the Jersey turnpike.
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Summary: Not too bad; better than American Beauty
Review: I watched this film on a whim and was quite suprised. It was so wierd I had to finish watching it the whole way through. I really found it quite entertaining. It is very bizarre and an original piece, much better than that so-called Academy Winner "American Beauty." John Malkovich is one of the best actors of the 20th century and his acting is superb. I have a feeling this is one of those films you either love or hate, but try watching it--it's pretty good.
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Summary: And here's Johnny!
Review: Ever think of being someone else? What if there was a portile in which you could metaphysically go into and become someone else? Sounds good huh? How about if the portile was to John Malkovich? Who you ask? John Freakin' Malkovich that actor guy!! In this Spike Jonze film, you can be anything you want...as long as it's Malkovich. Real movie buffs will appreciate the zany humor and brilliance of this film. The concept is so original and so intelligent and almost silly at the same time. Oh yeah it makes you think about persepective, mind control, and the soul but it also makes you laugh while doing so. It barely misses a beat. John Cusack couldnt be more perfect as the down-on-luck puppeteer. American Beauty was an amazing satire about America facing its own suburban nightmare--itself!, Magnolia was about coming to terms with the past and it ain't through with us. But Being John Malkovich is about all those weird little thoughts you ever had about being yourself that you'd never tell your mother or your shrink for that matter. Imagine being exposed. Imagine wandering into another dimension. Imagine slipping out of your soul and into someone else's mind. Imagine being John Malkovich. Imagine...loving it.
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Summary: A Bit of a Disappointment
Review: I thought this was going to be good, but I was wrong. I like John Cusack and I like the whole idea, so I really had high hopes. It really wasn't that bad, for the first half anyway. While it dealt with the implications of getting in someone's head and Cusack's character's growing dependence on it, it was funny and interesting. Unfortunately it turns into a sappy, feminist struggle for true love. Hey, I know the lesbian implications in it, and I appriciate them as much as anyone, but not in this movie. It's kind of like "Chasing Amy," good for the forst half, but the ending is so rediculous, it's just sad. It's just a disappointment, don't bother.
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Summary: umm...well it was definitly weird, I'll say that for it
Review: This was a VERY strange movie. It started out alright...though John Cusak and his puppets was weird..and Cameron Diaz and her animals was even weirder. I will say that the movie was interesting and had a plot that kept me hooked--at least for a little. The thing that got to me was that one character was having sex with John Malkovich WHILE Diaz was inside MAlkovich and the character (Maxine) and Diaz both new it and were doing this to have sex with each other....gross. No offense to gays out there, but I think that "gay" sex did not need to be in that movie, because it really could have been good without it.
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Summary: Johnny---We Hardly Knew Ya!
Review: Don't miss this fabulously bizarre comedy, a dizzy original. Like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole, office drone Cusack discovers a hidden door leading (honest) to the inside of actor John Malkovich's head. Enter the door and one becomes Malkovich. The movie's Malkovich is a primping prima donna, played with gusto by the real Mr. M. Keener and is hilarious as a frosty dame who'd give icebergs a chill. Diaz pulls off the frizzy dippy wife. Bravos go to this film's two imaginative visionaries, director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.
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Summary: Very interesting ...
Review: The plot of the film is absolutely interesting and moving...not one of the everyday movies you see on screen.
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Summary: Trickster
Review: I was expecting this to be a comedy and had to rethink my expectations when I realized it wasn't. It has comedic elements - a lot of them - and there's no problem going along with the antics: the portal into Malkovich's brain, the 7 1/2 floor (an oppressive work place if ever there was), the eccentric characters and the whimsical insanity of it all. Then the sneaky thing turns and bites, the comedic trance is broken, and you're watching an acid commentary on identity. All the performances are done well, especially John Malkovich's portrayal of himself. The others, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, manage terrifically with their roles. Their characters are unappealing, but that's the way it was meant to be. I think they represent every person who ever wished to be somebody else, or that the person they were with was someone else. Personally, I was touched by poor Lottie's lament that she wanted to be a man, with power. Yeah, Lottie, you're not alone. Anyway, it does not have a happy or upbeat ending, for how can it, when we are never happy with who we are?
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