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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I loved this movie, perhaps the best of 1999. The performances, especially Malkovich, Dias, and Cusack were innovative and well played. If you are no twilling to open your mind, even just a little, this movie will annoy you to no end.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: When someone asks me what my favorite movie is I tell them that I simply can not narrow it down to just one. However, certain movies always pop into my head. They are the ones that went beyond just entertainment and really had an impact on me in on e way or another. Lawrence of Arabia, Contact, Seven Samurai, Chinatown, American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan and Being John Malkovich. This movie offers so much. It is immensely entertaining, funny, poignant and dark. It makes you think without being preachy and it is so fresh and original. If you really want a different type of movie that captivates you from beginning to end then you must see this movie.
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Summary: Being John Malkovich
Review: One of the most boring, obscene, disgusting, repulsive movies I have ever seen in my 25 years of movie-watching. The movie had no obvious plot, going through the mind of some one else is childish, and the music put me and my companion asleep. A real snoresville of a movie. In reality I would give this movie a quarter of a star if I had that option or maybe an eighth of a star.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This film, in case you don't already know, is excellent; in fact, it might be perfect. Watching it for the first time in the theater, I remember being so amazed by how good it was, I started to TRY to find flaws in the film, but I just couldn't. I think that it's literally flawless. Totally orginal and endlessly funny, "Being John Malkovich" will be remembered for a long, long time.
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Summary: Another great 1999 movie
Review: It's a good thing this wasn't Being Ned Beatty or something like that(still can't get over Deliverance). This film is brilliantly directed - most likely the best directed film of the year. The script is way, WAY out of left field, but it manages to satire our fascination with celebrity and still tell a genuinely moving story. And the performances are first-rate. John Cusack is one of our most underrated actors, and I also thought Cameron Diaz was terrific. John Malkovich and Catherine Keener though, their craft is on a whole other level. Do not miss this one. Wish the DVD had running commentary, but oh well, nothing's perfect.
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Summary: The Best Movie in a Year of Good Movies
Review: Its hard to imagine a movie that is this off the wall, utterly hilarious, and strangely philisophical was ever written, much less actually made. Charlie Kaufman's script is so amazingly creative, blending screwball humor and existential philosophy so well that you either laughed or pondered you existance throughout the entire movie. The acting was equally impressive. John Cusack has long been one of my favorite actors, and this may be his best, most developed performance yet. Even when he was doing greedy, selfish things, I still sympathized with him. Cameron Diaz was perfect in an against type role (a friend of mine didn't know it was her until he saw her name in the credits). Catherine Keener certainly deserved her Oscar nomination, and John Malkovich himself was hilarious as the man trying to figure his way through this "metaphysical can of worms". I'm so glad that Spike Jonze directed this move, having been a fan of his since the days of the Girl/Chocolate skateboard videos. Jonze really came through with the perfect mix of subdued cinematography and wacky visuals. 1999 was a really good year for movies, Bringing Out the Dead, Magnolia, Three Kings, The Insider, and The Limey will all be remembered for years to come, but Being John Malkovich was the best and most memorable, without a doubt.
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Summary: Best Screenplay, Direction, and Picture (in a perfect world)
Review: Just the fact that it's a fulfilling movie in a decade wherefilms never fascinate should be enough Few directors can make such wonderful films while attempting to create a true surrealist piece of work. Jonze and Kaufman make it artsy and entertaining. For more great surrealist movies, check out the works of Luis Bunuel (his entire canon), David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead), Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands), Peter Greenaway (A Zed abd Two Noughts, The Draughtsman's Contract), and Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fisher King).
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Summary: Incredible
Review: Being John Malcovich is the most origional movie I have EVER seen. This movie is awesome. If you have not seen it I would recommend you see it as soon as possible. The origionality and comedy of the movie were incredible. Buy it today.
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Summary: A surreal masterpiece
Review: If you haven't seen this film yet then go see it now, or better yet buy it! There's probably never going to be another film like this made. John Cusack is magnificent as the troubled puppeteer and Cameron Diaz also shines in an unusual non-glamorous role. Malkovich is also wonderful as the gloriously OTT thespian. In an age of over-hyped summer blockbusters starring box-office bankers such as Will Smith, this films stands out as a masterpiece.
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Summary: Be All That Someone Else Can Be
Review: Being John Malkovich is, without question, the most highly imaginative and inventive script put to paper in this decade. In just his first ever produced screenplay, Charles Kaufman has masterminded one of the most hilarious and most thoughtful stories ever put to film and it is destined to become a classic, be it mainstream or cult. Also marking Spike Jonze's directorial debut is Being John Malkovich and what better way to start a promising directing career then to do a movie about going inside the head of a famous Thespian. Having read many reviews for BJM, I have seen it been called a metaphor for directing, acting and even a metaphor for being a film critic. Being John Malkovich is a rarity is Hollywood, it is a movie that can be taken in a different light by everyone that sees it as someone might think that it is just a funny movie or someone could look a little closer and see all of the moral and ethical questions that the movie raises.
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