Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection

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Summary: Refreshingly complex and real.
Review: It is nice to walk into the mass-market video rental store sometimes and come across a movie which isn't pressed out of the same watered-down, plastic, 110% post-consumer, bleached and pressed material that most movies are made of. The slow start sent my wife off to bed but I was glad to have stuck with it. The by the end I was totally drawn in to the emotional state of Holden and pleased with the real-life, unhappy ending. As an old married guy I was caught off guard by the reminder of the utter torture of love and love lost. Especially love lost by the tragicaly flawed reasoning of the male mind. I really thought he'd understood Silent Bob's "Amy" story and would pull it together...but there lies the tragedy. Great Movie.

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Summary: NOONCH
Review: Snootchie Bootchies Ahhh

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Summary: It's the sweetest tale of love and friendship.
Review: Watching Chasing Amy for the first time, I was awestruck by Joey Lauren Adams and Ben Affleck's beautiful tale of curiousity, true romance, and betrayal. By far the most honest of any "romance" flicks I have ever seen, Kevin Smith writes with such honest elegance, that anyone can relate to the struggle between best friend and partner. Though Chasing Amy is filled with surprise and laughs, there is also a subtle moral tone to it. Maybe Smith is trying to supress his own relationship he once had with a woman such as Adam's character, or perhaps he went through the struggle of being the best friend, played by the talented Jason Lee. Either way, Amy is both amusing and endearing to watch, and one will laugh wholeheartedly at Affleck's first real encounter with Adams when he finds out a little something that sets them apart most definitely. But, in the end Amy is truly about friendship, and no better way to put it than Smith himself, the master of unpredictable screenwriting.

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Summary: A life lesson to us all...
Review: Chasing Amy rates highly as one of the my favourite films of all time. It succeeds in being funny, poignant, moving, touching and inspiring all at once. Not only does the movie shed light into the complicated world of male friendships, but it's also a life lesson in any sort of relationship, whether you are male, female or gay. The writing is brilliant, uniting incredibly humourous moments and amazingly deep and insightful dialogue. Definitely worth seeing.

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Summary: Fantastic Movie
Review: Great movie, great director, great cast, great script, just plain great

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Summary: Best Smith film yet
Review: I must say, Chasing Amy, is great. The film takes a totally different direction from Clerks and Mallrats (I didn't care too much for the idea behind mallrats). This movie is honest-too honest for some. It deals with issues that many people don't like to talk about, or like to hide their real feelings about. Every scene is this moive is perfect, however, Unlike mallrats and clecks, you can not watch this moive 100 times. There are pauses in the movie with no dialog where as the other two were an endless barage of piontless discussions-all humorous in their pointlessness-the cookie stand debate for example. Don't get me wrong, this is an amazing movie. I don't understand how trash gets to the mass market when Chasing Amy lasted maybe a week in my local theaters (in a fairly large city). The movie has everything-great acting, a plot, character devolopment, and humor.

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Summary: Kevin Smith strikes again!!
Review: Kevin Smith's films tend to fall into the love it or leave it. I personally choose the latter. One of the primary reasons I so enjoyed this film was it's flagrant use in-jokes and references to all things Smith. This unfortunately, is a double edged sword. While I hooted and gasped at the mention of Caitlin Bree, my sister (who has not seen Clerks) shot me a confused, dumfounded glance. My strongest criticism of this film is that it was 30 mins. too long; it really dragged towards the end.

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Summary: Kevin Smith, you will pay!
Review: Did you like the scene where Amy screamed at Ben Affleck like a dying cat in the rain for 10 minutes!? GODZILLA!

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Summary: Not exactly a normal love story, but....
Review: (Warning: References to "Clerks" abound in this movie, and therefore, this review. If you liked "Clerks, you'll get it.) If you like simple, happy "boy-meets-girl, happily ever after" movies, this will open your eyes to the fact that love stories don't always end "right". It's an honest, funny, sad movie that deserves every positive review it's gotten. Joey Lauren Adams is absolutely amazing as Alyssa Jones (Caitlin Bree's friend), a lesbian comix author with a colorful sexual past. Holden McNeill (Ben Affleck) is another comix author, only much, much more popular than Alyssa. Holden meets Alyssa through a mutual friend and thinks she wants him. When he appears at a party at a club she invited him to, he gets a slight surprise: Alyssa digs chicks. Not Holden's expectation. They become tight friends, until Holden confesses his love to her. The relationship that follows is plagued by Banky, Holden's insecure best friend, and Banky's nasty habit of digging up dirt on Alyssa from high school. And college. I'm not going to tell you what happens, but let's just say I've never looked at hockey games the same way again. Be prepared for Jay and Silent Bob, and Quick Stop stories. There are numerous references to past characters in Kevin Smith movies which you might not get if you haven't seen them or didn't watch them repeatedly (like some of us: over and over and over...), but if you do get the references, it gets even funnier.

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Summary: A movie worth waiting to see what happens.
Review: At first, I thought the movie was trite, but I was glad I stuck with it. The scene where Ben Affleck tells Joey Lauren Adams how he feels about her was poignant and one of the best declarations of love I've ever heard.I replayed the scene several times.