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Summary: Gerry good
Review: Gerry can be either a tedious 1.5 hours, or a magnificent reflection of human struggle. It all depends on what you want out of your movies these days. I think people expect too much from Gerry. This is NOT the glamorous Hollywood fare you're used to, where one may be lost, but they somehow find adventure and excitement and breathtaking danger. While there could have been more struggle, more conflict, and better pacing, the movie does just what it aims to do: portray two guys lost in the desert. This is ALMOST EXACTLY how it would be. I can't say I enjoyed the movie, but I'm glad I watched it. It left an impression on me that most movies can't do anymore.
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Summary: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching
Review: If I had to name the five worst movies ever made, this would rank among them. It makes Ishtar look like Citizen Kane (at least Ishtar had a camel!). There is no plot, and the most dialogue you hear is one of the "Gerrys" prattling on about playing a video game.This astonishingly amateurish movie is fraught with ad libbed lines and interminable scenes of walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking. I honestly wonder if any editors were involved in the film at all. Between yawns, I found myself asking, "how did they get lost again?" Asking the audience to believe that people could be so incredibly dumb is asking the audience to suspend belief beyond belief. "Gee, we're lost. Let's hike toward more arid land!" And what was that about the guy climbing up the rock, but not being able to climb down? It's not like it was a challenge. Only a complete idiot would have jumpped! The cries of "Visually Spectacular!" on the DVD cover are laughable. Take your camera into the desert and you will come up with images every bit as "spectacular" as in this movie. It's a function of the scenery, not the skill of the director. Indeed, most of the scenes are rather drab from the standpoint of movie making. How many times do we have to view sped-up scenes of clouds in the sky that last for five minutes? OK, we get the idea that clouds change in the sky--like 50 years ago, already! All I can say is thank God one of the actors wears a huge yellow star on his sweater, because there is so little character development in the film that you otherwise wouldn't know who was who. If I had to sum this movie up in a phrase, it would be "Terminable stupidity, interminably filmed."
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Summary: Unbelievable waste of time!!!!!
Review: This is the worst movie I have ever seen...period!!!!! I feel sorry for anyone wasting their time watching it! You would do better watching the blank screen and not putting the movie in!
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Summary: Visually striking, and Affleck is amazing.
Review: What Gus Van Sant has done with GERRY is unheard of: He has taken a film with no story, no structure, and only two actors, and... made it work. Casey Affleck in unexpectedly effective in this experimental, man vs. nature drama. His natural performance and the hypnotic desert cinematography are the high points of this mesmerizing piece of work, and are well worth the five stars on their own.
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Summary: Wondering About Wandering
Review: I was hyped for Gerry when I bought it! Gus Van Sant, Damon and Affleck...all of the ingredients for a good film! After watching it, I wanted to smack all three on the head for putting together such a piece of trivial self indulgence. The movie is lacking a plot, dialogue, action (other than walking), character development, character empathy, direction, sound track, and any logical reason for committing this farce to film. With only two characters in the film, it would have been of some benefit to know who they were, or what they meant to each other. This may be one of the worst films made in the last fifty years. Gus Van Sant...what drugs were you on?
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Summary: An Alternative Form of Torture
Review: Theoreticians have determined that capital punishment is not a deterrent to crime. I submit that if the convicted offender were locked away and required to view this movie once a day, for a year, it would be a fate worse than death. This is one of the worse movies I have ever seen. It makes Gigli look like a contender for best picture. It is filled with long and boring scenes of personal introspection as the lead characters, one of whom is Matt Damon, stare endlessly into the desert wherein which they find themselves hopelessly lost. The dialogue, when there is any, is stilted and chopped. It is, or so the producers would have you believe, filled with alleged wisdom and insight, as only those who are hopelessly lost in the desert can enjoy. The opening scene, a long and tedious view of the desert expanse as seen through the windshield of a car, should have been a significant hint to the unwary viewer. In conclusion, I didn't like this movie, as if, dear reader, you couldn't tell. This film certainly has no social redeeming value, as I suspect the director and writers would have you believe. In reality this movie has no value at all.
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Summary: Don't waste your time... PLEASE!
Review: I was very disapointed after watching this movie, I have never seen anything horrible like it. I am usually open-minded when it comes to movies. I can't see why there is even 1 person that says they enjoyed it. huh?
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Summary: Use the DVD for target practice, burn it, toss it, forget it
Review: What more do I need to say? This is the worst film I have ever seen. Actually, it was also the fastest film I've ever seen. It was so boring I was able to fast forward through the thing in about 5 minutes and get the main idea. If I could give it a minus 10 stars, I would. Did I miss something with this film? If I did, I guess I am not too worried about it. I have better things to do.
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Summary: Bad. No. Worse than bad.
Review: This is an extremely bad and torturously boring film. Who in their right mind would go on a DESERT hike with no compass, map, water or food? Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Gus van Sant should have known when writing this feeble script that it is impossible for an audience to connect with the characters when it keeps thinking how stupid the characters are. What is even more tedious is the dialogue is probably the most insipid I have ever heard -- Wheel of Fortune? A mumbled rant about 'Conquering Thebes'? Please. Trying to make an artistic, intellectual film with absolutely nothing to stir up thought is a completely futile effort. Rather than inspiring questions about the duo and their relationship under such strain the film makes you question why this film was ever made in the first place. It's as if the writers all read Waiting for Godot and got inspired to do an updated version (with meaningless dialogue). The main difference, however, is that this work has absolutely no social or political relevance whatsoever. What makes us care? Why should we watch this? Don't. Fast forward and admire the beautiful cinematography that is this film's only saving grace; honestly, this film would have been good had there been no characters at all!
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Summary: TERRIBLE MOVIE!
Review: This was, by far, the worste movie I ever saw in my entire life!! I can't believe that Matt Damon actually agreed to do this movie. No plot, no script...what a bore! Two guys walking through the dessert. That is the whole movie. You watch two guys walking for two hours and at the end, one lays down and dies. That's it. Biggest waste of time.
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