March 21, 200422 yr If you were thinking about seeing this, but weren't sure it would be any good...go see it. It receives my highest recommendation. I'll probably see it again, but I'm pretty sure it was better than anything I saw last year.
March 21, 200422 yr That Charlie Kaufman's a pretty good writer... Being John Malkovich Human Nature Adaptation Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and now Spotless Mind
March 23, 200422 yr It was good but I was disappointed, he's been slipping since Adaptation(One of my top ten movies)
March 23, 200422 yr Author It was good but I was disappointed, he's been slipping since Adaptation(One of my top ten movies) I thought this was so much better than Adaptation, and Adaptation was one of my two faves of 2002.
March 23, 200422 yr It was good but I was disappointed, he's been slipping since Adaptation(One of my top ten movies) "Slipping"? How so? The only movie that came out after Adaptation (besides Eternal Sunshine) was Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (which I thought was a fairly faithful adaptation of the book, all things considered). I'm waiting to see Eternal, but I am interested to hear how ol' Charlie's slipped.
March 24, 200422 yr Malcovich and Adaptation were brilliant. I'm feeling that he's trying to go too mainstream in Eternal and Confessions. Don't get me wrong, they are all great movies but I just feel that their going a little more mainstream. It's my opinion but after I saw Adaptation, I thought only better pictures would come from him while still staying faithful to his style. He's remained faithful but maybe it's time he branched out because I feel he's hit his mark.
March 24, 200422 yr Malcovich and Adaptation were brilliant. I'm feeling that he's trying to go too mainstream in Eternal and Confessions. Don't get me wrong, they are all great movies but I just feel that their going a little more mainstream. It's my opinion but after I saw Adaptation, I thought only better pictures would come from him while still staying faithful to his style. He's remained faithful but maybe it's time he branched out because I feel he's hit his mark. See, to me (and I have not seen Eternal Sunshine yet, so I'm going off of the first three) I thought Adaptation wasn't as good as the other two. I mean, it still had a lot of good ideas, but I don't think they were fleshed out as fully as the could have been or done as well as they could have been. Malkovich seemed to be about three or four good premises take to their extreme, while Adaptation seemed like 30 premises used for transition rather than as actual plot to the story itself. I mean to say, I liked the stuff with the brother, Victoria Oleen's book and the writing himself into the story, but was the love story necessary? That was the ending "focal point" of the movie and it was the thing I cared about, as an audience member, least. I thought, even though he took liberties with the book, Confessions was a well written story. The stuff you would pass off as random or unimportant (Barris' gameshows) all really happened and help cover up the fact that he was a killer for hire for the US government. I did say, however, Kaufman took liberties (the book itself is just as much about the gameshows as the spy stuff, not so in the movie) but I didn't have as much a problem with some of the liberties he took because it's questionable Barris' even did that stuff to begin with. The movie has to show itself (like the book) to be a lie that's quite possibly true (even though it's so ridiculous nobody'd believe it). I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Although, when I see Spotless I'll give my little take/blurb.
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