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You may think what i'm about to tell you has spoilers, but really, it doesn't. Because even if you know some of the little secrets, it has no chance AT ALL of ruining the movie for you. It only makes it better. Nothing can ruin this movie. This could be the best of the year. What really happened is, Charlie Kaufman, the guy who wrote Being John Malkovich was asked to write the screenply for a book called The Orchid Thief. But it's not a very adaptable story, and he almost went mad doing it, and so instead he wrote a movie about himself and all the shit he's going through while trying to write the screenplay. The movie also has cut-ins of parts from the Orchid Thief movie he's trying to write, with Meryl Streep as the main character. But he couldn't finish that screenplay either. So he made up a jackass twin for himself, Donald, and gets HIM to write the ending for him. His twin is a hack new screenwriter (the exact opposite of Charlie) who's just finished a typical hollywood psycho/thriller script with every plot cliche ever done: "It's Silence of the Lambs meets Psycho!" It's too true and painfull just hearing his continuing desciptions of the plot he's come up with, while Charlie is killing himself to make an honest intellegent film. He can't sleep. He starts stalking the book's author. He becomes obsessed with orchids. His agent demands a script by monday. Everything goes crazy. And then the last 20min of the movie are a tacked-on piece of trash ending ....ON PURPOSE, filled with sex/drugs/guns/blood and a car chase. It is hillarious, Donald's hollywood ending. The most predictable garbage ending. And it's perfect. It's so perfect. Everything. This is movie that fucks and toys with everyone in it and everyone watching it. It's a brilliant game of a movie, and so enjoyable. Charlie Kaufman is amazing, both himself and his fake brother and Nick Cage. It has so many parts, and so many ways to look at it. It makes fun of itself as it goes along. It could just be Charlie Kaufman's new crazy movie, or him saying that he tries to make good movies, but he understands how crap sells too. Or you could take it as a giant FUCK YOU to writers. Whatever. It's just great. It's 3 movies melted into one, and it's so damn good. All i can think about it what Susan Orlean (the author of The Orchid Thief) thought when THIS landed on her desk as the film version of her book. Which i now have to read. Damn. go read some other reviews or something, it's so had to descibe. I got drunk off this movie. |
i've been waiting for this one to hit more theaters. |
poop. very disappointed. i saw what was happening and i just didn't want it to go that way. what a cop out. i wanted his character to regain his integrity somehow. blah. bullshit ending. i retain high hopes for the gong show/cia movie. don't fuck up charlie. |
the crocodiles!!!!! it was the two kinds of movies i love most, put together! the wicked crazy sad and the so-bad-it's-funny! yaaaaaaay!!! |
i still would have been disappointed, but less so. |
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But i did just finish 'the rules of attraction' book, which is just as good as the movie. |