85. MagnoliaTitle: Magnolia
By: Misterkenny Date: February 10, 2001 at 15:24:52 STANLEY KUBRICK'S MASTERPIECE! Widely touted as the finest movie ever, including E.T., I rented Magnolia expecting to see an incredible film depicting a famous director's (I've never heard of Stanley Kubrick, have you?) final and best movie. Well! The movie follows the individual plots of roughly 579 different characters. There's the policeman, the psychotic gay man (we don't learn this until later), the druggie girl, and OH YES, how could I forget, the man in the previews, Tom Cruise the male chauvinist pig. I've always wanted to say that, I'm a guy. WELL, Tom Cruise hardly appears at all, in the movie, and when he does, he makes his best attempts at getting women to hate him. After every single thing he said, my mom exclaimed, "OH!" (Hey, I'm 16, gimme a break.) You know, the kind of OH! that is normally followed by "Well, I never..." So the movie continues (for at least 3 hours) to tell us about how pitiful these peoples' lives are, and since there are 579 different characters, we are left deciding which is the most pitiful. In fact, if you're my age (I repeat, 16), you may find it INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT to follow more than 2 or 3 of the individual plots. After about an hour, something revolutionary happens. Some of the plots join up! Like, policeman meets druggie girl! But finally, when we think that some semblance of order (and happiness) may come out of this movie, frogs rain from the sky, gay man bleeds out of his mouth, and the movie ends. I'm depressed, how about you? I wouldn't wish this upon my enemies. 3 turkeys. |
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