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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 The time is now 7:45AM and your house is on fire ~ Feb 25, 2010
The latest work from writer Charlie Kaufman is an unparalleled unleashed wild ride of a wind storm waiting with baited breath of rotting teeth and the grimy yellow air of subway station restrooms to storm the innermost locked up rooms of the mind. Rejoinder: Since the summer of 2009 with the digital in the future we will all be the same switch over blink once to lose all your channels blink twice to bend over backwards and hand half your paycheck to the cable companies; ahem; I have since been left without a blinking connection to my DVD player. Which makes no sense considering the connection only goes from the TV to the DVD; nonetheless, such was the case until recently when out of the blue, after several letter writing campaigns (hand delivered to the top of my DVD player where they sat unopened and are now gathering dust) and picketing lines (on a rotation of twice daily picketing line involving both me and my dog holding signs that say, "You blinkety blink TV! You really blinkety blink!", in a three by six foot rotation around the living room in front of the blank faced and unmoved TV), some magic fairy dust did seem to appear as both the TV and the DVD player decided to put down their weapons and kiss and make up. It was a moment. And so, months even years after the release date, I have now been one of the most fortunate home viewers in the universe to have gotten my tiny little pea sized hands on one of the most important films of the decade (adding to his already brimming mantel) written by none other than Charlie Kaufman.
Psychosis holding hands with Sychosis, love it. Love the switchback of the scene where Caden tells Olive her mother has Psychosis and her father has Sychosis. Love the way that time is a character, as if contained in a glass ball and bouncing gaily from one scene to the other while Caden jumps to catch it and the ball zings out of reach. There are so many corridors that open up inside this movie, and Philip Seymour Hoffman keeps his wits about him while naviagating the wobbly turn table; funny how the set just grows more menacing while the actors never seem to lose their balance; it looks like the workshop of the mind laid open. Please forgive me for I cannot say enough good about this movie. I think it should have won every Oscar, nuff said.
Why isn't this kind of work recognized? I'm sure it is recognized, but not enough, not enough I say. Maybe it's just me latching on to the minutae of the panoramic details as a child starved of glee, dunno.
The voice of God, I mean Diane Wiest, I mean Caden, I mean Charlie Kaufman that unwinds as the movie steers her ship into port is magical. There may be no greater screenplay writer living such as Mr. Kaufman and such gargantuan and scintillating superlatives may seem trite and overbearing. Still, I lay the card down on the table with no regret. Where do we begin? Jumping rope in the middle of the street finds me lolly gagging in front of Caden's house and watching the steady stream of cadavers sneaking out the back window and giving the thumbs up sign. Hazel and Caden are so MFEO it's disgusting. Catherine Keener and Jennifer Jason Leigh; a couple of witches channeling two concentration camp workers hell bent on taking out the whole crew - nothing less than the best from those two. Ms. Morton sparkles like a red dress aflame in a bleak room filled with dry leaves. Olive's flower tattoo shedding petals. Had me pulling my eyelashes out with glee. The father daughter death bed apologia - beautiful. The pink box Caden finds in the alley in Germany that is Olive and the fairy game they played before she went away - - let me take a moment to stab myself with a long stemmed kitchen knife to show the oozing of my delight. As a certified card carrying member of the Unified Society of the Meaning of Life Resides in Sticky Notes, Hand written Notes, Lists on backs of tattered Envelopes, Diaries and Journaling are All! - - Well, you can imagine my thumb sucking delight at all the notes contained within - - Sometimes all of life, quite simply, as Mr. Kauffman so garishly points out, is after all, contained in a note. Wait - I've just been handed a note: Do not forget old fashioned opera binoculars. Of course. One can so easily slip and slide down into the landscape of this movie; I dare say it feels like falling into home. Bravo! Bravo! - - Why ever for? For being real. For opening up the locked drawing room of the soul and showing the true anguish, torture, and loss of being chained to the dying illusionary wheel of pretending that there is a way to create something great within this life that will overshadow the ungreatness of one's life therefore anointing one's life and person with the crown of greatness in just trying to create- - the play that is the movie that is the screenplay that is the story that is the magic within the mind is brilliant. Philip Seymour Hoffman (amazing performance!) is probably the only actor who could successfully carry the multi-tiered ship as she lurches o'er the sea- - such trappings - - I will say that the second half of the movie is just sheer brilliance; did I say that yet? Brilliant? Whom? Why Charlie Kaufman of course. Even my dog sat riveted in front of the telle. After Diane Wiest's voice faded out and the credits began rolling, my dog turned to me with eyes in a trance glazed over and all I could do was turn to her and say, "Yeah, me too." It is 7:45AM and your house is on fire. Do come in.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 It's nice Feb 21, 2010
I don't know, I thought it was nice. I think it's amusing how all the reviewers who didn't like the movie sound offended and seem to take it personally.
2 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Rated "R" for ridiculous Feb 16, 2010
Ponderous does not equal profound.
Affected does not equal effective.
What I will remember about this film--sorry Mr. Ebert it is not "A great film." and I won't "See it twice".-- is that it whines, and whines, and whines. . .
3 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Goofy, mind-numbing drivel, dribble, scribble Jan 18, 2010
I love it when some reviewers state if you don't like this type of movie, it's because you have a short attention..............span, are not enlightened, or not sophisticated enough to understand or see things on their level of consciousness (or unconsciousness). When it all comes down to the fact that they don't understand quirky movies like this any more than you or I; but would never admit it to anyone. Deep down inside the 4 and 5 Star reviewers are asking themselves "what the hell was that all about?" Which just about sums it up for this movie. It was a bunch of c*r*a*p but I have to admit it was entertaining as a comedy (thus, the 2 Stars. It was a comedy, right?
And I must stress that no matter how much a movie stinks, the actors still get paid for it. Even if the movie loses money. Wouldn't that be great if we all got raises in pay, even though we did a mediocre job in our yearly Performance Reviews? That's what kept me thinking "These people actually got paid for making this garbage!" What a great industry to work for. Lucky stiffs. What do I know.....I'm just an unsophisticated individual with a short..............................attention span.
4 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Awful Awful Horrible Movie... Jan 10, 2010
I've seen a lot of movies in my day, but this is 2 hours of my life I'll never get back and I'm pissed about it. I mean really pissed. STAY AWAY from this movie. Will Ferrell's The Lost World has more cinematic value and will give you better entertainment for your buck... and that movie was the 2nd worst movie of all time.
Long story short. This movie sucked.
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