Gerry
From the groundbreaking director of GOOD WILL HUNTING and FINDING FORRESTER, GERRY stars Academy Award(R) winner Matt Damon (Best Original Screenplay, GOOD WILL HUNTING, 1997; THE BOURNE IDENTITY, OCEAN'S ELEVEN) and Casey Affleck (OCEAN'S ELEVEN, SOUL SURVIVORS) in a suspenseful and highly provocative story of two men pushed to the limit! A pair of best friends (Affleck and Damon), who've nicknamed each other "Gerry," set out on a desert hike. But what begins as a simple daytime adventure turns into an intense life-and-death journey that will test the strength of human endurance and ultimately, their friendship! Written by Damon, Affleck, and Director Gus Van Sant, this uncommonly compelling and starkly visualized film is a must-see motion picture that has earned the overwhelming praise of critics nationwide!
In Gerry, two young men (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) wander beautiful, barren, and surreal landscapes, gradually growing more and more lost. This film from Gus Van Sant (director of Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, and Good Will Hunting) has no story, hardly any dialogue, and even less in the way of "action" or "events." Yet the movie is by turns maddening and hypnotic; although few people will agree on which are the maddening scenes and which are the hypnotic ones, you will leave Gerry with one or more stunning images in your head. In fact, Gerry is probably more pleasurable to remember than it is to sit through. Committed performances, flashes of dark humor, and a smattering of visual effects give the movie some shape, but the more you just surrender to the emptiness of the landscape, the more rewarding Gerry will be. --Bret Fetzer
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 Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant
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Gerry Reviews
If not, you'd best turn back now. A knack for analysis. 7. 6. and, most importantly,. If you think you contain at least six of those traits, you will adore Gerry as I do. 2. 3.
An appreciation for film. An open mind. Patience. An appreciation for nature. An adoration of the unique. If you want to watch Gerry, you need. Gerry is a one-of-a-kind experience, a cinematic force beyond any sense of category or label, and DEFINITELY not for everyone. 5.
Those 104 minutes aren't coming back. 4. An attention span. 1.
Here is my rough preference for the films:. I'll be there. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be available in Blu-Ray (and I'm not sure I'd spend the money if it was), and I'd rather see it bigger as well as sharper, so perhaps the Nuart will run it someday at midnight. Among Van Zant's films in which "nothing happens," probably the least happens in this one. Gary (not Gerry)
As to a review of the film, I think everything that could be said has already been said, but I'll try this:. Elephant is NOT the best film on the subject, not even the best experimental film on the subject (see ZERO DAY for a brilliant alternative), and finally,. This is the first DVD I've ever seen that I actually CARED to see in a sharper format. I'll give Gerry a second. I really couldn't stand Last Days, although it too would have been better in Blu-Ray, because at least I might have spent less time thinking that the wide shots weren't sharp enough.
I liked Paranoid Park best.
The movie can be seen a failed attempt for creating a minimalist, but oddly compelling movie genre that Hollywood seems to be missing. Surprisingly, the 100 odd minutes don't seem to long. Some of the dialogs are downright laughable (not for their ingenuity, but for their stupidity). The desert predicament of the Gerry's seems so childish and stupid that the viewer cannot help feeling a little irritated. Stunning scenery, cinematography and creative use of ambient light gives the movie a dreamscape like quality. However, the two actors punctuating the serene scenery spoil the dream to a rude awakening. Nonetheless, the scenery is astonishingly beautiful and that lends a redeeming factor to the movie that'll make you sit through the end.
A sense of plodding doom eases in from the edges of the frame and soon envelopes them in a nightmare of trudging drudgery and waning hope. Gus Van Sant's film 'Gerry' stars Casey Affleck and Matt Damon as two pals who happily wander off on a short desert hike and become hopelessly lost in an ever more bleak and hostile landscape. Another of Van Sant's great `Silent Suite' films, stories where Van Sant allows a scene to play out with a sort of overt quietness. The film is a masterwork of minimalism and an acknowledgment of the thin veil hanging between the comforts of our everyday existence and the propinquity of abject loss and creeping torpor. A lack of dialog that becomes oppressive in it's absence and often conveys great visceral meaning when coupled with the long, unobtrusive, tracking shots favored by Mister Van Sant. Van Sant manipulates on screen silence and long tracking shots the way Chopin fashioned a nocturne, stillness and space become as important as exposition and dialog. In 'Gerry' Van Sant does for `uneventful' what Hitchcock did for the shower.
'Gerry' successfully tells the story of two friends who start out on what they, foolishly and tragically believe, is going to be just another uneventful day. .
what can i say that hasn't been said. destroy this film. this movie is bad. anybody who gives this movie 5 stars is insane. it's on its own level. I can't even describe how boring it is. this movie IS TORTURE. if you are reading this then you have probably seen the other reviews.
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