...or even "Monkeybone", for %*#$'s sake.
This was horrid. Not only was the dialogue predictable, even James Marsden's gestures and facial expressions were!!! Shaking his head and smiling, hands behind his head when he was "surprised"--and he wasn't even camping it up! I think he was trying to act! Good God, does the man not even have his own body language?
Totally disagree. I enjoyed Wristcutters, and got this recommended by Netflix because I rated Wristcutters well. But this movie deserves to be seen and you're a fool for trying to get people not to see it. Honestly, I don't even know what you're trying to accomplish here other than being a b*tch.
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I agree, I thought it was bad and shallow.
My Better than Interstate 60 list (i.e. existential movies with depth):
Anything by Charlie Kaufman
Tale of Two Sisters
Save the Green Planet
I Heart Huckabees
The Virgin Suicides
Fight Club
Stranger than Fiction
Pleasantville
Inception
Memento
Blade Runner
Cube
Donnie Darko
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Last Life in the Universe
The Fountain
Franklyn
Ink
The Fall
Ikiru
inception. lol
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=26178346
Almost none or maybe even NONE of those movies you listed are even similar to wristcutters or interstate 60 in the slightest. Why would you suggest those movies? Sure I think most of those movies are really good, some I would even consider masterpieces BUT they have absolutely NOTHING to do with interstate 60 or wristcutters.
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Some of these are good, but some are very ordinary. "Franklyn"? Low-grade Kafka. "Stranger Than Fiction"? Ferrell does a decent job at a rare serious role, but the movie itself is pretty much fluff. The central conceit is badly executed. "Cube"? Really? "Donnie Darko"? Poorly plotted overrated morbidity designed to appeal to people with more pretentiousness than cognitive skills. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"? Well, it is Stoppard's magnum opus as a playwright, but it never should have been made into a movie. I'm not even sure why you include "Pleasantville". It's a good enough movie, but it's in no way deep. Ooh, bringing nuance into the Garden. It's been done to death. "The Fountain"? Okay, I'll kind of give you that one, but its reach exceeds its grasp and fails to achieve the profundity it obviously wants us to buy into. Which sounds oddly like this movie.
I'll give you the rest, except for the couple I haven't seen. This movie is not in their league (and would have greatly benefited from a Kaufman treatment, to be sure) but it has some interesting moments and while I certainly wouldn't classify it as a great movie, I'd still consider it as worth watching as half your list.
(I'm actually not going to give you "Fight Club" without further information from you. Not because it isn't a great movie -- it is -- but because I've noticed that a significant portion of its fans completely miss the satirical element and obsess over the very philosophies the movie satirizes.)
Wristcutters is better, but who cares? They're both good movies with different things to offer. In fact, I would say there are few similarities in the plot, very different senses of humor, and extremely different production design. It's not like either movie is a huge investment in terms of time. Surely anyone can spare three hours of their life to see these great movies, and you can watch Interstate 60 for free on this website, so it's not like you'd have to find it or spend money.
shareIs it a competition? You know that nobody is winning a medal at the end, right?
I saw both and I enjoyed both for different reasons. Do I win something? Or did I lose?
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
Why "instead"? I watched them both. They're different movies with different premises. Neither was perfect -- far from it -- but they both had something to offer the viewer.
And I honestly don't care about Marsden. He wasn't being called upon to offer great acting chops, and I just accepted what limited range he had while concentrating on the movie itself. Besides, any movie with Oldman, Russell and Loyd is going to have plenty of good acting to compensate for the mediocre actors.