Melissa’s Angry 2 Cents: A Scanner Darkly
Author: Melissa
July 9th, 2006
Under no circumstances should you allow yourself or anyone you love and care about go to see “A Scanner Darkly.” If there’s someone you hate and would like to inflict suffering and agony on, by all means recommend this movie to them.
If a movie could give itself a heart attack, this one would have killed itself from trying SO HARD to be artsy. The plot was barely there. The writing was pretentious, and yet had no unique or interesting ideas to convey. The characters had zero depth. Whatever tiny scraps of acting Keanu might have thrown out were completely obliterated due to the fact that his face consisted of five blobs of color.
This is just one girl’s opinion, but I think almost everyone else in the theater tonight agreed with us, from what I saw of their reactions. The people in the seats next to me left. I wish I had followed their example. Save your money! Save yourselves! DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE!!!
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12 Responses to “Melissa’s Angry 2 Cents: A Scanner Darkly”
July 10th, 2006 at 5:25 am
I felt the same way about Waking Life.
July 10th, 2006 at 7:49 am
You should know better than to watch a Linklater film. He blows massive cock.
July 10th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Linklater has the ability to be a really fine filmmaker — Dazed and Confused is a masterpiece. But sometimes he is not. I haven\’t seen Scanner yet, but Waking Life might be one of the most irritating movies ever made. It\’s interesting how it divides people, though. Either you love it or you hate it, which usually means there\’s something to it either way. Scanner seems to be along the same lines.
Read Scanner Darkly if you get the chance. Very weird, very sad, and, as always with PKD, just-shy-of-great book.
July 10th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Dazed and Confused is just about as overrated as it gets. Suck of a movie that stoners have made a cult classic.
Linklater blows.
July 10th, 2006 at 9:53 am
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/scanner_darkly/
July 10th, 2006 at 10:02 am
“Overrated” I can see what you’re saying — maybe it’s not perfect. But “suck of a movie” is false. Stoners haven’t made it a cult movie. It’s garnered a following because it’s an incredibly watchable, entertaining, and well-made film.
July 10th, 2006 at 10:19 am
I can’t agree. Having seen it years after it’s release, with all the “greatest movie of all time” shit heaped on it, I was BOOORED. I actually laughed out loud a few times, but not when I was supposed to.
When Nicky Katt starts brawlin’, my laughter starts bawlin’.
July 10th, 2006 at 10:26 am
>the “greatest movie of all time” shit heaped on it
Well, there’s part of the problem. No movie is going to live up to that kind of hype. Watch it in 5-10 years when people have (hopefully) forgotten/stopped talking about it. It’s a good film.
July 10th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
>>Well, there’s part of the problem. No movie is going to live up to that kind of hype. Watch it in 5-10 years when people have (hopefully) forgotten/stopped talking about it. It’s a good film.
You should apply your own advice to the Star Wars prequels!
July 10th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Dan, that will be easy since Lucas will have a new version of them by then.
July 10th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Huh? The difference there is nobody claims the prequels are great except for SW fans suffering from Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome.
Also, Dazed and Confused is a movie about people, not bad CGI. That tends to age better.
The prequels (the first two, anyway) are going to look like garbage in 5 years. Then Lucas will update them. Hopefully with better actors/scripts.
July 10th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Shifting gears, who the hell is Melissa?