http://andrewcruse.com ...another waste of bandwidth Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:20:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://andrewcruse.com/archives/25 http://andrewcruse.com/archives/25#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:22:11 +0000 Andrew Cruse http://www.andrewcruse.com/?p=25 Yesterday being our anniversary, we wanted to watch a “romantic” movie, and I was just hoping for something that wouldn’t make me lose my lunch. So, we had Netflix send us Before Sunrise, a movie by interesting director Richard Linklater. It got consistently good marks from many movie critics, including many whom I hold in high esteem such as Roger Ebert. Unfortunately, I can’t echo their raves. First and foremost, the movie was just plain boring. I don’t have a problem with slow movies, or even movies with very little dialogue. This movie is neither slow, nor lacking in dialog — it’s just dull. The film consists entirely of a series of long conversations between an American man (Ethan Hawke) and a French woman (Julie Delpy) who meet on a train to Vienna. Hawke and Delpy both turn in fantastic performances with the material given, but it’s the material that drags this film down. Ultimately this film consists of two disaffected twentysomethings trying to impress each other by shamelessly bloviating on an endless stream of pseudo-intellectual topics. They touch to the depths of their painfully shallow souls the nature of reincarnation, relationships, the battles between men and women…pretty much the same drivel you’ll find discussed over lattes wherever bored, overintellectualized youth hang out. I get enough of that overhearing their conversations in real life — I don’t need to sit through two hours of it in a movie.

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