Truly Dreadful Film

terrible... so disappointed.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

With still having good memories of co-writer/ (along with Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson) director David Gordon Green's 2008 Comedy Pineapple Express,I was thrilled to discover that a family friend had recently gotten hold of Green's collaboration with Paul Rudd,which led to me grabbing my best suit,and getting ready to meet Prince Avalanche.The plot:Asked by his girlfriend to get her brother a job,Alvin arranges for Lance to work with him during the summer time repairing traffic lines of a quiet country road.Bored to death of being stuck in the middle of nowhere,Lance begins to make plans to take the weekend off,and visit a near-by city.As Lance sets off for the big city,Alvin begins to question everything which he has left behind.View on the film:Backed by a haunting score from David Wingo and the excellent Post- Rock band Explosions In The Sky,director David Gordon Green and cinematographer Tim Orr strip the film to a docu-drama rawness,as Green and Orr avoid giving the title any elegance,by using rough tracking shots to firmly place the viewer in the wilderness.Along with the tough tracking shots,Green & Orr also use short,brittle shots to display the near- nuclear bomb effect its rural Texas location suffered in the Bastrop County Complex fire.Whilst Green does well at giving the movie a striking appearance,Green's and Gunnarsson's adaptation of Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson's film Either Way disappointingly fail to explore the depths of Alvin and Lance's friendship,which leads to the characters and the title feeling extremely stilted and dry.Going against his traditional comedic roles,Paul Rudd gives a very good performance as Alvin,with Rudd showing Alvin's straight-lace attitude to have a blistering effect on Lance,as they both begin to enjoy the silence.

This movie had beautiful cinematography and great actors. That's where my enjoyment for the movie ended. It is excruciatingly slow paced. It also has a mediocre script. But the actors are awesome, as always. At one point we accidentally paused the movie and didn't realize that the movie was paused for a solid 2 or three minutes. That's a great example of how slow the movie is. It does, however, have some of the best shots I have ever seen on a screen. It is captivating and pretty, but lacks in meaning and real content. I do not fully regret watching it but it was a very painful process to finish it in the hopes that at some point the movie would pick up.

I took this DVD out from my library so I can at least say I didn't waste any money on it's purchase(other than my taxes). Two men in the Texas back country get jobs painting stripes on a road. That's about as exciting as it gets. What we're told on the cover is that two men of very different backgrounds and sensibilities bond in this job. What I saw were two fairly unlikable guys who share some misery with each other. There's no journey of self-discovery, no real humor other than a strange drunken truck driver that appears a few times during the film. The only bonding I could see was done with a large helping of alcohol along with a pointless destruction of a large portion of their equipment (yet it all gets packed neatly back in the jeep at the end??). Just a lot of empty, meandering dialogue as you would expect from two people with nothing in common. I was really hoping that at least someone would say a few witty things but it just drifts off to nothing, leaving us stranded as viewers in the wilderness.

Two highway road workers (Paul Rudd and Speed Racer) spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.I cannot really say I liked or disliked this one. While it was fun, and really had that indie feel to it (like old Wes Anderson or Richard Linklater), it never fully took off and became something I can see as being memorable down the line. I am also not clear on the point of making it set in 1988... besides the lack of cell phones, I am not sure what the difference would be.