The Age of Commercialism

best movie i've ever seen.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa. Extremely weird and bizzard and alongside with some weird perfomances from an excellent cast 'Slipstream' tries to be a smart Fantasy Drama but it ends up being a weird full of fast forward cuts and flashbacks that don't make sense at all..

The most obvious example of a meth-film was Slingblade, the short, not the full-length movie. I am sure Billy Bob was locked in some bathroom after a 3-day run, with his gravelly meth-voice, and his creepy character talking to himself in the mirror. "Some call it a Kaiser blade, I calls it a sling blade." Other obvious meth-films are anything by David Lynch, Pulp Fiction, and now this Slipstream flick. But here is the thing. After Billy Bob did his three-day run, he went straight for a few weeks as he wrote Slingblade. As his dopamine levels returned to normal, he was able to make a relatively sensible coherent short film.Same for Pulp Fiction. I am sure that the crystal helped Tarantino chop up the time line and have all kinds of quirky speeches and strange happenings. But Quentin did get off the pipe long enough to straighten out, and made a mostly straight movie out of his dope fantasy. Indeed, maybe that is the difference here. Tarantino just snorted the stuff, whereas Hopkins is boiling it off a piece of tin foil and sucking up the smoke with a toilet paper tube.And not even the ingestion method would explain the stupidity of this film. See, this film was not only conceived in meth, it was written on meth, acted on meth, produced on meth, edited on meth, and they sure had to be on meth when they released it to the theaters.I bumped it up to a 2 since they have that black girl that was in the Law and Order franchise playing Bonnie. I love her and it was the only reason to watch this exercise in over-stimulation. I will admit that its nice to watch a movie that you don't even have to see the ending before you know it sucks. There is a certain integrity in that. Twenty one minutes to go, and I am not hopeful. Crap, I am missing Antiques Roadshow reruns for this. And the Roadshow has more of a plot and substantive narrative than this mess.Opps another reason to watch, John Turturro is in it, And OK around 35 minutes in, it almost turns into a movie instead of a visual flash fest trying to give seizures to Japanese schoolboys. Oh, never mind, an hour in and its brain splat time again.And for the next disjointed meth-fest movie, please add a gratuitous scene of an Abraham Lincoln speech "Four minutes and 7 years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new movie, conceived in drug abuse and dedicated to the proposition that grown men can act like children for eternity." Make sure he really sells the lines.

Awful movie I want my dollar back I spent at the public library renting this posIt helped some when I watched a few minutes of the movie with Hopkin's voice-over, and he's saying (and I'm not sure I'm quoting 100% accurately), "I made this movie for me. If people liked it, fine. If they didn't, even better"Guess when you get to be rich and famous you can make crap like this. I can't believe it's rated a 5.1 from other viewersEven I a nonactor could have made something a lot better than thisCrapola

Look, I'm sorry if half the world takes offense at this, but life is confusing enough. I don't need to watch it that way. I dig Anthony Hopkins, big time. I even watched Fracture, and I knew that would be a steaming pile of Quentin. But this thing is not well shot, and it's not daring--even if it is artsy. Well-produced films have reasons for cuts and fast edits, not this "oh, but it's a realistic interpretation" excuse. This thing'll make your head hurt. It's the fastest moving picture ever to take you nowhere at all. I still love AH, and I'll always give him another chance, but if you aren't made of time to watch bad ideas on screen, skip this.