[Insane Drummer]

Originally Posted by Danny

Eh, you can add my vote to this as well. I wouldn't call it the worst anything, the cinematography was captivating and the direction was clever and interesting, but I really didn't see any sort of point. There was no emotion, no real character development, no message I could perceive (except, maybe, that kids shouldn't be allowed to play violent video games or purchase assault weapons), it was just...violence. Watching the TV news reports of the Columbine shootings would have been far more emotionally stimulating than watching this film. To me, at least.

I agree, I actually saw about half of it on HBO. It was profanely boring and dull. I have to say that the acting was painful.

[Diedaily]

you all sound like Leonard Maltin and Joyce what's-her-face.

[thelitguy]

That's one of the things that's slowly turning me from indie films is the wild expirementation involved.

When a film like Elephant wins at Cannes for being "a showing of cinema without emotion" I just don't get it. When I watch who I consider to be the geniuses of cinema (Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Federico Fellini for the top three), they were capable of showing something different without making it alienating (save Cronenberg, but his is a different sort of alienation).

I think most modern film makers, especially the indie ones, have long ago cast aside the classics such as Capra, Busby Berkley, and De Mille and decided to worship Warhol and Sjoman. Classic storytelling and the human condition have been forgotten to show art, which leaves new films being nothing more than 90 minutes of cinematic masterbation.

Alright already, we understand you're deeper than us. Now make a movie where something happens that I care about.