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Summary: Oh, painful to watch
Comment: Considering that at least 20 minutes of the movie is taken up walking... walking....walking.....Just trudjing along trying to find their way out of that vast expanse. The dialogue is minimal and the plot boring. What were Matt Damon and Casey Affleck thinking of when they wrote this movie? What was Gus Van Zant thinking?
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Summary: Would give it 0 stars if possible, WORST film ever!
Comment: "Gerry" is 103 minutes of *total waste of time*. Life is too short to throw time away like that. I'm thinking the film was a private joke among Van Sant, Affleck, and Damon ... they got drunk one night and decided to make the crappiest film possible dressed up to appear artsy to see if it would win praise or even make some money.
What's really a shame is that everyone who worked on this film wasted far more than 103 minutes. I wonder if any of them look back and wish they could have spent all of that time in some other way. I would have been terribly upset if I'd seen the film in a theater, held captive with no way to spare myself the waste. At least I "watched" it at home and was able to work on some tasks and look up once every 5 minutes to see what was happening with the film ... without missing a thing !
Every single scene is 5-10 times longer than necessary. The videography is not good enough to sustain such a slow pace, and at times the visuals are so obvious that the film appears to be the project of an overly-ambitious film school freshman. The dialogue is inane, I kept thinking "Dude, where's my car ?" while listening to the excruciating meaningless banter between Affleck and Damon. Realism was severely lacking. And as the film dragged on I found myself wishing that the Gerrys would just collapse and die and put as all out of our misery.
I nominate "Gerry" for the worst film ever made ! Ever.
Want to watch a really masterful slow-paced film ? Try "Day Night Day Night" directed by Julia Loktev.
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Summary: Beautifully Boring
Comment: This movie about two friends getting lost in the desert is interesting and boring at the same time. The scenery and videography are beautiful and well done. The scenes can be very boring and slow moving, yet you can't stop watching because you need to know what happens in the end.
Two men are walking through the desert, very little diaglogue, with very slow piano music in the background. It was almost too much to take. If it hadn't been for the good acting and beautiful landscape, I probably would have been bored to the point that I would have turned it off. As it was, I watched it to the end and was glad to have finished it.
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Summary: Hilariously flawed.
Comment: I sat.
I watched.
I waited.
I waited some more.
I waited even longer.
Thanksgiving game.
I kept watching.
Christmas came.
I kept watching.
I fathered my first child.
Then my ninth.
Still the film went on.
And on.
And on.
The end.
This movie is horrible and to give an account of its plot would be like giving an account of used chewing gum rotting over the course of a billion years. Right about the time Matt Damon's character leans over and kills Casey Affleck's (oops) character, I was ready to kill them both myself. If you make it all the way through this film, you will no doubt start laughing like a lunatic madman because the end result of this movie is undoubtedly to make you insanse. Special thanks to Gus Van Sant, you heathen demigod, for providing us with this little slice of movie purgatory.
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Summary: I'll never get those 103 minutes back
Comment: ...and for this alone Gus Van Sant will not again darken a screen in my life. A waste of film, a waste of breath, a waste of desert.
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