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Summary: Know Yourself Before Watching
Comment: Gerry is a one-of-a-kind experience, a cinematic force beyond any sense of category or label, and DEFINITELY not for everyone. If you want to watch Gerry, you need...
1. Patience
2. An attention span
3. An appreciation for nature
4. An appreciation for film
5. A knack for analysis
6. An adoration of the unique
and, most importantly,
7. An open mind
If you think you contain at least six of those traits, you will adore Gerry as I do. If not, you'd best turn back now. Those 104 minutes aren't coming back.
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Summary: Finally, a reason to get Blu-Ray... or not...
Comment: This is the first DVD I've ever seen that I actually CARED to see in a sharper format.
Unfortunately, it does not appear to be available in Blu-Ray (and I'm not sure I'd spend the money if it was), and I'd rather see it bigger as well as sharper, so perhaps the Nuart will run it someday at midnight. I'll be there!
As to a review of the film, I think everything that could be said has already been said, but I'll try this:
Among Van Zant's films in which "nothing happens," probably the least happens in this one. Here is my rough preference for the films:
I liked Paranoid Park best.
I'll give Gerry a second.
Elephant is NOT the best film on the subject, not even the best experimental film on the subject (see ZERO DAY for a brilliant alternative), and finally,
I really couldn't stand Last Days, although it too would have been better in Blu-Ray, because at least I might have spent less time thinking that the wide shots weren't sharp enough.
--Gary (not Gerry)
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Summary: Postcards!
Comment: Stunning scenery, cinematography and creative use of ambient light gives the movie a dreamscape like quality. However, the two actors punctuating the serene scenery spoil the dream to a rude awakening.
The desert predicament of the Gerry's seems so childish and stupid that the viewer cannot help feeling a little irritated. Some of the dialogs are downright laughable (not for their ingenuity, but for their stupidity).
Nonetheless, the scenery is astonishingly beautiful and that lends a redeeming factor to the movie that'll make you sit through the end. Surprisingly, the 100 odd minutes don't seem to long. The movie can be seen a failed attempt for creating a minimalist, but oddly compelling movie genre that Hollywood seems to be missing.
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Summary: Does for hiking what Hitch did for showering.
Comment: Gus Van Sant's film 'Gerry' stars Casey Affleck and Matt Damon as two pals who happily wander off on a short desert hike and become hopelessly lost in an ever more bleak and hostile landscape. A sense of plodding doom eases in from the edges of the frame and soon envelopes them in a nightmare of trudging drudgery and waning hope.
Van Sant manipulates on screen silence and long tracking shots the way Chopin fashioned a nocturne, stillness and space become as important as exposition and dialog.
The film is a masterwork of minimalism and an acknowledgment of the thin veil hanging between the comforts of our everyday existence and the propinquity of abject loss and creeping torpor.
Another of Van Sant's great `Silent Suite' films, stories where Van Sant allows a scene to play out with a sort of overt quietness. A lack of dialog that becomes oppressive in it's absence and often conveys great visceral meaning when coupled with the long, unobtrusive, tracking shots favored by Mister Van Sant.
'Gerry' successfully tells the story of two friends who start out on what they, foolishly and tragically believe, is going to be just another uneventful day.
In 'Gerry' Van Sant does for `uneventful' what Hitchcock did for the shower.
Customer Rating:
Summary: how can a person make a movie this bad?
Comment: if you are reading this then you have probably seen the other reviews. what can i say that hasn't been said? anybody who gives this movie 5 stars is insane. this movie is bad. I can't even describe how boring it is. it's on its own level. destroy this film. this movie IS TORTURE.
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