Why all the good reviews?

It's one thing if you don't like the movie. But another complaint about the style, if you mean the multiple storylines that Pulp Fiction had, I think it's kinda old. I do remember GO being on USA Today's top ten list (number 9 I think), but it wasn't everyone's favorite movie of 1999.

Pulp Fiction wasn't the first movie to juggle multiple storylines, and GO wasn't the last. If anything, GO is much lighter in tone and more comedic than Pulp Fiction. And this might be a shock-- I like both movies and have them both on DVD.


I'm open! There's just nothing in there!

"It's got one of the worse examples of someone on pills in ever (that bloke who drops and then wanders round all night sweating)."

Did you even watch the movie properly? The dealer says that its dangerous to take 2 pills. Besides, I've seen people on ecstasy that acted/felt exactly like the guy in the movie.

"The kids at the rave would have to be complete amatures to fall for aspirin as X no matter how stoned they got."

No. Sometimes when you really believe that you'll feel a certain way, it happens. They were sure that they were going to be high on ecstasy, so it happened.

stig 316 said: "The kids at the rave would have to be complete amatures to fall for aspirin as X no matter how stoned they got."

Um, yeah, I think that was the point. You're telling me this NEVER happened to anyone you went to school with? Sh!t man, we used to tear up post-it notes into little squares, and sell them as acid. Nobody wants to admit they were suckers, so it was all, "Woah man, I can see the teacher's words" and "Oh dude, I'm so stoned, everything on the blackboard is floating towards me!". Especially this one chick, we burned her so many times that it just got too much to handle. So after we sold her some penicillin (and we didn't even tell her what it "was", just "Hey, I scored these drugs!"), and she bought them and was acting all wasted, and we were laughing at her (I mean, we always laughed at her [and anybody else] who bought fake drugs, but they were convinced we were on the same drugs as them, and this "uncontrollable laughter" was an effect of the drug!), but this time - after laughing at her act stoned for an hour off of penicillin - we flat out told her, "You stupid b!tch! That was fricking penicillin!". Of course, she tries to save face, so she's all, "Oh, I knew that. Penicillin gets me stoned every time I take it!". LOL!!

And for any of you older Canadians, PBS watchers, and/or Kevin Smith fans, they actually used that as a plot line in an episode of "Degrassi Junior High". Joey brings a bottle of vitamins to school, sells a couple to two girls, and, sure enough, 5 minutes later it's, "Do you feel anything?" "Oh yeah, I can totally feel it throughout my whole body!", and before you know it the two girls are acting like characters from "Reefer Madness" (you know, acting like they THINK stoned people act, but totally over doing it). Anyway, the girls convince all their friends that, "Joey has the hook-up", and next thing you know he's selling vitamin pills to half the girls in the school. The only reason Joey stops is because his two "original customers" overhear Joey clowning on the girls, making fun of them for being so stupid.

Even happened to *me* once wayyyy back in the day. I was supposed to go to the area of West Edmonton Mall where all the tweener drug dealers hung out to score shrooms for me & 2 friends for a party that night. Only problem is, the only thing I knew about shrooms was that they were kinda like acid. That's it. Didn't know how much they should cost, what they LOOKED LIKE, frickin' nothin'! So I start talking to some people, and this guy says he has shrooms, so we go to the bathrooms where there's no cameras, and he's like, "So how much do you want?", but like I said I had NO info on shrooms, so I had not a CLUE what to say. I mean, all these possibilities are running through my head - do I ask for "3 mushrooms", or "8 grams", or "an 8th of a gram", or even "4 caps"?? So I just say, "Well, what can you give me for (however many dollars I had), and he replied, "Okay, I can swing (however many grams it was) for that much.", and he hands me two foil packages.
And here's where I get stuck again, because, like I said, I didn't even know that shrooms were actually supposed to look like, you know, mushrooms. I didn't want to open the packages, see something there that an experienced drug user would say, "What the hell is this? I asked for shrooms and instead you gave me (pills, powder, whatever)!". So instead I just put the packages in my bag, and the dealer's looking all confused, and says, "Aren't you going to look at what you just bought??", and I say "No, I trust you.". (I know, I couldn't have said anything stupider, and I discovered that by the look on the dealer's face after I said that). Not wanting to seem inexperienced, I quickly added, "Look, i'm in a frickin' hurry here, I got people waiting on these, and if you've burnt me, I know where to find you.". And I guess I must have said it covincingly, because his look went from "What kind of moron am i selling to?" to "Oh, he's going out to resell those shrooms. Good thing I gave him what he paid for!".

So yes, the movie was 100% believable in that respect. Plus it was a funny movie that WAS kinda like Pulp Fiction - but not in the bad "let's-have-these-cool-guys-all-in-the-exact-same-suit-talk-about-obscure-subjects-and-then-go-shoot-people" way (like SOOOOO many indie films did after PF came out). No, it was like PF in the good, "here's a situation, here's what you expect to happen, but instead THIS happens, and it's frickin' hilarious" way.

-ak

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It's lighthearted and cast with young, energetic & likable actors who sell the script which rips off Tarantino a little, but still good.

It's just a likable movie and maybe 99 was a dry spell year for movies.

I apologize for all of us who don't agree with you. I thought it was a sh-tload of fun.

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It was a good movie although with some obvious Tarantino influences.

It's that man again!!