Wow, this is really bad...

This movie sucked wet ass! I stayed up late (waiting for kids to go to bed, which didn't happen until 3am) and watched this waste of film (Hey Blockbuster, I want my 300 pennies back!) It had potential (sp) but it was just plain awful. The flying Africans was just too much. I was done after that, LOL. I felt dumber just for watching this crap! Ugh.
My 2 cents :)

Hey old man river! Zip it, before I break your hip!~~~~Tyna

Yeah, this was really bad, I think if there was more feeling to it though, if you actually felt something for the two lovers, and they actually came off as great lovers, it would've been kind of nice in the end, who knows. That would be in spite of Penn and all the poeticism. What I liked in this was that scene with the Africans tied to ropes floating up into the sky, that was good. I liked The Celebration too. His newer film, Dear Wendy, is actually as crap as It's All About Love, maybe a little bit worse.

actually, i thought the only thing that made sense in the movie was when sean penn spoke.. at least it accounted for the title...

terrible terrible movie

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While I have to agree with everyone else on this thread, (the movie is so bad that I am actually composing this post WHILE the movie is playing!)

I have to disagree with the advice of asking the video clerks about the movies one rents. Unless you know for a fact that the clerk you are talking to has an actual brain and watches movies, asking a clerk for movie advice will most likely have you end up watching blow-em-up action flicks and slasher movies that have at least five roman numerals in the title.

Be careful asking video store clerks (at least the ones in the stores where I rent) for movie watching advice.

Test them first with some simple questions like "What's your favorite movie of all time?" and "Have you seen any of the following: (not in any particular order)

Seven Samurai
Citizen Kane
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather
A Clockwork Orange
The Wizard of Oz
The Apartment
The Lady Eve
Charade
Psycho
It's A Wonderful Life?


if they can't asnwer yes to at least one of those, steer clear of their movie advice.


And by the way, even after all that, It's All About Love still sucks.

I'd rather have my kneecaps removed then watch this mish-mash again. Intolerably bad. Painfully pretentious. I would rather watch two mice make love, even if the screen was fuzzy.

Have you ever watched Cats & Dogs or Poltergeist? They both could have been made in Mandarin & Russian and still kicked "It's All About Love" sad excuse for a movie butt. This movie could have starred Audrey Tautou, Ken Watanabe and the late great Divine and STILL sucked wet non american ass! We get it, you love this movie get over it! Then again, Divine might made it worth watching.

Hey old man river! Zip it, before I break your hip!~ Adam Sandler in Big Daddy

"What they got instead was a foreign film with a complex plot that makes you think. Maybe if some of you had a more open mind instead of wanting to see big-budget schlock you might have liked this a bit more."

I have an open mind and watched the whole movie, i understood the metaphors and was not bored. However it still sucked because it was impossible to follow. For example, what was Mr. Morrison's part? Did he kill the clones? What was the brother doing in the end walking off alone? If the lovers found love, and a lot of it, why did they die of cold hearts? Sean Penn is afraid of flying till a drug makes him addicted to flying, what does that have to do with anything?

Answer me that and don't be so arrogent with your posts.

Warren. I write for a living and this is just a bad movie. However, tastes vary, and that's what makes critiquing a film so interesting. It's bad. It's meandering and even the people in it didn't like it. Personally, I would hate for anyone to watch it thinking they were getting something avant-garde rather than the painful, inexplicable mess it is.

Just finished watching this movie myself with my wife... I see that you, warren, are about the only person speaking positively about the movie. You are exactly the type of person I am looking for, because I want to know... exactly what did you get from the movie? I mean, the movie was nice enough... good shooting, good acting, good music, etc. The writing was decent enough (the part at the rink near the end with the four Elena's was probably the most interesting point) for large chunks of the movie... but at the end, it felt to me like there were so many loose ends and unfinished chunks that we were very unsatisfied. Metaphor and so forth are all very nice, but I didn't feel a whole lot of meaning at the end. All the hints about the 'end of times' and the crazy stuff happening in Africa seemed to be in there for no reason at all... that is, the movie would have been pretty much the same without them. Maybe you'll see me as just another "stupid American", but if that's the case I'd like the movie explained to me because I'd really like to understand the point. To me it seemed like a well put-together story, except at the end the narrator falls asleep. Then you wake him up, and he's tired of it, so he just ends with blithely with "And they all died." Somewhat disappointing.

But you, warren, seem like just the person to make the movie make sense, since you like the movie so much. I await inspiration!

Thanks!

Ok, I studied and worked on independent films in the 60s. I know independent filmmakers who have edited major films. I used to hang around the San Francisco and Los Angeles film festivals I enjoy foreign and domestic films, especially talky pretentious French films that are about human beings, their thoughts and dreams. I have seen all of Bergmans’ films. I understand metaphors, good and bad.

I am American.

I was extremely disappointed in this film. It took what was a good concept and utterly failed. It was overdone, heavy-handed, unclear and pretentious. One thing that drove me nuts during the film was Marciello played by Sean Penn, he was supposedly Johns brother I think. Where and why was he flying, was he on a cell phone talking to his brother or a recorder or just to himself? At one point he seemed to be waiting in the snow for his brother. But when John gets to the snow he is back in the plane again. His brother is calling someone. I thought it was brother Penn, but Penn seems to be talking to himself as husband has hung up already.

What were the three copies of Elena? Elena's manager say something about girls picked up off the street in Poland, and pumped full of drugs, then they could not be clones. All had some metallic chip in their wrists, but they could not be androids. So the only other explanation would be plastic surgery.

Then the killing of the "clones". This worked to facilitate John and Elena's escape, as a cover and also revenge upon her manager. It seemed they could have planned this but the way they went about it it seemed that they stumbled into the hit and out of dumb luck survived.
And the hit man, he sees 4 girls dressed and looked exactly like his target. I would thing as an old pro when he sized up the situation he would have smelled a fish and backed out of the deal.

I'll tell you I could sit down and watch Jean-Luc Godard films all day and not get bored, and I would be entertained excited and they would make me think. But this film just didn’t make the grade.