Some movies you watch and you think to yourself, "Could've been better" or "It was just okay"...then there's this movie and I think "I would love to slap Mitch Rouse for making such a sucky movie and wasting my time..."
Employee Of The Month is an awesome film. I wish it was given more of a chance to a wider audience, quite ashame.
shareI honestly think that you have to be a little twisted to enjoy this movie. It's an edgy assault on the American Dream and doesn't fit easily into any genre. It's an easy film to dismiss, a difficult one to love. I gave it a 9/10, if only because it unsettled me.
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It was unsettling for some reason. I mean it was tricky becuase it made you like & care for the characters even though they were not really good people but then it all of the sudden got way too serious too fast. When Steve Zahn got shot in the head I just watched as my jaw dropped in disbelief. I mean the structure of the movie was made for us to relate to Matt Dillion but when he started killed his friend it left me with a confused & disturbed feeling. I also hate twists in movies. They never are good. The movie needs to end the story that it begins. No one wants to get into a movie so much & then not get an ending to the story they started.
Don't wander into abandoned churches for Czakyr will grab you from underneath the watery grave.
you're a little slow aren't you. can't you mind handle the twists? is it too much for you?
it did finish the story it started. the story was about matt dillon's character's life. and we got the whole story.
i love movies that make you like the horribly evil people in them. like steve zahn's character. or patrick bateman in american psycho. i seriously like both of them even if they're sick f@cks with no concious, whatever. they're likable. it give me hope that somebody likes me i guess.
but either way, you are obviously too slow too understand the "structure of the movie", which you were close on, it's not to "relate to matt dillon", it's to sympathize with him and get to know him. more the latter. your jaw was supposed to drop, because it's showing you that matt dillon has been lying the whole movie and his whole life. his whole existance was a fabrication. and the real original version of him was what came out at the end. and it's also what made the movie. if that hadn't happened, the movie would have been an irritating piece of crap.
we can't stop here, this is bat country.
Yeah, i liked American Psycho because we knew he was a psycho. Matt Dillion made you feel sorry for him but then all the sudden I'm supposed to hate him at the very end. Sorry but that doesn't work. You can't fool with emotions like that.
Don't wander into abandoned churches for Czakyr will grab you from underneath the watery grave.
that's the point man. you're supposed to be like "what the f@ck just happened?" because that's what he did to everybody. his entire life as we first saw it was a lie. and that's the point. we're not supposed to know that he was a criminal. and you don't have to hate him because he's a criminal. you can't really feel sorry for him i guess anymore but that's okay because we realize that he's just been lying to us, and sure i guess you can hate him for that. but i like mindf@cks so you can't really trust my judgement can you?
we can't stop here, this is bat country.
Let's all slap him for dumbing it down with the use of Jessica Simpson instead of an actress. Movies are really bad these days, but one more Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan movie packaged into a movie with real actors like Meryls Streep and I say we all go to the producer/movie execs houses and burn crosses and majorly riot, because these creeps, need scaring for taking our hard earned entertainment money and giving us *beep* in return with idiotic stunt casting and assuming that we want to see nitwits on the big screen, who aren't funny and can't act.
share^^dude wrong movie
shareHaha! What a loser...
By the way, don't pay them money...
Yours in Christ,
~Molly~
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Boy, thanks for clearing that up. I'll bet you're a Rhodes Scholar too; you seem to be about as smart as one.
I love it. Rhodes Scholar has at least two comments on this board where he's bashing Jessica Simpson. What a maroon.
I don't care what any one say's, the ending was terrible. It's not that i didn't get it. I understood the ending it's just that it was so stupid and unrealistic. I mean come on. Did he really have to work at the bank for 2 years before he could rob it. They could've just robed the place and burned the f ucking van like they did instead of wasting two years. I mean the whole hitman theme at the end was cheesy and stupid. I feel like it was a cop-out ending. Like the writter could'nt think of a good ending he was just like f uck it i'm going just going to screw around and make the most random and retarded ending. Then all you f uck heads are like wow thats so original, i've never seen an ending like that. The reason you don't see endings like that are beacuase they arn't good. If want a good twist ending watch the Usual Suspects. Thats actualy a good movie becuase the ending makes some kind of sense with the plot not just some made up bull$hit.
shareIt was a shaggy dog story. I still enjoyed it, but call a spade a spade. it's a shaggy dog story. http://www.answers.com/topic/shaggy-dog-story-2
Who's Jessica Simpson anyway? Who gives a
This movie is one of the worst i've ever seen in my life/ What a waste of my time. This movie is a piece of crap. I can't believe that IFC played this piece of crap. IFC is supposed to support high quality independent films but this movie, come on. Is this a joke?. another commercial hollywood type movie.
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one thing is for sure: it's a movie you either love or hate. there's no in-between with this one. and, where else are you gonna see such a movie as this except on i.f.c.? whether you think the movie's crap or superb, cutting edge indie art, i don't really see that there's any question about what network it should be shown on.
i had no idea what it was about when i sat down to watch it the first time. i was blown away by its merciless, scathing humour (especially as it's spouted off by steve zahn's character). thought the structure of the flashback was a great choice (from a guy whose, let's say - not to be a spoiler - gone elsewhere at the end). and, i also think that it's got a nice balance between characters and action.
but, i really liked that the writers used some buddhist wisdom to grid the whole chaotic story under - sort of like life.
i agree with the person who thought it ended too quickly, and kind of absurdly...but hey, that's a lot like life, too. and the nihilism (part of buddhism, too) of the film is pitch perfect for what it wants to do. people who think it's crap probably don't like the fact that it's not a "cookie-cutter" movie. as many movies as i've seen over the years, i can't recall seeing one with this particular resolution.
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It's as if the filmmakers were improvising it as they went along, then decided "Hey! We have to end this thing and wrap it up fast..." I did enjoy watching Ms. Applegate, though.
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