Thank you! I was afraid I was the only one.
We went in to this hoping it would be something like Less Than Zero (or American Psycho, our 2 fave Ellis book->movie adaptations, but we didn't think it would involve too much dismemberment and chainsaws based on the previews), and it kind of started out like that, but then it just dragged on and on and really, like you said, nothing happened.
I knew the blonde was gonna get aids...I was surprised the rock star didn't die of it too, at least within the time limits of the movie.
Renfro and Rourke's storyline felt out of place, it could have been apart of a completely different movie, or it's own movie for that matter.
I don't know about anyone else, but at least with Less than Zero the audience felt something for the characters- maybe there were just too many characters in this movie to be able to care about any of them (but like you also said there were so many story lines it was nearly impossible to see them all fleshed out unless the movie was about 3-4 hours long), but I for one didn't care about anyone. I felt bad for Renfro's character, and I felt Basinger could have done more...
I didn't think it was a terrible movie, it was well shot, pretty to look at and all that jazz, but it didn't have the heart/emotion behind it that leads to a better movie that sticks with you (a.k.a. Less than Zero, etc...)
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Falconeer
11 years ago
I like the movie version of "Less Than Zero," but I can recognize that it is an inferior movie to "The Informers." "American Psycho" is a great film too, but that one is quite mainstream compared to this one, which explains it's mass popularity. Personally i was amazed by this movie; for the first time we have a movie version of an Ellis novel where the characters actually have emotions. They are complex for once. This is one depressing film, filled with messed up people. but every character (with the exception of Rourke's) had some quality underneath. I found the storyline with the son and his drunken father to be the saddest story of all. And i enjoyed Brad Renfro's performance. It was painful to watch how lost and pathetic his character was. I have never seen him like that. This is not a mainstream film, and it was obviously not meant to make a fortune at the box office. Whoever directed "Informers" took the source material very seriously. Maybe you should give it another look. What did you think of "Rules of Attraction?" i like that movie, but I wish that they took the source material more seriously. Because it was a fairly heavy book, and the movie was very light, and heavy on the silliness. and "Less Than Zero" went in the opposite direction, where everything was over dramatized and melodramatic. This movie achieved the perfect balance however.
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