TRAILER: The Limits of Control

This looks fucking awesome.

But because i live in rural Hell – i probably won’t see it until it is on DVD.
….or illegally on the net……

Well, I’m glad I wasn’t wasting my time posting this then.

This looks better than what Broken Flowers was. Man, that movie was just bad.

I like how Issac is getting to be a main role in this one, he was always the shit.

I liked Broken Flowers.

I think you need a check up.

Broken Flowers was a vapid piece of shit.

What was so bad about Broken Flowers? It was a Jim Jarmusch movie and it was entertaining and had a poignant ending.

What else did you want from it?

LOL – I liked Broken Flowers.
While it was slow paced, and low action, I would not go so far as too call it “Vapid”.
Low impact perhaps, but fun non the less.
in an awkward silence fucked up way.
Like “Happiness”.

Ok. I’ll break down everything that was a vapid p.o.s. about Broken Flowers. “Happiness” is original and funny. Broken Flowers is not.

Jarmusch wrote the script in two days I hear, it shows. We basically follow the same Bill Murray character as in Lost In Translation and especially Life Aquatic except there are very little redeeming qualities and he’s basically a hollow shell of the aforementioned films. Most of his more entertaining lines are either lifted from other sources or are not funny the second time around, though they are meant to be.
“That’s quite a dress you almost have on” – An American in Paris
“That’s quite an outfit you didn’t have on” – Broken Flowers

Add to that, he basically flat out jacked Wes Andersons style with less attention to detail. I think there is what feels like more than a quarter of the movie spent sitting around, driving, etc. That’s not really ‘deep’, that’s just lazy. I could go on but I only saw it once because I don’t need to smell shit a second time to recognize its odor.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Jarmusch; Down by Law, Stranger than Paradise, Ghost Dog, Dead Man, etc. But I left the theaters disappointed at his performance and care with Broken Flowers.

I think swank and E. need the checkup.

A) Happiness was overrated, way less interesting, and way less… mature… than Broken Flowers.

B) Broken Flowers is about an aging Ladies Man trying to find meaning in his life, knowing now that his old ways don’t work.

C) Jeffrey Wright. Period.

D) Each situation he was in was interesting to me in a way that made me want to see the film a couple of times. From the Lolita stuff, to the old flames and all the while looking for his “son.” And the poignancy of the ending, that the note may have been a practical joke and that he’ll forever see every young awkward kid near him as possibly his son.

He’ll never know and it was great.

E) Jim Jarmusch didn’t deviate from his style for this film or try to copy Wes Anderson. It was understated and it worked for the film.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Broken Flowers was a masterpiece, or even top tier Jarmusch, but to describe it as “Vapid Shit” is both idiotic and short sighted.

Maybe I liked it cause I didn’t take it SO seriously.
OR look for meaning.
OR compare it to Jim’s other films.
OR to Bill’s recent films.
It was a mental vacation – and after watching, and laughing, I thought “Well at least I’m not THAT guy! ::chuckle::”.
Which – I kind of felt like the point
And I like the sound track.

Mind you – I also don’t have a hard on to be a professional script writer some day.

So that could easily factor into it.
Perhaps if I was more schooled in that art – I would have displeasure in it, but – I’m not, so it made a nice way too kill some time.

And I recognize that simple fact may inherently discredit my opinion in your eyes – But as hopeful writers of scripts that will sell – you need to get used to it.
Mildly educated film enthusiasts like me are a dime a dozen – and when you are frustrated as to why scripts like that get made and you master work does not, it is because of us mere mortals that can tell between a mildly funny piece of shit – and an amazingly funny art film.

Woah woah woah. Just calm down swank. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I don’t take myself too seriously around these parts… Jeph Loeb is a mole in Marvel though, that isn’t a joke and I’m serious as a heart attack about that one.

See, to me, I just got it right away. Poof! Not that long into the movie either. It didn’t seem that it went any deeper, it just floated along the surface. I WANTED it to go deeper, but in the end, I’d have to agree with vapid. I would say that “Happiness” and “Broken Flowers” are almost leveled on the scale of maturity, though only slightly so. With Jarmuch’s long, pondering shots, they give the appearance of a more mature nature. But content in the dialogue it’s leveled. IMHO.