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Movie Reviews of American Buffalo
Movie Review: American Buffalo
Summary: 3 Stars
Although Dennis Franz and Dustin Hoffman are, in my opinion, great actors, the plot to this movie was a real piece of garbage, and I don't think Franz and Hoffman should ever have agreed to participating in it.Movie Review: The Emperor Wears No Clothes
Summary: 1 Stars
Since I have a lot of friends in the theatre business I'm always assailed by Mamet films (whether directed by him or just film adaptations of his plays) whenever I get together with them to watch a movie. Although there are a few Mamet films I enjoy, most of his film offerings are perfect examples of bourgeois cinema.The director of American Buffalo might as well have had the actors perform the movie on a stage and filmed it like he would a play; the movie felt like a play. Mamet's dialogue might work in the theatre but in the world of film it is contrived at best and seems designed so that the intelligentsia can pat themselves on the back by chortling at the right spots. A.B. is Mamet at his most pretentious and merely proves that lovers of the playwright will sit through his self-congratulatory ... and try to read an insight into his material in order to prove to themselves that they haven't been deceived--that good old David is some witty commentator on society.
But he is not. Mamet is merely the decadent mouthpiece of bourgeois society and American Buffalo, like most of his films, offer no real societal critique and are intelligent only in the way a first year philosophy student in love with Nietzsche is intelligent. The man should stick to writing for the stage since theatre--the perfect medium for pretentious bourgeois art--is the last bastion for pretentious artists like Mamet.
Movie Review: Don't Waste Your Time
Summary: 1 Stars
Yes, David Mamet is a fine playwright with an ear for crisp dialogue - Glengarry Glen Ross is a testament to that fact.
American Buffalo is something else.
Ninety minutes set almost completely in a junk shop with Franz and Hoffman bantering back and forth, does not make for interesting drama.
The movie goes nowhere.
I kept waiting for a payoff of some kind that never came.
Disappointing at best - worthless at worst.
Movie Review: AVOID
Summary: 1 Stars
really boring extremly bad just talking i putone star because i have no choice because it would be zero
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