Simple Men
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Movie Reviews of Simple Men
Movie Review: It's about time...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great film, and it's crazy that it hasn't been available on DVD until now. I think it's HH's best work. Now where is 'Trust?'Movie Review: Wonderful movie, indifferent transfer
Summary: 3 Stars
I won't speak to the joys of this movie...others have done so here much more eloquently than I ever could. I will, however, note that there are a few technical aspects of this dvd that bothered me. First is the aspect ratio. Hal Hartley is a master at framing a shot, and there are many times in this release that his framing is ruined, because the top or bottom is lopped off. There are also scenes in which a mood was set using dark, heavily tinted light. Thanks to (I assume) automated conversion to dvd, those scenes have been altered so they appear to take place in nice, bland sunlight.
I won't go as far as recommend against buying the disc...the movie is excellent. But you should be aware that some small part of what made this such a wonderful movie has been lost.
Movie Review: Pretentious Drivel
Summary: 1 Stars
Two brothers go on a road-trip to find their on-the-lam anarchist father and in the process meet an assortment of odd characters.
"Simple Men" is possibly the most pretentious films I have ever seen. I watched this film to the end in the hope of finding something that resembled a plot but was sorely disappointed. All that happened was a bunch of characters, that I cared very little about, said a lot of things that I think were intended to be deep and profound but which I found to be meaningless.
This is not my first Hal Hartley film. I had previously seen "Henry Fool", which I loved. However, whereas "Henry Fool" actually had something to say (and was pretty funny too), "Simple Men" is just pretentious drivel. If you must watch one of Hartley's films, watch "Henry Fool" instead.
Movie Review: poor effort
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of Hartley's lesser efforts.He recycles characters and mannerisms to
the point of tedium. It's too bad
considering his many other fine films.
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