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Movie Reviews of Splendor
Movie Review: I bought it and I love it!
Summary: 4 Stars
This moive might be compaired to threesome but really this is a much better moive. This moive is not afraid to offend anyone and gose for the gold in this very funny and at times sexy moive. I bought this moive about a mounth ago and I have not regreted it once, If you are a Kathleen Robertson fan you will love it and if you are not you will be.Movie Review: A realistic look at what's going on in the 20+ generation
Summary: 4 Stars
For those of you 30 years or senior, this Movie does not speak to you. Combining both a unique story of 1 young woman in love with two men of the opposite personality extreme and today's harsh reality of Sex, Drugs, Music, and sucky Jobs. An open mind is a must, you can decide...Movie Review: Araki still working toward his masterpiece
Summary: 3 Stars
Writer/director Greg Araki switches from dark despair ["The Doom Generation", "Nowhere"] to romantic comedy in "Splendor", but many of his usual suspects remain, as he continues to etch portraits of contemporary young people in very modern situations. Like his other films, this one has moments of brilliance separated by sequences that are fairly long and static. Though he has yet to make a consistently interesting movie, he remains a smart and promising filmmaker. The plot is intriguing. A young woman [Kathleen Robertson], who has shied away from relationships for several years, falls in love with two men on the same night. Unable to decide between the two, she takes them both as lovers - at first separately, later jointly. The guys [Jonathan Schaech and Matt Keeslar] are initially angry over her choice, but she manages to overcome their objections. The trio ends up living together, much to the horror of her Lesbian best friend [Kelly McDonald]. A series of unfortunate incidents cause her to question her unorthodox love life. A successful, thoughtful film director [Eric Mabius] quietly convinces her that his love and lifestyle would be more advantageous to her.
The cast is great. Robertson is one of the more beautiful and talented actresses working today. Keeslar and Schaech are quite funny as the two adoring, sexy lovers whose main problem is that they appear to be sharing a brain. Mabius and McDonald are believable and right on in their roles.
Once again, the main faults are in Araki's script. He seems like the type whose writing abilities do not quite match his brilliant imagination. For example, the dual lovers never convey the mental attributes Robertson ascribes to them early in the movie. Also, her character narrates too much. The story doesn't really need many of her observations. Araki also seems hesitant to explore fully some of the obvious sexual possibilities he himself sets up. The trio plays Truth or Dare in one scene, and the heroine dares to boys to kiss each other. They do so, not too unwillingly, but then this subject is never brought up again. My point is not that they must or must not be attracted to each other. It's that the subject should never have been brought up at all if it's not part of the plot.
I enjoyed "Splendor" and am convinced that one day Araki will pull out all the stops and drop all his inhibitions. What an amazing movie that will be.
Movie Review: Harmless, Day-glo Fun from a Usually Edgier Filmmaker
Summary: 3 Stars
First, let me correct some mistakes other reviewers of Splendor have made: 1.) This is NOT Gregg Araki's debut film (!)--he made quite a handful before this one; and 2.) James Duval is NOT in this movie. Kathleen Robertson was cast in the lead most likely because she's the director's girlfriend (or was at the time).All that said, I think Splendor is pretty much what it sets out to be--an updated version of a "screwball 30's/40's romantic comedy." The main difference being that the two men who end up living with Veronica sleep with her, and each other, it is implied, at the same time. But for anyone who's seen Araki's earlier films, don't expect the same level of sex and nudity (or violence) in Splendor as was seen in The Doom Generation (a really wretched movie), The Living End, Totally ... Up, or Nowhere. The two lead guys share a kiss, there's a brief shot of a blanket-covered man's aroused privates, and there's the scene of Veronica and Zed having sex in a public restroom (shown from the shoulders up), but nothing in-your-face as was in his other films. This movie wants to play it light and silly and does so with some finesse (look for a cameo by Adam Corolla playing a junkyard honcho), although it sort of becomes tedious and predictable by the end (and stultifyingly closes on the over-obvious New Order song, "Bizarre Love Triangle"), yet some fans may want to watch the credits for a tacked on scene that appears halfway through them. Part of what I always thought made Araki's films fun was that they largely managed to be interesting and provocative in spite of the director's evident lack of smarts, his kitsch pop-alterna-culture fixation notwithstanding. Splendor, while worlds better than The Doom Generation (which turbocharged all his fixations beyond interest or interesting commentary), is maybe too slick--it's like a sugary lolipop that's fun while it lasts but doesn't linger in the memory much.
Movie Review: Better than many high-profile romantic comedies i 've seen
Summary: 3 Stars
Splendor , the story of confused ordinary girl Veronica who enloys living a life in a threesome is really a refreshing romantic film experience. Having been directed with a speedy Mtv-like aura by Greg Araki , the film achieves to be both funny and tender. It's hard not to love it's three lead-actors , especially with the killer-lines they get to say in certain moments of the film ( "Who do you love?Him or us?" ) .All the cast delivers some good acting but the one who , in my opinion shines is Matt Keeslar as the goofy yet appealing Zed , an ex-drummer who eventually becomes his basic rival's best friend in order to get to be with Veronica too.