vincent gallo

[writedownhere]

is there a reason why david lynch is listed under directors and vincent gallo isn't?

have you seen buffalo '66?

hoaky versus awesomely spectacular.

let's get with it guys.[/quote]

[MacGuffin]

have you seen buffalo '66?

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[Gold Trumpet]

I've never understood the love affair with Buffalo 66. Mind you, I didn't grow up with the film and only watched it after the big hype and found it to be influences of Godard in ways not really that spetacular when you can watch Godard movies yourself. Then the movie tried to sell a romace out of a terrible kidnapping with the most unlikable of guys, someone that reminded me of all the asshole pricks I knew who were 25 and hung by the High School during lunch time so they could pick up their freshman girlfriends who were in it because the guy was older and had a big truck. This fucking asshole knew he had nothing much going for him by way of looks, but if he looked prickish enough, he could maybe hold the town record for popping cherries. By the time he gets 30, his days are done because the constant smoking and drinking have shown themselves quite clearly to where even to all the little girls who thought he was dangerous, he has now become that older weird guy who prolly has bad intentions. Sorry to go off in a rant, but I grew up near guys like this my entire life and a movie rendering is the least likely thing to change my opinion on them. Especially when it feels like an honest one.

~rougerum

[Sigur Rós]

Isn't Gallo the "bad-guy" in the new Glassjaw video?? Cosmopolitan Bloodloss  

[Derek]

I've never understood the love affair with Buffalo 66. Mind you, I didn't grow up with the film and only watched it after the big hype and found it to be influences of Godard in ways not really that spetacular when you can watch Godard movies yourself. Then the movie tried to sell a romace out of a terrible kidnapping with the most unlikable of guys, someone that reminded me of all the asshole pricks I knew who were 25 and hung by the High School during lunch time so they could pick up their freshman girlfriends who were in it because the guy was older and had a big truck. This fucking asshole knew he had nothing much going for him by way of looks, but if he looked prickish enough, he could maybe hold the town record for popping cherries. By the time he gets 30, his days are done because the constant smoking and drinking have shown themselves quite clearly to where even to all the little girls who thought he was dangerous, he has now become that older weird guy who prolly has bad intentions. Sorry to go off in a rant, but I grew up near guys like this my entire life and a movie rendering is the least likely thing to change my opinion on them. Especially when it feels like an honest one.

~rougerum

I'm just glad you're not bitter.

[writedownhere]

just because lynch has made more movies than gallo, doesn't make him any less hokey and dumb.

[Derek]

hoaky

hokey

[writedownhere]

it quite clearly says hokey.

[Derek]

hoaky

hokey

yeah.

[Ghostboy]

Gold Trumpet, I think I understand your dislike of the film, but that's just one way to look at it. I think the reason I (and so many others) love the movie so much is because of the redemptive qualities. This screwed up asshole who had a horrible upbringing is redeemed by love. Technically, it's the same thing as Punch Drunk Love (not that the two films are similar at all in any other way, but you get my point). What made Billy Brown such a wonderful character was his hang-ups. He'd never even really kissed a girl before. He couldn't put his feelings in words, he was afraid of human contact just as much as he wanted it. He was an A-hole, yes, but he was also somewhat damaged. The movie is so beautiful because, rather than go down the narrow, destructive path indicated in the hallucination/dream sequence, he chooses love, and, for the first time in his life, he gets it returned to him.

That kind of compassion for the character indicates to me that Gallo might not be the complete prick in real life that he usually comes off as.

The movie means a lot to me; don't know if my explanation came off too well, though.

And David Lynch is not hokey or hoaky.

[writedownhere]

annoying sound better?

[Sigur Rós]

hoaky

hokey

bandy?

[Sigur Rós]

hoaky

hokey

bandy?

Hokey, hokier, hokiest:
Mawkishly sentimental, corny or noticeably contrived, artificial.

Oh...I thought you guys meant bandy....They outdoor ice-hockey sport.  

[Gold Trumpet]

Ghostboy,
I know where you are coming from but the main difference between Sander and Gallo in their roles is that Gallo really is a prick character. Of course for all bullies and such they hide behind insecurities for doing what they do, but Sandler never really came off as the mean spirited person that Gallo's character did. And when Gallo is being met with love by Ricci, he just further enflames the situation by being the complete asshole in arguing with her for doing so. I just couldn't really care for the character at all because when he was put into a sympathetic role that was similiar to Sandler's but showed very little remorse in being it. Instead of the movie seeming to be about his transition, it just kept on repeating the idea of how he is an asshole who is scared and such for most of the movie where it seemed less about transition and more of an act of repitition in annoyness.

~rougerum

[SoNowThen]

This is a picture of us SPANNING time. We're the couple that doesn't touch, and we SPAN time together. Just don't touch me.

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Come on, this movie is hilarious. I find Gallo's character very funny and likeable, because he at least says what's on his mind. He's been burned by chicks his whole life, so he's a little tenative to trust Ricci's character. But I guess it's a "love it or hate it" kinda flick.