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Originally Posted by boo boo
Nah. My Own Private Idaho is good. But I guess it was just too much of a disorienting experience for me to consider it great.
Of course a lot of Van Sants non hollywood films can be pretty disorienting. But his somber style worked much better with Drugstore Cowboy and Elephant, they weren't as pretentious.
Van Sant is a very talented director, but when he's at his worst.
HOLEEEEEEEEE SH*T! |
are you sh*tting me? I loved
Drugstore Cowboy until f*cking Burroughs turns up, the only possible reason for having him there was pretentiousness; not to mention Elephant (Elephant, Gerry and Last Days seem to be of their own stylistic canon) which just bleeds contrived controversy. alliteration not intended. That's just my opinion though, I was sucked in to
Private Idaho fully aware that I was watching a non-Hollywood Van Sant film and half-expecting to hate it.. I would have been much more confused had I not checked wikipedia about it first, however.