I know I rarely write bad reviews and I actually saw this movie a while ago but I have recently started seeing ads for it everywhere so I wanted to put in my 2 cents.
Paranoid Park is a really terrible film. It's directed by Gus Van Sant, who's done some notable films (Good Will Hunting, for example - although I'll confess I didn't really like that one either), and it looked like it had the potential to be good. But it's not. Most of it takes place in slow motion. Yeah, that's right. Slow motion. As if that's supposed to make it artsy or something. The movie was only about an hour and a half long, but by 50 minutes I thought I had been there for 2 hours. Frankly, it's boring. It's about skateboarding and this high school kid who accidentally murders someone. While there are a few really good moments - usually a funny line or action that really seem to capture the absurdity of teenagerdom - most of the teenage dialogue and narration is unbearable. I don't care if teenagers really talk like that, I don't want to listen to it for an hour and a half. One positive note - the lead actor is adorable and he will grow up to be a real heartthrob. Part of me thinks he is a really good actor because he was such your average skater-boy suburban teen that it was downright obnoxious at times. The other part of me thinks he was just being himself and might not be able to play any other role. Who knows. Only time will tell. If he grows up to be a big star, though, that will be the only good thing to come out of this movie.
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Paranoid Park is a really terrible film. It's directed by Gus Van Sant, who's done some notable films (Good Will Hunting, for example - although I'll confess I didn't really like that one either), and it looked like it had the potential to be good. But it's not. Most of it takes place in slow motion. Yeah, that's right. Slow motion. As if that's supposed to make it artsy or something. The movie was only about an hour and a half long, but by 50 minutes I thought I had been there for 2 hours. Frankly, it's boring. It's about skateboarding and this high school kid who accidentally murders someone. While there are a few really good moments - usually a funny line or action that really seem to capture the absurdity of teenagerdom - most of the teenage dialogue and narration is unbearable. I don't care if teenagers really talk like that, I don't want to listen to it for an hour and a half. One positive note - the lead actor is adorable and he will grow up to be a real heartthrob. Part of me thinks he is a really good actor because he was such your average skater-boy suburban teen that it was downright obnoxious at times. The other part of me thinks he was just being himself and might not be able to play any other role. Who knows. Only time will tell. If he grows up to be a big star, though, that will be the only good thing to come out of this movie.share this post on de.licio.us / facebook
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