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Steven H wrote:

Spalding Gray's new film, "And Everything Is Going Fine," is 89 minutes long. What a coincidence! That's exactly 89 more minutes of Spalding Gray than I can stand.

Gray was a motormouthed small-time actor who (largely thanks to incessant cheerleading from the New York Times) achieved mild 1980s fame as an autobiographical "monologuist," which is to say that he was not funny enough to be a comic and not enough of a wordsmith to be an author. Films of his droning and digressive 90-minute lectures, such as "Swimming to Cambodia," are unfortunate for their emphasis on a single topic -- his fascination with himself -- because the sentiment is difficult to share.

In "And Everything Is Going Fine," director Steven Soderbergh assembles without comment or narration an anthology of clips of Gray's act over the years as he heads for the edge he would later jump off. The laziness of this filmmaking (which assumes you know that Gray killed himself in 2004) is of a piece with the emphatically uninteresting tales told by a classic dinner-party bore who once referred to his ramblings as "creative narcissism." He was half-right.

Jeff wrote:Well, here's the dumbest goddamn thing anybody has ever written, and a smart rebuttal of it.

John D'Amico wrote:When you put on a film from, say, 1941, you have destroyed 72 years. You have destroyed age, and you have for a brief moment, destroyed death.

Old films are not “boring”—you are.

Lemmy Caution wrote:Well, that really reads as a parody. Either that or it's the shallowest writing on film imaginable. The impressive thing is it just seems to go on and on with ill-informed opinions.
I gave up pretty early. You hope the writer is about 16 and will mature. Or a parodist.

I think the main thing you learn after watching movies from the French New Wave is that those movies suck. And I think you can safely apply that outlook to any genre, movement, or period because movies (or art) made solely ‘in spirit’ misses the point. Art’s not about pushing boundaries or abstraction as a fuck you, it’s about making a good thing. Making a good thing is often encumbered by era, technology, censorship, or pretension. This is why Signs, Back to the Future, and Raising Arizona epitomize the best cinema has to offer.

A common reaction to my negative reviews here is to say that “I don’t get it”. The real problem with movies like Husbands is that I do get it—I get what they actually are, as opposed to what they are represented to be by a sect of the culture desperate to bolster nothingness in a foolish pursuit to create icons and look smart. Any explanation you could possibly give me as to the point of the goddamn basketball scene, or the signing scene, is made up.

I don't really remember a great deal about the film other than all the nomination's the film received , I hope it's as good as I think it was . M T L

Miss Bergman was at her best as a revengeful Bitch ,both she and Anthony Quinn shine . The print I bought however was not very good the transfer like a lot of what 20th C Fox are doing are done with the least expense possible If the film is grainy too bad that's what you'll get .

Problem with this film on blu ray is ....... It doesn't fill the entire screen therefore I sold it if Fox Films can't enhance a movie to use rage full screen there's something wrong it's been done on DVD .

20th century fox should have transferred this movie in widescreen therefor it sucks , I sold the blasted movie .

Netflix reviewer wrote:Ok I am not a fan of 1990 and older movie, since the quality is grainy. But the movie started extreme right from the start. Pigs slaughter house and its like more like a documentary and I was getting sick. And I was ok why not give it a couple more min. And I end up watching the whole movie. How the characters go through a transformation through the movie, just interesting. The story is not only sad, but the whole scene, it shows how poor people live in certain countries and it was just jawopening.

Oedipax wrote:Is that for In A Year of 13 Moons? Funny.

swo17 wrote:I don't know that it matters, but it was for Lino Brocka's Insiang.