|   Blow doesn't blow | Daigoro
Apr 12, 2001 8:29 AM | | Saw 'Blow' last weekend and thought it was pretty decent. Very good performances all around (Johnny Depp is excellent as usual) and good writing and good directing, and generally good everything. Even had an authentic 70's vibe to it.
But for some reason I just can't say it was a great movie. It just seemed too linear and never slowed down enough (except near the end) to be a real character examination. I mean we've all seen the cliches in the drug movies: piles and piles of cash, scenes of excess and wealth, and the tense buy scene in the hotel room. So really, all that is left is a biography about some dude I never heard of before and don't really care about. It gets a bit lazy at times and pulls the Scorsese-like tactic of lots of voice-overs with period music in the background.
Traffic was more hit and miss, but ultimately, more interesting. |
| Blow doesn't blow | Troy
Apr 12, 2001 8:46 AM | | Yeah, it doesn't blow, but it isn't great either.
I saw it on Tuesday and left the theater in a bit of a funk. The movie was . . . hard to say . . . I guess "uninvolving" is the right word. Like you say Daigoro, maybe we've all seen this movie already a dozen times before. It's a genre that's more overworked than Mafia movies! It doesn't matter that Depp (and Paul Reubens and Ray Liotta too) did a great job or that the story was well written or that the look of the movie was right on the mark. Maybe if this movie was made 15-20 years ago we'd all be calling it the best drug movie ever . . .I dunno. I need to rent Scarface again and see if it still holds up.
I left the theater in a really downbeat mood, partly because this poor slob got screwed 6 ways from Sunday by *everyone* in his life, but also partly because I never got lost in the story. |
| re: Blow doesn't blow | Brotherman-5th floor
Apr 13, 2001 7:04 AM | | I thought blow was actually pretty good. Maybe it was Johnny Depp's performance and the fast pace, I don't know. The movie is about 2 hours long but it felt like I was in the theater for 3 hours since something was constantly happening in the movie. While not a masterpiece by any account, one of the better ones I've seen so far this year. |
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