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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Not for fans of the book
This movie had an excellent cast and was based on a wonderful book by Kurt Vonnegut. So what went wrong?
Most of the performances were a bit over the top but that wasn't the movie's main failing. There was a character, Dwayne's wife, who shouldn't have been in the movie at all except in possible flashbacks before she committed suicide. This still wasn't the movie's biggest fault.
The biggest problem was the ending. Anyone who's ever read Vonnegut knows that happy endings aren't forthcoming. Dwayne shouldn't have reconciled with his son and wife (who, as mentioned earlier, was dead). It's too tidy and Vonnegut was anything but tidy.
But probably the saddest part to me is that they actually had Vonnegut in the film without including the wonderful scene from the novel in which he interacts with the character Kilgore Trout. That alone could have saved this movie from all its other shortcomings.
Eraserhead (1977)
Am I missing something?
I've seen a great many movies by a great variety of directors from around the world in several different styles. But in all my years of movie watching, never have I felt that I have more effectively wasted 89 minutes of my life that I'll never get back. This, to me, was a complete nothing of a movie. It evoked no emotional responses aside from the slight revulsion I felt about the "baby" and its ultimate fate. Visually, it did nothing for me. It struck me as the same typical self-indulgent, I'm-smarter-than-the-audience stuff that David Lynch has been cranking out for years. I'd seen "Dune" (Frank Herbert is rolling in his grave over that) and "The Elephant Man." The latter had the Lynch's fingerprints all over it but brilliant performances by Hurt and Hopkins saved it. Not so for "Eraserhead."
For reasons that escape me, Lynch has ardent followers and fans of this film.
I guess I must have missed something somewhere. Now if you don't mind, I've got Kurosawa's "Ran" spinning up in the DVD player.