somebody give me some air!

Rating: 4/10 (11 September 2005)

Good grief!! You wanna know what I think? I think that Paul Haggis, Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia), and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (21 Grams) should all get together and direct a movie so bloated with irony, portent, ominous interplay and emotional critical mass that, on opening night, the theater, the screen, the reels, the audience...hell, the surrounding city block, would actually implode on itself creating a massive celestial event like a black hole.
The scene that did me in was the scene of Matt Dillon's character sobbing and leaning over his father suffering on the potty with a Karen Carpenter-style track crooning mournfully in the background. This one actually brought tears to my eyes....for all the WRONG reasons! Gotta get off the computer before my wife finds what I wrote, though....she LOVED it!