HILARIOUS, incoherent, pretentious, big-budget garbage.

Rating: 1/10 (2 December 2008)

Well, I saw two terrible movies in the past week. One of them was "Troll 2" on the IMDb Bottom 100, and the other was this "I'm Not There" thing. I won't even call it a film because it isn't one. It's more like one long MTV music video. Yup, I enjoyed "Troll 2" a hell of a lot more. Yes, the verdict is in and the hype is over. This one is a grandiose turd.
Where do I begin? I own 18 Bob Dylan albums. I play the guitar and sing and I learned to play by learning Dylan songs. I think he is the most amazing talent in music in my lifetime bar none. I own "Don't Look Back" and "The Other Side of the Mirror." I also love "The Last Waltz." I can hardly begin to describe how awful "I'm Not There" is. We have a young black kid named Woody Guthrie who plays the guitar and sings, he obviously is supposed to represent young Bob. Then there is Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and the god awful Cate Blanchett. They all are supposed to represent different sides of Dylan, but none of them are named Bob Dylan. It is all so phony and poorly done that it made my head spin. Blanchett's impersonation of Dylan was just that, something like Frank Caliendo doing Al Pacino. Laughable! The icing on the cake was how we spend almost an hour basically re-enacting the amazing documentary "Don't Look Back" but with Blanchett hamming it up the entire time, reciting lines that Dylan said in "Don't Look Back" and just being generally weird. I was horrified! The worst thing about this film is that it attempts to disguise itself as this 'independent artsy, gritty film' but it is just more of the same Weinstein Company run of the mill trash that keeps churning out of that disgusting machine and this time they managed to ruin an amazing artist in the process for many young people. I hope they rot in hell for that.
The only redeeming thing about "I'm Not There" was the only thing that is truly Bob Dylan and that was the soundtrack.
A real fan of Bob Dylan will HATE this 'film.' 1 out of 10, kids.