don't eat the brown acid!

Rating: 3/10 (11 October 2007)

i went expecting a brooding beautifully shot Alaskan/western meditation on Nature's virtue and Romantic Rebellion and instead got horribly trite HIPPIE PAP ( complete with an inserted guitar strumming Joni Mitchell love interest! ) ( blah!! ) !!!! the real Chris was an intellectual who read Tolstoy Emerson Thoreau and wanted to strip himself away from society and its vanities.... he ( tried to be ) physically, morally pure; the celluloid version lacked this moral intenisty..... at the very least, surely Mr. vedder could have encouraged Mr. Penn to have his cliché hippies early nineties GRUNGE cliché hippies for Godsake and not the recycled Woodstock wastoids that he throws us... bummer, dude, through and through... ( and i didn't even talk about the hysterically bad/pretentious voice overs he uses throughout ).... it could have been so much more...