Pretentious movie for the people who don't like pretentious movies

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2008)

This isn't a movie, it's an emulation of some good indie movie.
Imagine watching a chef making a beautiful meal from fresh colourful vegetables and meat, using spices that look so interesting... and then you actually taste it, and find out all those vegetables and meat were actually wax, the spices were just sand and rubble in nicely designed boxes.
However, all of that is bearable. Even the poor attempts at humor are bearable... the kid has skinny legs... sure, the dialogue is artificially witty and doesn't seem convincing or realistic... one can roll his eyes, but still enjoy the movie... until one realizes that's ALL this movie offers. Plus the irritating music. Yes, I get it, it has a purpose, but it just ruins scene after scene with it's annoying melodies. It's quite obvious that intelligent people authored this film and its music, but they tried to make every scene seem like a mini-masterpiece, and it shows. Every moment just tries too hard at being iconic. It's just full of it.
None of the characters seem very convincing, none of their emotions ring true. Good actors were wasted on constantly delivering lines that are supposed to showcase the screenwriters wit and IQ.
This movie is about as "indie" as Madonna styled like Kurt Cobain would be "grunge".