A friendship between two twenty-something men is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them.
DVD Release Date: November 11, 2003
Stats: 740 reviews
I get it, but I hated, hated, HATED this film. Despite the fact that a good friend of mine was the editor. There is one scene where the camera focusses on Damon and Affleck's faces while they walk in silence for about ten minutes. I am not exaggerating. Silence for ten minute...( read more)
Great film about 2 friends who get lost in the desert. I've said a certain thing about many films , but I think it pertains to this one more than any I've seen. If you watch the film as an outsider, that is, if you don't get into the film, a lot of films won't work. That's why...( read more)
Gus Van Sant has dedicated this decade to a unique style of non-narrative cinema. I was intrigued by his film Elephant, but bored to tears by his follow-up Last Days. Now that I?ve seen the movie that started this style, I?ve come to the conclusion that this style?s power is di...( read more)
Quite simply one of the most beautifully photographed films ever made. It probably has the least dialogue I've ever heard in a feature, and most of what is said is irrelevant anyway, but it is so scarce you cannot help but pay the utmost attention to it. The images and sound weav...( read more)
Gus Van Sant's hypnotic Gerry is like the love child between Samuel Beckett, Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tar (who Van Sant admits was a huge influence on the film), and Van Sant himself circa 1985. Similar to the Polish Brothers' inferior Northfork, Gerry is absolutely transfixing a...( read more)
van Sant has a very contemplative style in his movies, he makes you watch, with almost obligation, every single detail of every shot in his films, they can last more than 10 mins, or even 1min (wich can be quite long aswel), contradicting cinema today, with more and more shots th...( read more)
This and Elephant are homages to Satantango and Bela Tarr I suppose. Well filmed homage in the end but the relationship that builds up between Affleck and Damon's characters leads up to, let's say a plot twist, that most people have probably already seen. Therefore, all of those ...( read more)
Fascinating, even if perversely so, and quite beautiful. full review
Ragingly bad art that contributes to a definition of independent film as something no one would want to sit through. full review
The movie is so gloriously bloody-minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity. full review
Arty exercise that strands Matt Damon and Casey Affleck (both named Gerry) in a desert with little to say and do except lose themselves in an existential wasteland of doomed beauty. full review
I'd be lying if I said it didn't annoy the hell out of me for most of its 103-minute running time. But I might watch it again sometime and try a little harder to get on its wavelength. full review
I really really liked it, it is a brilliant metaphor for the existence of life. You have to really focus on the characters and their feelings to understand the movie...of course their is no action and only a small amount of dialogue, but that whats makes it so good, its surreal. Its a movie i could watch all the time. It made me laugh, shiver, cry and sit on the edge of my chair.
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