Enter the Void

[Paul DeLouisiana]

Did anyone else see this? What a crime it was.
I saw it with my ladyfriend (who luckily can appreciate the humor in crap movies) and there was this older couple in the theater. We gave them five minutes and were totally accurate.
It was so slow and could have easily been a 20 minute short. In fact it might be if you subtract the 20 5-minute POV panning shots of the Tokyo underworld.
You know a film is crap when it saves it's "big shocker" for the end.
Also he used non-actors, bad decision.

[B_Buster]

No love for the vagicam?!

[Paul DeLouisiana]

No love for the vagicam?!

I must admit I laughed out loud at the vagicam, as did most of the other people in the theater who had given up on the film.

[crumbum]

I have to admit I was looking forward to seeing this, but something about the word 'vagicam' gives me a bad feeling, strangely.

[Kim Kelly]

Paz de la Huerta? Better or worse than she is on Boardwalk Empire?

[Martin]

Did you mean to say "more or less clothed than on Boardwalk Empire"?

[Kim Kelly]

I'm talking about her acting skills. Or lack thereof.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

I'm talking about her acting skills. Or lack thereof.

Haven't seen BE but she is horrible in this. Like nails on a chalkboard.

[yesno]

I just saw this. I thought it was great. Very pretty, really.

I also really liked "Into Great Silence," so I like these slow movies.

[yesno]

I also enjoyed the homage to Look Who's Talking.

[Chris L]

Most recent Kanye West video flat-out rips off the opening credits. It probably won't be the last.

[roubaix]

I enjoyed the shit out of ETV.  I agree that sleepiness adds to the "experience".  I intended to watch a bit before going to bed, but I stayed up for the full 2.5 hours.  Couldn't stop thinking about the movie for a week.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

I might try it again alone sometime. I liked a lot of the visuals and after the opening credits I was pumped but I kept being bothered with how bored my date might have been. (girlfriend at the time, not first date. Jesus that would be miserable.)

[yesno]

I normally hate movies with a lot of sex, violence, or extreme emotional distress, but none of that bothered me with this movie because it was presented in such a detached way.  It was like:  If you just look at getting shot by the police, or abortions, or filthy sex hotels, from the perspective of a Terrence McKenna psycho-naut, it won't really bother you.  I also like movies that are genuinely stylistically inventive in a way that seems hard to do.  (This is also why I liked Scott Pilgrim.  Not for the video game fighting stuff, but the little things it did especially towards the beginning, with people walking through doors and so on.)

It helps that I'm a Coil fan, and though Coil was only played during the DMT scene, the entire movie seemed like a distillation of their later aesthetic.

[roubaix]

Yeah, many people don't like the movie, and many of them have valid points.

I came into it with lowered expectations, but I'm also a big fan of the cinematography in Angst, an Austrian film that was very influential on Gaspar Noe.  Angst is very brutal - moreso than I expected - but its Polish cinematographer showcases one brilliant idea after another.   Enter the Void takes those ideas (typically involving POV/steadicam/cranes) to an extreme level.  That alone was fascinating to me.

I also liked the music.  Apparently there's no official soundtrack, but I found a 2+ hour compilation on megaupload.  I didn't even realize Delia Derbyshire was in there.