Less Than Zero .Movie. Dvd.
Added 1/18/2010
I never read the book it's based off, I liked the movie, I thought it was Sad. I wish there would have been a different ending. I give it 4 stars.Robert Downey Jr. Does an Awesome Performance. Cool Soundtrack which I have, do Bad "You And Me(Less than Zero)" Song by Glenn Danzig and The Power & Fury Orchestra is barely heard in one scene.
Cool Corvette.
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Based on a somewhat uninteresting novel, what we have here is a boring film about So Cal kids on coke in the 80s. It hasn't held up. Only Robert Downey Jr. shows a spark of acting ability, along with James Spader. Andrew McCarthy and Jami Gertz are just awful. Every adult is portrayed as a one dimensional stereotype. You won't learn anything here, except how awful were film adaptations of 80s novels. Of course, the dopers here went on to imitate their art in real life.
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no diaper big enough...
Added 12/8/2009
...to hold this load.
Hack director Marek Kanievska did not read Less Than Zero. No surprise there. But what you probably didn't know is that he is also a scatophiliac. Kanievska took the entire tone of the book and defecated on it. Then he placed a bunch of flags that said "Hollywood" and "Just Say No" all over the steaming mound. And these flagpoles, smeared with Kanievska's feces, penetrated the bloodstream of the story and spread all sorts of disease-causing bacteria that ate away at the very flesh of its characters until Less Than Zero the movie died a slow and painful death. Kanievska laughed with great joy at his latest scatological achievement, summoning a chorus line of turd angels to sing hymns of wasteful glory in his honor.
When asked why he didn't just release his 98-minute, pile of dung after-school-special with a title that didn't set a new standard for injustices done to great works of fiction, he replied, "Well, then I wouldn't get to [shih tzu] on anything."
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A story told before it happened
Added 11/28/2009
This turns out to be the story of Downey Junior's life. Drugs, sex and rock n' roll.
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"Based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis"? Well, sort of.
Added 7/30/2009
What can I say about this uninspired "retelling" of Bret's first novel?
The film adaptation doesn't contain the scenes and the tone I thought made the book so haunting and memorable.(The dead boy in the alley scene, the snuff film with the underage girl...) This film really can't be claimed that it is based on the book - it's more that it's inspired by the novel. Despite this downfall, the film is worth watching for any Bret Easton Ellis fan - if only to satisfy one's curiosity.
The film contains neither the perfectly depressing one-liners or the delightfully disturbing minor characters that make the book so interesting and engaging (Clay's sisters, Spin) The film made it seem as though Julian was the protagonist, while I always felt the novel was all about seeing the events unfold through Clay's eyes. One of the more endearing parts of the novel are Clay's 'flashbacks' of a better time, before he left for school. The film only touches on this in the beginning, and the flashback is about Blair, not about his parents, who which were the subjects of the flashbacks I found the most interesting. The lunch scene between Clay and his father is pure genius. The detachment between the father and son made me physically cringe. This scene is not included in the film at all.
The unfortunate thing about adapting films from books is that something is almost always lost in the 'translation'. 'American Psycho' is really the only one of the films adapted from his books that I feel captures the tone of the book while simultaneously compacting it into a watchable narrative without losing Bret's style, and this is due to the fact that Bateman himself is the narrator.
All and all, 'Less Than Zero' isn't a bad film, really. Just a bad adaptation. It captures what was both awesome and forgettable about 80s popular film, and fits the bill of any entertaining teen drama from that era (Including extravagant cocaine use by minors, too much New Wave, the once-hot but potential future star of Where Are They Now? James Spader). There are some touching moments, but it seems as though the film tried to hard find a conclusion the book didn't (and had a reason for not doing). After all, Julian doesn't die in the novel, and Blair certainly doesn't go back to Camden with Clay (Morrissey wouldn't be proud).
What's so melancholy about the novel is what the film failed to allude too: how upset, apathetic, nd lost Clay is now that he has changed and gained a new perspective, while his friends, sadly, have not.
And one serious complaint: Where is the Disappear Here billboard? It's integral to the imagery of the novel, and is absent in the film (unless I missed it.)
All and all: If you're a fan of Bret's books, give this film a shot. It's worth watching once, but don't be upset if it hardly even attempts to capture the mood or purpose of the novel.
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Less Than Zero .Movie. Dvd.
Added 1/18/2010
I never read the book it's based off, I liked the movie, I thought it was Sad. I wish there would have been a different ending. I give it 4 stars.Robert Downey Jr. Does an Awesome Performance. Cool Soundtrack which I have, do Bad "You And Me(Less than Zero)" Song by Glenn Danzig and The Power & Fury Orchestra is barely heard in one scene.
Cool Corvette.
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Based on a somewhat uninteresting novel, what we have here is a boring film about So Cal kids on coke in the 80s. It hasn't held up. Only Robert Downey Jr. shows a spark of acting ability, along with James Spader. Andrew McCarthy and Jami Gertz are just awful. Every adult is portrayed as a one dimensional stereotype. You won't learn anything here, except how awful were film adaptations of 80s novels. Of course, the dopers here went on to imitate their art in real life.
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no diaper big enough...
Added 12/8/2009
...to hold this load.
Hack director Marek Kanievska did not read Less Than Zero. No surprise there. But what you probably didn't know is that he is also a scatophiliac. Kanievska took the entire tone of the book and defecated on it. Then he placed a bunch of flags that said "Hollywood" and "Just Say No" all over the steaming mound. And these flagpoles, smeared with Kanievska's feces, penetrated the bloodstream of the story and spread all sorts of disease-causing bacteria that ate away at the very flesh of its characters until Less Than Zero the movie died a slow and painful death. Kanievska laughed with great joy at his latest scatological achievement, summoning a chorus line of turd angels to sing hymns of wasteful glory in his honor.
When asked why he didn't just release his 98-minute, pile of dung after-school-special with a title that didn't set a new standard for injustices done to great works of fiction, he replied, "Well, then I wouldn't get to [shih tzu] on anything."
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