DVD Review: Lying: Jena Malone, Chloe Sevigny, Leelee Sobieski, M. Blash: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: Lying: Jena Malone, Chloe Sevigny, Leelee Sobieski, M. Blash: Movies & TV

Posted by admin | on 18 May, 01:50 AM

Product Description
When a long weekend brings four women together in the countryside, each of them is forced to navigate the depths of social interaction as virtual strangers. How well do we really know the friends we make in adulthood? And in an age of lies, what can be made of the person who tells untruths so small they serve no obvious purpose?

BORING, MEANINGLESS, ARTLESS AND PRETENTIOUS,

By Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States) -
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Not sure if this is a hoax perpetrated on the unsuspecting viewer? If so, just who is laughing? If you take a video camera and just shoot your friends or even strangers in their random conversations and do no editing whatsoever my guess is that your finished film (you must stop at 94 minutes) will be better than “LYING.”

This film would make a great double feature with “GERRY.” The one about the two guys named Gerry who get lost in the desert. And then one Gerry kills the other Gerry. Ooops, hope I didn’t spoil it for anyone.

This is a double loss. The time wasted watching this is lost forever and you probably can’t return it to get your money back. Life can be so unfair but why waste it on really, really, really, really, really bad movies?

A pointless and confused movie…,

By Steve Kuehl “SLV Video” (Ben Lomond, CA) -

I have only been burned twice in the last six years in how I research ordering for my store. Welcome to the 2nd. The same reviews shown here got planted/pasted at numerous sites on the Internet, supplemented by a couple others from crew members to make this sound like a masterpiece.

At approximately 22 minutes into the film I decided to do the research to see what went wrong on me even paying for this mess. We have a story about four women uniting at a country home for unknown reasons and with unknown motives. Throw in some horrible hand-held camera work, bad film quality, characters you learn nothing about or why they are even talking to each other, senseless dialogue, boring performances and voila: 94 non-returnable minutes.

I even tried to get this from the point of view of my customers having a ladies night or wanting to see something edgy or fascinating. Nothing I listed could qualify for that. Yes, I am pissed I wasted money for a movie most customers will find boring, meaningless and poorly written - but even as into minimalist films as I am - this is a definite skipper.

DVD: Todd Haynes’ interview of M and the commentary are a double dose of furtherance into this film, so if you enjoyed this, it makes it a purchase item, otherwise be careful on this one.

Edit: The reviews have been removed (at least at the moment) - so in case one is wondering what the heck I am babbling about, I swear there were two other reviews here…
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