Being John Malkovich

i was watching this movie and i was bedazzled by this spectacle this movie is amazingly amazing and incredibely incredible Spike was successful to bring this idea with his special treatment.... Full review

The first time I started to watch Being John Malkovich I stopped. It looked like something I wasn't in the mood for, maybe never would be. There was this puppet show. I tried again another day, and discovered one of my... Full review

Charlie Kaufman is either the greatest screenwriter today,or he's just an alien force decended upon earth to save us from the morbid blockbusters.His collaboration with Spike Jonze makes this film one-of-kind.A sparkling,hilarious,intelligent and original masterpiece,full of pop-art references,Lubtisch ideas and indepedant... Full review

Have you ever been to a movie and while you are watching it all you can do is think that this has to get better and it doesn't. Thats the way I felt watching this. I broke my rule and actually... Full review

ONE OF MY BEST MOVIES EVER THIS IS ONE OF A HELL MOVIE. WHAT CAN I SAY IS THE BEST MOVIE OF THIS TYPE.... Full review

Charlie Kaufman originally whimsical tale that consists of a host of zany characters involved in an impossible fantasy rendered situation. Music video filmmaker Spike Jonze will serve up quite an interesting offering for his directorial debut. The comically crazy plot involves... Full review

See this one, then see ADAPTATION, which is sort of a follow-up. Them are both good films! I like 'em! Yessir!... Full review

A rather ingenious concept that unfortunately goes a bit off the rails at the end and turns a masterpiece into a near-miss. Everything up to the "eight months later" message is fantastic: it's funny, it's smart, it's dark, it's quirky. John... Full review

No point to this movie one of the worst i ever saw! crawling threw a tunnel to get in to his head had to be the stupidest thing I ever saw... Full review

You will be shocked, it is possibly the strangest on my list. But that's also what is so wonderful about it. The crazy storyline, simply impossible, works for me. Usually when a movie is too unrealistic, I don't normally enjoy it... Full review

You can tell that merely being awake is excruciating for Charlie by the way he walks, hunched up as though he were being physically beaten down by his self-loathing. While Charlie is, to put it as gently as possible, a mess, Donald is the picture of happiness, though a happiness born of being completely oblivious to the world around him. ... Full Review

The best of Kaufman's previous films were helmed by directors Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry-both of whom succeed in translating Kaufman's cerebral scripts into films that, while intellectual exercises of a sort, were nonetheless engaging, funny, and affecting. ... Full Review

Malkovich talks about art and truth and lies; pay attention, as his remarks are apposite. It is a wondrous thing, DVD, enabling us to delve deeper into the psyche of the filmmakers and explore a whole new world - just like the characters in Being John Malkovich, who explore existence through JM's eyes, via the amazing tunnel from floor 7 of the Flimmer Building that leads into his brain. ... Full Review

"Being John Malkovich is simply the most original, brilliant film of the year! It is a great film. This is also John Cusack's best performance ever he becomes this extraordinary character who longs to feel differently by being inside another skin. ... Full Review

Yet somehow they make perfect sense in Being John Malkovich . You will need those enhanced taste buds to appreciate Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich . The film was unanimously praised for its daring originality. ... Full Review

Taking on an enormous task, Director Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich," "Adaptation") has made a fiercely innovative but uneven film based on Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book. ... Full Article

Bottom Line: Not exactly Being Matthew Modine, but the alpacas are cute. Inspired perhaps by the surrealistic fantasy film "Being John Malkovich," Blair Sinclair has written a self-consciously campy, two-hour satire on the industry that might entertain Hollywood audiences but... ... Full Article

WHEN the bizarrely engaging Being John Malkovich became the hit hipster movie of 1999, fans assumed that writer Charlie Kaufman must be the coolest litterateur alive. ... Full Article

When Being John Malkovich appeared in 1999, few people knew what to expect. Here was a film that was written by a former sitcom writer, directed by a music video auteur, based around a positively ridiculous concept (a semi-professional puppeteer... ... Full Article

Sure enough, five minutes into our interview, Keener takes three sachets of sugar, meant for her coffee, and tips them into her soup. "Oh my god, I just poured all my sugar into my lunch! ... Full Article

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