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Rating:  - Come on US film companies
What's so Da*n difficult about releasing this on DVD in The US? I know it doesn't have stuff blowing up in it, but come on.
Rating:  - From NYC to Arizona !
"Arizona dream" works out above all, as an admirable metaphor, an urban fable, aroused from a simple fact, when a hotshot in New York I tricked about a business in which his own uncle is involved.
Once he arrives to Arizona he will meet a very eccentric and out of context woman: This expected romance with the admirable Arizona's landscapes as big frame will ignite of surrealistic poetry.
Before you bet for this film, I think you should be aware about the particular aesthetics of this connoted filmmaker, whose non linearity and powerful dreamy style at the moment to tell a story will allow you to enjoy with major pleasure this emotive love story, hovered by sarcastic lines all the way through.
Rating: - its not on dvd in america
so buy it on vhs right now one of johnny depps best movies he has ever made.
Rating: - Movies as litmus tests...
I remember when I first realized that you really learn what people are like when they're drunk.
There are the happy lushes who love the world & fill it with hugs & sloppy kisses when they've had too much. Then there are the ones who get mean, real mean - violent even, all the rage coming out.
Some movies bring out the same thing in people. This is one of them. Just read the reviews.
Personally, I think it's a superb movie, but then I was always a lovesick sloppy drunk, too.
Rating:  - Extreme Excess of Absurdism and "Quirkiness"
The Michael J. Pollard cameo is cute. Jerry Lewis is always interesting. Faye Dunaway still looks great. Johnny Depp gives an excellent performance, but it is another of his Edward Scissorshands distant characters. Lili Taylor also gives an excellent performance. Vincent Gallo's character is just too easy to do, so no points there.
So why the low rating? This is another of the current chic and trendy narratives that features "quirkiness" as a substitute for inquiry or reflection. There is no statement here. Things happen, and the virtue is in the nonsequitor and jarring juxtaposition of events. People of average ability should not be given big film budgets. And writers have to drill down a little further into the model novel "100 Years of Solitude" to find out that there is a *structure* underlying the mysteriousness of life depicted there.
But it so much easier to be a *fresh* director whose worldview is that all the "ism's" have been exhausted, and only absurdism reigns now. That is not correct, as movie-making itself is a form of "consumerism". And this film dishes out enough of the in-demand absurdism to satisfy the market, that's for sure.
As an antidote to this trend, read John Gardner, "On Moral Fiction" (available here at Amazon). It's not a stodgy right-wing Walt Disney thing at all. Gardner was a hard leftist, but one who had good theories about fiction and narrative.
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