I'm not saying that "Once", as a series of moving pictures on a screen, isn't better than 99% of the movies released theatrically in 2007, I'm just saying that it's not a real movie because NOTHING HAPPENS. Two kind of boring looking people meet and fall in love and sing songs and everything is great and then it's over. There's never any real conflict or emotional stakes. It's just a really long, good music video for songs you won't hate if you don't hate Coldplay. The one about the boat is pretty catchy. But that's it. So just stop.
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I need to learn how to communicate like you cause yeah, I felt the same way.
Posted by: Laura | January 30, 2008 at 11:49 AM
"Do you like hot tea?"
"Yeah."
"Me too."
"My elbow itches."
"Hmmm.."
AND SCENE- Brilliant!
Posted by: chris ives | January 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM
"Once" suffers and succeeds from the same thing: the average movie-going public(that's going to see an Irish indie film) was expecting absolutely NOTHING from it, and when they got nice music, people being charming and nice to each other, and an uplifting story, they were BLOWN THE FUCK AWAY.
Posted by: Jeff | January 30, 2008 at 01:01 PM
the guy was such a loser. i kept waiting for someone to dump a bucket of water on his head.
Posted by: spencer | January 30, 2008 at 01:36 PM
I saw this movie on a plane. Halfway through, the movie system stopped working. I thought "Oh well. That movie was not memorable. The music was not memorable". Cut to 2 days later, and I had that damn "we've still got tiiiime" song in my head and I began whining to anyone who would listen about not having seen the end of it.
I finally saw the end of it, on a plane. My recommendation is to abruptly stop watching that movie midway and to live with the comfort of what might have been.
Posted by: vaughn | January 30, 2008 at 09:25 PM
Wow, I *just* halfway watched this last night until I was like, it's 10:00 and this is just not at all worth staying awake for any longer. So meh.
Posted by: liz | January 31, 2008 at 01:17 AM