markrefsdal
C'mon y'all, get off your holy horse! This is a great flick! Finally, a main character I can relate to. He's juggling way too many women, totally out of control with lust and obsessed with sex, too smooth for his own good, and he can't seem to do the right thing even if he wanted to. That's the way life is! I can't relate to all those sappy romantic men in movies who fall in love with one girl and ignore the rest. This guy is a victim of his own libido, as are lots of us guys. Finally, a movie for us! And the ending is great how it comes back to his father. This is the central conflict in the whole movie, his relationship with his father.His father wants him to be better than he was, but in the end, he is a chip off the old block. He is not romantic and honest and kind. He is manipulative and seductive and selfish. He is a jerk, but a likable one. River Phoenix does a great job and a young Matthew Perry is good too. It's nice to see his pre-Friends work and see that he can actually act.I wish there were more movies like this. If not, I'll write one myself.
rictome
I miss movies like these. strong and poetic writing with intense narration by Phoenix. the story is at the same time simple but influent and memorable to our common lives of all days.the scene when Phoenix rides the car through the alleys and talking about cigars is hardly forgotten.we all, not even for once, have lived like this, we all have been a teen like this, we all have had our small and big frustrations like these, and we all have had surprises... ...and there's always a new day to come.;)RIC
The_Core
Boring, pointless teenage angst flick. The dialogue is bad, the acting is bad, the "plot" is bad, the story is unrealistic, the "emotions" are phony. Plenty of shallow pretensiveness taking itself seriously. Unless you're Beavis or Butthead, don't waste your time. As someone else said, leave this one in the 59 cent bin at the local thrift shop. 2/10.
eddie736
Something truly rare in film: a disaster on every level. River Phoenix takes himself way too seriously in the title role of a hipster-doofus poet on the night everyone supposedly discovers what a genius he is. It's a film chock full of bad acting, bad writing, bad staging, and the most asinine, sanctimonious poetry ever heard. It makes Mike Myers' parody in So I Married an Axe Murderer sound like William Shakespeare. Of course, since River and Ione Skye are so good-looking, we're supposed to take them seriously. To paraphrase Heathers, it's teen-angst you-know-what. Don't fall for it. I admonish you all to leave in the 59-cent bin of your local video store where it belongs.
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