TrueJoshNight
Truly Dreadful Film
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Lidia Draper
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
851222
Greetings from Lithuania."Breakfast of Champions" (1999) is a movie i really wanted to like, but at the end it turn out to be a one big mess of a film. There were a potential here to create something unique, and it is in some sort a unique movie but unfortunately not in a good way. Saw this movie like 15 year ago and the best thing what i can remember about it that the ending was kinda nice, i mean the message it showed (i will keep it to myself). Performances were OK, but the script is a one big mess. They tried to make many things in one story but at the end everything just felt short. Directing was also not good, because this is a very difficult movie to watch - it does not engage the viewer, but leaves it alone with the hard to swallow material.Overall, "Breakfast of Champions" is just a mess. It tried to many things in one picture, but failed first off all to show it in a more approachable way. Not a good movie by any means.
SnoopyStyle
Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) owns a car dealership in Midland City. He's on his own commercials, married to Celia (Barbara Hershey) and is suicidal. Francine Pefko (Glenne Headly) is his secretary. His sales manager Harry Le Sabre (Nick Nolte) is just as crazy behind closed doors with his wife Grace (Vicki Lewis). Wayne Hoobler (Omar Epps) gets out of prison vowing to work for the similarly-named Dwayne Hoover. Reclusive Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney) is invited to a local arts festival.It's loud. It's crazy. It's ugly. It's incoherent. It's messy. I would rate this lower but this is done deliberately. I give it credit for its audacity. I think it might work better if Alan Rudolph is a better visual director. I'm willing to go with the craziness but this is too tough to watch.
William H
A down in dumps suicidal owner of a used car lot Hoover( Bruce Willis ) comes across a quirky writer( Finney) and things get out of hand. Not sure if there is a defined plot or reason for the characters doing what they are doing.The movie goes on to make little to no sense that is extremely hard to follow. None of us knew what is truly happening and it was very badly written. Omar Epps, Vicki Lewis, Will Patton, Owen Wilson and Nick Nolte round out this cast and they probably wish they hadn't. I'm a huge Bruce Willis fan but it's hard to be kind about this movie, it's awful. Nothing enjoyable at all, not even a stupid funny moment. So to recap, don't waste a second of your time on this film. You're welcome
MARIO GAUCI
This is the other Kurt Vonnegut Jr. adaptation I watched in tribute to his passing: basically, it offers the same moral as SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (1972) - which, at least, shows a consistency within the author's work. The film's general tone is a surreal one, and its satire on media and the business world (where everyone demonstrates a slick and confident veneer but is actually suffering from various hang-ups) is generally interesting and occasionally amusing, but also chaotic and somewhat heavy-handed. A good cast tries hard - Bruce Willis (in yet another attempt at a dramatic role as a man who has everything but sees no point to his life), Albert Finney (as the ageing unappreciated writer, whose work has only ever been published in porn magazines, suddenly exalted to the status of a philosopher) and especially Nick Nolte (as a cross-dressing executive). I seem to recall that this film was barely released and got universally panned by critics at the time but it's hardly a catastrophe; there is also a nicely animated credit sequence and the playful score helps smooth over some of the film's rougher patches.
