LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Anthony Iessi Remember that time when everyone thought that Joaquin Phoenix went AWOL from acting and became a rapper? Remember when everyone thought he went nuts because of his bizarre appearance on Letterman? Well, it was all a set up for a mockumentary... and it's one of the worst ones of all time. This is a pretentious, garbled, unfunny mess. The fiction is far less entertaining than what we thought was reality. He thought he was the next Andy Kaufman, as did many. But by the section of the film that featured the Letterman interview, I only wished that Jerry Lawler came out on to the stage and smacked Joaquin off of his chair. I'm a lover of all kinds of cinema, but I can't stand the self aggrandizement of the Hollywood celebrity. Some of these people just live in total fantasy.

Puzzlerff I've waited 3 years to review this because I wanted to give Joaquin some time alone with his journey.This movie is one the most honest films ever made hence why all the confusion. His "acting" is real, as real as anyone can be when they are in the transition time of major change.This movie is the journey Joaquin went through to find his roots so he could move forward with the life he's grown custom to. He ruthlessly and consciously confronts himself and destroys himself trying to find that one thing that used to drive him.Everything in this movie is about him feeling lost in the world that We know. You see how his life is 'now' and gradually piece together the kind of life he grew up in, finally finding the river in the woods that bring him back to nature and the natural calm he grew up in. To us, his world is crazy, but to him our world is. Well was. He journeyed back to recharge his batteries, one last hurrah before moving on with his life.He filmed the whole thing so HE could watch it, so HE could see his progress because he KNEW he was going into mental and emotional territories he'd never been in. This movie wasn't for US, it was for him. And what makes this so brilliant is him releasing it as a movie because he just got away with going "crazy" right under everyone's nose. Many celebrities go "crazy" but he noticed his coming and caught it on camera to take responsibility and tell his story how he experienced it. Releasing it gave him the ability to work through those issues on his own. This movie was a shield protecting him from the harsh criticism We put on celebrities. I think everyone can learn a lesson from this movie, largely be honest with yourself and those around you, and you will make it to where you want to go.

t_atzmueller Had this been produced before the time of the Internet and Youtube, it would have been beyond pointless. After all, who would we have needed Phoenix playing a mumbling, unpleasant and utterly untalented and unlikeable wanna-be rapper? Nobody, since people like Sascha Baron Cohen and the "Spinal Tap"-crew had done it already a long time ago. Or Eninem and Vanilla Ice.If you're into make-believe-comedy, you might ask yourself: "Hasn't Andy Kauffman done this 30+ years ago?" Yes he did; very successful and very funny. In comparison, "I'm Still Here" is neither funny nor successful. It's tedious and rather pathetic to watch. What was the point of making Phoenix look like a vagrant Jim Morrison and, in the post-MTV age, turn him into a Hip Hop artist? Casey Affleck may have watched "Being John Malkovich", but whether he learned something from this film is questionable. Taking the title from another surreal biopic, namely "I'm Not There" (about the life and times of Bob Dylan), is a dead giveaway concerning the 'wit' that has gone into this project.Who else has pulled off a similar stunt in recent years? To mind comes Sascha Baron Cohen and his Bruno/Borat personas. Again, the fundamental difference being that Cohen intends to entertain and does so successfully. "I'm Still Here" doesn't entertain - it depresses because you know it's so obviously fake and that there will be no laughs had. If Cohen tries to tickle laughter out of his audience then Phoenix is content to do exactly the opposite.But in the context of the Youtube-phenomenon, where Andy Warhol's prediction has perversely come true and everybody – bloggers, vloggers, trolls and the boy/girl who screamed "Leave Britney alone!" – are all celebrities in their own rights, the film may raise one or the other interesting question.Like this film, the internet is filled with what internet-terminology is called "fail". "Fail" implying that the joke is always on you and only a lot of self-deceit will prevent you to realize that people are not laughing with you but about you. In this dimension, celebrity isn't measured in terms of money but by the number of clicks views – and whether you're filming yourself pushing pins into your forehead or presenting the world's most awful rap-performance, in this global "Truman Show" a "fail"-video will invariably get the most views. A global "Truman Show".Take those pathetic, pointless and humiliating videos and put them together into an hour and a half long film, what you get is "I'm Still Here" – but with more celebrity gawking.If you wanted to document a broken, freakish celebrity in the public limelight, why don't you just make a movie about Michael Jackson or Punk Rocker GG Allin? It might have saved two years of Phoenixes life (not to mention his credibility, both as actor and person).Am I being too generous to give the film 2 points from 10?

contato-56-570022 Did you count how many F... Mr. I'm Still Here tells on the movie? It was hard to see it, because of the emptiness of the subject. I did not know him and from now on I will prefer to get away from such lack of culture. This is a movie for a certain kind of adolescents. Actually, this cannot be called a "movie".They ask me to write 10 lines of a review, but I cannot since I have nothing more to tell about what I saw. Better than to cote a song from Madonna: Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me I think they're okay If they don't give me proper credit I just walk away They can beg and they can plead But they can't see the light, that's right, that's right 'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash Is always Mister Right 'Cause we are living in a material world And I am a material girl You know that we are living in a material world And I am a material girl