Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Nonureva Really Surprised!

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Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

videorama-759-859391 Yeah, I know- you were expecting Trainspotting. How sorely disappointed you are. I know, it does happen in movie world. With Jackie Brown, you thought it was gonna be another Pulp Fiction. With The Acid House, you get something completely different, which will have you questioning where did the movie go. The movie you could say, is absurdly compelling, in trying to understand where the movie's coming from. Does it have a point? Running short of two hours, we have three stories, them themselves not that interesting or absorbing in that 112 minute grinding stretch. It would be hard for me, in fact, to tell you which one I like the best out of the three. We have a couple of stars from Trainspotting, which I will tell you, the third one I did like the best, but we'll get to that later. First story has an overweight teen who plays soccer. Things really go bad for him. He gets fired for playing shi.house, get kicked out by his parents and dumped by his big breasted girlfriend, oh yes, and he becomes a fly, at the hands of a god, masquerading as a bum, who even spouts "Vengeance Is Mine". On the whole, this is just a weird concept with hardly any potency. Moviong on: Story 2, I guess the real acid house which involves a squabbling young couple. The girlfriend has the hots for the new beef head who's doesn't have many brain cells left. He's just moved into the building and starts taking over the relationship in many ways. This story is comical, but the beefcake is played with a such a engaging performance, so this story doesn't count as a total loss. Now story three, involving our Spud, much more fu.ked up than in Trainspotting, supported by her girlfriend. Look, just watch it if you love Spud, as he is comically captivating. At the end of this movie, you'll be in wonderment, or stupefaction, a film slightly better enjoyed on the second view, but The Acid House sours, no Trainspotting. I found it a disappointing watch, despite it's oddity and originality which I approved of. It's just a really disappointing comedown, with no morals. This and Trainspotting are in totally different worlds, which has me thinking, was the writer on acid.

jxmakela I don't give a rat's a$$ whether the social commentary is accurate or not or what this film's "artistic sensibilities" are supposed to be. This movie is a riot. It's romp through the ugliest, most politically incorrect depths of everyone's subconscious. This film needs to be watched during a particularly bad hangover, wearing only underpants with holes in them, while eating cold pizza from the night before and sucking on your first hair-of-the-dog beer. The second segment is the best one, and also the most realistic one. A pathetic, hopeless man living a grim, hopeless life has his become accustomed to his misery, until a neighbor from hell makes his existence even more intolerable than before. This segment is definitely an allegory of every working class life.

2445-749 What I've read so far didn't persuade me. I saw the trilogy both in the German synchronization (which is btw. really very close to the original in intention, authenticity and feeling)and the original. And, I admit, I haven't read the novell yet. Nevertheless I know what I'm talking about, as I' ve thought a lot about the films and have a lot of others to compare. So, let's come to the films itself: THe red line drawn through this trilogy is a crass interruption of the life that the main roles had been living up to. Three losers, lost in their own prison, are being confronted with actually mind-/ personality- changing phenomens. There isn't (hardly) an pathos in neither of 'em and they simply describe what is being percepted by the figures. I cannot say anything about the adaption, as I haven't read the book, but the roles are performed absolutely realistic. Yeah mates, people like these guys actually exist. Except the first story, the other two are having a very deep sense ontop of the obvious ones. The stories itself are open into any direction, things happen, as they seem to need to happen. But, and this is one -propably unwanted -message, although it seems that the figures are caught in their roles, reality can change from one second to the other and nothing is as it used to be. We decide what we are! Life and the perception of it is something very weak and we just hold on to our imagination of the reality we expect! Technically the films are very interesting! There are great effects in it, camera drive is sometimes absolutely genius and there is a very strong mood to be felt watching! The music too fits perfectly into the scenes. There are some great pieces in it! The trilogy is a great piece of art and I wish that ignorance and expectations would become less to enable clear reception! Watch it if you haven't yet!

jncarr I have not read the books, so I don't have that comparison to make, but as a film I found it very interesting. It is divided up into three small stories. The first one is about some bloke who is having a bad day and is turned into a fly by god. The second is about some bloke and his missus living in a flat and the third is the most spaced out one about a guy who takes acid and exchanges bodies with a comical baby. I found this enterataining the humour was quite dark, the acting really good, I think a couple of guys from trainspotting are in it, Tommy and Spud, maybe the third story was just a little bit too long. It's different and worth a watch.