Prince Avalanche - thumbs down (Warner, script, scene, comedy)

[Giesela]

I like slice of life movies and I like Paul Rudd and know he doesn't always do comedy, so when I read some initial descriptions months ago I made mental note to keep an eye out it.
Its now on Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand as an either same day release to pre-release movie for 6.99.

Sorry to say I just thought it went nowhere. Even though I don't particularly like Emile Hirsch(?) I thought it was well acted, production values were ok (my way of saying it didn't look cheap) but the number of long shots of trees and fields with weird music, the two actors with zero dialog, the story that really didn't seem o have anything to say. Don't know what happened to this thing but somewhere they lost focus or direction or something.

One of the few movies I kept thinking, i don't need to keep watching, this is just........absolutely flat. I did finish but there was no sense of reward at all. Just entropy.

[SeaOfGrass]

We just watched this movie last night. We thought there was a big twist in it that made it *much* more interesting and made you think more carefully about everything they were saying and everything that was happening. I haven't seen any mention of this twist in the viewers' reviews or critics' reviews that I've read.

Do NOT read this spoiler if you intend to watch the movie:

Spoiler

At the beginning of the movie, some text comes onscreen telling us about the wildfires in Texas that year, of all the damage it caused, including the deaths of four people. If you'll notice, until the very end, there are only four characters in the whole movie; Alvin, Lance, the old man in the truck, and the old woman who lost her home. They are the four people who died in the fire. (The people at the end of the movie cutting down the trees and performing cleanup are living. They exist after the other four have died. You see Alvin and Lance drive by them in the last scene, but the other people don't even look up. It's because Alvin and Lance are "ghosts," so they're not really in the same "dimension."

That was our interpretation, anyway. Does anyone else agree?

[California831]

Soooo boring.