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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rated by buyers R (Restricted)
Type of bind: DVD
EAN num: 0786936230215
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Miramax Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 25534
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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From the groundbreaking director of GOOD WILL HUNTING and FINDING FORRESTER, GERRY stars Academy Award(R) winner Matt Damon (Best Original Screenplay, GOOD WILL HUNTING, 1997; THE BOURNE IDENTITY, OCEAN num'S ELEVEN) and Casey Affleck (OCEAN num'S ELEVEN, SOUL SURVIVORS) in a suspenseful and highly provocative story of two men pushed to the limit! A pair of best friends (Affleck and Damon), who've nicknamed each other 'Gerry,' set out on a desert hike. But what begins as a simple daytime adventure turns into an intense life-and-death journey that will test the strength of human endurance and ultimately, their friendship! Written by Damon, Affleck, and Director Gus Van Sant, this uncommonly compelling and starkly visualized film is a must-see motion picture that has earned the overwhelming praise of critics nationwide!
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In Gerry, two young men (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) wander beautiful, barren, and surreal landscapes, gradually growing more and more lost. This film from Gus Van Sant (director of Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, and Good Will Hunting) has no story, hardly any dialogue, and even less in the way of 'action' or 'events.' Yet the movie is by turns maddening and hypnotic; although few people will agree on which are the maddening scenes and which are the hypnotic ones, you will leave Gerry with one or more stunning images in your head. In fact, Gerry is probably more pleasurable to remember than it is to sit through. Committed performances, flashes of dark humor, and a smattering of visual effects give the movie some shape, but the more you just surrender to the emptiness of the landscape, the more rewarding Gerry will be. --Bret Fetzer
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Gus Van Sant's film 'Gerry' stars Casey Affleck and Matt Damon as two pals who happily wander off on a short desert hike and become hopelessly lost in an ever more bleak and hostile landscape. A sense of plodding doom eases in from the edges of the frame and soon envelopes them in a nightmare of trudging drudgery and waning hope.
Van Sant manipulates on screen silence and long tracking shots the way Chopin fashioned a nocturne, stillness and space become as important as exposition and dialog.
The film is a masterwork of minimalism and an acknowledgment of the thin veil hanging between the comforts of our everyday existence and the propinquity of abject loss and creeping torpor.
Another of Van Sant's great `Silent Suite' films, stories where Van Sant allows a scene to play out with a sort of overt quietness. A lack of dialog that becomes oppressive in it's absence and often conveys great visceral meaning when coupled with the long, unobtrusive, tracking shots favored by Mister Van Sant.
'Gerry' successfully tells the story of two friends who start out on what they, foolishly and tragically believe, is going to be just another uneventful day.
In 'Gerry' Van Sant does for `uneventful' what Hitchcock did for the shower.
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if you are reading this then you have probably seen the other reviews. what can i say that hasn't been said? anybody who gives this movie 5 stars is insane. this movie is bad. I can't even describe how boring it is. it's on its own level. destroy this film. this movie IS TORTURE.
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Considering that at least 20 minutes of the movie is taken up walking... walking....walking.....Just trudjing along trying to find their way out of that vast expanse. The dialogue is minimal and the plot boring. What were Matt Damon and Casey Affleck thinking of when they wrote this movie? What was Gus Van Zant thinking?
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"Gerry" is 103 minutes of *total waste of time*. Life is too short to throw time away like that. I'm thinking the film was a private joke among Van Sant, Affleck, and Damon ... they got drunk one night and decided to make the crappiest film possible dressed up to appear artsy to see if it would win praise or even make some money.
What's really a shame is that everyone who worked on this film wasted far more than 103 minutes. I wonder if any of them look back and wish they could have spent all of that time in some other way. I would have been terribly upset if I'd seen the film in a theater, held captive with no way to spare myself the waste. At least I "watched" it at home and was able to work on some tasks and look up once every 5 minutes to see what was happening with the film ... without missing a thing !
Every single scene is 5-10 times longer than necessary. The videography is not good enough to sustain such a slow pace, and at times the visuals are so obvious that the film appears to be the project of an overly-ambitious film school freshman. The dialogue is inane, I kept thinking "Dude, where's my car ?" while listening to the excruciating meaningless banter between Affleck and Damon. Realism was severely lacking. And as the film dragged on I found myself wishing that the Gerrys would just collapse and die and put as all out of our misery.
I nominate "Gerry" for the worst film ever made ! Ever.
Want to watch a really masterful slow-paced film ? Try "Day Night Day Night" directed by Julia Loktev.
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This movie about two friends getting lost in the desert is interesting and boring at the same time. The scenery and videography are beautiful and well done. The scenes can be very boring and slow moving, yet you can't stop watching because you need to know what happens in the end.
Two men are walking through the desert, very little diaglogue, with very slow piano music in the background. It was almost too much to take. If it hadn't been for the good acting and beautiful landscape, I probably would have been bored to the point that I would have turned it off. As it was, I watched it to the end and was glad to have finished it.
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