Reviews of Girl Walks Into a Bar 2011
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this was so much better than i was expecting it to be. i watched for rosario, but everyone was impressive. the interconnected stories genre has become way too saturated with crap flicks, but this was new and different. also, i’m kind of in love with the poster.
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This is one of those "one crazy night" movies with an ensemble cast. It's a collection of scenes that are supposed to connect into a narrative story of money, crime, dancing, and intrigue, only the connective tissue is secondary to the navel gazing philosophical soliloquies that brings many scenes to a halt. If you think good-looking young actors and actresses make things watchable then by all means check this out- there are plenty. There's a sequence where there could have…
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I love netflix because I've been able to see films that I would of never seen before. The downside to this is all the bad movies that I have watched and would of never watched before. This is one of those movies. It's only an hour and twenty minutes and it still goes on too long. It's the kind of movie that is filled with characters who speak with such clever and witty dialogue but the problem is that it all sounds so false, like they are just reading a cleverly written screenplay.
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Gugino stands out in a well-cast series of chatty vignettes. Cool idea, half-realized.
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Considering the array of talent on show this is a dreadful and dull so-called comedy. Whilst the dialogue at times is impressive there are no engaging characters and the intertwining stories are throwaway.
It's a good job this is an internet and US-only movie.
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Dodge: All words have double meanings, even the littlest of ones. That's why you can't trust words, Henry.
B+
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I figured with a cast like this one the movie has to be good. It was alright, I just felt like it ended to soon and they could of done so much more with it. They seem to just make a simple solution to wrap up the story, like the dentist who wanted his wife killed, he confessed to her and she forgave him...really?
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Baarikierroksella tapahtuu.
Vahvoja dialogeja ilman syvempää tarkoitusta. Carla Gugino on milf.
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(NET) A series of scenes in bars. Some work dramatically, some just lay there. Many contain really ugly caricatures of people. Most have something to do with how poorly women are treated by misogynistic predators.
There are a few gems in there. Zachary Quinto is suitably nervous and amusing as a dentist who wants his wife killed, but then has to assist in a robbery. Carla Gugino is sexy and commanding as a former cop who ties together most of…
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Review from my VOD column "This Week on Demand".
An interesting example of changing distribution trends, Girl Walks Into a Bar’s PR people excessively pushed the film as the “First Major Motion Picture Created Specifically for Web Distribution”; presented by Lexus, the film premiered exclusively on YouTube in 2011, viewable in full or in ten shorter sequences more befitting of online viewing habits. This distribution-tailored production is the film’s greatest drawback, its necessarily episodic manner doing the narrative a disservice…
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Sāku skatīties pilnīgi neko nezinot par šo filmu. Vispār jau man patīk stāsts stāstā, stāsti, kas savijas kopā, svešinieki, kas tā vai citādi ir saistīti. Te vēl klāt Amerikas bāru un striptīzkluba atmosfēra, asprātīga ideja par nūdistu galda tenisa klubu un kriminālā intriga. Labs kokteilis, visās malās neatskatīti aktieri. Šur tur var pasmieties, bet te nav tādi joki, ko tev smērē sejā, vairāk tāds viegls melnais humors un ironija. Tikai vietām sižets šķita par saraustītu un atstāja neatbildētus jautājumus.