I Love Your Work (2004)

What exactly is the plot here???

This movie was painful to watch at times. The main guy seems pretty cool, but his wife in the movie is, well.. it's just unbelievable that she's supposed to be a movie star's wife - she's flat chested and has a big butt, not to mention ugly. And she's really annoying and has some BS accent. The sound levels are totally screwed up - channels aren't mixed right, I found myself straining to hear one minute, and then blasted with sound the next, esp when when music was mixed in. I felt like I was on a miracle ear commercial asking my wife "what did he just say?" And I have otherwise perfect hearing. Overall the "film" is totally shallow and a strained effort to make a clever movie with alot of pretentious B-movie grade ideas. It would be like what would happen if a 5th grader whose father is a bigtime director wrote a script and his father directed and cast it. It's just dumb and poorly executed with good acting and decent cinematography. Did I mention how bad the sound was?? It's very rare that I stop watching a movie partway through, as the last movie that I stopped watching partway through was 'The Man' with Samuel L Jackson, to give you an idea of how high my tolerance for pain really is. And whoo-hoo, people do drugs in the movie!! Wow!! I've never seen anyone do drugs before, and something like that just blows away the average 13 year old from Provo. So totally cutting edge with the drug scenes...and there's boobs, too!! Yee-ha!! Boobs!! I gave it 2 stars b/c the acting is OK and Elvis Costello made a cameo. April 2, 2007

Ya'll peep is crazy

This was one of the best movie I've seen all year. Guliana Rabissi (sp?) is PHENOMINAL. People giving this movie low ratings must not understand the complex, multi-demintional plot. The acting is excellent, the cinematography is capticating. I rarely purchase DVD's, but I bought this one because of how much it touched me. It's a remarkable piece of art. February 23, 2007

Ennui would be a kind descriptor

Clocking in at just under two hours, I LOVE YOUR WORK leaves the viewer feeling as though from the opening sequence that stones have been tied to your feet and your body thrown into the very deep and dank water to slowly settle into the mud at the bottom. Sound dreary? Then avoid this little mess of a film.

It is hard to believe that Adrian Butchart who is giving us the radiant GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS trilogy could help write this script: one wonders if writer/director Adam Goldberg didn't just bring him in for help. The story is tired (small time guy gives up love for a career as a movie star with all the accessories of money, fame, celeb status, gorgeous wife, etc. only to find life in its simpler fashion was preferable) and the choices of casting this very dark and dreary tale are inappropriate. Giovanni Ribisi, superb an actor though he most assuredly is, simply is not credible as a movie star sex symbol whose stardom is accompanied by alcoholism, self hate, paranoia, fragmented thinking, and bad decisions. The only time we see anything vaguely suggestive of his ability to create a role is in the many flashback scenes (with girlfriend Christina Ricci): his on screen chemistry with his famous wife Mia (the enormously talented Franka Potente who here is wasted in a mannequin's role) is nil, and his interplay with such actors as Vince Vaughn, Marisa Coughlan, Judy Greer, Shalom Harlow, Joshua Jackson, Jason Lee, and Elvis Costello is unilateral.

Goldberg films this boring redundant tale using all manner of artsy camera tricks that only serve to make the tedium increase. With a cast like this the product had promise. Goldberg needs some time to think about this phase of his career. Grady Harp, November 06
November 8, 2006

It had potential; I'll give it that

The last time I saw the names "Adam Goldberg" and "Giovanni Ribisi" together, they were two American Soldiers who perished while trying to save a certain Private Ryan.

Goldberg co-wrote and directed this contemporary psychological drama that has all the ingredients for a great finale but gets left in the oven too long. At times towards the end I was thinking it could have been something perhaps similar to "Memento" or something of that nature. What this film gives you is a plethora of cross analyzing ideas meshed with real time parallels, that ultimately bogs down in a mosh of messy execution. Some of the biggest points and profound themes that it spends so much time getting to in a bizarre and confusingly intricate way are so simplistic they leave you yawning. Despite a stellar cast that besides Rabisi also features Jason Lee, Christina Ricci, Vince Vaughn, Haylie Duff and Elvis Costello, it gets to far out of the main points of what it is trying to convey.

Rabisi stars as Gray Evans, a movie star actor who is having marital trouble. Gray starts thinking amid his days of working on the set, going through fan email, and getting bugged by people, that a fan is stalking him. Relentless in his obsession of this belief, he starts obsessing about others around him. Great ideas here but then the film basically spends too much time zigzagging around to all the different characters and locales. We understand that Gray seems to have a connection with a film grad who is also a fan and is suspected by him at one time, of being the stalker, but by the time 100 minutes roles by it gets to the point of not caring. The ideas are there, I just feel it was a bit over ambitious in the portrayal of it all. The sections that are supposed to be psychological really come off more like psycho confusing, and the parts that are to be rewarding in tying up loose ends towards the films finish end up falling flat.

If you like Independent films, or want to try something different, by all means give it a try. I don't see it as being something I would watch again, or have in my collection for killing time on a Sunday afternoon with. November 5, 2006

I don't know about this one

I really don't know about this one. It started out really interesting but just fell off in the end. It was really wierd, because I really went from one end of the spectrum to the other. I really like it to I really don't? After a while it kinda got all artsy and confusing. Maybe it was suppose to , but I think that the guy making this film wanted you to think too much. Could have been alot better if it explained more. It was alright. October 5, 2006

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