Finally got to see it last night...what did you guys think? I tried searching the board but it errors out past 2 months.
My thoughts:
- The effect of the music was a nice touch. Everytime it started to annoy me, I got a taste of what was going on inside of Barry's head.
- Until Barry said "I want to smash your face with a brick and call you beautiful" (or something like that), I had totally forgotten that I was watching Adam Sandler.
- The chase scene from the ATM machine was brilliant - both really intense and really funny.
- Loved Barry dancing in the store when he finally thinks he has one-upped the world.
- I think the "piano" = Lena. They both arrived on the scene at the same time. When Barry met Lena (officially), he could not play it. At the very end, when he has learned how to love Lena, he has also learned how to play the "piano". He even took it with him to her apartment when he went to apologize...from that point on, he just got better at both playing it and loving her.
Questions:
1. How did Barry know to call information for D&D Mattresses? He called the phone-sex place back and was transferred to Mattress Man. Mattress Man didn't answer the phone with, "Hello, D&D Mattresses." They should have put the commercial from the special features in the movie, so Barry could see it and figure out who he talked to on the phone.
2. What happened to the van that flipped during the first scene? You saw 2 vans...1 flipped...then 1 dropped off the "piano". Were we just seeing what Barry "saw"?
3. Speaking of the "piano", what symbolism do you think the white semi-truck played? It almost ran over the "piano" when Barry picked it up and it also followed Barry and Lena when they exited the restaurant.
I need to watch it again - there are so many things that I am sure I have missed (the art gets in the way of the first viewing)...and some that I want to explore further. For example, I think the color of Barry's tie (really, the only wardrobe item that ever changed) was symbolic of his attitude for that day.
All in all, I give it 3.25 stars out of 5. I think it might go up a little (maybe to 3.75) after further viewing.
[This message has been edited by bikerack (edited 7/1/2003 9:49a).]
My thoughts:
- The effect of the music was a nice touch. Everytime it started to annoy me, I got a taste of what was going on inside of Barry's head.
- Until Barry said "I want to smash your face with a brick and call you beautiful" (or something like that), I had totally forgotten that I was watching Adam Sandler.
- The chase scene from the ATM machine was brilliant - both really intense and really funny.
- Loved Barry dancing in the store when he finally thinks he has one-upped the world.
- I think the "piano" = Lena. They both arrived on the scene at the same time. When Barry met Lena (officially), he could not play it. At the very end, when he has learned how to love Lena, he has also learned how to play the "piano". He even took it with him to her apartment when he went to apologize...from that point on, he just got better at both playing it and loving her.
Questions:
1. How did Barry know to call information for D&D Mattresses? He called the phone-sex place back and was transferred to Mattress Man. Mattress Man didn't answer the phone with, "Hello, D&D Mattresses." They should have put the commercial from the special features in the movie, so Barry could see it and figure out who he talked to on the phone.
2. What happened to the van that flipped during the first scene? You saw 2 vans...1 flipped...then 1 dropped off the "piano". Were we just seeing what Barry "saw"?
3. Speaking of the "piano", what symbolism do you think the white semi-truck played? It almost ran over the "piano" when Barry picked it up and it also followed Barry and Lena when they exited the restaurant.
I need to watch it again - there are so many things that I am sure I have missed (the art gets in the way of the first viewing)...and some that I want to explore further. For example, I think the color of Barry's tie (really, the only wardrobe item that ever changed) was symbolic of his attitude for that day.
All in all, I give it 3.25 stars out of 5. I think it might go up a little (maybe to 3.75) after further viewing.
[This message has been edited by bikerack (edited 7/1/2003 9:49a).]