I saw this last night and I was going to praise it to the sky straight after seeing it , but it was 2.30 am in the morning , I was tired so I decided to review GO the next day . Now that I`ve had some sleep I`m starting to ask myself why I liked it so much because I can hardly remember a thing about it
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GO is PULP FICTION for the MTV generation . It`s the same story told from three different viewpoints , the viewpoints from Ronna , Simon and a couple of gay actors called Adam & Zack but the more I think about the story from memory less than 24 hours after seeing it the more it falls apart , I didn`t have this problem with PULP FICTION . Correct me if I`m wrong but isn`t there something wrong with the time frame here ? After Ronna leaves Adam & Zack`s house , sells the drugs while Adam & Zack are having Christmas dinner and having Adam & Zack turn up at the club only to have them run her over there seems to be a time descrepincy , not to mention the ridiculous coincidence of being run over by two characters she met earlier the same . There`s another scene of ridiculous coincidence of having Simon turn up at drug dealer`s Todd`s house where some mafia types from Las Vegas Simon has upset are waiting for him . Couldn`t Simon have phoned Todd instead of turning up at the house ? This also leads to a scene I disliked of the Vegas mafia giving Simon a sore arm . Come on you p*ss off the mafia and they just give you a flesh wound ? Has no one seen GOODFELLAS then ?
There are a few amusing moments in John August`s script but much of the credit for making GO an entertaining film belongs to director Doug Liman . However it should be pointed out that much of this success is down to a great soundtrack and it`s the easiest thing in film making to use a soundtrack to give a scene impact . Todd tells Ronna to lift up her blouse to make sure she`s not wired by cops , Todd turns up the sound of his CD player and Angel by Massive Attack explodes onto the sound system as the camera spins 360 degrees around Ronna a few times . Great scene , but one that is very easy to achieve . Liman also makes good use of tracks by Leftfield and Fatboy Slim
I do remember enjoying GO at the time but I`m convinced that it`s a shallow film , and it wasn`t untill I looked up their profiles on this site that I found out Liman directed THE BOURNE IDENTITY while August wrote the screenplay to the CHARLIE`S ANGELS movies . This lends even more weight to my conviction
!!!! SPOILERS !!!!
GO is PULP FICTION for the MTV generation . It`s the same story told from three different viewpoints , the viewpoints from Ronna , Simon and a couple of gay actors called Adam & Zack but the more I think about the story from memory less than 24 hours after seeing it the more it falls apart , I didn`t have this problem with PULP FICTION . Correct me if I`m wrong but isn`t there something wrong with the time frame here ? After Ronna leaves Adam & Zack`s house , sells the drugs while Adam & Zack are having Christmas dinner and having Adam & Zack turn up at the club only to have them run her over there seems to be a time descrepincy , not to mention the ridiculous coincidence of being run over by two characters she met earlier the same . There`s another scene of ridiculous coincidence of having Simon turn up at drug dealer`s Todd`s house where some mafia types from Las Vegas Simon has upset are waiting for him . Couldn`t Simon have phoned Todd instead of turning up at the house ? This also leads to a scene I disliked of the Vegas mafia giving Simon a sore arm . Come on you p*ss off the mafia and they just give you a flesh wound ? Has no one seen GOODFELLAS then ?
There are a few amusing moments in John August`s script but much of the credit for making GO an entertaining film belongs to director Doug Liman . However it should be pointed out that much of this success is down to a great soundtrack and it`s the easiest thing in film making to use a soundtrack to give a scene impact . Todd tells Ronna to lift up her blouse to make sure she`s not wired by cops , Todd turns up the sound of his CD player and Angel by Massive Attack explodes onto the sound system as the camera spins 360 degrees around Ronna a few times . Great scene , but one that is very easy to achieve . Liman also makes good use of tracks by Leftfield and Fatboy Slim
I do remember enjoying GO at the time but I`m convinced that it`s a shallow film , and it wasn`t untill I looked up their profiles on this site that I found out Liman directed THE BOURNE IDENTITY while August wrote the screenplay to the CHARLIE`S ANGELS movies . This lends even more weight to my conviction