Brett (William Hurt) has just gotten out of prison after a 6 year sentence. He makes his way south along the Mississippi towards New Orleans after running into two strangers, Martine (Kristen Stewart) and Gordy (Eddie Redmayne). Martine is a teenage girl with teenage problems. Gordy has supposedly been wandering for quite sometime now. He's awkward and slow, but not as slow as Lennie Small. Both of them are intrigued by Brett whose story is told by a few flashbacks and eventually through Brett's own words.
102 minutes later, I was the first to the door. I felt cheated. Ripped off. I want my $15.50 back. Or at least a glass of scotch to wash down the nasty aftertaste. (By the way, there aren't many theaters with a bar, but this one had two! That's Hollywood I guess.) I wanted to duck into The Crazies, which was starting in 15 minutes next door. I felt I deserved some zombie action after sitting through zombie-like inaction. The story is excruciatingly slow. Even when it supposedly picks up and the action starts it's slow. SLOW. It got bad enough for me that I was hoping a vampire and a butt-naked werewolf would start fighting over Martine.
So what did I like? Having "yellow" in the title, the movie did use the color well. Well, the color yellow did make its appearance several times in the movie. Every time there was a happy moment, yellow would jump out among the contrasting dull colors. I thought this was a clever visual technique to shed some "sunshine" on the otherwise dull lives of the characters.
Men: The Yellow Handkerchief. Don't watch it. Blow your nose in it. Rated Chick.
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102 minutes later, I was the first to the door. I felt cheated. Ripped off. I want my $15.50 back. Or at least a glass of scotch to wash down the nasty aftertaste. (By the way, there aren't many theaters with a bar, but this one had two! That's Hollywood I guess.) I wanted to duck into The Crazies, which was starting in 15 minutes next door. I felt I deserved some zombie action after sitting through zombie-like inaction. The story is excruciatingly slow. Even when it supposedly picks up and the action starts it's slow. SLOW. It got bad enough for me that I was hoping a vampire and a butt-naked werewolf would start fighting over Martine.
So what did I like? Having "yellow" in the title, the movie did use the color well. Well, the color yellow did make its appearance several times in the movie. Every time there was a happy moment, yellow would jump out among the contrasting dull colors. I thought this was a clever visual technique to shed some "sunshine" on the otherwise dull lives of the characters.
Men: The Yellow Handkerchief. Don't watch it. Blow your nose in it. Rated Chick.
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