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8 1/2
Ray Hunley Netflix DVD 25 September 2005

I was really looking forward to giving this film 0 stars and writing a review slamming dorks who fawn over Fellini because they were told to in film class. It wasn't that bad though - a few interesting scenes, well-filmed, well-acted - particularly Marcello Mastroianni as the charmingly buffoonish Guido,. Yeah, I get it, it's a film about Fellini's frustration at not being able to complete a film; it's a brutally honest self-portrait; it's got SELF-REFERENCE and DREAM SEQUENCES; Fellini loved women, blah freakin' blah. I get it, I just don't care. The insights are as shallow as the characters, and the story is just this side of wearisome, so what's the freakin' point?

8 Mile
Steve Gadd Basic Cable 07 April 2005

I thought that one of VH1's "Movies That Rock" would provide a bit of music as I worked on the computer. Instead, there was hardly any music to be heard, probably so the viewer can better imagine a violin to accompany the sob story of Marshall Mathers' youth.