Since the acting is up to par, and however irritating the direction may be, it is competent, it's in some ways hard to justify calling this the worst movie ever. Still I despise it with every fiber of my being.
Until "i am sam" my least favorite movie was "North." I was very young when I saw it, and I'd never before seen a movie I didn't like. I hated it and I didn't know why. This took over that position, but I know why.
The story is about a retarded man....daughter...custody...yeah yeah blah. you can read one of the other reviews for a synopsis.
Sean Penn is of course my favorite male actor along with Benicio Del Toro, and his performance is naturally brilliant. not everything has to be flawed for me to hate this movie as much as I do.
The story makes itself out to be touching but ends up being so sickeningly sweet I wanted to throw up every couple of seconds.
Take his daughter for example, the doppelganger for the Welches grape juice girl. Of course you can justify a man wanting custody of his daughter when she has the psychological identity of a thirty-year-old. she delivers each line so precociously that I have this adverse visceral reaction and I feel the urge to strangle puppies.
Sam has a fan club of other dunces, some played be real exploited disabled men and some played by Percy from "The Green Mile." The fake one's didn't convince me at all. They sounded like they were making fun of the real ones.
Every scene in this movie (I assume since I had to leave the room because I felt prone to fits of rage.) was shot from across the room zoomed in, hand-held, with a blue filter on the camera. which is a good effect in "Traffic." In "i am sam" the style just makes me want to punch my own grandmother.
The worst part about this movie is the sound of dozens of 17 year-old girls going "awwwWWWWWWW!" every eight seconds, while all the while my hands are digging into the arm rests of my chair like talons.
There is a scene in "Fight Club" where the narrator feels so resentful toward the world that he beats the most attractive man he knows until his face is destroyed all the while thinking "I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke."
I wanted the destroy Sam's daughter.
Until "i am sam" my least favorite movie was "North." I was very young when I saw it, and I'd never before seen a movie I didn't like. I hated it and I didn't know why. This took over that position, but I know why.
The story is about a retarded man....daughter...custody...yeah yeah blah. you can read one of the other reviews for a synopsis.
Sean Penn is of course my favorite male actor along with Benicio Del Toro, and his performance is naturally brilliant. not everything has to be flawed for me to hate this movie as much as I do.
The story makes itself out to be touching but ends up being so sickeningly sweet I wanted to throw up every couple of seconds.
Take his daughter for example, the doppelganger for the Welches grape juice girl. Of course you can justify a man wanting custody of his daughter when she has the psychological identity of a thirty-year-old. she delivers each line so precociously that I have this adverse visceral reaction and I feel the urge to strangle puppies.
Sam has a fan club of other dunces, some played be real exploited disabled men and some played by Percy from "The Green Mile." The fake one's didn't convince me at all. They sounded like they were making fun of the real ones.
Every scene in this movie (I assume since I had to leave the room because I felt prone to fits of rage.) was shot from across the room zoomed in, hand-held, with a blue filter on the camera. which is a good effect in "Traffic." In "i am sam" the style just makes me want to punch my own grandmother.
The worst part about this movie is the sound of dozens of 17 year-old girls going "awwwWWWWWWW!" every eight seconds, while all the while my hands are digging into the arm rests of my chair like talons.
There is a scene in "Fight Club" where the narrator feels so resentful toward the world that he beats the most attractive man he knows until his face is destroyed all the while thinking "I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke."
I wanted the destroy Sam's daughter.