Review of Paranoid Park (2007) by Tino R — 04 Oct 2010

Again, Gus Van Sant excels at hitting below mediocrity and makes yet another terrible obnoxious little piece of what he calls a movie.

I still can't believe this guy is getting any praise, I believe almost all of his work is a total waste of film reel, and all aspiring filmmakers should protest against funding such shameful excuses of films.

A film adapted from a NOVEL by the incredible Van Sant and turns it into a messy detached and unsympathetic script that was 30 pages tops, he doesn't want us to understand or feel anything, we don't even get to know that protagonist to sympathize with his guilt and feel his pain.

Directing was "experimental" which is a polite way to say uniquely amaturish, the movie was too slow paced and there were tons of scenes that just lingered there for no emotional nor storytelling purpose, too many slow-mos, especially those random shots of teenagers skateboarding.. We get it, you have a thing for teenage boys, get over it man!

Some might argue that this was art.. well, I know art, I love arthouse films, but this definitely doesn't dare to live up to arthouse standards, it's just Van Sant's way of thinking artistically, but it just fails so badly on so many levels.

I don't remember giving any movie no matter how bad it was anything below 5/10, but somehow the only 2 movies that scored lower with me were 'Elephan' and this one, so this definitely tells something...