Review of The Canyons (2013) by Matthew S — 05 Aug 2013
Just five things that came to my head after watching "The Canyons":
1. This was not as bad as everyone made it out to be.
2. This was (laughably so) not as graphic as everyone made it out to be.
3. This is not amazing, like Bret Easton Ellis made it out to be.
4. Bret Easton Ellis needs to spend less time on Twitter dissing Paul Thomas Anderson, Aaron Sorkin, and David Foster Wallace and learn to write dialogue and scenes that either (a) did not happen to him or (b) did not happen in his wet-dream fantasies.
5. Paul Schrader . . . and you, too, have the gaul to throw verbal abuse Coppolla's way for "not making a good movie in over twenty years" when you are just describing yourself, and "The Canyons" is yet another piece of evidence.
Awful acting, casting, dialogue, characters and the only redeeming thing is the cinematography and despite the solid series of wide-angled shots of a deserted cityscape that start the movie, the movie then engages in a crime of doing little more than what looks to be a polishing up of an episode of "The Hills".
This review of The Canyons (2013) was written by Matthew S on 05 Aug 2013.
The Canyons has generally received negative reviews.
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