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Masked and Anonymous

Bob Dylan (Actor), John Goodman (Actor), Larry Charles (Director) | Format: DVD
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)

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Surprisingly good; Dylan fans add a star May 22 2004
Format:DVD
I'm not even going to attempt to describe this movie in any detail, it is too rich. You don't have to "get" Dylan in the first place to appreciate this movie, but it helps a lot. It is good for the same reasons Dylan's songs are; but you need a lot fewer fans to make a successful record than to make a successful movie. A million CDs sold is quite a success; a million tickets sold for a Hollywood film is a miserable failure.


The music is great, the acting is excellent, and the scenery and stock footage paint fascinating pictures; and the plot, while minimal, is quite enough to make the movie work. On its own terms, a big success; ignore the bad reviews and watch with an open mind.

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IT IS WORTH A WATCHING Jun 7 2004
Format:DVD
I've been a Dylan fan since the early 60's, when I was in diapers.
As popular or unpopular it has been over the years. If I've got some Dylan playing and you don't like it, leave!

I saw this at the video store, thought I'd give it a shot. Lots of famous folks, to round off a great cast of support.

From the beginning you can tell the script is pulled from almost every Dylan song imaginable. So it's more of a film then a movie.

My question is: Are all these actors acting so horrible to make Bob look good? Please don't anyone say he's a great actor?
It is a fun movie to watch, again someday.
Dylan play's some traditional music that sets the movie up a few notches.

Over all a 3 star movie, not because of Bob playing a tough guy, lmao!!

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Dylan as Virgil in the inferno of postmodern society April 30 2004
Format:DVD
This is a an ambitious film. It is dense with metaphor and allusion throughout, and I was left feeling that I comprehended a mere fraction. Repeated viewings would doubtless be rewarding, and I plan to watch it again, preferably with folks who know more about the history of the blues. Dylan is the "simple" bard making his way through an apocalyptic society torn by dictatorship, corruption, and civil war -- a contemporary Hell. (The sets have a prescient and eerie resemblance to footage coming out of Iraq.) If Dylan is Virgil, it is by virtue of the songs themselves, poetic ballads that address the profound questions, yet whose significance, as Dylan comments at the end of the film, remains in the eyes of the beholder. Hearing the songs covered by other artists provides a fresh window on their brilliance, and there is a little girl who will break your heart with her georgeously-phrased a cappella version of "The Times They Are A-Changin'." There are also some spectacular Pynchon-like stream of consciousness monologues by a cadre of talented actors on various themes, often punctuated at the end by a cryptic/irreverent/oracular comment from Dylan. I was entertained by the juxtaposition of silly humor, which in some instances resonated with the more nuanced literary points, such as the leopard joke ("What did the monkey say to the leopard at the card game? I thought you were a cheetah.")which nevertheless evokes the leopard Dante encounters in the first canto of The Inferno. And unlike some other reviewers, I found Dylan's acting pretty natural, and got the sense he actually did lay it on the line with respect to his personal viewpoint. This is not to say the film is a total success -- but rather even where it veers into obscure digression and fails to engage the audience, it fails nobly by aspiring to be all that film can be.
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"...And you can't com-pre-hend a word that I say..."
If conservative talk show hosts wanted a target for the inanity of Hollywood's political beliefs, they'd do well to rent Bob Dylan's "Masked and Anonymous. Read more
Published on April 26 2004 by Samuel McKewon
Buy the music not the movie.
I love dylan, he is a great song writer and I listen to his music more than I probably should. However the movie is a waste of talent. Read more
Published on April 19 2004
My New Favorite Movie
Many an intelectual would probably argue that this movie was not written with the liberal media or mainstream audience in mind and that is why it failed to connect with either. Read more
Published on April 10 2004 by Nicky Lee
Worth A Look
This film is full of good ideas - sadly they never come together. However, there's enough interesting content to warrant a look if you're into Bob Dylan, experimental films,... Read more
Published on April 9 2004
Love the music hate the movie
Perhaps this will help some folks who are considering this movie. I understood the premise just fine, but the awful dialog and sincere but pathetic acting (John Goodman seems like... Read more
Published on April 6 2004
Put on your leopard skin pill box thinking cap
What a great film. It has many layers, and I am sure will reveal even more with each seperate viewing.It looks to have a bibical under-tone running throughout as a theme. Read more
Published on April 6 2004 by R. CROSBY
30 or more years too late!
Many people watching this film will not really know what they are looking at. Especially if they are of a post Baby-boom generation. Read more
Published on April 3 2004 by R. CROSBY
What do you mean- you don't "get it"?
One ticket- $6.50, One pop-corn- $4.75, One Coke- $4.00. Being the only person in the only theatre in town to run the movie... PRICELESS! Read more
Published on April 3 2004 by Jim Berrier
A Movie Filled With Powerful Symbolic Images
The movie is sometimes hard to understand and that is why there has been so much negative views on it, but really the film plays out like a piece of literature. Read more
Published on April 3 2004 by Kaya R. Savas
Wonderful
This film will interest, move and fascinate anyone who can appreciate bob dylan's art. If you've come to some basic understanding of how to interpret the man's songs, this movie... Read more
Published on Mar 28 2004 by "jps_37"
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