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Full Frontal

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this is a movie in a movie inside of a movie(what the **it) some good acting with David Hyde Pierce, Nicky Katt and David Duchovny but the others are wasted. Soderbergh is a great director but this one feels funky and wrong. a nice cameo appereance though by Brad Pitt. otherwise dont waste your time with this one people, seeing it one is good enough for me

This is what they must show in the Ninth Circle of Hell. The thing may appear deeply intellectual only to someone under 16, all those who have outgrown their pimples should know better. Bad acting abounds, with Blair Underwood being particularly unwatchable. Soderbergh is way overrated and has never been a favorite (O.K., videotape was fine, Traffic and Ocean's Eleven were adequate remakes of perfectly good originals, the rest is, hm...Lifetime quality), but Full Frontal is in another league...or circle.

This is the kind of thing they make film and acting students watch. The idea is to show how much you can accomplish on a shoestring, with the actors encouraged to improvise. Despite the emphasis on craft, the actors come across as playing themselves. David Duchovny is bored; Katherine Keener is beautiful but arrogant; Blair Underwood is just arrogant and so on.

What this actually shows is how you can take some of the hottest actors in the world and make a self-absorbed and spectacularly dull movie. Woody Allen might have been able to breathe some life into this. Maybe.

How dull? I rented Full Frontal along with Jackass. Hard to say which was more painful.

this movie is entertaining and the dvd does it justice. no extraordinary features wowed me, but they were as insightful as you'd expect from the makers of a creative flick like this. david hyde pierce is always a pleasure. here, he taught me the use of drinking from the bottle. no, that's actually a lame thing to say. drinking blood, though, that's a riot.

If this movie has any redeeming value it's in curing me of any desire to see another Hollywood expose again. I should have remembered it from my days as a Theatre major but for the record - actors are boring, directors are boring, most movie people sit around doing nothing in order to get ten minutes of footage put together. Even if these people aren't boring, they aren't nearly as interesting as their characters on screen.

And Soderbergh really captures the dullness of Hollywood living as these characters go about their lives, reading their scenes, making the adjustments to their personal lives that personal trainers and therapy allows for. There are about 5 different storylines going through this movie but they have one thing in common - they are all forgettable. In fact I remember snippets like feeding the dog marijuana brownies or the divorce letter that never gets sent. I find myself realizing why David Duchovny wasn't a major star before <b>The X-Files</b>. He might be hilarious on the talk shows, but his understated droll delivery only works if he's talking about alien conspiracies. If he's talking about anything else you just want to nod off and take a nap.

Buy this movie only if you want to torture your friends. Ten minutes into this thing I was feeling the slow weight of ennui creep over me. I couldn't move. I didn't want anything but a nap. If there are people that watched this thing all at once they are better folks than me. This movie makes Merchant Ivory movies look like action movies in comparison.

...that I lacked the smarts, intellectuality, sophistication and suavity to cotton on to this aimless, plotless, anchorless and senseless flick. I guess you just have to be inside Hollywood heads to understand this parody of same. Us regular folks just aren't with it. How, indeed, that saddens me (not).

Apparently the script, sound equipment and several cameras were lost on the way to the set of this dull film.

I imagine the director telling his actors: "More mumbling--more mumbling! I nearly understood some of the dialogue in the last take!" Then he turned to his cameraman and told him to slop another jar of vaseline on the lens.

I could put up with some of the pretentious art-school escapades of this movie if the story was worth following, but there IS no story. A bunch of LA people with direct and tangenital ties to the entertainment business wander along for two hours--that's the story. Woopee.

The one and only redeeming thing in this meandering piece of junk is the veterinarian who comes to check out David Hyde Pierce's sick dog and sticks around to eat hash brownies. I don't know who the actress is, but she is a breath of fresh air in the midst of this smelly waste of time.

Has to be the worst movie i have ever bought on DVD, and i own over 400 titles. I kept waiting for it to get better, but it just got worse. Why these stars would waste their time and ours is beyond me. I wish I could go back in time and never purchase and therefore not watch this poor excuse for a movie, I would. You would think with the star line-up, it would be better, but it's not. Please don't buy this unless you need a gift for someone you hate! Trust me, it is soooo bad!

Interesting ideas regarding the movie's structure, some good acting, but ultimately - very VERY boring. The fact that the actors had to apply their make up themselves just doesnt make it worth seeing (unless you need some sleep). The actors seem to enjoy this, I guess because they had complete freedom . If you want to see a movie that was actually 'written' and 'directed' go somewhere else. Finally, to quote Barton Fink : this movie "...regresses to empty formalism".

Coleman Hough's words are witty and incisive, and delivered with brilliance by the strong actors in this piece. I couldn't get enough of David Hyde Pierce's character, and the Hitler scenes are ridiculous. I felt like a fly on the wall during filming of a movie, especially during the scenes in Julia Roberts' characters' trailer.