Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Wordiezett So much average

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

JohnnyLee1 Rare character-based two-hander. A cinematic Waiting For Godot. Performances were a pleasure to watch especially Emile Hirsch's. Can't say I understood the Lady character but the truck driver (to whose memory the film is dedicated) is a joy.

mccarthyedits I watched Prince Avalanche last night and thought – A bare production doesn't equate to a bare narrative. We open in a Texas State Park where many of its trees are missing due to a recent wildfire. Long takes with a hand-held and sometimes stationary camera follow two road workers. Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch) traverse the barren landscape not only trying to repair the park's roads, but also trying desperately to make an emotional connection with the outside world and each other. The bareness in production aspects; hand-held cameras, long takes, low- key score, one set location, and especially the small cast only accentuate Alvin and Lance's struggle. In such a bare and intimate mis-en-scene, the complexities of their insecurities are exposed and deeply felt. Director and Writer David Gordon Green captures a variegated palette that spans the ranges of human feeling. In Prince Avalanche scenes of human frailty and desperation harmonize with moments of ridiculous comedy that then transcend to moments of philosophical wonder.

Jay_Jay2664 You hate to give a low review but this just drags on with lame bromance discussions. So far 45 minutes in and it keeps getting worse. The high scores for this flick must be from friends and families. Long boring nature shots and frying of squirrel are the exciting parts. Sun drags to the horizon in sunset...guy walks into stream in swim trunks and boots, sits n water. Closeup of eyeball with hair dangling. Man paints shoes traffic line yellow. Guy gets dear John letter from sister of other man working with him. I' m surprised they didn't share Maxie pads! They get drunk and dump their working tools in the reveine.They want you to leave 10 line. That's five ones longer than the story. Smart boys sleep in tent with kerosene lamp burning, in a closed tent and don't even wake up with a headache.

Stefan Birgir Stefans The original film, "Á annan veg," was a nice surprise when I discovered and watched it during a red-eye flight with IcelandAir. I had never heard of it before, so even in Iceland, it's quite obscure, so I found it a little weird that it was being remade in Hollywood.This remake is in most parts a carbon-copy of the original with the Icelandic dialog translated into English, but that's not really a bad thing. It's interesting to see the story in a different, but eerily the exact same, place. There are really only three characters in the whole movie: the adult man, the young man and the truck driver. I prefer Paul Rudd to most actors any day of the week, so he wins, and Emile Hirsch was fine as the young man; however, I kinda liked the truck driver better in the original version, because there, he had this strange "I surely am a sex offender" vibe, which is lacking here. It just gave him a little more personality.All in all, a good watch. Simple story, but interesting and slightly better than the original because of the Rudd-factor.