Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Jacknife92 Yeah, I get it. The idea of a lonely, troubled man residing in and briefly comforting equally tormented, needy women. Using them fleetingly, as they use him for their own comfort - like they might a (brown) bunny with its short lifespan. I get it.Credit too to Gallo for playing an exposing role, showing fragility, awkwardness and a grieving longing. Although restrained, he plays it well. But the man himself is such an unpleasant person. He criticises his peers by calling them pigs all the time, going on to make psychological presumptions about them. He even wished cancer upon Roger Ebert for giving him a bad review for this very film. He craves being avant-garde, he loves being hated and controversial - an edgy and potentially challenging figure. Aggravating the status-quo if you will. All this is evident in the film with the long takes, the fumbling dialogue, the unusual, unconventional angles, the extended soundtrack pieces. The substance behind this film is great, I think it's a very good, existential contemplation - but it's all lost and corrupted by the Director's arrogance. His petty nature to need to go against the grain.The Master (Anderson, P.T. 2012), is more or less everything this film tried to be. It just does it better. Much better. It's a slow, lengthy and pondering narrative; very ambiguous and interpretive. Following a troubled man, torn from a lost love, wandering aimlessly and abusively to seek answers and unwittingly confront his own demons. Hell, it even features the character riding off into a desert on a motorcycle. Now that film is twice as long as this one, and whilst many films of its length and pace will have over-indulgence attributed to them, its execution is nonetheless masterful, its dialogue intelligent and thought provoking, the performances intense & revealing and generally its vision is uncompromising and considered. So ultimately, in light of that, The Brown Bunny might have been great had the man behind it not been so difficult. Had be been able to discipline himself more, and not inject his abrasive personality into the piece so much. Because now he's just left with being stained as the creator of one of the most reviled and embarrassing pieces of cinema in recent memory (although I'm sure he probably loves that), instead of the architect behind an empathetic work of art.

joana310 This movie follows Bud Clay, a motorcycle racer, as he drives to California. Along the way, he encounters 3 different women, each embodying a loneliness similar to his own. However, Bud can only be satisfied by one, Daisy. This movie shows his journey, not only physically, but emotionally and mentally.This is one of the most emotionally crushing films I have ever seen. It's crushing in a different way. It leaves you numb. It's one of those films that inhabits your mind for days and never loses its grip. Typically, I'm a crier, I've cried during so many films that I've lost count. But I didn't cry during or after this film. Once it concluded, I was left in shock. The way Vincent Gallo, who is brilliant in this, ties everything together is unbelievable. You feel that you become a part of the story, but, really, it becomes a part of you. The film also stars Chloe Sevigny, who is just as brilliant. No matter what is said about the oral scene, I will forever defend its inclusion in the film. No, it's not gratuitous, and no, it isn't porn. The act REPRESENTS something, like many events/people/things/occurrences/traits represent something in cinema.I think this is a beautiful depiction of loneliness and very easy to relate to, as its hard to imagine someone ever not feeling lonely. Maybe some have felt it for longer periods of time than others, but it's not an alien emotion, even though "alien" is the exact way people feel when lonely. The way it's presented however, is avant-garde, so I get why people don't like it. Nonetheless, I think it's perfect. This is a film that will forever be ingrained into my subconscious. I won't ever be able to escape it and the impact it has had on me. 10/10!

tieman64 "If my film is not comprehensible to people then I have failed in my purpose. I am disappointed that, once again, what I like is unpopular. I can only apologise to the people who feel they have wasted their time." - Vincent Gallo Destroyed by critics, "The Brown Bunny" is an interesting film by writer/director Vincent Gallo. Reminiscent of American counter-culture road movies of the 1970s and late 1960s ("Easy Rider", "Vanishing Point", "Zabriskie Point", "Two-Lane Blacktop" etc), the film is resolutely minimalistic, was shot on 16mm stock and with a limited crew.The plot? Gallo plays Bud Clay, a young man who may or may not be a motorcycle racer and who may or may not have recently lost a lover. Much of the film's first act watches as Clay drives cross-country from New Hampshire to California. These driving sequences are filmed with a static camera, usually affixed to the inside of Clay's vehicle. Critics complain that such sequences are a bore, but they also capture a certain prosaic truth; the tempo of being behind a wheel and driving across sunbaked, American streets, the lazy gaits of pedestrians, the incessant drawl of car engines, the silence of cheap motel rooms, the haunting qualities of empty homes...Gallo captures a kind of in-plain-sight alienation.When Clay's not driving in circles, lost in thought and time, he's seducing a series of women. They're all named after flowers, and are all representative of certain aspects of a woman called Daisy (Chloe Sevigny). There's Violent, representative of youth, Lily, representative of middle age, and Rose, associated with prostitution and junk food. Outside these women is Mrs Lemon, Daisy's mother.The film climaxes with a sequence in which Clay fantasises about "having sex" with Daisy. After this sex act, we learn that Daisy died after being raped and that Clay was present during the incident but did not intervene. He thus feels guilty for her death. Whether Clay's recollections are reliable or not, is debatable. Either the film is played straight, or Clay choked Daisy during a sex act or as revenge (Clay drives about in a serial killer van, flirts with abducting women, tells tales of Daisy almost suffocating on chocolate bunnies etc). Whether Gallo is being this sophisticated – see Lynch's similar "The Straight Story", a road movie which told a seemingly straight tale, but with much horrors buried underneath – is left up the the audience. If he's not, the film's climax is wholly ridiculous, the film's big revelation silly, poorly delivered and contrived.Interestingly, the film's first 2 thirds are guarded and almost introverted. The film's final act then exposes everything, emotionally and physically, with an unsimulated sex act. This sex act has been heavily criticised. Some view it as a tender moment, many see it as being unnecessary, others as Clay punishing the woman he both loves and loathes. 7.5/10 - Worth one viewing.

chicagopoetry I watched Brown Bunny because I saw it listed in a list of the top fifty controversial films by TimeOut New York. After laughing out loud for about a half hour at how nothing had happened yet, I decided to just fast forward through the long boring scenes of driving. When a song started to play and I was forced to look through a bug splattered windshield at the road I simply fast forwarded until the song ended. I did this at least three or four times. Also, when scenes in which I knew nothing was going to happen began, such as when he drives into a gas station and I know already based on the rest of the film that nothing is going to happen except him pumping some gas, I fast forwarded. I watched the scenes in which something was happening, like when he hugged the woman at the rest stop or picked up the young hooker and kept fast forwarding through the driving until I got to the end and I watched that. The entire crux of the entire film can be watched in about half an hour and that still isn't any good.