Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Bellfire32 This movie didn't make sense at all. My rule is if it's not a comedy and it's move funny than dramatic then it's not serving it's purpose. It was like Gilligan's Island gone horribly wrong. First of all; why couldn't they get one person to take them away years before the daughter became grown. The first mother came their with her husband but couldn't get out, that was kind of understandable. The daughter grew up and had a child of her own, a girl, and she couldn't get anyone to drive her into town. I don't get why the plot was about her 59 years like her mother didn't exist. The daughter/grand-daughter was a trip and she gave the movie it's comedic edge but there's were the problem comes to light.Everything she did was wrong and wouldn't have been fun if the movie was good and made sense. It hurt the film when the lady that first played the Grandma was used to play the mother and the young woman used to play the daughter played her own daughter.

lastliberal I am looking at cinema from a new perspective and I am enjoying films that have great cinematography even if they don't necessarily have a good story. The cinematography in this film was magnificent and, as a bonus, it had a great story also.The basic story takes place over 60 years. It begins when a husband brings his wife and mother-in-law to a desert portion of Brazil. He builds a house on sand, and the escaped slaves that lived in the area told him the house would sink.The wife (Fernanda Torres) wants out immediately, but the husband refuses. He dies and she keeps trying to get out, but her mother (Fernanda Montenegro) doesn't want to leave. Soon she has a daughter (Camilla Facundes) and 10 years go by. She has a chance to leave, but her mother dies in the sinking house and she briefly loses her daughter. She settles in with one of the slaves and 20 more years pass. Now, she (Fernanda Montenegro) has a 30 year-old daughter (Fernanda Torres) who she wants out. Did you get that cast switch? The mother becomes the grandmother and the daughter becomes the mother. Don't worry, it'll happen again.She finally gets the daughter out and she returns years later (now she is Fernanda Montenegro). I hope I got all that right.It really is better than I described it. It is about dreams and wished and lost opportunities, and what's important. And, it has great cinematography.

vargasje This movie is excellent, bizarre, and surreal, all at the same time. Wind, water, sand, time, theory of relativity, a lunar eclipse, and travel to the moon intermingle in the lives of three women. In 1910 a family moves to an impossible location somewhere in the dunes of north Brazil, where only sand and despair can "grow." The main protagonist tries several times to escape but all her attempts fail, until she surrenders to her reality. Her daughter, born in the sands, grows not knowing any other reality, until eventually she goes away to live the unfulfilled dreams of her mother. The sound of the wind is a constant reminder of the harsh environment, the whiteness of the sand portrays the simplicity of their primitive life, and the richness of the sky and the nights full of stars remind us that the protagonist have a complex soul.

emastreem it lets you get a lot from this film, it gives itself to you. it could be mistaken for a drama set within a interesting set of variables, but it is more a piece of art about humanity/nature/time/space...wish i could elaborate better. It is defineately grammy or whatever Oscar worthy, it gives you that amazing emotional happy/sad/inspired/impowered/deep type feeling. sorry that's my review, i'm glad i don't have to read it. okay, they are making right more lines, how about something specific, umm, no. how about, it's a bunch of little things that you are trying to put together and make sense of, each of those parts is compelling in itself with amazing scenes sound etc. then at the end you realize the overall feeling of the movie is deep and grander then you thought. you don't hate or love any of the characters, the characters in this movie are more like the medium, with the desert being the canvas, you see stroke by stroke then an amazing full shot at the end........................another thought is having these humans interacting in this huge space, it allows the feelings to fill the whole space showing how big egos,feelings etc are., amazing perspective