Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road

Interstate 60

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Pretentious pic pretending profundity. I would rather re-read The Monkey's Paw or sit through Wishmaster again than spend a single second on this drivel. Good actors trying very hard to make sense out of a senseless script. No lessons learned, plenty of prices to be paid, and your cinema dollar should not be one of them.

After reading the other comments, I can't help but feel a bit like Scrooge. This movie had great potential and just squandered it. I really expect more of Bob Gale, who showed much more subtlety and ingenuity with BTTF. Some of the reasons for my disappointment include... The performance of Marsden. I don't know whether to feel sorry for him, mad at him, or totally turned off by his "Escapee from 90210" persona. He never convinces me that he cares in the slightest about art at any level...commercial, personal, or otherwise. His relationship to his father (at the age of 22) is a little creepy. The constant beating over the head from the director. Gale may as well have just said, "Don't take things at face value. DON'T TAKE THINGS AT FACE VALUE!! Watch this...I'll show you a bunch of things you shouldn't take at face-value!!" Unfortunately, he handles this concept as if it is real only in theory and not in practice. I mean, I just don't run into supernatural roadways and leprechauns on a daily basis. Unlike "Groundhog Day", where the lessons learned by Bill Murray actually transcend the supernatural device at the heart of the story, the devices used in this movie are there for their own sake. They have absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of the story (***MINOR SPOILER: the character's decision to follow his heart and his confrontation with his father***.) The bad language. I just don't think I'd be quite as free with my language (especially in the presence of a half-breed leprechaun) under certain conditions as they are in this movie. It's simply gratuitous and is the only thing that separates this movie from a PG-13 (or even a PG) rating. The stereotypes. Overbearing lawyer father, slutty hitcher, unappreciative coworkers, simpleton truckers, hurrying yuppie with a cell phone, crooked sheriff...I could go on and on. It gets old very quickly. Anyway, see this if you like. Marsden is cute (much cuter than any of the females) and Oldman and Lloyd are great in their roles. ** out of *****

I ended up fast forwarding through this about half way through. The premise is great, but the execution is weak. The production value is thin and it looks like an industrial video. I was aghast at the inappropriateness of many of the scenes. "What the hell was that all about," I kept thinking???? No wonder Gale couldn't get any studio backing. The screenplay is on par with something like the sophomoric "Six String Samurai." Another thing I noticed was the lack of continuity with the skys. In one shot the sky would be a traditionally overcast Canadian sky, and the next it would be blue. And I'm not particularly fond of Canadian made movies since they seem to lack some quality that I've become accustomed to in U.S. made films. Canadians are great at a lot of things, but making movies ain't one of them. Gale should have gotten some help with the script. It was too long, and the plot got bogged down by some seriously preachy scenes that only served to bore the hell out of me.

Thoughtful premise. The film has good intentions, and could have really been fantastic but comes up short. It goes from feeling like an afterschool special to a dark comedy and never decides which it wants to be. Mixing these CAN work, and dabbling in fantasy is fine but the film seems hell bent on grounding itself in very corny, ordinary, juvenile dialogue (Yes, "you can take that to the bank"). It just doesn't cross the line of strange far enough to allow the user let go and enjoy it. Perhaps if it had made itself into a pseudo-reality in a film-noir mold (Heathers, Reservoir Dogs, 12 Monkeys, Harry Potter), the bizarre characters and nonsensical settings would work, but here they don't. They would have been better either making this into a straight PG or PG-13 movie like BTTF, or grabbing the brass ring and going for the film noir/scifi route as an R rated flick. My guess is that the latter was the intention but somebody wanted to turn it into Back to the Future 4. It turns out to be confused, jumbled mess.

Pretentious pic pretending profundity. I would rather re-read The Monkey's Paw or rent Wishmaster than spend a single second again on this half-assed drivel. Good actors trying very hard to make sense out of a senseless script. No lessons learned, plenty of prices to be paid, and your cinema dollar should not be one of them.

One of the worst movies I've ever wasted my time on. The lead character was extremely unlikable and his girlfriend was a pretentious ass. I didn't watch enough of the rest of the movie to form an opinion on the other characters as my IQ was starting to lower with each passing scene. You remember the old anti drug commercial where they show an egg and say "This is your mind", and then they show the egg being cracked into a very hot pan and say "This is your mind on drugs"? Well they could replace that part with "This is your mind on Interstate 60" and it would pretty much sum it up. A pre-pubescent piece of crap that tries way to hard.