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I certainly don't want to discourage talky, intellectually ambitious movies, but why not try to get it right? They might even make money and encourage studios to invest in more talky, intellectually ambitious movies.Of course, everyone wants to like Hurlyburly, but the movie fails to meet us half-way. With real visionary filmmakers like Neil LeBute (regardless of whether you like/agree with his work, he is a visionary) out there, why waste so many actorly resources on vessels of inarticulate pretention. Spewing a mass of verbiage in lieu of meaningful thought is no more clever (okay, slightly more clever) than Prince attempting to look cool and mysterious in Purple Rain by not saying anything.That said, there were certainly enjoyable moments in Hurlyburly, especially Anna Paquin's speech at the end, and Penn's reaction to it (God, but men do need women. If we just listened to them more, everything would be so easy). Also Chazz Palmitieri had some interesting facial expressions. I love Kevin Spacey, but I'm starting to think he should just appear as himself in every movie, or at least as his persona. Check The Ref for Spacey before he became a parody of himself.
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