Movie Review: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Last night I watched Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. It's hysterical, and contains some wickedly witty writing, too, I thought. As Downey was quoted in the Chicago Tribune, "The lines in this movie, they really should be ringtones, you know?"
RD, Jr. has such talent, and seeing Val Kilmer play a gay guy was worth the rental all on its own.
The dialogue is quick, and we got a lot more out of the movie once we turned on subtitles.
Robert Downey Jr. Why is it that the most creative souls, the ones with artistic vision, are also the souls most tortured? The artistic visionaries in our world seem to be the ones harboring the greatest disparity between "what is" and "what should be."
Flashback to Summer 1994. I was 19. I had come home from my first year of college, and Ms. M. and I were reacquainting ourselves with one another. We were watching videos in her bedroom at her parents' house. We were both trying to figure ourselves out, both a little adrift. Music was a lifeline--that was the poetry that legitimized the lost feeling that we struggled with in isolation. A Nirvana video was playing, and M. started crying. She was so sad. She said, "What does it mean for me, then? If this brilliant musician can't find reason to live... what about me?"
Anyway. Tortured souls. Robert Downey, Jr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. RDJ's character is a tortured soul as well, an idealist searching for... something. You'll have to watch the movie to discover if his character finds it or not.
Anyway. Worth the rental. Very good movie.
RD, Jr. has such talent, and seeing Val Kilmer play a gay guy was worth the rental all on its own.
The dialogue is quick, and we got a lot more out of the movie once we turned on subtitles.
Robert Downey Jr. Why is it that the most creative souls, the ones with artistic vision, are also the souls most tortured? The artistic visionaries in our world seem to be the ones harboring the greatest disparity between "what is" and "what should be."
Flashback to Summer 1994. I was 19. I had come home from my first year of college, and Ms. M. and I were reacquainting ourselves with one another. We were watching videos in her bedroom at her parents' house. We were both trying to figure ourselves out, both a little adrift. Music was a lifeline--that was the poetry that legitimized the lost feeling that we struggled with in isolation. A Nirvana video was playing, and M. started crying. She was so sad. She said, "What does it mean for me, then? If this brilliant musician can't find reason to live... what about me?"
Anyway. Tortured souls. Robert Downey, Jr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. RDJ's character is a tortured soul as well, an idealist searching for... something. You'll have to watch the movie to discover if his character finds it or not.
Anyway. Worth the rental. Very good movie.