Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

muffiemae Contains spoiler: How in the world did this awful movie get good reviews? I kept waiting for it to go somewhere, but it never did. I wasn't looking for an "action" movie but this one almost put me to sleep. I regret wasting my time with this loser. Terrible acting as well. The most "action" was when the two boring characters (state of Texas employees) got drunk and threw thousands of dollars worth of state-owned equipment into a creek. This not only polluted the creek, but there was shown absolutely no consequences for their vandalism. During this drunken episode, instead of painting yellow stripes (their job) they painted yellow undulating lines all over the road and an outline of the "kid's" body as he lay in the road. This was never shown again, like it never happened.Ridiculous also was that the "kid" of the two got a 49-year-old woman pregnant. Get real!

avik-basu1889 Prince Avalanche is a smallish independent film directed by David Gordon Green, a renowned filmmaker in the indie film circuits. Acting wise, this film is majorly a two-hander starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. There isn't much happening in this film plot-wise which makes it a study of these two characters and an exploration of their sensitivities. Alvin played by Rudd and Lance played by Hirsch are two road-crew workers. They are also related in some way as Alvin is in a relationship with Lance's sister. They are two very different characters. Alvin is the mature, organised, reserved man, while Lance is the younger, wild, immature and naive individual. The film mainly is about the gradual development of a bond between them after initial hiccups. The film makes us witness two characters undergoing subtle changes and each of these characters get glimpses of self realisations on account of their interactions with each other through the course of the film. The fact that these two fellows are making the roadways ready for usage with the rugged, abrasive and bleak looking remains of forests ravaged by wildfire at the backdrop tells everything that you need to know about the message of the film. The director wants to say that unforeseen and unfortunate events will keep happening as we move forward on this road called life, but what has to be ensured is that we don't allow ourselves to get irreparably affected by them and we should keep moving forward and enjoy ourselves without neglecting our responsibilities. I loved how the two characters went through a whole range of emotions throughout the film which range from trying to brutally beat each other up to having very heartfelt and intimate conversations about their lives and their decisions. They are very different characters, but both manage to change the other in the best way without changing their basic identities. The cinematography is brilliant with the film being completely shot outdoors. The dark, desolate forests and the barren tree branches growing out and almost giving the film stills a 3d effect, reminded me of the cinematography in Tarkovsky's 'Ivan's Childhood'. The direction by Green has to be admired too, as a film of this structure and such themes generally involve female characters, so to make a film like this with male leads and then to make it an endearing film as a whole is an achievement. However 'Prince Avalanche' isn't without flaws. I think the dialogue writing is a bit questionable at times. There are a few scenes where the dialogue becomes a bit too blunt and unsubtle. The characters become a bit too verbally explicit in these scenes. Another flaw is Emile Hirsch's acting in a few scenes. Overall, he is good in the film, but there are a few scenes where his acting comes across as forced and it loses its believability. Paul Rudd is fantastic in pretty much every scene. There is also a montage towards the end of the film after the characters decided to throw caution to the wind, and this montage looked extremely generic, something that is overused in a lot of similar films.So 'Prince Avalanche' is not a perfect film, but it is certainly very well made and it has noble ideas and a likable message. It might not linger in your mind for too long, but the characters in the film certainly will be good company during the film.

SnoopyStyle It's 1988 and wildfires have ravaged the Texas countryside. Alvin (Paul Rudd) took a job to paint the lines on the road to get away from the world. He takes his girlfriend's slacker brother Lance (Emile Hirsch) along for the job. Alvin doesn't see much in the sex obsessed Lance, and Lance is chaffing at the isolation.This is a very small indie with basically the two main actors in most of the scenes. These are two good actors with a lot of sex talk, relationship struggle, and an aimless story. There are a couple of chuckles and a few interesting scenes. However they are too few and far between. It doesn't have the energy of a road movie or the poignancy of a relationship story. The last third turns up the heat, but it quickly becomes silly. I think there is a good half-movie here. The rest of this doesn't have enough energy. It's very subdue.

Stefan Birgir Stefans The original film, "Á annan veg," was a nice surprise when I discovered and watched it during a red-eye flight with IcelandAir. I had never heard of it before, so even in Iceland, it's quite obscure, so I found it a little weird that it was being remade in Hollywood.This remake is in most parts a carbon-copy of the original with the Icelandic dialog translated into English, but that's not really a bad thing. It's interesting to see the story in a different, but eerily the exact same, place. There are really only three characters in the whole movie: the adult man, the young man and the truck driver. I prefer Paul Rudd to most actors any day of the week, so he wins, and Emile Hirsch was fine as the young man; however, I kinda liked the truck driver better in the original version, because there, he had this strange "I surely am a sex offender" vibe, which is lacking here. It just gave him a little more personality.All in all, a good watch. Simple story, but interesting and slightly better than the original because of the Rudd-factor.