Punch-Drunk Love [2002 film]

TEQUILA...EL DIABLO!

Why do you taste so good? Why?! The tales I can tell...I won't. Don't ask. Tequila and I have a love/hate relationship.



I digress. (
Punch Drunk Love" is awesome. And tequila might have helped greased someone's wheel. *coughs*Oliver*coughs* And lemme tell you why this story rocks.

There's smuff (smut and sugar - done frigging excellently might I add), the characters - all of them down to the tertiary characters came across as real people, the story was cute - a geeky martial arts competitor falls for the top dog in their gym/school/dojo (forgive me I suck with sports terms) and a unicorn costume that gets put to great use.

Me-ow.

It's feel good and smexy, Oliver and Derek will make you smile. I read with a smile on my show more face but my smile is for something a lil' different.

See I happen to own a unicorn decode ring/horn (it changes when it needs too) and there were little things peppered throughout this story that makes me applaud this author. I smiled, I pouted, I laughed.

I am unicorn happy. My horn's sparkling at the moment.


FUCKING LOVED THIS STORY - from cover to The End. 4.5 STARS" show less

An emotionally unstable man meets a nice girl and is hassled by thieves.

A weird little movie. It's sweet and fun to watch, and it makes me happy.

Concept: B
Story: B
Characters: B
Dialog: A
Pacing: A
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: A

Enjoyment: A plus

GPA: 3.7/4

(Oct. 2010)

I'm all for actors expanding their skill set and going for more serious roles if they're known for comedy, or vice versa. But i don't think this movie worked for Adam Sandler. I tried to like it but it was very 'meh', the story annoyed me.

Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Fueled by the careening momentum of a show more baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance. (source: The Criterion Collection) show less

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
(source: TMDb)

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