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Title: Punch Drunk Love
Review: Are you people nuts? This movie was bloody mediocre at best, and P.T. Anderson is the most overrated filmmaker alive. He fancies himself an incredibly deep artiste, but Thomas Hardy he ain't; Magnolia, for the most part, had the depth of an afternoon soap opera and Punch Drunk Love is even worse. Granted, the guy has some visual flair, but he really needs to go the Martin Scorsese route and get other people to write his scripts for him. Punch Drunk Love is just further proof of how narratively and intellectually deficient his writing is. Some good ideas are wasted in a rambling collage of cinematic non sequitirs, and the harmonium representing Sandler's character at last finding inner harmony(harmonium, harmony, get it?) has to be the most trite metaphor I've seen in a long time. P.T. Anderson, and Wes Anderson for that matter, need to learn that shallow quirkiness does not a great film make.
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