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I think a lot of people missed the point of this movie, either they were not able to get a handle on it, or they just were not interested in Sandler doing anything besides "poo poo pee pee, I'm crazy man, gimmie some candy!"
For the most part movies have a begining, a middle and an end, they have plot and character development and by the time it is over all the scenes have fit well together tell a story. Some directors, like Lynch and Burton and now PTA have attemped to break away from this old method of story construction. At the end of "Punch Drunk Love" and "Mullholand Drive" for example you were left sitting there thinking....what the fuck just happened? You had to decide what some of it meant and at the very least discuss it with other intelligent viewers, PTA decided not to just hand you all the answers, and I liked that about this movie.
If you have not see it already, Punch Drunk Love will challenge you and make you use your head more than you are used to with most American movies. If you'd rather just sit in front of the screen like a post, they stick with J-Lo movies.
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The Truth:
Johnny Cash could have kicked Bruce Lee's ass if he wanted to.
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