Un autre film complêtement inutile...Ryan Gosling ? là ça y est j'ai ma dose...pas changé d'expression depuis les 4 derniers films que j'ai vu (DRIVE,BEYOND THE PINE,HALF NELSON...etc)
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A Painful Waste Of Time
Author: sddavis63 (revsdd@gmail.com) from Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
28 May 2011
Some movies are bad. You get to the end and you wonder why you bothered watching them. And then some movies are painful. "All Good Things" falls into the "painful" category. Was this a story that deserved to be told? It's based on the story of Robert Durst (whose name is changed in the movie to David Marks, played by Ryan Gosling.) The details (as far as they're known) of Durst's life are fairly well presented. The story revolves around the troubled relationship David has with his real estate mogul family, and with his deteriorating relationship with his wife Kathleen, played by Kirsten Dunst. Eventually Kathleen disappears, and to this day no one knows what happened to her.
The movie clears nothing up (which is forgivable, since it is an unsolved case.) It revolves around testimony David gave in his trial for killing someone else, which is the somewhat cliché means by which the movie unfolds. The problem with it is that it starts out uninteresting from the very beginning, becomes downright boring quite quickly, and enters the realm of the truly bizarre in the last 45 minutes or so. The story doesn't flow well, and the pieces don't seem to fit together. The story seemed to move in a sort of A to E to M to X direction, with the viewer not really being sure what the connecting points were, and in the end it left me completely unsatisfied.
To be frank, this was a waste of time. (1/10)
2 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Really depressive and scary movie
Author: illy_hristova from Bulgaria
1 December 2012
This is a very depressive movie that can make you feel really bad. I don't recommend this film at all. Please don't watch it. It will make you feel sad and unhappy. This movie is not for normal people who believe in "all good things". This movie is about all the bad things. This movie is repulsive. This movie can make you sick. This movie is the saddest movie I have ever watched. This movie is a metaphor for everything evil in the world. Please don't ever watch it. I need to write 3 more lines about how bad this movie is. It is not bad, it is pure evil. It can make you feel afraid for your sense of humanity. It can make you doubt that good in the world is stronger than the bad.
13 out of 30 people found the following review useful:
Horrible
Author: lenny_bda from Oklahoma
16 December 2010
This movie is absolutely awful. As posted before maybe Kirsten provides some redeeming quality. Maybe. The quality of the camera footage is pretty decent. But the screenplay and editing is horrendous. Acting is poor and the story is slow to develop. The lighting is very low throughout the movie; however, this technique is ineffective as a mood setting. This should have gone directly to Lifetime Movie Network, but even their ratings would have suffered because no one outside the industry would even sit through this production. The music is another ineffective tool that could have given some life to the suspense of the movie. However the sound editor seems to have nodded off during the production process because the background music just seems to come on and off at odd times. Maybe when they when to get coffee and then started dozing off, and then had more coffee. There are "dark" areas in the movie that just suddenly change to lighter moments, no transitions between. They probably cut this into a decent thirty minute documentary. Its like the editor was tasked to make this into a feature length movie and doesn't have enough content. This makes for prolonged periods of nothing but scenery or traffic scrolling across the screen. The pans over to the beautiful dog at least provides a few limited moments of watchable screens. Also, the dog does not appear to age throughout the movie. We do get the narrator to let us know that time has elapsed, but there is not build up or followup to what was missed during the missing years. I don't understand the use of the lead male character constantly wearing the same sweater. Understandably, the budget for the movie was probably nonexistent, but surely the actor could have tapped into his personal wardrobe. Stay away from this one. The wife will forgive you once she goes and walks out after thirty minutes of languishing through this true display of awkwardness.
12 out of 19 people found the following review useful:
Like Watching Paint Dry
Author: cracker from NYC
30 April 2011
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
"When will this turkey be over?"
Every once in awhile you will see a movie that is full to the brim with acting talent that can do nothing collectively to save the awful script and direction. This is that movie.
This is neither a psychological thriller nor does it have any suspenseful elements at all. The story would make a very mildly interesting ten-page article in an unsolved crime magazine, but should never have been made the focus of an entire movie. One is left to wonder how movies like this get funded and made, and the only plausible explanation is someone with deep pockets had animus against the Marks family.
Don't be fooled by the cast. Avoid.
10 out of 19 people found the following review useful:
Put me to sleep and I'm sorry i got it on demand!
Author: valid908 from California
24 January 2011
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I don't get all the rave reviews because although the cast is top notch and the acting is decent the storyline to me was extremely confusing and boring!!! i didn't understand why the main male character was always so upset about his mother's death and how it tied into the plot. Kirsten Dunst is usually one of my favorite actors but for this movie, i just found her kind of dull as well. I got that the father wanted him to join into the family biz and that he wasn't too supportive of their marriage because he felt that his wife was "beneath him" and not high class enough or from the right family but so what?!?! i haven't finished watching the entire movie yet and i may not. i hate not finishing a movie i paid 5 bucks online to see but i really really was disappointed and bored with this feature!
16 out of 51 people found the following review useful:
Extremely Cliché, poor directin and screenplay but good performances.
Author: khan2705 from Pakistan
6 December 2010
Inspired by the most notorious missing person's case in New York history, ALL GOOD THINGS is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s.
well i saw this movie which is based on a true story of unsolved murder case. its a drama thriller with romance of course. i was not expecting much from this movie when i saw it receiving not so good reviews. the only reason of watching this movie was seeing these two actors, the hot and handsome Ryan Gosling and the beautiful and gorgeous Kristen Dunst after a long time. well this movie turns out to be extremely Cliché.
Its so Cliché, i mean i felt i have seen movies like it before, story was very Cliché. that thing does not effects me much for a movie because that is not the problem with me, i don't think that on certain plot if a movie is being made then there shouldn't be another one like it. i always find some difference and some new things in it and even if i mention it being Cliché, it doesn't effects the rating. but this movie was pretty average.
its all that a girl (poor one) meets a very attractive handsome rich man, falls in love then marry either way. things start to get little weird and strange day bu day, girl star finding secrets about the family, that handsome looking guy actually turns out to be a psycho man and he always loose control and beat and torture his wife, she separates, then he kills her. it was pretty much like it. but the few things that makes it somewhat different is that its based on a true story, the girl is actually missing not considered dead, which means the end. end of the movie is what makes it pretty different from other movies like it.
movies starts somewhat slow, takes sometime to develop and then everything just come rushing, everything start happening so fast which is a negative point and it seriously annoys me. towards the end it has some pretty shocking, mysterious and thrilling moments that are pretty good to watch. its actually a narrative movie, Ryan at his present old age is shown saying the story to the Court.
acting wise pretty good i will say, its the only positive point, Ryan Gosling did a fantastic job again, he is very good in his character. towards the end his strange Woman get up and that psycho killer thing was done very well by him. on the other hand Kristen Dust was awesome too. she played her character pretty good.
screenplay of this movie is very dull and much in places pretty hollow, story is not narrated in a right way. movie is very empty and lost in places. i even didn't felt much connected to the characters as well. direction is pretty weak as well. so i will say to AVOID IT.
8 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
Awful waste of time
Author: agacyb from Israel
7 October 2011
Ryan Gosling fans be warned: He is not enough of a reason to see this movie! I have no idea why Gosling would attach himself to this abysmal project. I usually love him, but this was a very repulsive character that never seemed real to me.
Although Kirsten Dunst was mostly a pleasure to watch, the direction was so slooooowww and painful that I felt like committing murder myself by the end of the first act, trapped watching awful (mostly insane) characters making awful choices.
Following a tedious start, with the droning voice-over of a lawyer questioning the main character, the lackluster script never improved. The repetitive, melodramatic plot just kept going from bad to worse. I very much regret wasting an evening on this.
6 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
Good work tossed away in a docudrama final act
Author: tigerfish50 from Old London, New England
21 January 2011
"All Good Things" provides a text-book example of the inherent weaknesses in drama projects based on real-life events. The first two-thirds of this film has a strong script coupled with excellent performances, direction and cinematography, all working harmoniously together to tell the story of a doomed love affair between David and Katie Marks. David is the eldest son of the patriarch of a wealthy and politically connected NY real estate family. His attractive facade conceals a fragile interior damaged through witnessing the violent suicide of his mother at a young age. He desires to live a simple life with the warmhearted, uncomplicated Katie, but his controlling father forces him to work in the part of the family business that hosts Times Square prostitution rackets. The internal and external pressures undermine David's stability, and the couple's marriage deteriorates into mutual distrust, substance abuse and physical assault - followed by Katie's suspicious disappearance.
So far so good - but the last third of the film is a mishmash of dramatized news reports and court proceedings spiced up with some dubious speculations, which leads to a hypothetical conclusion that reeks of lawyers supervising the screenplay. Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst play the two lead roles with sensitivity and skill, but their efforts can't save a film that leaves one shrugging one's shoulders at all the imagined conversations and unsubstantiated theorizing.
3 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
All Good Things...Like this Picture Come to An End **
Author: edwagreen from United States
13 January 2013
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Moody piece dealing with the disappearance of Katharine Marks, and the suspicion falling on her husband David Marx.
Frank Langella co-stars as the father of David Marx-Ryan Gosling. He is a moody man, wealthy from real estate investments who allowed his son at age 7 to witness the suicide of his wife, the boy's mother by the child witnessing the mother jump off a building.
Obviously, in adulthood, this has had a lasting impact on the young man as he quickly meets and marries Kate.
Both father and son are obviously terribly disturbed as they torment each other.
The second part of the film deals with murder and mayhem. You will be glad when the final credits roll.
1 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Disappointed that Ryan Gosling's movies are so slow
Author: Finbar-1 from Sarnia, Ontario
12 January 2014
Let me start real quick by saying this is my first IMDb review, and that I think IMDb is one of the best web sites on the internet.
We watched "All Good Things" I think mainly because of the hype about Ryan Gosling, and while I believe he is a good actor he seems to choose parts that are so very slow that they leave the movie quite boring. In All Good Things, he plays a troubles guy who tries to change his life in order to please his father, but not to the same level of pleasure for his wife.
We are given little insight into why he is the way he is (other than his father's expectations) or why he does what he does. This leads the viewer to be as frustrated with him as his wife appears to be. The twist at the end also leaves us wondering what the heck really happened, but not in an interesting "make your own conclusions" kind of a way.
That said, if you like Mr. Gosling's acting style (and the slow style of his choice in directors) in previous movies such as "Beyond the Pines" and "Drive" (which I liked more than "Good Things"), you might like this one as well.
