I was thoroughly disappointed by this movie. I usually love Charlie Kaufman's work, but just couldn't bring myself to care for this movie.

A series of dreams. I'd rather have my own.

"Synecdoche, New York" is a demonstration of megalomania. It occasionally works. It occasionally doesn't. Mostly, it doesn't. But when it does, it's good. It's very good, in fact. It can be interpreted both as a profound meditation on death and art as well as an incoherent, pretentious mess that drowns in its own ambition. I'm torn, but, finally, I have concluded that it's a little bit of both. Kaufman is a talented writer with occasional bursts of brilliance, but he certainly lacks restraint.

Too much melodrama, but interesting.

"The artistic psyche has never been more joylessly explored than in Synecdoche, New York, the gallingly undisciplined directorial debut of revered screenwriter Charlie Kaufman." - Fernando F. Croce

This movie had some really good ideas but it just got lost in itself. Which I guess is the point of the movie.

This is definitely Kaufman at his most Kaufman; whether it is Kaufman at his best is a different matter. Even though this film is his most complex, as well as a great musing on meaning, regret, and death, he is also walking a continuously thinner tightrope of artistry above a pool of incoherent bullshit.

No, I can't explain every little detail and what every little thing means, but it's a great movie.

I confess, I'm a coward. I gave this movie its score to hide in part, my inability to do it the justice of a proper description. It is firstly a savage poetry, priming the viewer with a deliberately pathetic view of a man who is not so much old or young but out of time, facing forward into a unseen abyss. All that follows is a falling out between the human consciousness and old-man time. This film is exceptional, dreamlike- bizarre and savagely toothed. Here, the most terrible are the most real.

I like Kaufman better as 'just' the screenwriter..but I still LOVE him!

Charlie Kaufman throws everything he knows and feels into the blender and turns it on without putting on the top. The mess that is this debut film's is either it's strength or weakness, depending on who you talk to you. For me, Kaufman realises that to recreate life in art, it has to be messy, and confusing, and aggravating. I love this film, I hate this film, I am this film, it'll probably stick around with me for some time, but you can never be too young to ponder your own demise.

Confusing jumble of obsessiveness, humor, and obsurdity. I wasn't really sure if I liked it or hated it but I know it was well made. I need to watch this again.

The atmosphere created within the atmosphere created within the atmosphere within creates a beautiful picture.

Two hours isn't enough to see everything in this whirlwind tour of arch-screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's mind; this is one of those films that bears watching over and over again. Synecdoche is like Luiz Buñuel's love child with Samuel Beckett, on meth. It is frantic, surreal, self-referential, desperate, melancholy, and real. It is above all the explosion of the dark, adult undercurrent of Kaufman's work, at once more real and more bizarre than any of his previous work.

...but needs a re-watch. there were just too many layers.

This is a really good film that is without a doubt worth a second look. I thought Tom Noonan deserved an Oscar nod for his role as "Sammy". A Charlie Kaufman masterpiece.

Pity those nerds and fashion-sheep who'll waste time trying to connect Kaufman's symbols, cite the many David Lynch references and puzzle for ways to use 'synecdoche' in daily conversation.

It's incredibly ambitious, but a little too ridiculous to follow.

really mixed about this one. I love the originality and everything else that comes with that, but the sheer experience of enjoying the film was not there for me. I found myself struggling to like the movie, like trying to accept/love your brother for who he is despite all of his shortcomings.

everything.

I loved it. Quite depressing, and the acting, directing, story are exceptionally good. I didn't understand all of it, but that doesn't matter

Synecdoche, New York is one of those movies that illustrates why I don't like giving ratings. It may be a masterpiece, it may be trash. It doesn't sit somewhere in between, but somehow comfortably sits in both places at once. Simultaneously brilliant and hamfisted, this film is among the most ambitious and difficult I've ever seen. It's worth a watch, if only because there's nothing else like it. If this film happens to speak to you, you may find it incredible. Score is not a grade.

I love meta. This is meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta.

if you want a movie that is REALLY reaching for something, but always misses it due to the convoluted seemingly pointless storylines, then have fun with this one. I love hoffman but this movie is atrocious. Its Characters are interesting. that is the only redeeming part of the film. the characters are strange and you want to see what happens but none of it matters as the storylines are so hard to follow.

I think it requires a second viewing, but Kaufman's script and directing is top notch

a bergsonian nightmare where borges tells the story and jung puts down the rules. yes, it's self indulgent and somewhat a mental masturbation just like the previous sentence, but you can't help but admire Kaufman's audacity, the sheer scope, and the embroidery of the script. I rate this a 100 in a paralel reality, 0 in an another universe, ln(infinite) in sometime in the past, and pi squared in the future. The recursive is out to get me.

i really really hated it