The Shape of Things

A very stagey (even more so than Closer) movie with arc dialouge, and lots of overacting, that still isn't wholly unwatchable. The story and the idea behind it keep it afloat, but it's not half as insightful as it thinks it is.

The twist ending was really good but extremely fucked up, definitely not what I was expecting. The problem with this movie was that it feels really fake, nothing really seems genuine. The conversations with Rudd and Weller are so bad sometimes, just some awful dialouge. That ending is gonna stay with me for awhile, that was so fucked up.

One of my favorite movies ever. Great (and very awkward) to watch with people who have never seen it before.

I've liked all the Neil LaBute films so far, but this one wasn't that great. It's adapted from the theater, and it shows with the dialogue being very stage-y and awkward. It felt like the actors weren't doing a good job, but they were probably just too used to doing it on stage. Gretchen Mol in particular seemed way off. It's an interesting and thought-provoking concept, though.

The problem with this movie is that it never manages to convince me that the story it's telling is actually taking place, or could take place. The reason is that the writing feels artificial, and the acting suffers as a result. Because the dialogue and characterization fail, the movie fails.

This movie, holy shit. How is it so underseen & never talked about? I only found out about it because I found it randomly at the library, and dug that it had Rachel Weisz & Paul Rudd in it. Weisz gives an all-timer performance here, Rudd is great, Gretchen Mol & Fred Weller play excellent seconds to both of them. The themes, the moral ambiguity, the way that even though a certain character is essentially pure evil by the end you still kind of agree with what they're saying. This is a good movie.

Top badass moment? Short of destroying the entire universe, for fun, Evelyn's as badass as it’s possible to be. It’s worth wading through the rest of the film, which wallows in its own mundaneness sometimes, just to get to the end. Have fun trying to imagine what you’d do in Adam’s place in real time, as things play out. And this is a guy who’s dealt with Michael Myers and the end of the world too. No wonder he ended up selling energy drinks. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

Paul was actually pretty good and so was Rachel Weisz.

Girls shouldn't be allowed to make art, bitches be straight tripping. Also fuck R Mutt. Strong script, but very play-like. Not so much a film as an adaptation.

This is an interesting film by writer, director Neil LaBute. The final act of the movie really makes this a good movie. The build up of the movie is standard but the payoff is worth it. Rachel Weisz is great in this film.

#11#, story, Rachel W, P Rudd.

Pretty weak or the technical side but the plot and acting is on point. I love the thinly veiled thesis of how romance can be a weapon.

Labute isn't as strong a director as he is a writer so his work behind the camera is the weakest part of this movie but a strong cast and one of Labute's better plays adapted for the script makes a damn decent movie. The end hits just as hard as in the play.

A mean and provocative theater adaptation with a hell of a bite.

Brilliant beginning. Well, and unforgettable ending; the twist does the thing. But the twist is the weakest point of the movie as well: it's too long monologue which spoils the whole thing. Story tries to grow the tension towards it, but even that does not success that good. The director does not get to the point in the way he wants.

If you can endure an entire movie of unsympathetic, emasculated men and other assorted sociopaths, you'll find a simple point behind it all. I'm not sure whether it was intended, but this is a demonstration of the intellectual shallowness of solipsism. For that it was interesting, but I'm not sure if anybody really needs to see this, except for the last 10 minutes.

I really enjoyed this movie, I just felt like the acting was a little sub-par. Very mean-spirited, and modern--great story line. Though, you'd never know that by the summary given.

mean, but well made

Crazy lady.

This is rendered from a stage play and it just doesn't transfer very well... I'll watch Rachel Weisz in anything though...

This movie is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO wrong!!!! Its such a great movie in that aspect. You don't expect what happens in the film and that's what makes it so enthralling.

You may not like it, but it's going to be a while before you get it out of your head, or out from under your skin.

So dark and ultimately self-indulgent is the main character, I can't help but love her.

smart caustic tough and very LaBute. Cast good but the movie sinks under its own bile.

More mean peopel from Neil LaBute- makes trenchant points about identity, but has too many lulls, and is LaBute's weakest film on the technical side.

I hated everything about this movie. Everything.

For people dying to have an In the Company of Women, this well-acted, achingly obvious stage adaptation should do the trick. Of notable interest to artists and those that despise them.

Damn.

Biting and brilliant stuff. An unflinching look at everyone's favorite game of love, master and servant. or artist and canvas.