The Salton Sea

[picklemonkey]

Just finished watching this... such a good movie. it has crystal meth junkies, drug dealers, twisted cops, murder, domestic abuse, revenge, comedy, guns, fires, plenty of storyline twists, and all that other good shit that makes a movie worth watching. 5 pickles

Also quite a few good actors:
Val Kilmer
Vincent D'Onofrio
Adam Goldberg
Luis Guzmán
Peter Sarsgaard

This movie was great, this time I'm actually glad I took the Blockbuster guy's advice and rented it. It's not like LOTR or a Rocky movie where you come out feeling like you're on top of the world, but you will feel spun like by a great rollercoaster. I wouldn't say it starts off slow, but it definitely eases you into things, then move on to the drug fests and the story starts to take shape, but without really revealing itself all at once. As you watch more, you get that much more involved and gripped. I found myself really captured by the movie to the point of having anxiety myself in some of the Poo bear scenes. So towards the end I was strapped to my chair waiting to see what was going to happen, I did care about Kilmer's character, and I loved it how the movie keeps you guessing and on your seat till the end. Being such a dark movie though, it wouldn't have been so memorable for me if the ending had been different.

Kilmer's performance was good and he held his own, but Vincent D'Onofrio was brilliant in his role of Poo bear. I also liked the scene with Bobby `hobby' as it was definitely memorable.

I loved this movie, but as other reviews have said, if you are faint of heart then this movie is not for you. It is dark, druggy, very pawn scum of life kind of thing, and you watch it with your guts in a knot for some of the movie, but it's worth the knot I tell you! Did I mention that I liked the ending too? Even though it was a dark movie overall, I left with the sensation of `Damn that was a good movie…'

[cwsiggy]

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Agreed - very good movie. Pooh Bear was great.

[anonin]

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i really liked this movie, i need to watch it again, such a great flick.

[sakio pod]

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gonna check dis out this week jibbles says to check it

[Jibgolly]

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great great film. i found this movie about 2 years ago. a buddy in london, thanks matt, recommended it quite a few times before i finally sought it out. man i was really in to it just like the guy who wrote the review in pickles post. matter of fact i pulled it out and watched it again last night without even seeing this thread.

great minds ehh.