Let's be realistic.

As Good As It Gets

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The Saddest Music in the World (2003) Funny musical, Depressed, lovelorn, and rich, She hosts a contest. Ingenious concept by Loved author Ishiguro. Mostly black and white, Prosthetic legs filled with beer, Crazy characters. Maddin's faded and grainy world, Rhapsody or creepy? Somonka is a form of poetry that is essentially two tanka poems, the second stanza a response to the first. Each stanza follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. Traditionally, each is a love letter. This form usually demands two authors, but it is possible to have a poet take on two personas. My somonka will be a love/hate letter to a film? #Somonka #PoemReview

Had no idea just what I was in for when I purchased this film and all of a sudden I was back in the depression days of the 1920's and 1930's drinking beer by the gallons in Canada. The actors all gave an outstanding performance and one woman had her leg amputated and still managed to make love to any gentleman who so desired. There is a beer baroness who organized a contest to find the saddest music in the world with a contest prize of @25,000 and there were many groups who competed in this crazy contest.Despite the fact that this film is depicting the Depression Days, there is some dark comedy and a musical melodrama by the famous director, Guy Maddin. There is also amnesiac nymphomaniac who is exposed and more hidden dark secrets that beer will never solve in Winnipeg, Canada. Enjoy, if you like this type of film.

In order to 'get' the films of Guy Maddin, it helps if you understand cinema. George Toles and Guy Maddin are in LOVE with Silent Films. George tends to enjoy, from what I've learned, melodramas while Guy is more involved with Expressionism. If you were to ask Guy about references and intertexuality, chances are you would open up a vast discussion. If you were to ask George, chances are he would dismiss the notion that you need to 'read a book' to enjoy his film.There are audiences that probably won't enjoy Saddest Music. But for me it was a truly magical tragicomedy, with characters I cared about, an outcome that seemed suited for everyone, and music sequences that were haunting and daring.Ross McMillan is a wonderful performer in this film. Incidentally, he's also a wonderful playwright and a really nice guy.It isn't surprising that one reviewer on this list dislikes the work of Guy Maddin despite being drawn into the work of Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay. What Guy Maddin and George Toles create for us in this work is 'sadness as a subject.' Raw human emotion. And while there is plenty of work for the intellect, the post-modernist tends to avoid emotion as if it's an alien thing. But in the work of Maddin, you will not find the sort of self-congratulation that is so easy to spot in the work of self labeled avant-gardists.I recommend that folks open up their minds and HEARTS to the world of Guy Maddin. Take a trip to Winnipeg. Start here....

Call me a simple girl from Kansas, but after watching this movie I looked around to see who had spiked my drink with LSD. Yeah, yeah I get it, its a satire, we Americans are assholes, and are suckers for cheap commercialism. And its attempts to make it funny by shooting as if it were a thirties movie is strained. Satires only funny when not everyone can get it. The only thing and I mean the only one thing in this film I liked were the glass legs with beer the inside, definitely visually appealing. Don't waste your time with this movie unless you've got a few buddies and a mind altering drug to go along with it. Good luck to you, and peace out!