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	MovieFreak.com - "Gerry" DVD Review
		Gerry is minimalist filmmaking taken to the extreme.
		Gerry and Gerry start out for a day on a wilderness hike, but when they veer off the trail and quickly get lost, they are left with only each other, keeping themselves entertained with a few vague pop culture references.
		Gerry is presented in the original 2.35:1 widescreen ratio, and the picture is beautifully crisp.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/g/gerry.htm (461 words)

	PG.Net - View topic - There's something about Gerry....
		Gerry has done a outstanding job, when I first heard he was going to be the phantom I knew for some reason he was going to do the job well and right.
		Gerry had a way of giving Erik such emotion--such passion, and I could hear it in his voice, the looks he gives Christine, especially during POTO as he's leading her down the hallway and keeps on looking back at her as though he can't believe she's with him.
		Gerry's performance really moved me. I think he deserves a lot of credit for the wonderful character he brought to the big screen, and a lot of the bashing he gets is totally undeserved.
	www.phantomgerry.net /forum/viewtopic.php?p=181 (3259 words)

	Gerry Reviews - Moviefone
		The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent, sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the almost-but-not-quite tedium.
		The movie is so gloriously bloody-minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity.
		Gerry is ragingly bad art that contributes to a definition of independent film as something no one would want to sit through.
	movies.aol.com /movie/gerry/14210/reviews (394 words)

	Gerry (2003): Reviews
		The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent, sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the almost-but-not-quite tedium.
		The movie is so gloriously bloody-minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity.
		Gerry is ragingly bad art that contributes to a definition of independent film as something no one would want to sit through.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/gerry (1267 words)

	Lee's Movie Info - Gerry DVD Review
		The relationship between the two Gerries is also very natural; the dialogue is spread out because, often, guys don’t really say that much and the way in which the two men deal with situations is how many would.
		“Gerry” may be one of the most interesting films of the past year, and even if you didn’t like it, it’s certainly a fine topic to hash out with those who did.
		What “Gerry” dares to do is be different and, in my opinion, is successful in its endeavor, and I’m grateful that I saw it and would recommend that those who are still interested in seeing the film see it; we can talk later.
	www.leesmovieinfo.net /Article.php?a=360 (1328 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Gerry
		Yet there was a point where "Gerry"s relentless minimalism began to strike me as amusing.
		As pretentious as "Gerry" may sound, it's perfectly capable of being taken at face value.
		There is an ending to "Gerry" and it is simple and unambiguous.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/gerry-cm-102806713.html (509 words)

	Sex, Bullets & Popcorn: Charles Schoellenbach reviews the film Gerry. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gerrys drive to a wilderness area, planning an afternoon hike to some place of interest, though we never learn what it is. After they abandon their walk because “the thing” is too far, they lose the trail that takes them back to their car, hiking deeper into the desert until they are completely lost.
		The Gerrys are not at a level of development where they possess the abilities to act upon their worlds with any mastery, and this is a source of resentment.
		Movies that gather the medium’s potential instead of restricting it have provoked our intellect, stirred our emotions and drawn a ring around lowly entertainment with an aura that is unaffectedly profound.
	www.sbp-movie-reviews.com /rev_gerry.htm (1131 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - Gerry
		"Gerry" doesn't refer to either character (they don't have names), it means a screw up - as in, "You really Gerry'd that one when you took the wrong turn back there".
		The movie reflects the mood of the characters, from the playfulness when they first start out to the desperate struggle for survival.
		This movie may not be for everyone because not a lot happens, but there are some powerful moments and incredibly beautiful locations - if you've ever been to Death Valley, the Badlands or the Painted Desert, the landscapes will look familiar.
	www.themoviechicks.com /mar2003/mcrgerry.html (572 words)

	All the Real Girls/Gerry - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Gerry and Gerry wander around the desert as the sun goes down, talking about Wheel of Fortune and some game involving Greek mythology.
		But Gerry's earlier prophecy that "everything's going to lead to the same place" turns out to be wrong.
		The movie that Gerry reminded me of, however, has nothing to do with the desert.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/gerry.html (983 words)

	Mal Dia; Van Sant's Spellbinding "Gerry"
		The movie is a revolt against the standardization of plot and the crippling predictability of narrative.
		Liberated from the constraints of exposition, the movie is a forceful examination of the physical and occasionally transcendent potential of cinema.
		Visually, the movie is loaded with spellbinding imagery: the preposterously still early morning blue light; their bodies aligned in tight formation; the awesomely beautiful shots of the sun.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_030205gerry.html (1100 words)

	Amazon.ca: Gerry: DVD: Gus Van Sant,Matt Damon,Casey Affleck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the wandering Gerrys, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are appropriately affectless.
		This movie, which is far too high priced for the boring dissertation that it is, was a total disappointment and certainly didn't take any talent to write or act in, on the part of Messrs.
		At the end of the movie when Gerry is lying on his back, his legs change from flat to bent and back again.
	www.amazon.ca /Gerry-Gus-Van-Sant/dp/B0000CBY1U (1457 words)

	Palo Alto Online: Movie Screener - Gerry
		"Gerry" is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition, chock full of brash, cinematic unfettered-ness that teases the audience by either lulling them to sleep or captivating their souls.
		A couple of contemporary jock-types (Casey Affleck and Matt Damon, both of whom go by the nickname of Gerry) are out for a day of simple, light hiking in the California desert, in search of an unnamed monument that lies at the end of an easy walking trail.
		One particularly funny scene finds one Gerry stranded on top of a large boulder, beseeching Gerry No. 2 to create a "dirt mattress" for him to land on post-jump.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /movies/cgi/moviescreener_long.cgi?id=000665 (357 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of Gerry (2003), *** (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gerry is a minimalist experiment in film that, depending on your tastes, is either a modest success or a resounding failure.
		Gerry is one of the most interesting movies of 2003 (it opened in 2002 in some parts of the country).
		It is a challenging movie, and a lot of people may find it “boring.” If you’re more interested in watching movies than in the art of film, think twice before you see it.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/ger_kk03.shtml (824 words)

	Gerry review
		From dry ravines to steep rocks and long stretches of sand, Gerry and Gerry survey the desert, confronting their own loneliness while Van Sant's camera openly embraces this landscape scorched with such rough beauty.
		It is their experience that counts and he wants us to share it by opting for a slow rhythm, a narrative stripped of all screenwriting tricks and simple, repetitive and sometimes very creative shots—as that of their two faces superimposed during a cadenced walk.
		Gerry Affleck, clad in fl and very "rock n roll" for an excursion, wears a star on his t-shirt which, as a celestial symbol of direction or position on a map, seems to taunt him all the more since he's lost in the middle of nowhere.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/gerry.html (630 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Gerry \| Deseret Morning News Web edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film is made up of seemingly endless scenes in which two men — or, to be more accurate, two idiots — walk in the desert, talking about matters so trivial and inconsequential that audience attention is bound to wander.
		These two twentysomethings are on a hiking trip in the desert, when Gerry 1 (Matt Damon) becomes irked at the number of other, less serious hikers around them.
		"Gerry" is rated R for frequent use of strong sex-related profanity, use of some crude sexual slang terms and a brief scene of violence (a scuffle).
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,330000209,00.html (392 words)

	'Gerry' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		One of the striking things about "Gerry" is that it underscores the fact that we're rarely asked to really look at a movie, to pay attention to the way shadows swallow light and to the swirls of the celluloid grain.
		In a movie that is never actually silent, just quiet, we are invited to listen to birds screech, to insects whir and to the faint echo of thunder (forecasting rain that never falls) as closely as we would any conversation.
		If nothing else, "Gerry" marks a genuine attempt by Van Sant to reclaim a personal voice that had gone mute, to rediscover, as it were, his own private Idaho.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-dargis14feb14,0,7602229.story?coll=cl-mreview (1164 words)

	Making Sense with Nicholls
		This is the personal blog of Gerry Nicholls one of the top five political minds in the country.
		Gerry's op-eds dealing with economic and political issues have appeared in several Canadian newspapers including the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star and the Vancouver Sun.
		Gerry is also a frequent commentator on TV and radio programs.
	gerrynicholls.blogspot.com (1270 words)

	Metromix. Movie review, 'Gerry' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This movie, which stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, is a perverse, poetic nightmare about two nameless guys who get lost in the desert, wandering through unfamiliar, dangerous terrain until their nerves and minds snap.
		Gerry 1 (Damon) has the trim bodylines and smirking, boyish grin of a smart-alecky jock, and Gerry 2 (Affleck) is softer, clumsier, with more imagination and less self-assurance.
		As the Gerrys trek through a series of landscapes that keep shifting like vast mirages - the movie was shot in places as various as Death Valley and the Argentine pampas - we gradually see them as oddball American strays, stranded in hell without compass or canteen.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-20823_lgcy,0,4367569.story (898 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Gerry" review (2003) Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck
		An inexplicably compelling, far-outside-the-box excursion from director Gus Van Sant, "Gerry" is a modestly sweeping experimental movie -- one of very long takes and very little dialogue -- about little more than two buddies getting lost in the desert.
		The movie's longest, most silent and most uneventful scene is also its most beautiful and fascinating.
		"Gerry" is not a movie about dramatic subjects like survival (no mention is made of hunger) or self-discovery.
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/gerry.html (368 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: Gerry, Casey Affleck, DVD, Wide Screen
		Before long, Gerry and Gerry are both lost in an unforgiving desert without food, water, or other provisions, and the harder they try to find their way back to their car, they only dig themselves deeper and deeper into the desert.
		Gus Van Sant originally began shooting Gerry in Argentina, but was soon dissatisfied with the weather and the terrain, opting to start over in California and Utah; the film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
		Many critics have speculated as to what the purpose of Gerry really was, and there have been many very plausible and intriguing ideas about said purpose (solidifying in my mind the success of this art piece).
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=2V1D8g2Axc&EAN=786936230215&FRM=0&itm=1 (677 words)

	Gerry (2003) Movie Review \| The Movie Insider
		Gerry is not the type of film the majority of moviegoers are accustomed to watching.
		Considering I was raised on MTV-style filmmaking, Gerry did test my patience during several scenes, mainly one where the camera languidly rotates 360-degrees around Affleck as he sits and contemplates the situation he’s in.
		Gerry is aesthetically stunning, but just expect a contemplative experience as opposed to one with rapid cutting.
	www.themovieinsider.com /mr272-gerry-movie-review.html (449 words)

	MJ Movie Reviews - Gerry (2002) by Samuel Tolliver
		Some movies you must truly have the right frame of mind and patience before going into them or you are going to hate them.
		Gerry is probably the number one example of all this.
		Gerry is a film about two guys, Gerry and Gerry, who get out of their car, follow and a trail and end up getting lost in a desert like area.
	www.moviejustice.com /vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=4&item_id=330 (641 words)

	Amazon.com: Gerry: DVD: Casey Affleck,Matt Damon,Gus Van Sant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The movie begins with a shot of an old car driving down a barren highway in the American southwest; for almost 6 minutes the camera fixates on the car.
		The movie was filmed in Death Valley area of California as well as Argentina; the leaps in scenery between Death Valley and Argentina are distracting.
		Toward the end of the movie, I didn't care if he lived or died and was actually rooting for the latter - only to put him and myself out of our collective misery.
	www.amazon.com /Gerry-Casey-Affleck/dp/B0000CBY1U (2439 words)

	If only they had packed a compass \| csmonitor.com
		The movie's title is their colloquial term for an awful mess, which is exactly what they're in.
		"Gerry" is an uncompromising picture - a radical experiment in stripping a story to its bare essentials, then pushing those essentials as far as they'll go, asking spectators to be as intrepid and tenacious as the characters.
		Made with a minimal script, "Gerry" was largely improvised on location, and as sheer craft it's a striking achievement.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0214/p16s01-almo.html (600 words)

	Gerry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are two ways to look at Gerry, as an exasperating exercise in perseverance (both for the characters and the audience), and as an experimental film.
		The bulk of Gerry is Damon and Affleck wandering around, and some beautiful shots of the sky and scenery by director Gus Van Sant (Finding Forrester, Psycho).
		For people looking for something to grasp onto, Gerry is not the movie for them.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/gerry.html (322 words)

	Gerry - Rotten Tomatoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Gus Van Sant's GERRY, a film more concerned with atmosphere and visual breadth than with story or plot, a frivolous hike through the desert evolves into an existential journey for two young men.
		Newton follows up her critically acclaimed roles in "Crash" and "The Pursuit of Happyness" by starring as the object of Eddie Murphy's affections in "Norbit." Click here to find out what critics are saying about the romantic comedy, and her performance in it.
		Gerry proposes simplicity; even the most capsulated descriptions of it are dubious.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/gerry (953 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Gerry" review (2003) Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck
		An inexplicably compelling, far-outside-the-box excursion from director Gus Van Sant, "Gerry" is a modestly sweeping experimental movie -- one of very long takes and very little dialogue -- about little more than two buddies getting lost in the desert.
		The movie's longest, most silent and most uneventful scene is also its most beautiful and fascinating.
		"Gerry" is not a movie about dramatic subjects like survival (no mention is made of hunger) or self-discovery.
	splicedwire.com /03reviews/gerry.html (368 words)

	Gerry - zBoneman Movie Reviews
		Essentially, this movie is about two guys who get lost, and we experience their misery in real time.
		There is no underlying message in this movie, other than "If you climb a big rock, remember how you got up there in the first place." All in all, this has to be the worst movie I have ever had the displeasure of viewing.
		The jumping off the crow's nest could have been cut to one minute had Gerry laid on his belly on the rock and slowly slid down.
	www.zboneman.com /movies/Gerry-822.html (1052 words)

	Gerry - Movie-List Forums
		i look look into it, but my point is that this is a new movie and the one you referred to is 1972.
		I am glad at least everynow and then movies like these are made and we dont have to dig into the old movies just to have something like this
		movie looks nice but u sort of gets really boring just having having 2 actors in the desert and hardly talking...
	www.movie-list.com /forum/showthread.php?p=30981 (506 words)

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