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I love this movie so much

Overrated and overhyped

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

this movie is bad.it's boring and it's stupid.these guys walk around a mile, or so it seems from the direction,and then they decide to turn back and walk around a week to nowhere,they have no hiking and camping gear,no water,no compass,not even a packbag.they just decide to walk without knowing the area.why does matt decide to kill casey?to spare him of what?they don't seem to have come at the end of their rope yet.they are a little sunburned but nothing spectacular.OK they are tired and hungry and thirsty.but they are kids who still have strength.i don't buy this dramatic kill scene AT ALL.and then just as he kills him there is a highway about a mile ahead.and matt seems calm inside the car.the whole thing is ridiculous.it's a REALLY BAD AND BORING MOVIE.with a little push it could have been a satire movie called THE TWO IDIOTS.maybe that way it would work somehow.

A lot of desert plan, lots of inner life of the characters, if they really have it. Personally I have not been able to get bored anymore. I thought how much they would have charged for making this movie, what a shame.It looks like the director was not very excited about the movie. Plans with the actors at distance of senseless distance.I wonder why it lasts what lasts and not half an hour or so, is there any special reason? Surely the director does not know.Spoiler: In the beginning he says it all. Eight minute clock following a car with two totally mute characters. They will have found themselves inwardly, I do not doubt it, I too, but with my dreams.Suddenly they are already in the car. You think what you want you already know that he will not reveal anything to you.

I really like this movie, but can understand if other people don't. It's a one of a kind in which dialog slowly disintegrates into simply surviving. The set-up is super-simple: two friends get lost in a harsh desert climate while sightseeing. At first this is cause for amusement, but slowly it dawns on both of them (Casey Affleck & Matt Damon) that they are in dire trouble.At times, the viewer can be forgiven for being a bit restless. One scene, for example, follows the two actors as they walk across a barren landscape as the sun rises. The scene lasts a really long time; long enough to go from night to dawn. Hate that if you will, where else has that ever been done? The movie's ending seems a bit forced, but by then I was fully satisfied that an interesting tale had been woven.

To quote some other reviewers, I was "shocked" "stunned" "mesmerized". Yes, after 20 years of chronic insomnia, I was shocked, stunned and mesmerized by the realization that if I had seen this "movie" when it had first come out, I would have been spared these last 11 years of insomnia. Finally, a cure! To use a time-worn cliché: Its amazing what passes for "art" these days. I had seen the director's "Last Days" and thought that the extended shots in that film gives the viewer just enough time to re-group and center on what the writer is trying to convey, as well as time to reflect on the sequence of events and where the movie is headed. I also thought that the time-length of those shots were enough to put one in a "real time" mode. "Last Days" also featured some characterizations, events, music and settings which could draw the viewer in. "Last Days" is about as "real time" and "existential" as I could deal with without discomfort. "Gerry" had no such redeeming, or, winning, qualities. After the first 10 minutes, I fast-forwarded to the middle of the film, viewed that for about one minute, then fast-forwarded to the parting shots and sincerely believed that I had understood the entire film. I guess if I want a meditative, slowing-down-the-mind and being-in-the-now experience I will settle for my Tibetan Buddhist practices.