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Very best movie i ever watch

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

And, what is 1981's "My Dinner With Andre" all about - You may ask??Well - If you can imagine yourself as a customer at a fancy-schmancy restaurant and you are sitting at a table next to the likes of Boris Karloff and Elmer Fudd who are engaging in a rather loud, half-assed conversation - That should give you a pretty good idea of this film's plot-line.For me - The bulk of the conversation that took place between this film's 2 less-than-dynamic characters was certainly far from being anything coming close to real "meat and potatoes" talk. That's for sure. In fact - I found it to be just "watery soup" rantings and ravings for the most part.After having to endure paying attention to 80 minutes of Andre's incessant babble and kitchen-counter philosophy (while Wallace listened on with the keenest of interest) was (indeed) a real test of my patience.I mean - This particular chin-wag only started to pick up some significant steam in its last 30 minutes. And by that point I was way too bored to care one way or the other about what was being said between the likes of Boris and Elmer here.

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.This is very much an indie film -- lots of dialogue (and I do mean lots), overly intellectual discourse, and very limited settings (more or less a single table). I am almost surprised this came out in 1981, because it is very much along the lines of the sort of dialogue-heavy indie film we saw in the 1990s.Most interestingly is Wallace Shawn. Maybe it is simply my age, but I was not aware of his existence before "The Princess Bride". And yet, here is he, a full-fledged writer and star of a film. An indie film, but a film just the same... and one honored by the Criterion Collection.

My Dinner With Andre is a movie anybody in the world could have made. Just place a camera in a spot and turn it on. Woop-dee-doo! Instead of the movie actually being a pleasure to watch, it is just two acquaintances eating dinner together and having a conversation. Less than ten minutes take place outside of the restaurant and less than fifteen minutes take place with the men out of their table. Very simplistic films like this have potential to fall hard on their faces and totally suck. In order for simplistic movies like these to succeed, the dialogue needs to be at an extra high calibre. My Dinner With Andre wasn't even close to sucking.My Dinner With Andre is partially a true story. Before dinner, Wallace Shawn gives a voice-over of who he is and what he says is all true. He is invited by Andre Gregory to have dinner with him. Andre Gregory plays himself. I think that the only false things are some of the stories they tell. Also, their conversation must've been written and memorized. They couldn't just wing it. Good thing they wrote it and took the time to put lots of thought into a meaningful, provocative conversation.Shawn and Gregory have dinner at a fancy New York restaurant and talk about a variety of topics. Some of what they talk about can be a bit boring, but not all of it is. Gregory returns from a trip and shares his experience with Shawn and tells him how to live life to the full. They talk about how downhill the world has come and people becoming pseudo-robots. So much of what they talk about is so exciting and intellectual. All of what they say results in automatic imagery: the audience gets a clear image in their heads of what they are talking about. So this movie can also trigger imagination as well as gaining an insight about the world we live in and how to enjoy life. My Dinner With Andre doesn't have action, or car-chases, or profanity, or sex, just two men have a conversation at a nice restaurant.

Wally Shawn (Wallace Shawn) is a 36 year old struggling playwright in NYC. He's also a struggling actor and his girlfriend is a waitress to pay the bills. He reluctantly goes to have dinner with Andre Gregory (Andre Gregory) who is a former friend and colleague. Andre had disappeared over the years traveling the world.It's a lot of long winding monologues. I struggled to get invested in the conversation. This is a daring theatrical exercise but I don't feel connected to Andre's stories. It does have a hypnotic tone which can be fascinating but I also found it pompous. NYC is not Auschwitz. It's a mostly one-way conversation and Andre won't shut up. The twist isn't that surprising. Andre turns from a pompous blow-hard to a crazy pompous blow-hard. Wally is disappointing in his manic failing defense of science. At least, the ending has some back and forth.