[gambit]

Wow, I'm really the first one to have watched it? I got it yesterday from the Netflix and just got done watching it. I'm not sure where we want to head with the conversation, so I'll just go with my initial reaction.

Damn, this movie is stylized. I know I've seen this before oh so long ago because I remember the crooked road pattern that we see four times throughout the movie (the entrance to Joe's work, the rip in the wall of Joe's apartment, the lightning bolt that rips the ship apart, and the path up to the volcano). Just about everything is over-the-top, comical, and melodramatic. Meg Ryan pulled out three distinct personalities at once, each absurd in its own way, and Abe Vigoda as the chief of the orange soda can-wearing Pacific Island tribe? Gold! I was almost going to get serious and question how Joe and Patricia could possibly fall in love so quickly (and Joe and the red-head Meg Ryan, even though that was one-sided), but this movie is clearly not for the serious minded. Even the limo driver was great.