Stranger than Fiction

[Regus]

An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.

Trailer:
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s...ction/trailer/

This is probably the first Will Ferrell movie that I've actually looked forward to seeing in the theatres.

[arjue]

Cool idea, i hope they pull it off.

[Tommy Tallarico]

The idea is hot, but that trailer just fucking drags. If they can't make just a few minutes entertaining, I don't know how they'd pull off a couple hours.

[jonas]

I just saw this movie last night and I have to say that it was wonderful. The acting, the dialogue and the general plot and story of the movie were really well done. They were unique, but not so unique you have no clue what is actually going on. It's straight forward while remaining a little quirky.

Ferrell acts completely different in this movie with only one scene where he could be compared to his comical movies (it's not even over the top, it serves a purpose - 'HAROLD IS SWINGING A LAMP FOR NO APPARENT REASON' when he is trying to figure out why the narrator of his life won't say anything.

If you didn't know the plot, it's about a man named Harold who works for the IRS. He lives his life in boredom and does everything the exact same everyday. He's a numbers man. Eventually he wakes up to find his life being narrated by a voice only he can hear. Then the narrator says that Harold is walking into his doom which makes Harold stop and try to find the author with a literature teacher (Hoffman). Along the way he falls in love with this rebel baker girl who he was auditing and everything in his life changes.

It was a great movie and I really recommend it to anyone. The ending is great and makes the movie really heartfelt and sweet.

4 out of 4 stars.

[aren]

I just came back from seeing this. I thought it was meh. I saw the plot of the story within the story coming from a mile away.

However, I got to admit, that the scene with Harold getting hit by the bus at the end was awesome.

[Mr-K]

I wrote a short story for my creative writing class with a similar premise (a character refuses to do what the narrator says) in september and saw the trailer for this roughly a week after I finished it. I thought I was being so clever *sigh*

[Thief Silver]

Hrm Aren or Jonas's opinion...

[Regus]

I saw it today, and I would say that it was just okay. The premise is excellent, but they didn't push it as far as they should have. There were a lot of moments in the movie that lagged on and on, this movie should have had a much faster pace. They also should have explored the elements of narative more, I liked the scenes in which hoffman was like "if I don't move the story ends", the movie needed more of that.

I liked how the movie would visualize harold's thoughts, that was pretty cool.

This movie really could have been awesome, but it couldn't live up to its premise.

[bbobb]

Bump.

I just watched this movie today. I thought it was damned good, with a great concept behind it, but it just didn't pull it off perfectly. More time definitely needed to be spent on the concepts of stories, especially on the ideas of a tragedy.

Also the ending really left a bad taste in my mouth.

The movie should have ended either right after Harold died, or else shown the writer selling the book. Keeping Harold alive was a cop out, and really ruins the movie IMO. I think one of the most important things in the movie is when Hoffman's character tells Harold "you don't control your fate, just enjoy life while you can". That should have been the point of the movie, the fact that in the end there is no control over your fate, but you can leave something behind. Something that in the end may be even more important then yourself. The having Harold live thing just felt like the typical Hollywood happy ending BS.