Cubussoli
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Lovesusti
The Worst Film Ever
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
moonspinner55
Dark comedy, more puzzling and inscrutable than satisfyingly quirky, centers on the ever-changing circumstances happening to a modern day suburban couple who bring a gun into their house. Writer-director Stacy Cochran seemingly has a lot to say about "internal and external regeneration," but never manages to put all her thoughts together (the people in her screenplay talk haltingly, measuring their thoughts between their words). As a result, we're drawn to Diane Lane's lovely, quizzical concern as the housewife to doctor Stephen Collins but not much else. The scenario is intentionally vapid, with these neighborhood weirdos living in a vacuum, but Cochran isn't able to make her sideways vision funny or interesting. *1/2 from ****
Rodrigo Amaro
Sometimes there are films that are so weird that it's actually good to see. Sometimes that are films that are so normal that's actually boring. And other times that are weird films that are boring and pointless trash. This last example is the case of "My New Gun", a not funny story about a woman and her problems with a gun given by her husband. Debbie (Diane Lane) is awarded by her husband Gerald (Stephen Collins) with a .38 Special only because another couple friend of them did the same thing. But Debbie starts to think that her gun might explode during her sleep, and she barely can't shoot with it. In the middle of this dumb situation Skipp (James LeGros, the reason of why this movie was watchable) a neighbor friend of Debbie appears to help her to deal with the gun. The story gets so lousy to the point of Gerald accidentally shoot his own foot, stay several days in the hospital and when he's finally out he wants to divorce his wife. By the time when that happens he's an annoying and unbearable character who's only action is to scream to his wife. Not funny!Skipp actions starts to disturb Debbie, first because he "stolen" the gun, didn't said to her why he needed to used it, and then his friend (Philip Seymour Hoffman) also accidentally shot himself (we never know what happened to him after this). The mess gets bigger when Debbie plays the detective and starts to investigate Skippy's mysteries to find that his strange mother (Tess Harper) is a former country singer with problems with her husband (Bill Raymond). I guess I told the whole movie. Almost two hours of my life that I won't be able to explain why I wasted. Let's see...It had good actors and the story seems to be very different and cool to see it. That was my thought before I saw it. My thoughts after I see it: It has noting funny, the good cast was wasted, although I find James LeGros very mysterious and good here, but another director could give him a better lead character in another movie. Almost all the characters here are non-likable, with some tasteless punchlines and behavior. And what's the point of the movie? It didn't criticized anything about guns and their problems, it only shows someone who fears it but in the end she is forced to used it and not even recognizing that in the right time it can help you. Not even a statement or a satire over the excessive use of arms in Hollywood films. It wasn't like "It's the Rage" (very good movie about the indiscrimination of bear guns). Bottom of line: It didn't needed to be made. Waste of money (the producers's money and the people who's about to rent it). 3/10
sactor
Overall I felt that this was an extremely well written movie. I had not heard of it the first time it came out, but a friend recommended it to me and I just loved it. I even suggested it to my in-laws who loved it as well, and they don't like anything. I loved the angle the writer used. The plot is not like all the other boring ones seen in the theaters today. You are never quite sure what will happen next, because everything that happened was not expected. The dialoge is smart and quick bringing in a plethora of one liners that provoke laughter. Best part....see Diane Lane at such a young age and still giving a great performance. This is a great date movie too because the sexual tension is done extremely well.
helpless_dancer
One of the weirdest comedies I've seen yet. I didn't think it was funny or even particularly interesting, and at times it played much like a drama. The acting was fine, I merely feel the writer was smoking banana peels during the project's creation.
