Comments on: Telluride Review: Jean-Marc Vallée’s ‘Wild’ Starring Reese Witherspoon

By: Fat Connie

Fat Connie — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Why do Playlist reviews always read like the musings of entitled-film-school-20-somethings who haven't yet ventured out into the world or experienced trauma or loss or heartbreak or done anything resembling adult living? There are respectful, generous ways to transmit your feelings on this film – on any film – but the aim here seems instead to be snarky takedown and seems easy to source back to male inadequacy issues. Let a woman review Wild please. They may dislike the film too but I'd rather hear their reasoning than the person who wrote this review and who probably needs advanced therapy

By: oogle monster

oogle monster — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Itâs a respectable performance especially when compared to her last few years of vapid roles, but certainly not transformative; the premature predictions of the âReese-surgenceâ have already been overstated. —> Thank goodness. Witherspoon's best roles and performances are long behind her. Her post Walk The Line career is abysmal, although I will give her producing choices some credit. Knowing how beige the Academy is, she will probably still get nominated anyway…

By: Edward F

Edward F — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

How much nudity?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

This "Witherspoon comeback" was already stupid. She's done for and she can't act.

By: Jimmi

Jimmi — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Oh snap. Honesty is refreshing.

By: James

James — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

This article's last sentence strikes dead the full review, which is ungenuie.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Sounds exactly like what I imagined this movie to be – an extra-bland and equally tacky version of 'Into the Wild'.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

The following is part of the first sentence of your article: "…without having ever having attempted…"

I decided at that point not to read the rest.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Okay, I lied, a read a little more, even though I know I shouldn't have. Here is part of the last sentence of your opening paragraph: "…over the course of over 150 days."

Rodrigo, sir, you are a moron.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Who is this Rodrigo…and why do I not care what he thinks about this film or anything else…I detect misogyny….?

By: Jerome

Jerome — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

"Hallmark Card source material"? Clearly you did not read the book, Mr. Perez, as it is far from that. Also, so much for any attempts at accuracy in journalism. The sentences you claim are "an actual quote from the Strayed book upon which this is based" are not in fact from Wild. You are entitled to your opinion about both the book and the film, of course, but I would think The Playlist would care that your reporting be even remotely accurate. In this review you have grossly misrepresented the book because you've very obviously not read it.

By: delboi

delboi — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

nice review

By: wenn

wenn — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Could you describe her nude scenes?

By: lee

lee — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Have to say I always find Playlist's reviews untrustworthy, sorry guys, but they leave me bewildered, this is a prime example, Hollywood reporter and Variety think this movie's great, of course critics don't have to agree but some are more seasoned and the effect of so many competing critical voices is muddled and serves only to cast shade over films worth checking out for yourself. This is a great site for news but when festival time comes I'd much rather get a roundup of the major reviews, too many opinionated critics spoil the movies.

By: Parker

Parker — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Chaotic flashbacks? From Nick Hornby? Eh, I bet you are a person, who couldn't follow nor the Lost's storyline…:)

By: Stergios

Stergios — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Jean-Marc VallÃ©e is a really gifted filmmaker and Reese Witherspoon seems to be at her best here in terms of acting, but yeah, "letâs not mistake some nudity and no make-up for a tour-de-force performance." The overall reaction to her performance prior to watching the film is just too much. It's such an Oscar vehicle movie from her, it's almost shameless. There's another thing giving a noteworthy performance despite having onvious acting limitations like Witherspoon and Bullock and giving the one tour-de-force performance after the other and yet being snubbed from the Oscars again and again in terms of a win, like Jessica Chastain and Marion Cotillard since her win in 2008. The fact that Witherspoon gets such an Oscar buzz and an acting genius like Cotillard gets snubbed so relentlessly over the few years from the Academy Awards is really disheartening. Of course, it has nothing to do with Witherspoon, but it has to do with the Academy, who keeps on acknowledging the work of stars with indisputable talent but also indisputable acting limitations like Witherspoon and keep on snubbing the tour-de-force work of phenomenal artists. I mean, Witherspoon is certainly not the actress that deserves a second Oscar nomination if Cotillard hasn't scored one until now, no doubt about that.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

This reviewer may not have had to struggle with the abrupt loss of a parent. His dismissal of that as impetus for Strayer\’s self-destructive behavior is ignorant and childish.

By: Meh

Meh — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Who really wanna see Into The Wild and 127 hours again or another wilderness version of Eat, Pray, Love with Laura Jeanne Poon? Every time I see Reese all I can think of is: "I'm an American, I have the right to stand on American ground. Do you know who I am?". Besides, she can't act. Her overrated performance in Walk The Line was completely dependent on the phenomenal job Joaquin Phoenix did. Anyone else in his role and I don't think she would've been able to pull it off that well. Which is why it was even more annoying that she won an Oscar and he didn't. He was robbed.

By: Damian

Damian — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

More Oprah endorsed schmaltz, meant as Oscar bait, with cloying and syrupy New Age trappings.
The hype is meant to get the Academy to feed at the trough. Can't we have anything subtle that we value, where everything isn't totally obvious.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Damn. Disappointed by this review. I enjoyed Strayed's book. It's phenomenal. However, all of the criticisms of the review mirror the actual book without context. Whenever I heard Wild was being adapted into film, I legit expected a Zach Braff-inspired, indie music-filled, Eat Pray Love adaptation, and this review proved me "right." But read the book! READ it. It's great. I also think it'll be much better than any "Oprah" rec (i.e. give it a try and love/learn). Ps if you think Oprah has Osdar bait, tell than to the Hundred Foot Journey (it's not a thing).

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Also Laura Dern NEEDS a comeback. I LIVE FOR HER screams in Jurassic Park. Maybe playing an extra in Wild (the woman who laughs/cries/screams) is good for her. I just picture her hysterically laughing, insanely weeping over dinos in the California mountains whilst hiking with Reese (fan fiction). Anyone remember the insanity that was Dern in JP? And by insanity, I mean LIFE!

By: jervaise brooke hamster

jervaise brooke hamster — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

I want to bugger Reece Witherspoon, with my dick not a spoon ! ! ! (as the bird was in 1994 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

"But her parent's death still feels insufficient as an impetus towards becoming an unrepentant heroin addict and tramp while married to a man who is loving and understanding enough to rescue his wife from a drug den." Are you freakin' kidding me??? Did I really just read this moralistic claptrap in a review? Trust me, I read no further.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the theater?

Geez, this is one of those reviews that reads like a D- and then you get to the end and it's a C-. It also sounds like the reviewer really had issues with the subject matter, no objectivity. I hated 127 Hours and have little desire to see this, either. It's a wonder movies like this get made at all.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:42:03 +0000

Blah.