Happiness

Good Machine | Release Date: October 16, 1998

2.6	USER SCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 211 Ratings

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ComideanAug 25, 2019

Only boring depressed white people would find this movie “clever” or entertaining. It’s a shame that such a talented cast would take part in such an pointless project. If you feel life is so goddamn meaningless then why even make movies.

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Foliage22Apr 4, 2021

Totally repulsive & utterly pointless. .............
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DuffioFeb 27, 2012

Supposedly absurdist and very clever, but to me just seemed a monotonous, overly-lengthy, sordid mess with pointlessly dysfunctional 2D characters. Wantonly repulsive and depressing: a black comedy without the comedy. Abysmal.

10 of 14 users found this helpful104

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NazguleroApr 13, 2011

Amazing ! I have never in my life seen a movie where pretty much every single scene was disgusting, depressive, and repulsing. Why would a filmmaker make this movie ? What is the message ? What should the audience get out of it ? It simplyAmazing ! I have never in my life seen a movie where pretty much every single scene was disgusting, depressive, and repulsing. Why would a filmmaker make this movie ? What is the message ? What should the audience get out of it ? It simply shows the worst of people, in a ridiculously exaggerated way...
Try assuming that everyone is great, and capable of great things, for a change !… Expand

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AnthonyP.Jul 12, 2008

Clever, yes, but so utterly cynical, so completely bitter: every single character is either singularly pathetic or reprehensible - almost no complexity or dimension to any person in the film, no handle to grasp anyone's humanity, unless Clever, yes, but so utterly cynical, so completely bitter: every single character is either singularly pathetic or reprehensible - almost no complexity or dimension to any person in the film, no handle to grasp anyone's humanity, unless you accept that humanity is just the pits! The writing is all affect; the lines, gratuitously sardonic: self-involved people happlessly dumping on one another, poisoning everyone, everything in the film, poisoning the film itself. There is no glimpse of potential for any character - no soul; all misery. What amazes me is how much favor it has found with the critics. Are they so cynical, so starved for originalty (one credit to this film) that they are happy to bathe in its abject, unrelenting wretchedness? It must be a holiday of schadenfreude for the culturally overfed!… Expand

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