I'd rather eat rat poison then watch this guy play guitar on the beach at three in the morning.

I finished Anything Else and I really have mixed feelings about it. The Woody Allen dialog is great, with the previously mentioned flood of quotable lines. But the characters are ridiculous. They're even more over the top than in many woody Allen films. I just wanted to reach into the movie, grab them and shake vigorously. The real problem is there was no one I wanted to root for. Jason Biggs' character, the protagonist, had me going for a while - but then lost me with all the immense amounts of crap he put up with in his relationships.

I guess that's kind of what the movie is about, how he almost needs all this crap in his life and is incapable of getting rid of it. But that didn't interest me - and in the end if you're watching a character and dialog movie and stop caring about the characters there's big trouble. It's important to note that this is different then a movie like The Rules of Attraction which is also without a character to root for, but that was much more of a exercise in style. With those you can get away with reprehensible characters.

On the bright side I continue to be impressed with Jason Biggs. He pulled off Woody Allen dialog flawlessly - complete with the nervous and broken speaking style.

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