I had been looking forward to seeing this since the summer, when I first saw the preview, which is probably one of the best previews Ive ever seen next to Casino's.

Anyway, I had these incredibly high expectations built up in my head, and about a week ago once the reviews started coming out, which were about half and half good/bad, they lowered a bit, but I still had high hopes.

I thought it started out nicely. I had no problem with the humor, which I completely wasnt expecting, as it was a lot funnier then I thought.

But my real problem was, I only wanted humor for like the first half or so, and then I wanted it to get serious, which I really felt it didnt. I almost jumped out of my seat and freaked out when Swofford, the main character, was talking about losing his mind, because there had been NOTHING to show the viewer that he was going through anything like that.

I really wish they wouldve done some crazy psychological mind study shit, but we got nothing of the sort. I got my hopes up again when Swofford has the dream where he vomits sand, but it lasted like 10 seconds and that was the only time they did anything like that.

I think had I gone in with different expectations, not already thinking I knew what I was going to see, and perhaps not expected a really deep film, I wouldve been more happy. I was looking for something in the vein of Taxi Driver or Fight Club or something, a real study of the main characters mental deteoriation, but I got nothing like that.

I'll probably give it a rewatch in a year or so, but I was ultimately very dissappointed.