!!!!! POSSIBLE MILD SPOILERS !!!!!
ALONG FOR THE RIDE ( As I know it - I`ve never heard of it called FOREVER LULU )has an opening very similar to film noir , then becomes a road movie then tricks the audience into thinking they`ll be watching a thriller about a " disturbed mental patient going on rampage " but then the film pulls the carpet from under the audiences feet as it turns into a mawkish tear jerker. This isn`t a mixed genre road movie , it`s an extremely unfocused movie , just when you think it`s going in one direction it does a U-turn and goes into another direction entirely . There`s also some other aspects in the script that bring the film down : The dialogue veers between the flowery and the banal , a good example being " I just wanna suck the light from the stars " which sounds like a lyric from a Throwing Muses album . The lines not helped by the next line being the painfully obvious " Lulu , are you taking your medication ? " I can`t say ALONG FOR THE RIDE is very well directed or acted either . Melanie Griffith frequently shoves her wonderful cleavage into the camera but if we`re using this criteria to judge films then surely PITCH BLACK is the greatest film ever made ? ! Patrick Swayze just doesn`t do enough to communicate the pathos and torment his character is going through which I found very surprising . To do this I`d have thought all he had to do would be reflect upon a few years back when he starred in DIRTY DANCING and GHOST and compare it to his present status . I`m sure he`d have no problem turning on the tears in that case
ALONG FOR THE RIDE ( As I know it - I`ve never heard of it called FOREVER LULU )has an opening very similar to film noir , then becomes a road movie then tricks the audience into thinking they`ll be watching a thriller about a " disturbed mental patient going on rampage " but then the film pulls the carpet from under the audiences feet as it turns into a mawkish tear jerker. This isn`t a mixed genre road movie , it`s an extremely unfocused movie , just when you think it`s going in one direction it does a U-turn and goes into another direction entirely . There`s also some other aspects in the script that bring the film down : The dialogue veers between the flowery and the banal , a good example being " I just wanna suck the light from the stars " which sounds like a lyric from a Throwing Muses album . The lines not helped by the next line being the painfully obvious " Lulu , are you taking your medication ? " I can`t say ALONG FOR THE RIDE is very well directed or acted either . Melanie Griffith frequently shoves her wonderful cleavage into the camera but if we`re using this criteria to judge films then surely PITCH BLACK is the greatest film ever made ? ! Patrick Swayze just doesn`t do enough to communicate the pathos and torment his character is going through which I found very surprising . To do this I`d have thought all he had to do would be reflect upon a few years back when he starred in DIRTY DANCING and GHOST and compare it to his present status . I`m sure he`d have no problem turning on the tears in that case