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For Landon’s directorial debut, Burning Palms is a movie that threatens to leave no taboo unexplored but the film seemed scared and hesitant of its own subject matter, and never takes the plunge into the deep end of dark and satirical film-making. In this way the movie fails.
Jan 14, 2011 · “Burning Palms,” Christopher B. Landon’s ambitious and effective debut feature, reveals in five vignettes the fragility and desperation that lurk beneath the surface of the lives of some...
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Burning Palms completely misfires on all cylinders, and unless you're a stuck up film school snob who thinks they find more meaning in films than is actually there, avoid this one at all costs. It's not worth an iota of your time.
Burning Palms: Directed by Christopher Landon. With Jamie Chung, Rosamund Pike, Dylan McDermott, Shannen Doherty. A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate.
- (3.1K)
- Comedy, Thriller
- Christopher Landon
- 2011-01-14
Jan 14, 2011 · Although an uncommonly good cast has been assembled for these “Five Tales of Madness” presented in graphic comic book style, Burning Palms is too thoroughly unpleasant and stylistically...
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Burning Palms is a twisted and sleazy series of five short tales, all set in Los Angeles, each one designed to make you very uncomfortable. Some are shocking, some are funny, some are both. Some of the stories end and leave you without explanation, which is frustrating.
