Buffalo '66 (1998)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Watching Buffalo 66 because as per the title the film was shot a good deal in the city that is home to me now. I did recognize a few places, but the rather weird story kind of put me off.Vincent Gallo plays a young man newly released from prison who has hidden his incarceration from his parents is now coming home to his less than loving parents Ben Gazzara and Angelica Huston. He's said he's married so he has to produce a wife. What to do but kidnap a wife and in this case Christina Ricci.Usually that kind of premise signals a comedy, but Buffalo 66 is anything but. Sadly the best part of the film is with the parents which covers about half. The rest is half.Gallo and Ricci are quirky but in this case it wasn't enough to grab me and hold my attention. I'm in agreement with other reviewers who say Gallo feels no self worth due to the environment he was raised in. The future isn't optimistic for either of them.Acting honors go to Gazzara and Huston. Wish the whole film had been about these two self centered jerks.

I watched this movie because of all the glowing reviews of this and was sorely disappointed. It's low budget, low quality filming, with terrible writing. It looked like it was filmed with a home movie camera or something. Logically it makes no sense at all. The dude just treats her really badly and is a jerk yet she wants to be around him. Interjected in the movie are these bizarre flashbacks that are weird. The entire movie is weird with spontaneous dancing out of nowhere or weird singing like it's on a stage but it's really just in a bedroom. Very unrealistic and just plain dumb. It may be the worst movie I've every seen and it's really annoying how the dude just complains and is mean talking and rude to this girl all the time. I wish I had never seen this.

I saw the original preview for this film in 1998 and never forgot the strange main character. I finally figured out what film I was looking for and watched it on Amazon. Thanks to Gallo, a great cast, and a good script, it really is a good film. A character study of a marginal personality-a guy who is barely able to hold it together, who meets a young woman who sees through his off-putting facade and really wants to get to know him, in spite of his twisted family history and repulsive mannerisms. The fact that Vincent Gallo was able to corral the excellent cast he did to fill out the story must be a tribute to the quality of his script. There are no clichés in it. It is one of a kind. It's ironic that a script of this quality can attract good actors, but not the money to make a more polished film. On the other hand, the basic, workmanlike production suits the story and the locale-down-and-out Buffalo, populated with characters that work perfectly in this story.

This film is about a man who has just got out of prison. He kidnaps a girl and makes her pretend to be his wife in front of his parents.You need to be in a certain mood to appreciate the subtle beauty of "Buffalo '66". The lead character Bobby Brown is not a likable person at all, as he is rude, aggressive, impulsive and egocentric. The plot might appear slow moving, but underneath this slow motion there is a wave of emotional undercurrent. Bobby is unloved throughout his life, which is so well portrayed by the shocking interaction of Bobby and his parents. The relationship between Bobby and Layla is strange and yet captivating. The motive of Bobby for finding someone to love is clear, but unfortunately we do not know why Layla cooperates with Bobby. She could easily have walked away, but she chose to stay. "Buffalo '66" would have been even better if Layla's backgrounds and state of mind were told.