Powder | | Cast : | Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery | | Director : | Victor Salva | | Studio : | Hollywood Pictures | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 27, 1995 | | DVD Released Date : | July 01, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | Ever felt alone...? | Content
 | This movie has been one of my favorites since I first saw it years ago. I bought this DVD from Amazon, I had it on VHS but decided it was time for DVD. I love this movie because of what I get from it. "Powder" (played by Sean Patrick Flanery) was outcasted from day one... I wont say how because I won't ruin the movie for anyone that hasn't seen it yet, but he was picked on, and always felt alone. I felt a connection with the character so I took to the movie right away. It's just an over all really great story. Very touching scenes that can be quite emotional at times. If you've ever felt alone at any point in your life, check this movie out, you won't regret it. This will always be one of my favorite movies of all time. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 25, 2005 | | Summary | Could have been good | Content
| I use to like powder when i was younger but i did have alot of problems with the stupid things that happened in the movie. There were some moving scenes, but i did not like it when everyone used powder and stabbed him in the back after they got what they wanted. I remember my mom saying "were they his friend or what towards the end they all practicaly turned on him" I agreed. And the ignorant prejudice against powder for being an albino was exaggerated. I remember saying HE'S JUST REALLY WHITE, so what, but from the very beginning, even before they knew of his powers, they said WHAT THE F*CK WAS THAT? As if he was some sort of inanimate object. It's weird. jUST Stupid demented ideas throughout the story. For instance the spoon scene. The purpose of that failed to be obvious. What is suppose to be cool? Did he do it to show off his abilities but if he was smart and knew people were already very discriminating against him, why let the whole school know that he had powers? WEIRD movie. Nothing made sense. The only scene that did make sense was the deer scene. I'm against sport hunting and i liked it when he put the deers pain and suffering death into the shooter so he could feel what the deer was feeling. That was the one message i had no problem with. THAT and the "don't judge a book by it's cover" but that message fails miserably because no one seems to learn that message. The characters keep getting stupider and stupider. And the terminally ill scene was also moving, but like i said they used him, and then turned on him. I havent seen this movie in years but i remember it quite well. It's full of flaws and weird scenes, and comes off as being cheesy at times, and it gets you mad at times TOO. I understand what they were trying to imply when writing this story, but they failed when they wrote all the weird scenes in. Alot of the garbage in powder defeated the whole purpose of the message. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | "I'm not like other people." | Content
| Eveybody's different.....especially Jeremy Reed AKA "Powder." And he was born with stark-white skin, and no hair on his head. Not even when he's 16 does he have any hair. For 16 years he has been living in his grandparent's cellar. When he is asked to come out, everybody is freaked out by his appearance, and the fact that he can conduct electricity, but not everyone likes him. He is smarter than anyone else around him and it is thought that he is a state of being that nobody will be like for thousands of years. During the film, it is said that there is no classification high enough for Jeremy's knowledge, so like Edward Scissorhands, it must make Powder a "freak of nature." He doesn't know what the world is, but he is totally different. Some people in the movie almost think his reactions and his appearance are almost creepy.
Mediocre movie, overall. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 14, 2005 | | Summary | Great Movie! | Content
| I saw Powder at the theater when it first came out and I thought it was a great movie. It might have it's flaws, like any other movie, but it's still a great movie. Just because the writer-director Victor Salva was in prison for molesting a child actor, doesn't make him a bad writer-director. He might be a sick man, but he still made a great movie. If you've never seen this movie, don't let that stop you from watching it. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 14, 2005 | | Summary | A Vastly Underrated Hollywood Movie Einstein Would Love | Content
| Victor Salva's POWDER fuses science with religion perhaps even better than Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, because it goes to the heart of what life may be all about - that every living thing is actually an indestructible bundle of living energy, a belief held by Albert Einstein.
As Jeff Goldblum's character in the movie eloquently says to Sean Patrick Flanery's, the movie's title character a/k/a Jeremy, this was also the basis for Einstein's belief in life after death. Goldblum's monologue goes on to suggest that the almost perfect human - possibly represented by "Powder" (Jeremy) himself - would evolve through eons of love, understanding, and the 100% use of his or her brain (as opposed to the apparently less than 10% most of us are using now) to the point that he or she would no longer require the human body and would literally become the purest form of that human energy - as "Conversations with God" author Neale Donald Walsch might call it, a living flame finally prepared to interact lovingly with other living flames (not to mention God) without fear.
Goldblum further quotes Einstein later in the movie even more poignantly: "It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity." However, with its heartfelt direction by Victor Salva, superb acting by Goldblum, Flanery, Mary Steenburgen and Lance Henriksen, other-worldly photography by Jerry Zielinski, and J.S. Bach-level score by the late great Jerry Goldsmith, POWDER is proof positive that sometimes our humanity DOES surpass our technology, even in Hollywood. |
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