I watched Paranoid Park earlier, and it is easily the most overrated film of 2007.
The problem has to do with the way the story is told, the abnormal chronological order they use just reveals too much too early, and by the time you hit the 30 minute mark, everything is figured out, there are no surprises, and you're spending 50 more minutes watching a fucking kid walk around. I hadn't been that bored watching a movie since I saw The Two Towers.
Then it would replay some scenes, some of which were quite insignificant to the story... just plain boring.
Had the film been say, 30 minutes, which it easily could have, I could give it a much better review, but the amount of filler (some scenes you're watching a person skateboard for 5 minutes, with no relevance to the story at all, the same thing with walking scenes, and driving scenes... The amount of story relevant material is only about 25 minutes worth TBH)
I'm typically a fan of Gus Van Sant's work, but god damn did he flop on this one. Hopefully Milk doesn't fuck up like this.
I need to watch some more movies... time to use some vacation time!