Best movie ever!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

If I had saw this movie when it first came out in 2009, I may think differently about it. It's interesting to me how outdated the movie feels. The story centers around a high price escort doing her job just after the finical crisis of 2007 and the 2008 election. The constant mentioning of these two events makes the conversations feel forced and not natural, which is strange considering the film came out a year after these events, events that we are still going through as I write this. The movie is cluttered and makes no sense. The editing style makes you need to watch it more than once to understand what is going on (I myself watched it twice). The only problem is, I did not find it entertaining enough to even sit through it once.Sasha Grey is not all she's cracked up to be. I've seen pron stars in mainstream movies act better. I've seen her act better in mainstream movies. I guess I should not be so harsh since this was her first mainstream event. It may have been a better idea if Soderbergh at least got better actors for his supporting cast, instead of the dry uninteresting folks that make up this one. A lot of the movie is just conversations and it looks like the actors were picked because of their grasp of the conversation topic, which was about money, rather than their capability to make this topic interesting to someone uninterested in the topic.The movie does feel like a beta test for what would become a string of movies Soderbergh would end up doing after this with the same style to it. Unless your that die hard of a Soderbergh fan I would watch every movie that came after the Girlfriend Experience instead.

when I first found out that the legendary Sasha Grey has appeared in a long movie, I couldn't wait to watch it. With all the mystery accompanied with that nymph, I expected something more than just a dull, poor-directed drama. It was really a hard one to watch to the end. In addition Sasha's performance wasn't up to expectations. I mean it's too sophisticated for a porn star, but too amateur for a Hollywood actress.Characters of the story are shallow. You don't get anything from the the first role, Chelsea, other than she is an escort and has a boyfriend. Very little background, very little details and justifications about why she is doing this, unless you imagine reading some personology books as justification! you also don't get anything from the boyfriend and why he is getting along with this. The story doesn't even start half way through the movie and you're like why exactly am I watching this? Well I'm watching it because of Sasha Grey, but other than that there is no reason. The director tried to tell the story in non-linear style with flashbacks and flash forwards but it didn't work at all. It's like they divide every scene into a couple of parts and threw every part on some point of the movie randomly! There is no meaningful order. To sum up if you are fond of Sasha, well you gotto watch this but if you want to watch a deep, interesting, touching drama then this is not your movie. I wish they could use Sasha's character in a better way.

Steven Soderbergh's docudramas are polarizing, although i have nothing against them. However, in The Girlfriend Experience it is unclear whether there is a message, criticism or was it just another artistic experiment.Sasha Grey is surprisingly good, if you bear in mind her previous experience in front of the camera, but the scenario was to weak, in my opinion. We follow Sasha Grey's character as she earns her daily bread as a high-class prostitute.It is a shady world she lives in, yet everything was filmed in such a matter-of-fact manner that i felt neither revulsion nor pity. It was unclear why should a girl such as the main protagonist choose such vocation, which, according to this film, feels like just another line of work.Again, The Girlfriend Experience is almost a documentary, which eventually left me wondering why i'm watching it, at all...

I was drawn to this film because of the casting of Sasha Grey and Steven Soderbergh directing. I was actually sort of baffled by it....Steven Soderbergh directed an indie starring Sasha Grey?! What?! I just had to check it out.They had an interesting concept. Drawing parallels between politics and the world of the prostitution. This movie potentially could have been really interesting and insightful. Instead it was extremely bland, awkward, and pointless.The core of the issues I feel that the script is very, very weak. The filmmakers had a good concept and it is beautifully shot, but the script is honestly terrible. The dialogue is awkward and it has very strange pacing. There is no character development at all and none of the characters are written to make a lasting impression. All of them are boring. Sasha Grey's character, Chelsea, is poorly written, which is a shame considering she is the main character. Chelsea doesn't seem to have any motivation. There is no explanation for any of her actions that are hurting the people around her.The next big issue is the acting. I mean, with a script with such awkward dialogue and zero character development, it would be hard for ANY actor to put on a good performance. There wasn't much to work with. However, one can tell when an actor is actually trying. Sasha Grey's acting is honestly horrifying. Ms. Grey looked bored the entire movie. She delivered her dialogue in a very wooden manner. She is very robotic and awkward. It was as if she didn't even try. Even in the more dramatic scenes, her voice stayed the same, as if she was just reading her lines off the script. If she is trying to pursue acting after this movie, I would highly suggest that she get an acting coach or take some lessons, because she has some major work to do. As a matter of fact, I would advise her to not even try because she is just atrocious. When she says her dialogue, there is no feeling behind it. Sure, the script was bad, but it's pretty obvious that even with the greatest script in the world, Ms. Grey would still be awful. She looks like a movie star, she really does. She is beautiful. However, she comes across as very emotionally vacant when she is "acting" and she has no charisma or charm.Her costar, Chris Santos, who plays her boyfriend, never had a chance. He probably is a good actor, and I could tell he really tried to put on a good performance. But it's a lost cause because of the terrible script and a terrible costar.There isn't much a plot and the story went nowhere. No explanations to anything. It was overall quite a boring movie. It could have been good with a better script and a better actress to play Chelsea other than Sasha Grey, but it totally missed the mark.It's not worth seeing. I was drawn in because such a high profile director (Soderbergh) was directing Sasha Grey in what looked like an indie drama about prostitution. However, it's just an indie snoozefest and the casting of Sasha Grey is just a gimmick. Sasha Grey just can't act, plain and simple.2/10 only because it is beautifully shot and has good cinematography. Other than that it was a waste of time.