Extreme, unnecessary violence difficult to stomach while being boring at the same time. Waste of Dan Stevens' efforts. I thought that whole island goddess thing will have some explanation or resolution, but it didn't. Why put those flashback in there at all when they explain nothing. Avoid.
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17 March 2018
Tragedy Girls
(2017)
this was a really bad idea
24 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This film annoyed the hell out of me. i barely made to the end of it. i see some people enjoyed it and rated it positively. they said it's a twist on the slasher genre, so i guess that justifies everything. there's a scene where a student stabs a teacher and then slashes her throat. there's a scene where the two main characters lock in and set on fire all the kids on the prom night. and in the end they are rewarded for their acts, get a scholarship, or something and they drive off to the sunset together. and i guess bunch of people had no problem with that cause alexanbra shipp is hot, and brianna hildebrand looks fairly attractive with hairstyle she has in the movie.
someone made this film in the country where school shootings happen almost on annual basis. imagine how kids from Parkland High would feel after watching this film. director practically asks them to laugh with and root for his teen psycho characters.
the lesson of this film is just evil. i can't believe someone funded this morbid shit. there's literally a scene where one of the psycho girls falls in love with a boy, and directors makes it seem like she will choose him and normal life, before she hangs him and watches him die. oh yeah, and the girls murdered his mother and them used him for editing videos for their blog.
i hope i don't need to point out more examples from this film for you to get how disgusted the whole thing made me feel. i hope the flicks team reads my review and gets ashamed of their work.
i demand the director apologize for his work.
i demand all the copies of this crap be destroyed and the movie forgotten.
watch instead 'american psycho', film that doesn't glorify its psycho character and ask you to root for him
The Shape of Water
(2017)
i don't get it
16 February 2018
I watched this movie recently and i don't get why so many film critics went mad about it. it wasn't anything special. i thought the movie was pretty mediocre. i get what del toro was going for: movie was suppose to be magic and absorbing with great characters and to tell that people are often monsters and monsters can be hot. all that is nice and swell but the movie isn't anyting smashing. at moments, del toro's attempts to make more out of his characters look stupid. after seeing all of his movies i don't think he has the strenght, or skill to make something truly great.
and sally hawkins, sally hawkins had a dozens of great and awarded performances but none of those were in multi-million hollywood productions instead they were in british cinema, so i guess that most of critics raving about her saw her for the first time so they went 'oooooooh-aaaaaaaaah'. sally hawkins is a great actress, and you noticed that just now?
i hope that this film doesn't rob dunkirk of it's well deserved awards. just because something is selling sugar doesn't mean it's better that the thing that doesn't.
in fact, i just came here to say that i think i now how del toro got idea for this film. i think he got it from la la land, and that this is, in fact, his version of that film. del toro, being self-proclaimed fan of monsters and monster films mashed this with la la land and scored with critics. only problem is, while la la land was a film really well made, this isn't.
and sally hawkins, sally hawkins had a dozens of great and awarded performances but none of those were in multi-million hollywood productions instead they were in british cinema, so i guess that most of critics raving about her saw her for the first time so they went 'oooooooh-aaaaaaaaah'. sally hawkins is a great actress, and you noticed that just now?
i hope that this film doesn't rob dunkirk of it's well deserved awards. just because something is selling sugar doesn't mean it's better that the thing that doesn't.
in fact, i just came here to say that i think i now how del toro got idea for this film. i think he got it from la la land, and that this is, in fact, his version of that film. del toro, being self-proclaimed fan of monsters and monster films mashed this with la la land and scored with critics. only problem is, while la la land was a film really well made, this isn't.
The Ottoman Lieutenant
(2017)
Armenian genocide, Turkish delight
14 August 2017
This film is a joke. Some Turks financed this film as a response to 'the Promise', recent film about Armenian Genocide and rescue at Musa Dagh. Interestingly, story takes place in Van, one place where Armenians showed some measly resistance to Turkish aggression, and where Russians had brief military success. That was enough for Turks who made this thing to depict extermination of 1.5 MILLION! Armenians as a conflict between two sides.
The reason why this film has such a high rating is because it was ten-voted by denialist Turks and their Muslim brothers from elsewhere. That's the same reason why 'the Promise' sits at 6.0, although lot more filmmaking skill and effort went into that movie.
If you're just a regular moviegoer and you liked this film, you should be aware you've consumed an ill-intentioned propaganda piece. A romance to hide uncountable mass graves.
Josh Hartnett how do you sleep at night? Are you really that dumb that you didn't have an idea what have you contributed to? Or you just snatched the dough and ran.
The purpose of Hartnett in this film was to make Turks warm around their hearts when pretty American girl choose one of theirs instead of an American pretty boy.
Embarrassment and humiliation for everyone involved.
The reason why this film has such a high rating is because it was ten-voted by denialist Turks and their Muslim brothers from elsewhere. That's the same reason why 'the Promise' sits at 6.0, although lot more filmmaking skill and effort went into that movie.
If you're just a regular moviegoer and you liked this film, you should be aware you've consumed an ill-intentioned propaganda piece. A romance to hide uncountable mass graves.
Josh Hartnett how do you sleep at night? Are you really that dumb that you didn't have an idea what have you contributed to? Or you just snatched the dough and ran.
The purpose of Hartnett in this film was to make Turks warm around their hearts when pretty American girl choose one of theirs instead of an American pretty boy.
Embarrassment and humiliation for everyone involved.
On the Milky Road
(2016)
Absolute balderdash
1 June 2017
It took years(4 years!) for Kusturica, the great Fellini copycat, to finish this movie, and I just realized why. This movie is just an elaborate framework for Kusturica to pork and rub against Monica Belucci, and he does it plenty in the movie. There are scenes where they're alone in the well, alone in the tree canopy, alone amidst the flock of sheep, alone in the river... His goal accomplished, he got plenty of time with his muse, how did he call her, a true European film diva so different than Hollywood actresses, or something similar. The same European diva that starred in big Hollywood franchises like Matrix and Bond movies, that starred in crappy Hollywood action movies opposite Clive Owen, Bruce Willis or Nic Cage?! Oh-oh, looks like his muse isn't that much different from Kusturica's arch-nemesis Angelina 'Maleficent' Jolie, after all.
'What about the movie, yo?!' If you're by any chance, a Johnny Depp fan(or who knows, maybe you're a Vincent 'The Brown Bunny' Gallo fan) you may have watched 'Arizona Dream'. Well, this movie is exactly the same like that one. Slapstick comedy + tragedy(violence) + episodes of soulful Balkan ethno music, it's all here too.
After watching this movie I officially ordain Kusturica the badge of 'Tommy Wiseau of European Cinema'. Who knows, if Wiseau had Kusturica's resources and the pristine backgrounds of REPUBLIKA SRPSKA to shoot his movies at, maybe his achievements would be greater.
Conclusion: Kusturica has the brains and the looks to play the Frankenstein in the next Universal's revivals of the character, if their negotiations with Javier Bardem fail.
'What about the movie, yo?!' If you're by any chance, a Johnny Depp fan(or who knows, maybe you're a Vincent 'The Brown Bunny' Gallo fan) you may have watched 'Arizona Dream'. Well, this movie is exactly the same like that one. Slapstick comedy + tragedy(violence) + episodes of soulful Balkan ethno music, it's all here too.
After watching this movie I officially ordain Kusturica the badge of 'Tommy Wiseau of European Cinema'. Who knows, if Wiseau had Kusturica's resources and the pristine backgrounds of REPUBLIKA SRPSKA to shoot his movies at, maybe his achievements would be greater.
Conclusion: Kusturica has the brains and the looks to play the Frankenstein in the next Universal's revivals of the character, if their negotiations with Javier Bardem fail.
go away
23 December 2015
Braveheart
(1995)
an honest review
16 March 2014
i do not know much about William Wallace or that English-Scottish war that movie depicts, but, by all accounts, neither do Mel Gibson and Randall Wallace. if there is so little history in this flick, then it is to be considered as a romanced hero tale. as such it is grotesque. 'the hero' does such acts of sickening violence that it feels like exaggeration of sort, kitsch, camp, but the rest of the movie is straightforward so it is not. i believe that this was one of the most violent films ever made, at the time when it came out. there were very graphic films and before this one, but those were mostly exploitation b movies. this one brought gruesomeness of movie killings into the mainstream. unfortunately, it was very well received. audiences loved it. so it opened the doors for many others to come. and two more from mr. Gibson. so sadistically violent, that it is impossible for me to see them any other way, except some sexual fantasies. and to make things even more disturbing they all have some Christian overtones. 'the hero' here dies a martyr death. same with 'apocalypto' where the brownskins are punished by 'crossbearers' for being savages. all in all, the message of the movie is deeply twisted and evil one, in the way that it smuggles the act of killing, as something sacred, a holy right of every man. too late to whine now, when all is done, the film discussed is a cult classic..
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