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Amnesiac (2014)
Annoying from the first minute
Having watched quite lots of movies, I've kind of a special approach to rate some on first looks.
So this one starts with an opening scene, where a man is driving a car, a woman on the front seat besides him, and a girl on the rear bench seat. It's a road like N° 1 - so especially on this road, but anyhow, the driver always has to look at the road. But was does this guy do? He constantly looks back to the girl at the rear bench seat. So after about a few instants I knew: This guy is an idiot, thereby the author must be an idiot - because he is forcing his protagonist in this role. Not any mentally sane driver keeps on looking backwards to someone on the rear bench seat.
Would you consider a movie fascinating where you watch someone throwing his car key away to find him desperately trying to open his car without this key immediately afterwards? No - I didn't think so in the first place, because it's not fascinating to only be a witness of blunt imbecility.
So what is the wit of a movie opening scene, where the absolutely dumb, incompetent continuously backwards looking driver finally has his imperatively required accident? There is none, there is only annoyance.
Just to conclude my resentment against this movie: obviously the author doesn't like cats (which I love). Anyway he uses them in this awful movie in that special way, that shows you (at least between the lines) that cats are bad and a no-good.
As I said in the title: Annoying from the first minute.
Arctic Tale (2006)
I don't like being flushed with moral messages by movies
There are two of these moral messages in this movie:
First: The usual women's libber tale: Beware of Males; The only superior beings in the world are Females. It even goes as far, that they try to suggest, it's only the (bad) males, who are killing the prey.
Second: (Usual since 10 years as well): It's only because of you male punks (Car-drivers, electricity-users and so on) that these cuddly (female) creatures won't be able to live (hunt???) in the years forthcoming, because of your blame only, their world is going to disappear.
You realise the intention - thus you are displeased.