Sicko is a good MOVIE. It has plot, has comedy, emotions, it's well organized and all. But as a DOCUMENTARY I found it pretty lacking: you cannot base such a strong and important critique on the single stories of people! It typical day-time-TV style: get sad stories, make the audience cry, make them sympathetic. You can't make a point without figures, something objective, numbers, data! You cannot say "in Europe and Canada everything is free and works fine", because every system has its problems. On the whole, even though I heartily agree on its point, this documentary lacks OBJECTIVITY, and this weakens it considerably. That said, I hope people in the US will watch this, OBJECTIVELY, and hopefully change their minds about free health-care systems.
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Snakes on a Plane
(2006)
a new number one
13 September 2006
after 30 minutes i couldn't believe that i was actually paying to watch this movie...every character in it is a walking clichè, the screenplay is dull, a 5 years old kid could have directed it better, the music is awful, the cg snakes are all but scary...but after a while i realized there's is a pro in watching such a bad film: i actually had a new winner in my own worst-things-ever top fives...worst movie, worst actors, worst script, worst music... it's such an awful movie you can't but enjoy it...and laugh about it (usually when there should be nothing to laugh about!) Mr. Jackson, next time please READ the screenplay before accepting a role!!!!!!!
Five Moons Plaza
(2003)
didn't they have better things to do?
1 September 2005
Good photography and visual effects don't save this movie from being really ugly. That's it.
After decades, the kidnapping of Italian politician Aldo Moro still has mysterious sides. It would have been nice to see something like JFK by Oliver Stone, with an accurate reconstruction of facts, and the director guiding us toward the truth about it (or at least some believable hypothesis), in a clear and logical way, as to be understood even by those who are not familiar with the facts. But what comes out here is half a thriller, a low quality one that falls in every cliché of its genre but that is not exciting at all, and half a confused documentary, with the characters giving us a huge amount of hard to place details. And even though the theory exposed is absolutely believable, the characters' research is still based upon FICTIONAL proof, as the reel of footage they examine doesn't actually exist
So I think I still don't get this: what was the point of making such a movie? With all my respect for the very talented actors who played it, didn't they have better things to do??
After decades, the kidnapping of Italian politician Aldo Moro still has mysterious sides. It would have been nice to see something like JFK by Oliver Stone, with an accurate reconstruction of facts, and the director guiding us toward the truth about it (or at least some believable hypothesis), in a clear and logical way, as to be understood even by those who are not familiar with the facts. But what comes out here is half a thriller, a low quality one that falls in every cliché of its genre but that is not exciting at all, and half a confused documentary, with the characters giving us a huge amount of hard to place details. And even though the theory exposed is absolutely believable, the characters' research is still based upon FICTIONAL proof, as the reel of footage they examine doesn't actually exist
So I think I still don't get this: what was the point of making such a movie? With all my respect for the very talented actors who played it, didn't they have better things to do??
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