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I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Great Actors - no story.
Huckabees was one big disappointment.
It is a pleasure to see all these great actors in one movie, but, hey, the pseudo-philosophical, senseless chattering about the meaning of life is just appalling. It has no true philosophical or scientific base at all. It is just stupid, senseless gibberish.
Okay, you should take this as a comedy and you're probably supposed to laugh about the characters, theirs action, and their lines.
But the film lacks any structure, any real connection to life, which would put the caricatures of this film in contrast with.
What a boring movie.
Die Hyänen vom Mara Fluss (2004)
Falling in love with hyenas
I've seen this documentary on satellite and was truly blown away by the incredible footage of the hyena clan members. The first ever filmed mating scene as well as pretty nasty shots from hyenas hunting down wildebeests and amazingly beautiful landscape shots make this film a must for everyone interested in animals, biology and Africa, easily competing with top notch BBC wildlife productions.
Beyond that the director had a very subtle sense for successfully including the story of a few young American scientists working in a remote camp somewhere in the nowhere of the Masai Mara game reserve - and not only showing how their lives circle around the hyenas, but also how they deal with each other and their personal problems.
The old Masai lady at the beginning remains a mystery though - why haven't we seen more of her during the film? Despite that this movie is a solid 8