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Piaffe (2022)
1/10
Millennial self-indulgence
3 December 2023
This is yet another fetishistic project from yet another artist wannabe (read, maladapted person), that wants to take herself very seriously. It's another millennial "proposal", therefore, soulless, empty, futile, which leaves you with a deep sense of having not only lost your time but an opportunity for understanding reality better through metaphor. There is no identification with the main character, and indeed pushes an array of characters that can be situated outside of reality and, indeed, society, with which only freaks can relate to. There is absolutely nothing to take from this, no redeeming quality whatsoever. Watch it...if you want to waste your time and feed the morbid pleasure of this "director" to pull you into her game.
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Nothing Personal (I) (2009)
1/10
WHAT IT REALLY IS...
6 March 2023
This movie is the director's ultimate fantasy. Through the brat girl, she projects not only her puerile attempt of rebelling against goodness on account of her own problems, but also her biggest one: her overwhelming and shameless oedipal desires toward her own father, in the image of the man, who, by the way, happens to be alone, sensitive, compassionate despite her millennial tantrums. The perfect ending to the fantasy (after she lies naked next to the dead "father", romanticizing thus consumation of the act), is that they won't have to live a real life together and he leaves all to her. Predictable,
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It Follows (2014)
YOU CAN TELL IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY BAD...
23 May 2022
...when the name of some unknown person is the first thing you see at the beginning of the movie. It's like movie-bait. I guess they think they're going to fool the zombies into watching an "auteur"'s opus, a "rising promise"'s work, etc. These people come up with a "concept" and the idiot/nihilistic/highAF producers give them money, because they sound convincing or something. You cannot make a movie with just a concept. The plot holes are so enormous, they would never pass in film school, let alone in the real world (we're leaving in an unreal world, for several years now). Once more, another movie writen, directed, by a child. In these ever so repetitive u.s. Movies, the "young adults" have unlimited resources, can do anything they want, and there are no constraints from the reality the rest of us live in. Oh yes, the closer to reality the better for "horror" movies, and, especially, since this one wants to be taken seriously, it misses the mark by not even hitting anything! AVOID THIS IF YOU VALUE YOU RESPECT YOURSELF.
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Hatching (2022)
UNBELIEVABLY...
23 May 2022
...BAD! This was evidently written by a 12 year old girl, probably projecting herself as the girl's character. This thing would not even pass an introductory course in film school. It cannot said it was supposed to be hilarious because it's not even that. The acting is awful, the premise is worse, and the entire result is rather embarrassing. If this is Finnish cinema, i think i will avoid further productions from that country. Utterly soulless material. Avoid if you value your time and intellect.
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Undergods (2020)
EXCUSE
23 May 2022
No, no, i'm not asking for the "writer/director" of this...thing...to be forgiven, no. What i want to say is that this is yet another pathetic excuse of meaningless self-indulgence under the excuse of "postmodernism". This piece of manure is so pretentious and pointless that it's hard to write anything more than this. There is absolutely no plot, and obviously the aforementioned guy thought he can fool people into believing this is art. There is no plot, only the vehement desire to spread a nihilistic view of human behavior. Probably, he's another new world order lackey, that is all. AVOID THIS IF YOU RESPECT YOURSELF.
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Hellbender (2021)
1/10
ANOTHER OF THE NEW LOT
7 March 2022
So, this is yet another new world order satanic tool, disguised as a feminist, u.s. Cheesy mom-daughter as best friends, witch, "horror" movie...oooh...they're so scary these women, with the predictable ending, given the trajectory of the simplistic plot. Unfortunately, if anyone ever reads this, especially u.s. People, they will be even more drawn to it, and surely will like it. The people that make these kinds of things know what they like...
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Old (2021)
1/10
A TEEN WROTE THIS
22 October 2021
A waste of time to watch this. I did, so i know. This b movie is so bad i just had to keep watching to really grasp how low this "director" has sunk. It wasn't even funny, but baffling. The story is childish and indeed tries too hard, and the dialogues are utterly shallow, "american", which is already bad enough, and worse, they explain their own observations to let the audience know "where they're coming from". Yes...it was baffling. The "acting" was hysterical, forced, artificial, painfully amateurish. And, of course...it was very woke, sticking to the NWO agenda going full throttle in unhollywood. Truly baffling, what they're putting out...these last days...
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Katla (2021)
2/10
UTTERLY AMATEURISH
20 September 2021
Welcome to the town where everybody does whatever they want, cars are there for anyone to make use of (with petrol, too!), and people only speak when they want to, and keep quiet because of the damn lazy writing of baltasar kormakur, who never lets us forget it's "his creation" at the beginning one every single episode. Indeed, in this town, there are only a few people, even though apparently all the services are in order. No petrol station, but there's petrol in every car, food, though there's no supermarket, etc. The plot-holes, which are scattered all over every episode, happen every time kormakur doesn't know how to close a scene or pretends to "leave it as a cliffhanger", hollywood style. When we return to the characters, everything has gone on as if the last scene between them had not happened. Everything is smooth now. And indeed, kormakur has watched too many hollywood series and movies. This series reeks of hollywood. The dialogues are simple and childish, and it makes one wonder whether icelanders are really like this or just for this shameful portrayal. Do they talk like hollywood characters over there? No, i don't speak of the dubbing. Obviously, the reactions and dialogues are the same as u.s. People act and talk...unfortunately. Every time kormakur needs his characters to do or have something, they do, just like that, it's easy. Like life, isn't it? In life, every time we need something, it's right there for us! No? Well, in this story it is so. There is not one likable character, not one for anyone to identify with, making this story not an organic story. And, of course, some are these "strong characters" now, with this NWO entertainment. Evidently, kormakur takes himself very seriously. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he is a millennial. This waste of money is one big millennial's mess, badly written and predictable. Scenes and dialogues are extremely artificial. People don't really talk like this, especially in the "deep" scenes, where people talk as if reading a book. A comic book, at that. Do not waste your time in this. Since this platform cannot stand a 0 rating, i must give it two, one for the cinematography, and the other for.aliette opheim's performance. If i could take off stars, it would be for.sigurdsson's character, his especially bad lines, acting, and overall presence. By the way, the last episode is the most comical one, with.grima's character repeated but the idiot husband never seems to notice (actually, the idiot is komakur for writing such piece of puerile rubbish), the suicide scene, and the "happy ending" while she plays the piano. Oh, and don't forget to keep smiling the cow, hollywood style, with the rise of the living dead...these are end times, for sure...for this crap to be made...
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Amulet (2020)
1/10
BEWARE
5 September 2021
This thing belongs to the new kind of programming; the direct kind, that intends to sink the world into darkness. It's the literal annihilation of the male by the female (hiding as art), the worship of "the goddess", the NWO plan. Evidently, romola garai has sold her soul. This platform forces one to give stars, so i will have to give it one, so that i can submit this.
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Ema (2019)
1/10
another "auteur' movie...
22 March 2021
Having grown up in latin america, i can tell you that people don't behave like the people in this movie; the characters, very unlikable and forced, talk in a raspy voice, which is not normal, but it is surely intended to give it a sense of...something, something serious, something "real", making it very unreal and laughable. the movie, if not the director, takes itself very seriously, and the end result is a very gay, very self-absorbed idea that has nothing to relate to. don't waste your time with this one.
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1/10
lars trier's autobiography
15 December 2020
This movie (not a real film) is probably lars (von) trier's most autobiographical. it's evident he indulges his psychopathic tendencies disguised as the character of mr sophistication (already a big self-congratulatory hint), but, given his monumental blunder (or was it?) at cannes, where he said he understood/identified with hitler, he tries, albeit poorly and childishly, to counterbalance the sheer evil of his own projection with Virg's character, who is supposed to be the light that puts the darkness in its place. as with many of his other films, he takes himself very seriously, which comes out as trying too hard, pretending, actually, sophistication (!), and ending up being not very worthwhile, honest material. the gruesomeness is quite gratuitous, and it's clear both, he enjoys this gore himself and also intends to shock, given the story is not very strong by itself. you can always shock people and say it's art, and if you don't like it, then you didn't get it or you're not bold enough as he is, to show 'the reality' of the subject matter. he did a little research on serial killers and thought he had it down, but he came up with a cartoo; now, some would say that's the whole point, to make this a black humor film, but if that is so, the humor was lacking in the black. if you haven't watched many good films, you might even think this was good, only by contrasting with your little exposure to true art. indeed, even he has some good films, not many, but some. if you're morbid, you might like this one. otherwise, move along.
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1/10
worthless
6 December 2020
Either the 'director' doesn't know how to tell stories or she takes herself too seriously. Actually, it is both, indeed. This is a disjointed movie that does not make any sense by the end, to a surprising ending that might explain its structure. Not only are there no characters to identify with whatsoever, as good stories have, the dialogues are overdone, senseless, and intended to dare, perhaps, the audience to go beyond what is said, but actually, they are empty. This piece of rubbish is a very personal waste of loads of money, with the excuse of being art. It is very likely the 'director' is projecting herself through the quite unlikable character of the mother. If she wanted to portray german society as sad, neurotic, flat people, she definitely succeeded. This movie, or whatever it is, is what happens in industrialized countries where people have so much they don't know what to do with it and themselves; they make absurdity and call it art and even award it with the silver bear! Unglaublich! Needless to say. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME...
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Touch Me Not (I) (2018)
5/10
another "intimate" portrait...
28 December 2019
Touch Me Not is a disjointed, postmodern, feminist, exhibitionistic, self-therapeutic attempt by the director of the film. There is really no narrative, but a straightforward portrayal by a frigid, apparently traumatized woman (seemingly by her abusive father, represented by the dying man at the hospital?), intermingled with politically correct "integrative" alternative views of sexuality, probably an intention of naive openness (so european!) -a blatant expression of how developed countries are so far removed from common sense and simpler, healthier ways of human interaction, alienated by their own (un)doing. it is astonishing to me, a denizen of a so-called "third world country" how these kinds of movies get made, how such a person can get funding for her own therapeutic process, which really is so personal it is hard to relate to, from any point of view. And yet, it is evidence, through the glimpses of the interjecting scenes, of how neurotic europeans really are, in many cases by their sheer weakness out of material comfort, but poverty of true intimacy: at the end, even the "film maker" says she thought she knew everything about intimacy, evincing her arrogant naivety. This movie is a reflection of extreme cases, without going to extremes. I give it five stars, nevertheless, from the excellent cinematography and the acting, especially, Laura Benson, who plays the frigid woman excellently. Hopefully, the director will one day mature in order to make better material...and not think she knows everything about film making...at her very young age.
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