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Open Season (2006)
any spoilers? what, there is something to spoil in this movie???
yep, i can hardly remember anything about this movie, except there was a bear and some other animals. and yep it was greatly animated! in desperate search for the beginning, end and a plot you may see all of them clichés summed together in a cheap manner: Austin powers, typical Disney-like plot-try, a very, very, very bad try to rip off Shrek and HIS sidekick...
it generally lacks - everything, but mostly the story. as if the Sony *MARKETING* guys made "brainstorming" picking the "best of laughs" - spicing it up with "national" kinda bias: Irish, Austrian, etc. whatever... and gave it to cg people.
wrong. terribly wrong.
El laberinto del fauno (2006)
Disney this...
i was blown away.
after tons and tons of "american pies", "star wars"-like cg-overkilled soulless *products* - well politically correct polished consumer rubbish - finally a movie that moved me! for those out there - this is a real, bloody, very "real fantasy" that is meant to scare the hell out of you (like every other fairy tale, if you remember any).
it has all the elements you can usually find at every Disney movie, fear of loss (parent, child... etc), deepest "ur-ängste", heroes, bad guys, good guys and a happy ending. not interrupted by lar-pur-lare cg - you can actually hardly notice any - which is good nowadays.
and as for those who think no children should see this one - because it contains gore - think about snow white: for example, the hunter is sent out to kill a innocent girl (just because she is prettier) and bring back her heart...
Disney that!
Unknown White Male (2005)
nice made fake, 5stars
really nice made fake. makes you feel so Disney.
the discussion about whether it is true or not: who gives a sh*t about one rich git having no problems after all, living in a loft, without need to work or earn his daily bread? does it matter if such ignorant would lose his memory? pffffft. there are millions of people i would care more about. so many children dying every second, and one "emotionalized" something should make me think, sympathize or similar? no way...
the "amnesia person" played in the "documentary" does not care himself, about his past, so why worry? no priceless info lost for the mankind after all. along with this perfectly forgettable spoof.
get a life, people!
Lopovi prve klase (2005)
Take the money and run
Well, actually "take the money and run" is to be interpreted as the very solid attempt to raise funds for - movie adaptation of an actually awfully bad play written by Fadil H. - most celebrated comedy writer in his country.
a wannabe "theather of the absurd" as a universal critics upon thieves infiltrated in highest ranks of the establishment is a farce without teeth - not even a slightest political insinuation (don't forget who payed for the movie after all) yet aplenty of worn off jokes spread regularly in "theater of boredom".
the only good and very sad highlight in this "play" is the cast - such nice talents giving in their soul for a non-worthy shallow script, even in the very amateur "musical singing scene" with horrible light, camera etc. - but as there is an old saying in Bosnia, where 95% of the cast, narrator, writer & team comes from - "ne pravi se pita od govana".
Art School Confidential (2006)
how to do so little with such a great cast
john, angelica... man what a cast - and what a poor movie. how to make this awful dish?
- pick some great actors who hardly made a decent movie in years, - pick some fresh, unused faces (acting itself does not matter) - put in totally unnecessary characters to water and lengthen the plot - weirdo&granddad, "local" gay etc. - use aplenty of other clichés and add a bit of "american pie" humor - mix in some crime - oh yes a strangler! - spit on arts which no one cares about/understands anyway, so let it be that way - lar-pur-lare meaning here ignorant idiots for ignorant idiots - add a few stupid cops - and finally give some "nifty" idea at the end (just don't call it message) so we can think about "after this masterpiece" for 2 nanoseconds.
argh. does anyone make a *movie* these days? all i see is making a *product*... pity, esp. for wasting such good cast...