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Fat Pizza (2003)
This is truly awful!
This cheap POS is unbelievably bad.
The jokes aren't funny, often it's just grossness as a cheap humor substitute, the rest of time they're just flat, and even if they were they are so obviously coming that all of the humor has dissipated by the time that they arrive.
The characters are cardboard and even if they weren't the actors all look like they are playing drunkenly drawn caricatures. Furthermore the actors are so obviously playing to a camera and getting cues that even if the first 2 problems with the character depiction weren't there you'd still have the realism of the typical elementary school Christmass play.
This movie looks cheap, not just low budget but tacky colors and deserted scenes along with ham handed camera work make it look even cheaper than it likely was.
God this sucks!
Blindness (2008)
Bigoted
Groups representing the interests of blind people, such as the NFB, are protesting this movie. Basically this is due to its linkage of blindness with immoral conduct. You couldn't get away with a movie where some plague turns everyone into blacks, after which they all turn into depraved animals... or at any rate I dare you to try! So should this movie get a pass?
As to the plot itself, it's been done, "Day of the Triffids", with more realism. There are plenty of others that do the same thing with other devices too, "Lord of the Flies". So why this? This guy got his Nobel Prize because their Portuguese quota needed an entry. That's far more money than he deserves.
Don't see this movie.
Wild Things 2 (2004)
Rich?
It's almost all been said about this dreck already except one thing. Yes I've found a new complaint for this rubbish! Apparently the people creating this movie have no idea how wealth should look, or they thought their audience would be fooled, or perhaps they thought that everything else in this (Did I mention this movie isn't worth downloading for nothing?) awful flick was so bad nobody would find the time to complain about what I'm going to complain about! Whatever. The limousine the supposedly wealthy girl rides in would have been old in 1990! The, rather small, home she lives in is devoid of decent furniture or art (Oh but it has a plain and cheap looking wine cellar, she must be rich!). The clothes Ms. Ward wears could be obtained easily at Sears.
It has been said already that this drivelfest fails to get even the easy stuff right and this is yet another example.
Pity I can't give it a 0.
Riel (1979)
Not accurate at all.
OK this might be entertaining but it is not a very accurate portrayal of the life of Riel at all There is no evidence that Riel went to Ottawa, let alone signed in at the parliament buildings. Riel hardly knew Gabriel Dumont during the time of the first Rebellion, they are only known to have met once before the second rebellion. The film omits any mention of Riel's treachery such as when he convinced a number of illiterate settlers to follow him by "predicting" a solar eclipse. The reason that he knew there would be an eclipse is he read it in the paper! As has been mentioned before Riel's appearance is not very accurate. This was an ambitious effort by the CBC to create an epic Canadian mini series similar to the US series "Centennial". It succeeds in my opinion in being entertaining with pretty good production values and aside from Riel's life itself is quite good at portraying the history and the characters in it. However as Riel is the main character and is portrayed so inaccurately I can't give it more than a 5.
Edit to add new information:
Well you live and learn. I have since discovered that Riel did sign into parliament after all. I still cannot upgrade my rating for this series because the overall portrayal of Riel is still very inaccurate.
ABC Afterschool Specials: Fawn Story (1975)
Positive, inspiring, lovely country scenes, a death and Kristy!
Very good, seemed to do a lot with a little, what I remember! I only saw this once and that was some 25 years ago. This film features Kristy McNichol whom I along with millions of people my age fell in love with. Obviously they didn't have a lot of budget. Virtually all shot outdoors in the country by the look of it. Cast is nearly all kids. Had a lot in common with ABC after school specials but this dug deeper than those. Without specifically knowing why it looked to me like it may have been shot in Canada. Pity there aren't more details anywhere I know of. Pity I don't know how to submit a summary.
Plot as I recall it: Kristie and a paraplegic boy who meet in this lovely bucolic setting. find an abandoned fawn and try to take care of it. They are sort of opposed by the local bunch of bully morons however the paraplegic boy manages to charm them and the fawn and the 2 new friends are getting along great. It's all too good to last...
The scene that is burned into my brain is when the local ranger tranquilizes the fawn to take it away. Kristy and her buddy don't want him to. The ranger gives them a spiel about how it will be better for the deer. Kristy and her paraplegic friend watch uneasily. When the dart hits the fawn it falls over... dead, as the ranger confirms! Kristy throws herself at the ranger hitting him in that random enraged way that young girls often do when fawns are shot! Her tears and anger are perfect. At the time I watched I could have killed that ranger with my bare hands for doing that to "my Kristy"! Oh yeah I felt bad for the fawn (that's sarcasm, scene was very moving but Kristy's outrage really sold it). I believe the rest of it consists of her and the paraplegic boy getting a campaign together that persuades the authorities to treat abandoned fawns more humanely. Of course at the end they prevail and the adults are properly chagrined.
Much worse films have been made with far less excuse!