Change Your Image
doctrNIC
Reviews
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
This film is more of a documentary than a story. It stresses the fact that man is "shortsighted" and denies the chaos theory.
Whether or not you enjoy the film entirely depends on what you are looking for.
This one, for example, is fairly poor as far as entertainment is concerned. On the other hand, it's goal is not merely to entertain, but to make people "think different". Without paying attention, you can easily lose track of what the doctors in physics and neurology are saying, and so must pay extreme attention if they are to strike you at all. If you have no notion of philosophy, biology or physics, you may not consider any of what is said in here to be possible, and so will not grasp the deeper meaning or aim of the film
Deeper Meaning This film that reconciles man with his environment and can largely be brought back to a form of existentialism: these doctors are not telling you what to believe or telling the truth, they are merely advancing hypotheses (because that's what science is about, believe it or not). Moreover, it succinctly explains complex theories such as that of quantum physics in a simple way, so that each and everyone can understand. This is in fact done to make you understand the infinity of possibilities, and so perhaps change your own lifestyle.
The aim of the film is to provoke thought, and I can guarantee it does. "How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?"
The Long Weekend (2005)
Losing a job is stressful, especially when your only brother is a brain moron. Eddy bets his career over one weekend's work...
An extremely poor film in EVERY sense of the term. It may have provided the occasional guffaw, but is far from funny. If however, you are a true fan of toilet humour, this film is for you! Poo and penises: this film would make an 8 year old laugh, and even he would have grasped all the depth of the jokes. The "flash of genius" of the hero at the end is far too predictable it's sad and you never really feel sympathetic towards the hero because frankly, there's not much of a character.
Overall, it must have been a darn long weekend for the scriptwriters who must have written most of the plot with their hands behind their back, considering the result.
The single scene worth remembering is Cooper's talk to God, whose voice is materialized by thunder and lightning. Other than that, nothing interesting.
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Bushman go on quest. Get rid of evil thing.
Some films deserve to be in the top 250, some don't: take Spiderman out and put this in! It's qualities range from it's critique of "civilized man" through simple narration to the bundle of laughs that are brought thanks to simple slapstick. It can thus please a wide audience. Slapstick for all ages, and the fine wit conceived around the clash of the bushmen's culture and that of the "civilized" man.
It is a truly hilarious film! -slaptsick involving a clumsy, yet inventive man -different points of view, namely that of the bushman in opposition with the rest of the world yet also that of a primary school teacher who encounters for the first time nature and the wilds
(Do not read unless you have seen it!This may spoil the fun.) Short analysis of one main theme A criticism of "civilized" man Searching a little further, one can notice a criticism of modern man involving the thoughts of the bushman and the voice of the narrator. Moreover, it also brings out the shortsightedness of modern man: whereas we can make planes, and computers, as far as we are concerned, a bottle is a bottle and has no further use. However the bushmen believe the coke bottle to be a gift from the gods and find many uses for it: brilliant to tan skins, it can also be used to crush food, break wood and serves as a "musical device". Furthermore, once the bottle has disturbed the peace in the family, rather than become homicidal maniacs, the bushmen resolve to cast the object from their lives, whereas modern man, once again, resorts to violence: this can be seen as one of the aims of the implicit aims of the "coup d'état" storyline early on in the film when the banana plantation is destroyed and the theme of control is brought up. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and so the bushmen cast seek to exclude any sense of ownership or envy from their lives by ridding themselves of the bottle. Later in the film, the bushman is imprisoned. Through the scene in court, the director clearly shows modern man's willingness not to understand a strange culture: as far as the bushman is concerned, animals are free and to be eaten, however he does not understand he has broken the law when he shot a farmer's lamb. As in most cases in the past, the court sentences him immediately, without trying to comprehend his notions of communing with nature. This is brought to light at the very beginning through the narrator's voice: "modern man, however, has spent most of his time adapting his surroundings to him".
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
The blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) attempts to save the governor's daughter in an action packed tale of pirates.
Far be it from me to judge films like a specialist, but POC is quite an experience. Throughout the film you will obviously notice what makes it good, but perhaps not what makes it fairly appalling. Johnny Depp takes the part of a half maddened pirate who lost his ship years ago and subsequently arrives on an Island whereupon he encounters the blacksmith who has no expression. Keira Knightley is just as poor as her majesty's fellow servant. Luckily, Johnny Depp is so good, you don't notice the other two who are just terrible. All in all, the film is enjoyable, although the story lacks any real twists. How can you guys have rated it 8.1?
Batman Begins (2005)
Through this film we discover the reasons Bruce became Batman (as we didn't already know) and we encounter some strange homicidal group of ninjas: rather inventive.
I came out of the cinema having enjoyed the last hour and a half. Yet, this was pure entertainment and Batman Begins is in no way a Masterpiece deserving to reach the top 250. It may stay quite close to the original comic,but does not equal Tim Burton's more fantastic, yet more grounded interpretation of the Batman Universe and Gotham city. Moreover a massive machine that evaporates all water would probably evaporate us rather than expose us to maddening gas: funnily enough, the plot of putting the gas in the water pipes comes straight from an episode of the cartoon. Frankly, the super hero films are in general becoming more and more poor ever since Spiderman. At least Batman Begins was a cut above the average, which is The Hulk, Daredevil and Spiderman, but it is in no way an excellent movie.