The worst Movie ever!
I'm sorry to say that, but that's what I think of this movie.
The actors did great job, but the story miss something...I don't understand what exactly this movie wanted to tell..
i completely agree. it was brutal and ugly against women and children with out giving the audiance any kind of consolation or explanation for it. what was the bloody point? though the performances were ALL amazing.
the bums will always lose, mr. lebowski!
I whole-heartedly agree! And can anyone tell me what the point of the fox biting the girl at the beginning was? I thought it might come up in the trial--that she had rabies--but if it did, I missed it! It might have been when I was pounding my head against the wall at the horrific nature of this movie!
Yeah, here's another voice of agreement. I dunno if I'd call it the worst movie ever, but it sure was a movie that finished without a bang (no pun intended). I mean, Paris was a lout, okay, but what's the point? And what was the sense of having his mother in there at all? Maybe to prove that he was rotten even as a kid, because now that his mother was old and infirmed, he wouldn't even brush her hair? But to tell you the truth, I thought the old woman (his mother) was Barbara Hershey as an old woman and she was just flashing back. But then I was confused, because Paris went to see his mother, and then we see Paris again with Barbara Hershey, so I was thinking, "How come he didn't age, too?" This film should be cut up for guitar picks, as they say.
shareOne more....the plate glass that Paris lays down on his bedroom floor. Why? So he can tell if anyone's walked on it, to lay a trap for him in some way. But yet his wife walks on the glass, discovers her error, then cleans the glass. Okay, so much for Paris's foolproof plan. So the wife could go in and boobytrap the bedroom and then clean her footprints off the glass. Paris would never know. Just a dumb, dumb movie.
shareIt's good to know that others found this movie a mess. I have been wondering if there is anyone out there who gets it as it left me totally confused. A very twisted movie indeed. I was very disappointed in Dennis Hopper in this one.
shareI had the misfortune of seeing a sneak of this as part of the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) film series. The woman who played the maid was sitting behind me, her three small children sat beside me, and every time something horrific was about to happen, she actually leaned over and told them to put their fingers in their ears and close their eyes 'like I told you.'
That was horrific enough. But with what was going on onscreen I began taking her cues and plugging my ears and closing my eyes.
The current Wolf Creek is much along the same lines (so I've been told) of basically being a torture flick disguised as something else (in Wolf Creek's case a 'horror' story and in this one a gothic drama).
I know the director is Jake and Maggie's father, but this was an abortion. I felt nothing for any of the characters. I was so sickened by the end the only thing I wanted was for someone to annihilate the memory of this sad, sick picture from my mind.
I guess nobody else noticed the story about complacent workaday racism in this movie then.
Just like the townsfolk who ignore the fact that citizen Trout is free to walk the streets again a mere 24 hours after being jailed for two years for the manslaughter of the 12 year old girl he kills in cold blood (a few seconds after he pops her upside her head with his knuckleduster). He was provoked, yanno.
I think this is one of Hopper's finest performances. Pure evil from start to finish, and as boneheadedly bigoted as any good ole cracker of the time. No hysterical camp overacting, just a vile psycopathic personality portrayed to perfection.
The corrupt judiciary, the all-white jury, and the warping of the facts to avoid facing the truth, are a vivid depiction of the ills of the American apartheid system.
Did you expect a fluffy happy ending or something? That's Ed Harris, folks, not Tom Hanks.
For an American film to be so blunt, and not pull any punches, is almost unique, but for me it stands with The Day of the Locusts as a perceptive glimpse at the unpalatable truths that mark the soft white underbelly of American culture.
Harris, Hopper, and Hershey play their characters without any fancy inflections and 90 minutes pases in a flash.
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See my previous post, but try reading it without blinkers this time.
Simply because a story is bleak or harrowing, doesn't make it unhealthy, uninteresting or unworthy of filming.
Requiem for a Dream is equally pessimistic and accurate in its characterisation of the base end of humanity. Maybe the subject matter touches a raw nerve? Big deal.
I don't know you, and I couldn't care less how you justify your distaste. There are 6 billion other more interesting stereotypes on the planet.
Life isn't all sugar coated sweet fluffy bunnies with happy endings. If you are so easily offended by perceptions of grim reality which differ radically from yours, then I'd suggest that the problem isn't with the film. It's in the subjective overlaying of assumptions and prejudices. Objectivity isn't ilegal yet.
A book was written that was deemed worthy of adapting for the screen. And so it was financed and filmed. Nobody said you had to like it. Nobody forced you to watch it. They obviously forgot to ask for your creative input. For shame.
When you've finished huffing and puffing and feeling insulted, I suggest you look up the term "situationism" in your big book of stuff.
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awwwww. poor thing. You seem a bit petulant and perhaps a little too used to getting your own way. Shame the world doesn't recognise your genius and faultless logic.
Your distaste for this film seems to spring from your own prejudices and preconceptions. I don't care how screwed up your life is, but trying to overlay your opinions as fact on a movie which dares to question your tedious and rarther pretentious heterodoxy is kinda dull. Good luck with your humility classes. And with your petty last wordism.
Nice work, pottle.
I really don't care what you think
Which is why you took the effort to respond with a 1.000 word post.
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I didn't take the time to read it, actually. And I merely estimated the amount of words, though it would be truly astounding if you managed to get to exactly 1.000.
In any case, your bad-tempered childish name-calling doesn't reflect particularly well on you.
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Hey Desh, the iggy function was created for trolls like that one. I used it after the sublimely verbose, incoherent, and blatantly hypocritical spiel it trotted out to justify its nasty idiotic ramblings. Morons get everywhere, but on imdb the blessed iggy button can spare us their trolltastic gibbering.
This one feeds on negative attention, but it probably still has a few hundred issues to work through with its shrink. Not being taken as seriously as it pompously takes itself appears to have left a gaping wound in its psyche.
Chocolate chip or oatmeal?
Opinions, opinions and more futile opinions; flowing around and around like mote flows around an old decaying castle. They change nothing.
This film is simply a character study on on a seriously disturbed bully, and a very good one at that. If yhe post starter along with the sympathizers and flatterers of this pathetic form of detraction had wanted whistles and bangs I recommend XXX, or the fast and the infuriating.
Yep it's based on a bully but also on the rather cowardly folks who are either too afraid to confront him or don't care about him as long as he doesn't get in their way. That's the only flaw is that I a hard time believing that no one would dare kill this scum sooner or later. I think Squelcho made great points, Dennis Hopper is awesome in this but I think the other posters expected more backlash and we get nothing.
"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
I think Squelcho did make very good points, and I was surprised and horrified that so many people still refuse to acknowledge the racism endemic in the South. Pretending this is some aberration on the part of one bad apple just doesn't cut it, especially on the weekend holiday commemorating the murder of MLK.
As for 'littleredmess': "it was brutal and ugly against women and children with out giving the audiance (sic) any kind of consolation or explanation for it."
Are you kidding? It was a story about a scumwad Southern bigot convinced of his innate superiority to black people, reinforced by most of the whites surrounding him. Of course it was brutal; it was about wounding, murder, sexual and spousal assault. Disney it wasn't. What makes you think you are entitled to consolation, and what is it precisely that you don't understand?
And who do you think is going to be the person who "I have a hard time believeing (sic) no one would dare kill this scum sooner or later." Why would they? Who would it be? If you don't understand that then you should stick to the Marvel Comics. At least things always come out for the best there.
Take your head out of your arse and look around.
Simply because a story is bleak or harrowing, doesn't make it unhealthy, uninteresting or unworthy of filming.
My thoughts exactly. I really thought it was a great film and Hopper was exceptional.
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. -Claudette Colbert
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I also thought the movie was great, and Hopper's performance at least Oscar-worthy
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