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hmmmm...Art.....??... Fart??


Well,....
I just saw it, and i can honestly say that I am NOT going to buy the DVD. Ok If you like Artie farti then go on and see it and buy it. I really Liked the drawings and the storys.
I dont like it when the french woman is telling me in a arty way, with her "soothing, smooth WHAT Ever Voice" what is FEAR, its plain stupid or as i would call it Art Fart.

But Overall its a 5.. maby 5.5 star movie, sorry but the french do really good movies, also I like most of their horror movies, but this,.... yeah well you got my point.

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I gave it 5. I like French movies, but this sucked...

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I enjoyed every part of the movie, aside from the narrating woman. I found myself watching the patterns and ignoring the subtitles. It didn't seem to play the theme as the rest of the scenes did.

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Agreed--that French woman was insufferable. And insufferably pretentious--Really, you're afraid of being bourgeois and mediocre? That's what fear is? Also, having her snooty, post-modern narration droning on while weird shapes danced across the screen was like a bad parody of The Pretentious Art House Film.

Luckily, I was watching on DVD so I fast-forwarded through those parts.

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I found it very refreshing. I loved the drawings and the stories were darkly comical. Something different from the family-oriented Pixar animations, you know. Just because it isn't mainstream doesn't automatically make it 'art fart'.

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I absolutely agree that the lack of a mainstream agenda doesn't automatically equate a film with artsy-fartsy, but I found "Fear(s) of the Dark", while stylish, to be sadly empty and mostly insufferable. With the exception of Charles Burns' segment, I thought these 80 minutes simply dragged.

I'm no slave to the mainstream, but at least I could ENJOY watching "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs", you know?

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I'm with some of the others who have posted here. I enjoyed nearly every bit of this movie except for the strange recurring narrations and shapes. IMO, they definitely detracted from the overall tone. Seriously... Fear is watching TV with someone from Afghanistan... followed by a cartoon about killer bugs. WTF?

I feel like they should have scratched that whole bit altogether and thrown in another short, maybe even fleshed out the shorts that they already had by giving them each an extra five minutes.




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I find that I disagree with the majority here. I thought that the monologue and abstract animations were a very different, very personal reflection about the artist's fears and anxieties, about politics, consumerism and encounters with different people. I'm sure that the majority were put off by this sequence because they wanted to see a scary film, end of story.
Also, not to be blunt, but this is a French movie, and by that I don't mean "Amelie." The French as a whole are less afraid to talk honestly about these subjects and are less afraid to appear pretentious or "arty-farty" (is it pretentious to use the word "pretentious"?).

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I find that I disagree with the majority here. I thought that the monologue and abstract animations were a very different, very personal reflection about the artist's fears and anxieties, about politics, consumerism and encounters with different people. I'm sure that the majority were put off by this sequence because they wanted to see a scary film, end of story.
Also, not to be blunt, but this is a French movie, and by that I don't mean "Amelie." The French as a whole are less afraid to talk honestly about these subjects and are less afraid to appear pretentious or "arty-farty" (is it pretentious to use the word "pretentious"?).


The narration didn't have a personal touch to me because I didn't know anything about the artist. Heck, I don't know a thing about any of the artists in this flick. In fact, I thought the narration was a femininine voiced man, not a woman. All in all, it felt like tedious, stream-of-conscious dronings. Whether or not this film is French and/or pretentious is not the case here. Most of the pretentious stuff bored the audience.



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People use the word "pretentious" too much these days. Everything is pretentious now.

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What a pretentious statement.

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It was ok, not really scary, but entertaining. I thought the bug story was best.

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