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What is this rating(~7.0)? What are you talking about?(spoilers)

posted 16 years ago by konstantin_felixov
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I watched the movie just 5 minutes ago and I will try to make a summary within a single sentence:
"A completely moronic family finds happiness through the act of taking a huge s..t. The immortalizing scene is played by the star of the movie Mattew Perry."
There was no consistency over the story. There was any lack of logic and though that seemed to be a main part of the screenplay it works as if it was shot by a heroin pumped junkie. Even more so I decided that perhaps I should set my mind on the brainwaves of the cast and smoked a J as well - not only it did not help, but also worsened the sick, misguided feeling that entangles you while watching the movie. It does not have any development but a ton of nonsense actions and a ton of brown revenge - expressing the deep pain Perry was holding in his stomach through the entire movie.
Maybe I am not a "Shallowood" five star critic, but I'm an addicted movie fan and I am glad to watch any type of movies. There is one requirement though - they should make some point. And I have seen movies detailing a single act through a 120 minutes gap and yet they portrayed angles, possibilities, made connections and question marks around them. This one doesn’t. It is plain stupid, urban-centered, problematic masterpiece of CR*P!!!
Don’t watch it – it will not only waste your time, but make you feel worse. It will not teach any values to the audience and moreover if you ever feel like you want to struggle against injustice done upon you(the tone of the movie) that will be against the painful time spend watching it.

[–] shaw1989 15 years ago

I tried to watch the film, but towards the hour mark i got bored by the lack of events/plot/action.
Maybe i should've finished watching it, and i probably will try to see it in its entirity at some point, but i just felt the story was rather too sparse to grip my attention

[–] PaigeGirl 15 years ago

To the OP...maybe you should be a little more open-minded. It was a good movie and made more sense than your "moronic post". I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion. Well, this is mine: You should really try to understand life better...because that movie pretty much summed it up. And no, I don't feel I should 'waste my time' trying to explain that to you.

That's my opinion, and I'm stickin' to it.

By the way, I gave it more than a 7 rating...

Meow.
I just love kitties!

[–] konstantin_felixov 15 years ago

Sure thing, paige...
Well I am sorry for not being „a little more open-minded” about this abomination of a movie. Sure I could watch a non-developing plot, but not for the entire movie. To be this open minded – you should have your head cracked open, literally. And this sentence “You should really try to understand life better...because that movie pretty much summed it up” gives me the idea of what’s your life about. And in such a life this movie might not actually be a waste of time and infliction of great pain upon us. LOL
But seriously, I was enraged by the fact that I paid for this movie, now I just feel sorry for the folks that made, sponsored or watched it. The director in my opinion should be your husband, sharing the life you got and getting his benefits for what this movie inflicted upon all normal people. But here is a better plot, that in my view YOU would nominate for an OSCAR(actually all of them)…
“Clouds, thunder... a man under the rain. The bus is getting late and he cannot get back from work. His home is 30 mins away by walk and he could hardly make it in the rain. This is the last bus for the night. He starts thinking about the game he could not finish, about the cat that was run over on the street 25 years ago, the Himalayan monks tortured by the Chinese, the Armani coat he never had money to buy and the poor Orcas that might face extinction. The rain keeps falling, he feels his feet getting cold, these old Hugo Boss shoes are not waterproof anymore…he is getting the common cold syndrome. Therefore his stomach starts an avalanche and even darkens his thoughts. He waits on the bus station with these thoughts for about 6 hours, represented in 80 mins of video. 81st minute the bus arrives and the driver shouts “We had a broken engine, amigo. You are the only one dump enough to wait on a station just 1 km. before the end of the line.” The main character is enraged and in an act of vengeance takes a big and nasty *beep* in front of the bus and starts walking home. The orcas are safe and the memory of the fatal accident with the poor cat erased. Cherishing final moments and huge applauses… Credits!”
PaigeGirl: " Oh, that is so touching and brilliant. This masterpiece is representing life itself! It is 'larger than life', I am telling ya if you don't get it you are not 'open minded'"
Gosh maybe you should grow brains? I reckon its hard for you, but please DO TRY.
But I guess this is my opinion and you have to stick with it…
LMAO.
I just checked females under 18 rated this movie 9.9 on average...hey pagie you got sth to do with this? If you grow brains you would understand what a depiction is that to the others ~7 scorers. Compare it to:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397313/ - Eight below, 7,6
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/ - The pirsuit of happyness, 7,8
and many more
But to your brain they are equall masterpieces... CuCu?

[–] PaigeGirl 15 years ago

I'm 38, not under 18. And you don't have to be a jerk. I don't think I was. But whatever. I'm glad you had soooo much time on your hands that you could actually write "My Movie".
Grow up.

Meow.
I just love kitties!

[–] tjer4003 15 years ago

to say that this movie has no plot or development shows one of the following. you weren't paying attention, you can't understand the plot, or decided that you didn't like the movie before finishing it and refused to see any plot.

i wouldn't say that this movie sums up life. but many of the situations that happen in the movie can easily be related to what many people go through.

one of the easiest ways to discredit something is to just oversimplify it. it's cool if you don't like the movie, but to attack someone you don't even know because they did just seems kind of foolish.

[–] konstantin_felixov 15 years ago

"but many of the situations that happen in the movie can easily be related to what many people go through. "
Like letting the big brown lobster go 'free willy' in front of your neighbour's house?
What a life...

[–] tjer4003 15 years ago

there you go with your oversimplifications again. it must be easy to always take things at face value while never having to read into them at all. it's also really easy to use one of the most extreme cases to show that you think someone is wrong. i said many situations, not all. yet you pick the most outlandish example to take apart what i said. although if you look just slightly beneath the surface in the scene you brought up, you could find something that people can relate to.

[–] PaigeGirl 15 years ago

tjer, I think we should just ignore this person. He/She obviously has nothing positive to say about anything, so let's let him/her get on with his/her so-called life.

Meow.
I just love kitties!

[–] konstantin_felixov 15 years ago

What it seems to me is that you both want to suck the moral fiber and attach it as a plot vehicle here.
How many people got family problems? How many people have lost parents? How many people are way worse? Should we make a movie for each one of them? Will a movie portraying a kid getting beaten up every day and not fighting bad be any good? Would ‘moronic’ conduct do the trick?
But hey oversimplification also is just the word to defend every single soap opera playing on earth. So why not watch all these characters - they have dreams, ambitions, problems, life and for not much reason do it in 1000 or more episodes.
Now I want you both to understand that if you make a movie about it that movie must have at least two angles of the story. I repeat again portraying a sick family is just not good to make a movie. So if everyone is crazy why not take a camera and walk in NY. That should be a masterpiece. What MP did at the end of the movie displays the abysmal effort to make some development in a non-existing plot.
But hey it was not me that said this one portrays life. Good at least that Shakespeare, Voltaire or Aristotle could not read that. It would flip them in their very own graves.

[–] tjer4003 15 years ago

LOL...moral fiber??? what are you even talking about? soap operas? now hypothetical movies??? i don't know what you're insinuating. "Should we make a movie for each one of them?" what? you don't have a make a movie for anyone. nobody deserves a movie, but if someone wants to tell a story, then they tell the story and that's it.

the non-existing plot...i've already said my piece about plots and development in previous posts

and your last statement about Shakespeare, Voltaire and Arisotle...HAHAHA. what are you even trying to accomplish there? of course those three would have very different opinions on how if at all this movie portrays life (they didn't even always agree with each other--Voltaire sometimes had fairly harsh criticisms of Shakespeare). But they are from a different time. If they were born today (this era, last few decades if you will), do you think their writings would have been the same? Do you think their outlooks would have been the same? I tell you that I do not. I think you'd be surprised at what they might say. This movie is by no means timeless. What this movie says may be totally irrelevant in a few decades or centuries (although I wouldn't be surprised to hear you say that it's irrelevant now).

[–] fredo-19 15 years ago

it's not a bad movie. Not a great one by any stretch, but the film had many insightful moments, a very good cast, and was well shot. Also it was attempting honesty. But I agree that around an hour in it started to lag. And it lagged for a bit too long. But it did pick up, and it did end with some excitement (ew!)

Why do folks either love or hate on imdb? Isn't there some rational in between area?

[–] therefdotcom 10 years ago

"Why do folks either love or hate on imdb? Isn't there some rational in between area?"

you are missing an important fact: there are all kinds of people in the IMDB, coming from a different level of experiences.

for example with this film. if you have seen a lot of the masters: fellini, gilliam, haneke, allen, aronofsky, hitchcock, cronenberg, lynch, park .... etc, then your level for "meaningful" is different then someone that comes from a life that was exclusively filled with blockbusters, maybe because of age, maybe because of coincidence. so, unless a film has undoubtable qualities it will divide the crowd. for the first named crowd, this film is an insult. a lame attempt at creating something bigger, which does not even achieve to scratch the surface. for the latter crowd this might be a revelation. it also works the other way around. someone of the latter crowd that watches something more complex than this, like michael haneke's cache might be completely over his/her head and therefore hate on it. also, let's not leave out the dumb facks. those are people from the latter crowd that are so ignorant that they can not grasp why someone could possibly put something down, because they are used to much more, which is a true gem to them, because they just don't know any better. this thread is a very good example. first person states his disregard for this film, yes even mentions shakespear and voltaire. the reaction to this, by 2 dumb facks, instead of being curious as to why he demands more from a film, they stick to their bite reflex, since they just don't see any other reason except for "he did not get it", while ironically it is the opposite: "he did get it and it just wasn't of enough substance for him. fack this shakespear guy, fack this 'voltage' dude, here is a deranged family, pooping on the lawn, now that is facking awesome! that is deep, that is life". hmm, now thinking about it, said 2 posters might just have psychological problems. i stand by the rest though. xD

[–] therefdotcom 10 years ago

funny that someone that does not understand such a clear post wants to dictate whats deep and whats not. oh the irony.

[–] therefdotcom 10 years ago

compliments. maybe the best comeback i have ever read. :D

[–] therefdotcom 10 years ago

"maybe you should be a little more open-minded."

completely hollow phrase.

""moronic post""

followed by hypcrisy.

"I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion."

followed by contradiction.

"Well, this is mine: You should really try to understand life better."

followed by megalomania.

you my friend are a true winner.

[–] chas437 13 years ago

Agreed, for all the reasons you state this movie is a stinker.