AWFUL movie... 5 LETTERS A W F U L...!

""I am not gonna write many things about it...although I have tons of things to say after WASTING 1 hour and 15 mins...". So no, the cement bldg wasn't the only problem w/ the film."

Thanks for stating the obvious you *beep* idiot.


"If u can't accept constructive criticism than you have serious self-esteem issues pal"
Just because I reply to your stupid posts of "I didn't like it because I only watch things that are explained to me because I'm a dumb hillbilly and I have no imagination what so ever." Doesn't mean I actually made the movie.

Hajoo siihen.

Thanks for minus points ;-)

Now after seeing the film, after listening director's commentary on DVD, bathing in finnish "savusauna" and having a beer, after visiting an eroded russian sauna made of concrete (yes this is true) and having some vodka, I still stick in what I said earlier...

FFS Some people should just bash their heads against a wall.

"Haha comparing Kubrick's monolith to a modern day cement sauna? laff laff lols lols! "

Would you care to explain why is it not comparable? And before you get even more idiotic, let me put it as clear as if you were 4 years old. He was not even comparing the films or the greatness of Kubrick's monolith compared with the Sauna. But a monolith in the middle of fkn apes definitely wasn't built by the apes, was it? So perhaps it kind of works as a counter point to the OP.

One idiot comes in and says the film is stupid because of a cement sauna. He doesn't blame the faceless ghost inside, but the freaking cement sauna! That makes perfect sense.

Then someone makes the obvious of pointing out an example, like that one of the monolith in the middle of apes, but obviously the baboons around here cannot grasp this simple idea and rant like "BUAUAHHAHAHAA!!! Monolith P@WNz the Sauna!"

Christ sake. Christ sake. Christ sake. Did you guys even read the freaking title of the film?

It's called SAUNA!

Is it so unbearable that it was made a little different? And how do you know it's cement? Maybe it's just cement pretending to be something else. Would that be ok?

Maybe his clothing and weapons weren't the correct ones for that period either. But what the fk in the world does that matter?!

It's a mysterious Sauna in the middle of nowhere built no one knows by whom or when and then this bunch who have sandbags for heads come here to rant about it being cement!

I just can't get a hold of myself. I get out on the street and these guys are everywhere! You get distracted for a second and BOOOM they suck you into their dark world of trollism and idiocy! I can't take it anymore!!!! GAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

HELP!

With all due respect, metro west dude, I think you take the "concrete sauna" - as many others in the Sauna forum - too literally in the film. As a Finn, I can tell you the place does not look like ANY type of sauna from ANY century, not on the outside or from inside, let alone the place it is built on, no matter what material it would be. Therefore, it cannot be considered as an anachronism, but a symbol of something alien, out of this world and/or (possibly) metaphysical. Movie-wise, I'm 100% confident that there is a very valid reason, why the building looks like it belongs very strongly in some other time and place.

The construction is a very bizarre looking element, very out of place lying in the midde of a shallow swamp pond. Something mystic, sinister and odd. The monk scripture in the film says that one of the monks who found the site and the building in the first place, think it looks like a sauna to them, since they really can't comprehend what the building actually is. Of course, all this is open for a viewer intepretation, as it should be - this movie offers little answers but a lot of questions and possible theories. Without answering anything, it makes us think of the possible explanation.

As few other moviegoers, I also got strong Tarkovsky and Stalker vibes from the swamp scenes, in a good way. Finland is far from being a cradle for a good horror-influenced films, let alone ones at least tampering with the symbolics, metaphysics and philosophy. I see Sauna as a well thought-out genre opening, not perfect but a step in good direction.

"The horror... The horror."

laff laff lols lols!