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Interesting Movie

posted 15 years ago by godwalking
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While I understand the expectation that this movie would be filled with science fiction wonder, it really stuck more to a morality tale. Once I got past the expectations, I actually found myself interested in what Howell and team was communicating. A simple movie with a simple message, and not a lot of frills. I found the soundtrack and scoring musically interesting.

There are troubled spots with this movie, no doubt. But I recommend seeing it on its basic commitment to story-telling alone.

If in doubt about the impactfulness of this movie's moral, try figuring it out with movies like Stepbrother or Slumdog. Two movies, by contract, who appear entertaining but have nothing really to learn from them about the state of the human condition.

[–] DirectorLeighHater 15 years ago

There is so much wrong with that post that I will forego pointing out everything except the part that annoys me the least:

Impactfulness is not a word. It's not even close to a word. Pwn is more of a word than that.

If you were offended in any way by the preceding post, go make one yourself.

[–] robhiengler 15 years ago

A message so simple you can't be bothered to post it?

The only message I got from this film is "we stole 90 minutes of your life, your money and your sanity - chears BIATCH!! ::birdie inserted::"

Please don't try to offend people into making out there was a deeper meaning to this Z-movie ripoff - "Plan 9 from outer space" was better than this tripe.