wodorost Reviews

Source Code (2011)

Inception-like flick for the really simple people.

[3/10 · 22 May 2011]

Many rated Inception so high I was almost forced to see it on the big screen. OK! Saw it, understood it (duh), was a simple, plain, craftsmanship-wise well made movie. No biggie. For sure not an 8! I mean Jesus! Fellini has films with 8/10

Well this one was also extremely high rated - 7.7 - almost an eight. This time it was prepared and i saw a film made for all the Simpletons which couldn't understand Inception and for all high school kids with attention deficit for which all things must be really slowly explained visually and verbally at the same time... and if you still missed the point, they will explain it at the end of the movie, in this horrible way of 'the letter which is read off screen'.

And now for all the fans of this film (I will try now to communicate with them in a way they can understand):

This movie sucks like a crack madame on cold turkey!

And this is why:

No story. Maybe I'm wrong some kids like pointless 8 minute flicks on YT... so maybe I'm not the primary target.

No characters. No one, not even the bad-guy, I can relate with, feel for nor even understand the motivation they have. Cardboard thin! The bomber has a motivation of a 15-year-old Emo computer-freak and the skills of a nuclear physicist from MIT? WTF? Where did he bought uranium?? Wallmart? He acts alone? Really?

No acting. I mean come on! Mr. Wright and Mr. Gyllenhaal are top actors. Here is the answer - it is the lame director!

So please f()@k off Duncan Jones and don't you ever dare to waste any feet of film stock!

enough said

now for the rating system: I am with IMDb since 1995. Almost from the beginning. I can not trust your ratings anymore. I think, I shouldn't trust them for a long time.

Bullet (1996)

Stay away from this so called classic!

[3/10 · 2 November 2005]

This is officially the first film, where the death of a leading character makes me feel nothing at all. His death makes no difference and I don't think this was the point, if any intended. The overacting Brody gives me the rest.

Bullets brothers are not believable and tend to replicate typical clichés about New Yorkers: art and violence.

And one line about the late sprachgesang artist Mr. shakur (i don' like the name which sounds like this Peruvian terrorist group MRTA). Lame!

Well it is a masterpiece of bad directing: to manage that the viewer will, for almost 90 minutes of his screen presence, not identify with the main character. Ed Wood would be proud!

This film is point- and clueless. I hope i was the last person on this solar system to watch this horrible movie.

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Eckhart Tolle versus Frederic Skinner

[7/10 · 17 May 2005]

In the red corner our newcomer the quasi Buddhist path to become enlightened, to be one with the universe and free of any bad feeling. From the far east: Tomlin "the path to light" Hoffmaaaaaaaaaaan

In the blue corner our old champion -- the beloved jump into your own dirt for the search of the foulness in your own childhood especially your mama's dirty laundry. The disaster from Europe: Isabelle "i show you the dark side" Hupperttttttt

It seems like the most people in the crowd are with the newcomer in hope to solve the problems with some exotic theory and profound methodology. BUT after our blue contester hits with some fast acting punches we are not so sure anymore! They work with a huge effect! Our newcomer has to go to the floor for a moment. It looks like a K.O. but after the five he stands up. He fights back! But wait the french punches below the waist! Ooooo that looks bad i think the fight is over! But wait! Whats this the french punches himself K.O. and nobody wins!

Or is it that both of them won?

Oh what a crowd! Half of the audience left the building scratching their heads before the fight even started. From those who stayed overwhelming majority did not get what is it all about. I see exact four people shouting and crying, 'couse they know they saw the greatest fight of their lives!

And now i give back to 'the studios'...

Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

Plain soviet flick...

[5/10 · 16 May 2005]

The soviet state produced not so plenty of pop-oriented sci-fi films so their budged was never reasonable (they have never to be profitable). So you have to put your heroes to some coal mine or under a moving stage in a theater to "look" like they are in some strange places.

This is also the reason why such a flick reached a cult status in the soviet union. Because it's one of very few to see in this time.

The same happened with another eastern block movie. Two years earlier came "Sexmission" in Poland. It was also a comedy but, different from kin-dza-dza, it was directly portraying the pathology of the communist system.

Neither the one or the other film can be viewed today for the first time by a young viewer who never lived in the communist system and get the same level of appreciation. Sorry folks.

Man - Woman Wanted (1973)

Cross-dressing butler in communist Poland of 1973

[6/10 · 3 August 2002]

I saw this film then and i saw it yesterday and it is as funny as it was. This is very rare when it comes to the Polish comedies that was made at that time. Often they where so overloaded with symbols and metaphors placed there for the sake of the censorship that they were no more funny for someone who does not lived there.

This is a story of a thirty-something man and his struggle with a piece of paint he was responsible for at the art museum where he worked. The paint was accidentally taken and he was made responsible for the disappearance. He will be sentenced for some years jail, but manages to escape the police. He begins a voyage as a servant maid in the communist capital city of Warsaw. He also tries to recreate the painting by himself so he can return to his native work.

After all he figures out that he is much more better paid as a servant in Poland than an academic researcher he used to be...