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Nuodemes uzkalbejimas (2007)
Strangely entertaining...
Even as a non-Lithuanian, I found this movie accessible. It may pay to know of the old Lithuanian saying though,
"Jeigu jūs einate į apleistas pastatas, saugokitės blogų kino kūrėjus"
or
"If you go into a deserted building, be wary of gangs of sex-crazed men"
I guess it's something of folklore or a figure of speech, but it does make those scenes make a little bit more sense if you understand this.
This movie breaks with certain conventions about script-writing: don't expect any great catharsis at the end, for instance. Despite some moments of extreme over-acting (again, perhaps a cultural thing? Let's give it the benefit of the doubt), strangely entertaining... not just due to the very raunchy sex scenes littered throughout.
Citizen Verdict (2003)
Quite frankly the worst movie I have ever seen
I am trying to think of a quality that this movie has that I admire. The concept was weak to start with, the plot abysmally developed, the acting shocking (can't you give a long rant in one take Jerry?), production, even sound far below par.
I am glad that I was watching on DVD so could easily skip straight to the predictable verdict, which I did only out of a morbid curiosity rather than actual interest. We were taking bets on what how the movie would pan out after that, and while technically I feel bound to say that it wasn't predictable, because none of us predicted it quite right, it was nonetheless, very lame.
We really didn't have the stomach for the self-congratulatory epilogue and switched off.