Why do most so-called reviewers retell the story? What's the point? I thought the term "review" meant to comment on the story, the production of the movie, the acting, etc., not to retell it. What a waste! Most "reviewers" apparently are incapable of going beyond the sights seen to thoughts entertained because they've had little or no experience in having their own thoughts. With present schooling being the mind-numbing experience that it is, this is not too surprising. So sad.
Reviews
9 Reviews
Limbo
(I) (1999)
Most creative adventure
19 January 2020
Superb film, one of the best ever. Fully developed characters play out what may be the last days of their lives, not knowing if they will survive or not.
It's frightening to read all the childish negative reviews of clueless viewers who cry like spoiled brats when they don't get what they expected. If u know what u want, go eat your Cherios & shut up. I want a story where I don't know what's coming, & slam, wham, Sayles delivers.
Thank u John Sayles for a amazing adventure, unlike anything I've had in a long, long time, & I lived in Alaska once myself. & thanks for the wonderful characters, folks I could really understand & feel for, each with their own harsh pasts of hurts & disappointments, & suddenly thrown together where survival depends on their getting along & working together. Ignore the crybaby reviews & strap on your seatbelts.
It's frightening to read all the childish negative reviews of clueless viewers who cry like spoiled brats when they don't get what they expected. If u know what u want, go eat your Cherios & shut up. I want a story where I don't know what's coming, & slam, wham, Sayles delivers.
Thank u John Sayles for a amazing adventure, unlike anything I've had in a long, long time, & I lived in Alaska once myself. & thanks for the wonderful characters, folks I could really understand & feel for, each with their own harsh pasts of hurts & disappointments, & suddenly thrown together where survival depends on their getting along & working together. Ignore the crybaby reviews & strap on your seatbelts.
Hellstorm
(2015)
Nazi propaganda film
5 January 2020
The film is presented as though nothing had prompted the retaliation. What is not mentioned is that 10s of millions died & 100s of millions more were affected because of the spitbrained German Nazi hate-filled fascists. For what they perpetrated, nothing was too severe. If u don't want to have your ass kicked from here to kingdom come, don't start acting high & mighty & pushing, invading, torturing, & killing others. Simple lesson: what goes around comes around.
One Please
(2014)
Sick story.
23 September 2017
Someone please, explain to me, what kind of sick mind would concoct, produce, & display such a story? Someone please, explain to me, what kind of sick mind would concoct, produce, & display such a story? Someone please . . . . Someone please, explain to me, what kind of sick mind would concoct, produce, & display such a story? Someone please, explain to me, what kind of sick mind would concoct, produce, & display such a story? Someone please . . . . Someone please, explain to me, what kind of sick mind would concoct, produce, & display such a story? Someone please, explain to me, what kind of sick mind would concoct, produce, & display such a story? Someone please . . . .
The Leftovers
(2014–2017)
interminably long beer commercial occasionally interspersed with horrendous violence
4 September 2016
As "Cheers" was one long beer commercial for a bunch of losers & "Hart of Dixie" was a nonstop booze commercial, so "The Leftovers" is an endless hideously violent cigarette commercial with a lead actor who is in a perpetual state of either bug-eyed fear or bug-eyed shock--even when away from any source of danger.
The author must have been totally tripped when he devised this cult- against-cult travesty because he rarely has an explanation for anything. Cult-against-cult? Yes, the Smoking Remnant vs. the oblivious Christian materialists who are as removed from the meaningful realities of life as are the nipple-substitute-sucking smokestacks.
The title, I suspect, comes from the producers probably having bought out all the scraps accumulated on the cutting room floor from decades of senseless shoot-em-up & vampire movies & strung them together.
The author must have been totally tripped when he devised this cult- against-cult travesty because he rarely has an explanation for anything. Cult-against-cult? Yes, the Smoking Remnant vs. the oblivious Christian materialists who are as removed from the meaningful realities of life as are the nipple-substitute-sucking smokestacks.
The title, I suspect, comes from the producers probably having bought out all the scraps accumulated on the cutting room floor from decades of senseless shoot-em-up & vampire movies & strung them together.
Betty Blue
(1986)
3 hours of infinite boredom.
8 September 2014
Someone commented that she was "borderline." Nothing borderline about her. Straightjacket material early on, & the guy along with her to the back ward for thinking he could "fix" her. Shows how 2 unstable people getting together only multiply the problems for themselves & everyone they touch. Were we supposed to care for these 2? Huh? Well, yes, for the mental health system being sloppy enough to let them roam free & wild, a danger to themselves & everyone else. They needed intensive care from the get-go. "Pretentious" was accurate in another review. To drag this travesty out to 3 hours; yes, the director & the editor should both have gotten the pillow treatment as well.
Adoration
(2013)
Questioning old illogical myths & taboos
3 October 2013
Whether something is beautiful or aberrant depends on how you interpret a situation based on your values, which unfortunately few get to actually choose because they are pounded into our heads & hearts from the start, though many of them have no logical explanations, just religious one.
We learn our values & are then controlled by them. Where & when did humanity decide that loving someone is OK—but only to a point? When it becomes TOO physical, it becomes intimate & taboo. Thankfully, there are societies that have cast these taboos away, but unfortunately substituted others so that the bulk of humanity is prevented from being who they are or from doing what comes naturally. There's generally some illogical religio-babble explanation for all the taboos & "Thou shalt nots . . . ." How we look at the relationships among the characters in the film is determined by who programmed our minds in those early years when most of us were pounding our chests along with the priest that "It's my fault, it's my fault, it's my most grievous fault." Overcome with a sense of being evil from birth—the most sick feature of any religion—we go thru life avoiding fully experiencing it & its pleasures. Surely, physical contact must be bad if it gives us pleasure, so make love only to have babies! If the minds of the characters were not so indoctrinated with unnecessary taboos, they could have continued as the loving extended family that they were until those values instilled by some anti-life fascist sicko in their youth drove them to guilt & secrecy, which, when shattered, also shattered the harmonious lives they all shared to that point. The only thing that changed is their interpretation of the events, interpretation based on indoctrination of values that don't hold water.
In an age when ½ the official marriages go to hell, the ones who will survive emotionally are the ones who can extricate themselves from old guilt-inducing illogical dogmas & their accompanying values. Kudos to those who created the film & brought the subject up for discussion. Gradually, maybe a few more people will wake up from the life-destroying myths we have been led to believe.
Why, just because one door opens, must another always close? Some prefer living in open areas without walls separating one's eating space from living space from sleeping space. They are called "efficiency" apartments—practical, non-secretive, & NO FRIGGIN DOORS! Doors in relationships stifle openness, creativity, & isolate us so much from each other that we have become a most lonely world of 7½ billion who barely know each other because of all the barriers—& PLEASE DON'T TOUCH!
We learn our values & are then controlled by them. Where & when did humanity decide that loving someone is OK—but only to a point? When it becomes TOO physical, it becomes intimate & taboo. Thankfully, there are societies that have cast these taboos away, but unfortunately substituted others so that the bulk of humanity is prevented from being who they are or from doing what comes naturally. There's generally some illogical religio-babble explanation for all the taboos & "Thou shalt nots . . . ." How we look at the relationships among the characters in the film is determined by who programmed our minds in those early years when most of us were pounding our chests along with the priest that "It's my fault, it's my fault, it's my most grievous fault." Overcome with a sense of being evil from birth—the most sick feature of any religion—we go thru life avoiding fully experiencing it & its pleasures. Surely, physical contact must be bad if it gives us pleasure, so make love only to have babies! If the minds of the characters were not so indoctrinated with unnecessary taboos, they could have continued as the loving extended family that they were until those values instilled by some anti-life fascist sicko in their youth drove them to guilt & secrecy, which, when shattered, also shattered the harmonious lives they all shared to that point. The only thing that changed is their interpretation of the events, interpretation based on indoctrination of values that don't hold water.
In an age when ½ the official marriages go to hell, the ones who will survive emotionally are the ones who can extricate themselves from old guilt-inducing illogical dogmas & their accompanying values. Kudos to those who created the film & brought the subject up for discussion. Gradually, maybe a few more people will wake up from the life-destroying myths we have been led to believe.
Why, just because one door opens, must another always close? Some prefer living in open areas without walls separating one's eating space from living space from sleeping space. They are called "efficiency" apartments—practical, non-secretive, & NO FRIGGIN DOORS! Doors in relationships stifle openness, creativity, & isolate us so much from each other that we have become a most lonely world of 7½ billion who barely know each other because of all the barriers—& PLEASE DON'T TOUCH!
Multiple Sarcasms
(2010)
The Journey Within
10 May 2013
Perfect example of a movie that should not be judged by the average rating it receives from viewers. People are apparently terrified of exploring their feelings, their decisions, or their lives if they rated this 4.6 out of 10. With no qualifiers, I give it a 10. Where & when can one explore one's self? Certainly not in schooljails where the teachers themselves are unlikely to have ever gotten to know themselves. Authenticity, the ability to be oneself, is totally lacking in this most vital institution where kids are supposed to get prepared for life. Here is a movie to help focus on the aspect of our lives that is left out of the curriculum--to question one's choices, to find meaning, to discover love, to learn from mistakes. Most people will not bother but will continue making the same mistakes over & over again. Bravo to the producers & everyone connected with this film for giving us something way above the standard fare. EXCEPTIONAL!
Lovesick
(1983)
Putting Freud & censorship into perspective & questioning the value of stiff-as-rails licensing boards that stifle innovation & creativity
16 March 2013
Lovesick 1983. Dudley Moore, Eliz. McGovern. Movie makes mincemeat of Freud & his limited & negative theory of human motivation & potential. "Go Saul", I hear myself thinking throughout the film, feeling here is a therapist who dares stand up to the stiff board of censors who don't deserve to have access to mentally unstable people, for they appear more rigid & dogmatic than the deacons at a Southern Baptist convention. And they have the nerve to be talking about & threatening sanctions pertaining to professional ethics. Would you want to be governed by such repressed stiffs who purport to be a board of censors who can pull someone's license to practice a profession, yet see their distant grandfather Freud as still relevant, while most progressive thinkers in psychotherapy have all but laughed Freud off the shelf as ludicrous? The genius of the writer who says it through Cloe's words put Freud's ideas into perspective when she laughs him & Saul off the stage with her witty explanation of Freud's penis envy theory.
A gem of a movie that should be part of every psychotherapist training program & anyone dealing with profession ethics. Indeed, the whole idea of licensure boards being composed solely of those within a given profession just reveals the fear of innovation & insecurity of those within those professions. It is abhorrent to the whole concept of the evolution of human thinking & knowledge to censure someone who challenges the wisdom of old, unproven, & in many cases disproven, methods of therapy, education, medicine, "justice", & many other so-called professions. Just look at the travesty of the medical profession that, hand-in-hand with the drug pushing pharmaceutical industry, prescribes aspirin for headaches rather than treating the ailment (tumor?) hiding within, or the repressive incarceration of youth, which some still dare call education, that is flooding the earth with non-thinking violent robots seeking revenge & targets for the decade plus of physical, & even more disturbingly, emotional abuse perpetrated by their unfeeling bullying teachers & peers.
See the movie & think about the rights of innovative creative thinkers & why so few are free to think for themselves.
A gem of a movie that should be part of every psychotherapist training program & anyone dealing with profession ethics. Indeed, the whole idea of licensure boards being composed solely of those within a given profession just reveals the fear of innovation & insecurity of those within those professions. It is abhorrent to the whole concept of the evolution of human thinking & knowledge to censure someone who challenges the wisdom of old, unproven, & in many cases disproven, methods of therapy, education, medicine, "justice", & many other so-called professions. Just look at the travesty of the medical profession that, hand-in-hand with the drug pushing pharmaceutical industry, prescribes aspirin for headaches rather than treating the ailment (tumor?) hiding within, or the repressive incarceration of youth, which some still dare call education, that is flooding the earth with non-thinking violent robots seeking revenge & targets for the decade plus of physical, & even more disturbingly, emotional abuse perpetrated by their unfeeling bullying teachers & peers.
See the movie & think about the rights of innovative creative thinkers & why so few are free to think for themselves.
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