wallwach

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Shik
(2003)

How boys become men
Three adolescent friends decide that they need a nice, expensive suit for certain occasions. They succeed in purchasing it and every time when one of the friends wears it, he changes from a boy into a man. All three friends have their typical family problems; they all have divorced parents and mothers with some problems and fathers that don't bother about their sons. Although these family relations seem to be strange, in this movie they seem to be very normal in this society at the Black sea. The storyline is sparkling and original, the characters are superb, the landscape is a feast, the acting could be better, the speed is as youthful as the three main characters.

In a whole, a movie very worthwhile to enjoy, it's the kind of movie that will show you a culture that may seem to be very far away but is quite identical to the one you are living in.

Gerry
(2002)

Makes you feel very tired
Okay, take the nearest wall or object. Or take one single letter of this text. Now keep looking at it for 10 minutes. If you are able to do that, you might like this movie. But you will feel tired. Sleeeeepy.... Almost the same type of feeling the walking guys in this film will have. In that part, this movie does succeed. But that is really all this movie has to offer. It's a movie that would do well as an exhibited video in a modern museum, but fails hopeless in a cinema.

Ken Park
(2002)

Sneak Preview: 4.6
I saw this movie in a Sneak Preview in Amsterdam. This is a perfect way to get a judgment by a possible audience, in this case mainly students and other well-educated people who are not easily shocked to see explicit sexscenes in the cinema (I'm talking Europe, you know). Well, the judgment: the audience gave this movie an average of 4.6 out of 10. Personally, I didn't know this movie was made by the director of Kids, after I saw it, I thought it was a bad ripp-off of Kids, with more explicit sex and a boring storyline that could fit in a 10 minute movie. This director seems to use artsy fartsy excuses to be able to film teenagers having sex (including his own girlfriend at the time, it seems, having sex with two boys) without being labeled as a pornographer. A typical dirty old man movie with a sick excuse for the sexscenes: to show how bad the relations between parents and their kids are in a world of boredom. Give me a break, such a message can be told ten times better. Take Lilja-4-ever, for example. That's a movie that brings the same message way harder, more confronting and effective in a simple 10 minute scene without useless porn or violence scenes. If you really want to see sex, go rent a pornmovie.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(2001)

You have to be American to like this, I suppose.
I saw this movie in a sold-out theatre. During the movie, people

laughed more about the many typical Hollywoodish sentimental

cliches than the funny moments. If you look at this movie from an

european point of view, it's hard to like it. Why? Because this movie

is as empty as popcorn. No strong characters, no emotions, no

humor, no tension, no message, no sense. As artificial and

polished as plastic. If it was supposed to be plastic, fine, but no, it

wasn't. This movie pretented to tell about human emotions and the

'uniqueness' of the human sole. Unfortunately, the humans in this

movie were as flat as David, the robot. No emotions at all. 100%

artificial. Don't waste your money on the worst movie Spielberg

ever made.

Dinosaur
(2000)

Great animation, horrible music
You get what you want from Dinosaur. Spectacular animations, happy ending, solid story. But what bugs me

more and more is the complete out of date music Disney

uses to 'sweeten' their products. Although the animations

are made with the most recent techniques, the music sounds as the head of the disney music department passed his eightieth birthday. Ask a band like the Prodigy

for the soundtrack next time. There's just too much sugar in

this movie.

Der Einstein des Sex
(1999)

Awful kitschmovie without balls
This is the worst movie I've seen this year so far. The story is about doctor Hirschfeld that struggled at the end of the 19th century for homo-sexuality and trans-sexuality. So far so good. The theme is allright, and the brave man deserves a good biography. Nevertheless, the way this biopic was made, was like the copywriter litterally copied some lines from the encyclopedia. The acting was done by a bunch of amateur playwright actors: you could see them thinking: there is an audience watching at me. And to top things, there was not a single scene that was either witty or exciting. Oh, well, just don't waste your time on this kitsch movie, especially if you are interested in the life in Hirschfeld.

The Cider House Rules
(1999)

WHY is this boring movie so overrated???
Attracked to the oscar-nominations and high figures I went to see this movie. But what I saw was really the worst and most boring movie I have seen this year so far. (I saw about 20 movies this year). Total boredom, no sense of humor (where's Garp?), slimy american patrionism. WHY is this movie so highly overrated, my dear americans? Is it because there is still such a taboo on abortion in America? Jee, time to grow up. Such a theme is just as exciting as a story about a man who is working from 9 to 5.

De boekverfilming
(1999)

The truth about dutch film-directors?
Nadja Hüpscher (Noor) is one of the actresses that wants to play a part in a movie. Her wonderful way of acting an inexperienced, clumsy actress is one of the best I've seen so far in a dutch movie. Watch out for this girl. The movie tells a story about a sexually frustrated filmmaker who is more interested in getting the actresses undressed than to give them a part in his movie. The biggest joke of this comedy is that all of the actresses that play in it, finally get undressed in the movie itself. As if the director of this movie plays himself.

De jurk
(1996)

A dress as the main character
This one absurd scene describes this movie at its best: Young woman, sleeping in her bed. Door of her room opens. Strange man walks in and steps into her bed. She wakes up in a state of shock. Man puts hand on het mouth and says: ssssshhhhh... it's ok, don't worry! It's only the ticket taker...

Zusje
(1995)

Highly original low-budget movie
Here's another proof that the least money new young directors have to create a movie, the more creativity is used to make the best out of it. This brilliant movie -one of the best dutch movies ever- has a highly original way of telling. You are not really looking at a professional movie, but at a director's cut of a bunch of videotapes... You will hardly see the main character...because this guy is the cameraman as well. Have a look at it. It is worth to look at...!

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