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Really, jail-time for them.

This movie is such a pile of crap, it's criminal. Even if we look at this movie as a stand-alone film, without the Star Wars brand, it would go straight to DVD as a crappy B-movie.

Avoid this film like the plague.

This is the movie of the famous Dutch book 'komt een vrouw bij de dokter'. The book describes the true events that the author (Kluun) experienced when his wive is diagnosed with breast cancer that eventually takes her life.

First of all, this movie is as dull as a one-in-a-thousand soap operas on TV. Second, the main character is unsympathetic. You cannot make a movie around someone you cannot identify with. You can try, but only few directors can pull off such a thing. Reinout Oerlemans surely can not.

The movie tries to be dramatic, but never even comes close to real drama. Its almost slapstick. For example the scene where Carmed hears about her illness from the doctor conveys no drama or emotion at all! Its also rushed into the movie. No character built-up, no nothing.

The main character is a person you cannot have sympathy for. His wive gets cancer, he can't handle it and runs away. He cheated on his wife when she was still healthy, so he surely cheats on his wife when she gets sick. He is an asshole, but his wife is even more stupid because she likes him no matter what.

The movie only revolves around Stijn, his wife Carmen is actually a card-board persona that has no depth at all. All her decisions remain unexplained, yet she is the one dealing with a cheating husband, and cancer. We must make notice here that the book only tells Stijns version of the story. Carmen is dead so we cannot ask her anything. Kluun (the author of the book) cleverly left out all that is interesting.

In the end of the movie Carmen dies and I liked it. She deserved not to live in my opinion. Stijn deserves his wife dying on him, because he never really cared about her in the first place. His wife dead, makes sure he cannot harm her even more. He never loved his wife, I can tell you that. The author even tries to make money out of her death by writing a self-indulged book and trying to sell his whining and his childish behavior. This man never deserved his book being turned into a proper film, I am glad it didn't.

I know people that have been in the same position as Stijn, and they did not behave like this animal in the first place. They did not write silly books trying to get the attention of the mass-public: "look me, I am pathetic. My wife has cancer, look me. Look me, my wife has cancer, I am pathetic, shall we have sex?".

The only interesting parts in this movie were the sex-scenes. As traditional Dutch cinema describes, this movie contains a lot of unnecessary nude-scenes that funny enough contain a lot of breasts. Carice "Look my breasts" van Houten does what she does: flash her breasts, like she does in all her movies. Really weird. I hope they make a porn movie out of this one, because that version will automatically have more story-line than this 'work of art'.

Instead of crying, I was laughing at the end of the movie. I was bored and was glad this movie was over. The book was better than the movie because it had a little more dept. The author however, in my opinion is a criminal that deserves none of all the attention he gets.

The year is 2018, and the world just got nuked as we all saw in Terminator: rise of the machines. You'd expect that people who survived Judgement Day would suffer from radiation sickness, unless you would have lived in the desert you whole life. But funny enough, in the entire movie not one word is mentioned about radiation sickness... Kyle Reese even lives in a city that has been nuked! Apart from the obvious, there are a lot of other dumb mistakes. Let me just name some of them:

1) The robots miss. They shoot enormous salvo's of bullets. But they all miss their targets. Yeah right, a high-tech robot that misses? It can calculate exact when and where to shoot, so everybody in its line of sight should be dead.

2) Our heroes in this movie are shot at by rockets, grenades, etc. And they impact almost always very near their bodies. And they don't even have a scratch! Believe me, they should have been deaf, if they would survive such an impact anyway.

3) The machines are equipped with a USB port? Why would machines that want to kill humans, put an USB port on their motorcycles? So humans can hack them, an use them against them? sure...

4) Skynet is equipped with all kinds of Human Machine Interfaces like displays, and keyboards. Machines don't need no keyboards and stuff...

5) John Connor puts a radio on the road, and turns the music on high volume. I once put a radio like that in the open and turned the volume to max...It was't even audible at 5 meters away. If you want to make noise in the open and attract some robots, you've got to bring something bigger with you.

6) The resistance are the only people left. Yet they treat each other even worse than the machines do. Skynet does not have to built terminators, the humans will terminate themselves if they continue this way into terminator 5.

7) The humans move and behave like robots themselves. They lose friends and family. But never cry. They just don't give a sh*t. I thought the robots didn't give a sh*t. At one part in the movie, John Connor makes a statement about what the difference is between humans and a machine. Well that scene is totally misplaced after John Connor himself tried to kill a robot that was trying to convince him he was not part of Skynet. Instead of hearing him out, they torture him and use any means necessary to kill him.

8) 80% you see in this movies is stolen from "War of the worlds" by Steven Spielberg. Grabbing humans and putting them in containers so they can use them... who thought of that?

9) The rest is stolen from "The Matrix". Snake-like robots in the water? Come on...

10) Hitting a steel machine with your fist is a very bad idea. Yet these humans from the future are made steel themselves, it seems. Getting hit by a machine made of steel is even worse. But these humans from the future can take a beating like that. These story-writes should go on a boxing course...and then re-think those scenes.

11) If I were the resistance, I would save my ammunition, since there are no factories left to produce any more ammunition. But our heroes use their weapons as if they're playing with fireworks! They seem to have enough grenades, bullets, rockets to go on for ages... In reality they should spare any ammo they have. You really want to think twice before firing that grenade, you might need it in the future and there are no new supplies.

12) Why are they so obsessed with Kyle Reese dying? As if that would make a difference? They are already in the future. Kyle Reese dead or alive would not make a difference at all.

13) Who is that Cyborg dude? He killed someone? Where is he from? We don't know. All we know is that Skynet created him. The first robot they create, is also the most advanced robot. Funny, and why would they create a human looking killing machine? Oh yeah, to infiltrate the human population. Well if you want to play it that way, why not create some cancer that simply kills all humans. That would make more sense, since robots cannot get ill.

I could go on an on. Hell I could write a whole book about explosions that should have killed people, flying motorcycles that in reality would not have flown at all, dump behavior of people under stress that is written by people who have never even been under stress. T2 was far more better written, and scarier too.

There are so many things wrong these days with the story-lines of movies, it's just painful. They're all multi-billion dollar productions, and they come up with story-lines that are simply rip-offs of other movies? Why? Can't they think of something original?

I had high hopes that Terminator Salvation might just be another original movie just like its predecessors, but I was wrong.

I just saw this movie the other day, and I was very exited to see this new Star Trek because the last one was very disappointing in my opinion.

I was shocked to learn that this movie was almost the SAME as Nememis! Same weak plot, and very non-Star Trek look and feel. The story of this movie lacked almost everything that makes Star Trek what it is ( or was).

Again some Romulan seeks revenge for his home-planet being destroyed in the future. Okay, in Nemesis it was not the Romulans themselves but one Reman, that used the Romulans. But hey, still one guy with a grudge that is going to get even by destroying the whole galaxy! Because he has a weapon far more powerful and advanced than any other weapon in the galaxy! This does not only remind me of Nemesis, it also reminds me of the Xindi plot from Star Trek: Enterprise. Come on, is that what you story-writers can come up with? Nemesis/Enterprise re-written?

Besides the 'enemy' being the same old sh*t, there is something else that bothers me. This is another 'time-traveling' movie. Why do they travel in time so much in Star Trek? In the series they used to do it once in a while, but time-traveling has become standard operation these days. Again Spock travels back in time, Again the enterprise has dealings with enemies from the future. What irritates me also is the fact that they 'abuse' this time-traveling just to introduce some technology that wasn't available in the 'normal' time-line.

Last comment I have is the sound. The movie was very loud, in an annoying way. I liked the scenes when there were conversations, just because those scenes were not so damn loud and busy. You don't have a clear view as a viewer on whats happening.

Good thing about this film is the cast and the acting. The roles of Kirk, Spock and the rest are portrayed very well, and that is one big plus. Bad thing is that the total 'Trekkie' look and feel is gone. Star Trek was always bashed upon by a great many people because they simply did not understand it. It was based on science they did not comprehend, nor understand. If you watched Star Trek, you were Nerd. But for all the Nerds, that made Star Trek cool. Nowadays you can be retarded and still understand this movie, and that is not a compliment.

I like The foot fist way very much. The reason for this is simple; it's very realistic and human-like. Normally all movies are cool slick Hollywood movies. Where everybody is perfect, and the good guy always gets the beautiful girl in the end and every fight scene lasts 20 minutes,....well not in my life.

The main character of The Foot Fist Way is actually very easy to recognize in the first place. Many people ARE like him, and many people probably can identify with the main character. I know I can. Hell, maybe people say I'm a loser for admitting this, but I know my life more resembles 'the foot fist way' than it does 'Casino Royale' or 'Die Hard'.

I practice karate, and although this movie is about Tea Kwon Do (these sports are very similar), I can tell you that the exaggerations are real. And there are people out there that are made off no more than hot air.

Anyway, the 'crappy' filming makes this movie almost a documentary. And the fact that the actors are so simple, and not famous is very refreshing. I like real life, and I like movies that represent real-life. The Hollywood fairy tales are awful, in my opinion. The pace of the movie is good, and I thought is was short....I was really entertained. And real martial arts isn't as spectacular as we get to see in Hollywood movies, its as crappy as presented in this film. (in the sense of 'normal' people that practice martial arts).

In my opinion the producers were successful in creating a funny movie about things in life we all can relate to.

I had hoped this movie was a lot more than it was. Foremost it was short. And therefore many plot details could have been a lot more clear. A lot of things are left to the viewers imagination.

(SPOILERS) for example, a woman runs inside the dojo at the beginning of the movie. What she wants is not explained. Some confusion comes up, which was good, but the whole scene suddenly ends. As if no one ever wonders why this woman is in panic and what she wants. The window is accidentally shot and thats it. No questions asked. A little bit strange. (I anticipated she was raped, but this only becomes clear much later in the movie).

Anyway, the pawned watch, totally insane. A cop kills himself because of this? I understand he had some money issues. A lot of bills to pay and no job...but than he kills himself because he could not see a way out? Yeah right... I understand the plot twists have to lead to the main character enter a fight. But this is a strange way of events that I did not find very realistic.

The end is strange too in my opinion. He gets the red belt? Because the professor sees him fight? I think a real professor would not even come to such a fighting event. A fight has rules, so it would be insane to go to such an event just like the main character explains. And things are confusing... Jiu Jitsu is originally from Japan. But after WWII a Brazilian version was created. This is never explained.

The end fight was in my opinion not very satisfying. He fights the champion which I did not think was his greatest opponent. I don't see way he would get paid anyway, because of ignoring the rules and stuff. And then the movie is over.....how does it end? Does he leave his wife? Is he paid? Is he going to pay the bills for the widow of his friend? The main character is quite good in his acting by the way. His appearance was a nice thing to watch. The rest of the movie is crap.