Cult classic my ***. The whole thing looks like it was shot at a toddlers' tea party: shoddy camera work and editing, some of the cheapest, most laughable effects I've seen, a plot you could write on the back of a postage stamp, cringe-worthy soft porn soundtrack... Highlights were a disembodied head flying out of a well (something tells me Miike Takashi might have seen this!) and one girl running around in her panties for most of the film.
Cult classic my ***. The whole thing looks like it was shot at a toddlers' tea party: shoddy camera work and editing, some of the cheapest, most laughable effects I've seen, a plot you could write on the back of a postage stamp, cringe-worthy soft porn soundtrack... Highlights were a disembodied head flying out of a well (something tells me Miike Takashi might have seen this!) and one girl running around in her panties for most of the film.
Which is funny, because normally the 'so-bad-it's-good' thing does absolutely nothing for me, but House is a rare exception. I think it's got something to do with its tone--as if a particularly imaginative child were told to write a script (and design special effects) for a horror movie, a genre in which they have no experience.
What stuck in the craw with this film is that Amenabar is clearly trying to make a moral point about an audience's car-crash fascination with death and violence (and he makes the viewer complicit in that), but also exploits that theme for cheap thrills. If it was just a trashy exploitation film with no pretensions to being anything more that would be fine, but it seemed to me like Amenabar wanted to have his cake and eat it.
It's a pretty obvious plot line from the jump, I might have preferred the first half over the second but violence is our morbid entertainment. It's entertaining but not the must-see movie I hoped for; I saw it with a huge Tarantino fan who could barely contain herself before the movie started but seemed a bit dissappointed in the end.
Absolutely brilliant. Playing a bit of the Hunter the elk sound in the beginning already there it was winning
Correction: Tom Hardy!!! and Leonardo DiCaprio is absolutely brilliant and awesome atmosphere with the Sony CD 3000.
It´s pure hollywood science fiction based on a true story but lets tweak it silly but didn´t mind it to much.
10 bucks and a bag of Fritos budgeted caper flic that does really well within it's limitations. Manages to subtly very subtly provide some scathing insights into vet affairs and general political moods while conveying the central plot along. Probably over reached for the money and talent involved (Knock off actors, you know the ones who work cheap but have an eerie resemblance to that guy in that blockbuster last year type of thing) but makes a good resume film for the director.
Kafka's A Country Doctor. (2007) anime, short. 10/10 for Kafka fans 2/10 for the rest of the human race, I suspect.
If Lars von Trier and David Cronenberg found themselves snowed in in Japan with an open bar and decided to discuss Kafka, this little film may well have been the offspring. There actually is not a word that would describe it (surreal only moreso??). The only thing that comes to mind is that it is the only film interpretation of Kafka that made sense to me. It left me with the impression of it being the storyboard in Franz's head while he was writing it. I am glad this was a short. Had this been a feature length event some form of therapy would inevitably be in order. I am actually afraid to look up the director to see if he has done any other work.
See this if you have any interest in any of the above mentioned names. If not, give this one a wide berth, not for the faint of heart or imagination.
My point wasn't that it made sense, so much that Amenebar was being hypocritical by condemning exploitation movies and yet kind of making one himself. But yes, I agree with you - it did seem implausible - and I think that's because the plot is basically at the service of his moral agenda. I guess it was his first feature though, perhaps shouldn't be over-critical. The Others was better IMO.
Kafka's A Country Doctor. (2007) anime, short. 10/10 for Kafka fans 2/10 for the rest of the human race, I suspect.
If Lars von Trier and David Cronenberg found themselves snowed in in Japan with an open bar and decided to discuss Kafka, this little film may well have been the offspring. There actually is not a word that would describe it (surreal only moreso??). The only thing that comes to mind is that it is the only film interpretation of Kafka that made sense to me. It left me with the impression of it being the storyboard in Franz's head while he was writing it. I am glad this was a short. Had this been a feature length event some form of therapy would inevitably be in order. I am actually afraid to look up the director to see if he has done any other work.
See this if you have any interest in any of the above mentioned names. If not, give this one a wide berth, not for the faint of heart or imagination.
Are you a fan of Švankmajer's short films? According to Wiki, he's supposed to have a new one out called Insects, based on a play by Karel Čapek, about which Švankmajer has said: "This Čapek´s play is a very misanthropic, and I always liked it - bugs behave as a human beings, and people behave as insects. It also reminds one a lot of Franz Kafka and his famous Metamorphosis". Nothing on IMDb about it though.
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