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Backkom-eui Mug-jan Yeo-haeng (2007)
Low Budget Drivel
The animation is low budget, drug-induced, and insane. It looks like it was produced by amateurs, hurriedly, while they were learning how to do 3D animation at a low end career college. With today's tools and technology, animation that looks creepier than the 1980s ray- traced early animations is hard to excuse.
The plot is bizarre, unwatchable, painfully bad, and inexplicably weird. The story has no dialog, only an annoying narrator who explains everything. And now we will do this. And now we will go over here. This means that now we have to do this. And now we have to do this. And so on. Are you bored out of your skull yet?
Oddly enough, my two year old loves it.
Professione: reporter (1975)
Am I allowed to not like this movie?
Okay, this movie won lots of awards. It was critically acclaimed in its time, and who out there doesn't like Jack Nicholson.
I found the film boring. I found the plot surreal, a series of unconnected and unimportant actions, unconnected to anything else. I found the characters uninteresting, unremarkable, and incredibly boring.
I found the relationship between the lead male and female characters, completely pointless and stupid. Take for instance the fact that we know nothing about her, even her name. Or that she seems to have no reason to exist, except to provide someone for our lonely protagonist to look at and say, "why the f--- are you hanging around with me, anyways?". He may as well look at the camera, and say, "Why the f--- are you watching this film? Get up! Leave, there's nothing to see here!".
Is the scriptwriter trying to say that Life is boring, and that we are all bad script-writers walking around in our own badly written one-man one-act plays? So what, then? Why bother watching the film then? Maria Schneider was unconvincing, although pretty, and her dialog sounds like it was written by a high-school drama teacher, who is still rightly shocked that his screenplay was made into a movie. Did this sort of existential crap actually grab anyone and make them feel anything? Did feeling nothing but a certain angst, a certain wondering if anything would actually happen in this movie, would that actually make someone "like" the movie, or is this a movie for people who don't like plot, and don't like good dialog, but they do like a certain visual 'spare' quality? I must admit I feel a failure as a film buff, for I didn't "get" this movie at all. Or I did get it, and there's nothing there to get, unless you think that being all existential and pointless is like, totally deep, man.
Warren