The Guy-2 Reviews

Phantom Thread (2017)

A pretentious bore

[2/10 · 26 December 2017]

There's nothing worse than a drama without conflict, and that's what most of Phantom Thread is. Lots of scenes of Daniel Day Lewis taking measurements, a scene where he orders breakfast for almost 5 minutes.

This film was flat out boring.

It took about an hour before we see any semblance of a plot forming.

Ken Park (2002)

Ken Park was a MAJOR disappointment

[1/10 · 10 September 2004]

This movie was painful to sit through. It was extremely disturbing, depressing, boring, and poorly written. None of the stories were remotely interesting.

Too bad because I loved Kids, Another Day in Paradise, and Bully.

Here are some of the "highlights": 1) a teenager (he looks like he's 15 yrs old) goes down on girlfriend's mother, 2) a kid (around the same age) blows his brains out, 3) A widower catches his daughter having sex with her boyfriend, beats the crap out of him, then forces her to put on her mother's wedding dress and marry him (the father)4) a teenager kills his grandparents 5) A teenager's father tries to go down on him.

Also, do we really need to see a shot of a guy peeing?? Or of him masturbating? Or of the ensuing "money shot"? I'm all for nudity in movies, but here it was just pointless.

If this sounds like your idea of entertainment, then you're in for a treat.