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Pescuit sportiv (2008)
artsy, pointless
This is absolutely everything that's wrong with the Romanian movie industry: artsy, pretentious BS with no real substance. The story in itself was interesting, but the flat acting, the shaky camera (seriously, why?) and the long shots with little to no action made it a difficult watch. And not difficult as in complex, difficult as in 'so boring, I'm questioning my motivation to go through with this'. Why the long shots, the "nothing happens, check out the grass being blown by the wind for 3 minutes"? If you've got a good story, but it's only enough to fill 20 minutes, make a short film. I like shorts. I'd watch a good short any day. All that filler ain't art. It's just pretentious filler. Here's a spoiler for the ending: nothing happens.
Dracula Untold (2014)
Fun, campy
Some plot holes, some historic truth (about 5%), some CGI, Tywin from Game Of Thrones is the most compelling character even though he's in only about 10 minutes of the film. Also, Dominic Cooper does a wonderful job, he seems smarter and more interesting than the hero. So I ended up actually kind of rooting for the bad guy. Dracula seems to have bat pooh for brains and his wife, Mirena, makes the Stepford Wives look like angry feminists (seriously, who wrote her lines straight out of a 1950's soap opera?). But if you can ignore the main characters' stupidity and the plot holes, it's actually pretty entertaining. It's a fun watch, but don't expect to come out of it more enlightened on anything. Very entertaining.