GroteBlauweVogel Reviews

Raging Sun, Raging Sky (2009)

Weird but interesting

[7/10 · 4 November 2023]

Since this movie was so low rated at imdb I was expecting a disappointment but actually I quite liked the movie.

It's one of the stranger movies I have ever seen. This movie is more than three hours and has a lot of sex and male nudity. Luckily the actors are quite handsome. Also the movie is very nicely shot.

What makes this movie especially strange is that there is hardly any spoken text. It makes the story difficult if not impossible to understand. However, this isn't necessarily bad. It kept me interested to see if I would get some clue what this story is about. To be honest I didn't get that clue during the movie. Some of the other reviews here made me understand the movie better.

Rock Haven (2007)

Interesting idea poorly executed

[3/10 · 6 October 2023]

This movie is about a Christian boy falling in love with the boy next door and the struggles to come to terms with ones osn sexuality. Being gay myself I'm always interested in a movie that shows these kind of struggles. So this movie seemed like a fit but it just didn't cut it for me. The story is very thin and very slow. That in itself is not bad, but the characters are not very interesting and they don't develop. There was really nothing interesting about them. The slowness of the movie mainly comes from the many scenes of the waves hitting on the coast that seem to serve no purpose except to fill the time. In the parts of the movies where people actually talk it seems forced and unnatural. It's a combination of poor acting and a bad script. All together I gave this movie a 3 out of 10. It's really quite bad but I've seen few films that are worse.