outstanding low budget masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2004)

This is a great movie. Made with a very low budget. A movie that made Tom Hanks say he was in awe of. Outstanding. Touching. A movie also about hope. But I'd like first to address the two bad comments out of the over 300 in the board. One gentleman complains about the subtitles. Well, it really is frustrating to see in this day and age this kind of comment. It is so revolting to hear this sort of statement. Everybody else in the world when they watch American movies watch them with subtitles. But there is an anti intellectual bent in America (quite ethnocentric) in which movies made in other languages have to be dubbed to obtain any kind of box office success. To this gentleman I'd like to say that the Iliad, The Odyssey, the Bible, Crime and Punishment, 7th Seal, and many other works of art were not done by Americans. Yet we all enjoy them. So I'd encourage him to expand his mind and enroll in a Spanish 101 class in the local community college. Specially considering that the idea behind the global market of ideas is if we want to be heard we must hear others. This sort of dumb a** bs I read on these boards just p** me off. If you are an idiot without any kind of appreciation of what's good and beautiful stick to War Bus and Beach Babes from Beyond. If you don't like a movie because it is in another language don't watch any foreign films! (stay ignorant about the world) rather than watching a movie and giving it a bad review because it was not in English. There is another cat calls himself webmaster 49. The guy gives every movie he reviews a bad rating (including The Pianist, Chinatown, Taxi Driver). But he gives Mr. Goodbar an outstanding review calls it one of the best movies of the 70s. Dead man walking he also praises. So don't be tricked by these two. Their sense of aesthetics cannot be defended with any sort of rational argument. Don't be fooled by them. This is an outstanding movie.