OF VERY LITTLE VALUE, Yet HIGH In Offensiveness

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2011)

Do you know what it's like to listen to someone tell a joke for an hour before finally getting to the punch line?? Do you know what it's like when someone goes on for an extremely lengthy period of time just to tell you something they could have told you in 3 minutes?? Do you know what it's like to have to wade through a mound of garbage to find one singular element of value?? That describes this movie to a 'T'.
I have never met anyone in my life, much less an entire community of people, like these depicted in the movie, ANYWHERE in the Upper Midwest part of our country. How offensive it would be to people from there being depicted in such an offensive, base, degrading manner. I thought the movie "Fargo" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous" was BAD, but they are practically human praise reports in comparison to this piece of work. The Scandinavians I've met and gotten to know from there have been the KINDEST, MOST MANNERLY, ETHICAL, NON-OFFENSIVE, and CLEANEST LIVING PEOPLE in our country - Not the stupid, simple-minded, alcoholics like they are far too frequently depicted as. If they really were like that, the rest of the country wouldn't continue to make such drastic attempts to get them to live and work where they're living.
I honestly tried to look beyond all the distractions of ill behaviors, vulgar phrases (to put it MOST mildly), & numb-skulled existence, but the volume of it was set so high that it drowned out any kind of message the Writer and/or Director was trying to convey. The acting was good, the execution of it was extremely poor.
It just goes to show us, again and again and again, that enough hype and carefully chosen 'Critics' who'll script a response for the movie before it's even released, and enough 'plugs' on television shows, can indeed fully influence massive amounts of people into believing that garbage is a work of art.