What a PIECE OF CRAP

Rating: 1/10 (29 February 2008)

I gave this movie one star because there's no option for zero stars.
This movie reminds me of a story I once read. A mother, disgusted with modern art and its pretentious nature, had her two year old daughter finger paint on various canvases. One such canvas featured about 6 different colored vertical lines. She entered this piece as her own work in a modern art competition, entitled "Dance of the Trees." The work won. after she revealed who had actually done the work of art, the award was taken away, but not before she had made her point.
Another example? In the Museum of Modern Art, in NYC, a prominently featured exhibit is a blank white room where the lights turn off and on every 5 seconds. I kid you not.
You'll get all sorts of weird, hideously stupid and boring things that people call art. I guess I don't mind people having their own opinions about various things, it's just that I find it incredibly bizarre. You're not a bad person for liking these types of things, just understand that most normal people are laughing their ass off at you while you adjust your glasses and the guy next to you is thinking about giving you a wedgie.
This movie is another of those obtuse pieces of art that I fail to comprehend, mainly because I'm normal and still have my sanity. I must say I'm amused by many of these fawning IMDb reviews. It's like a bunch of pseudo intellectuals, nodding sagely at for instance the above MOMA reference, and creating some pseudo-intellectual artsy-fartsy reason about why you should love it. Other people join in, thinking that they'll look uncultured and stupid if they say they "don't get it," when everyone else so obviously seems to. Look, the emperor has no clothes! anyway, as you might imagine, I found this movie to be a complete and utter waste of two hours of my life that I'll never get back. What a complete piece of crap. There's some decent acting in there, but so what? that's like saying at least it's not too cold in hell.