Filthy garbage

Rating: 1/10 (6 February 2007)

I won't go into the clumsiness of the alien theme, the slow pace, the absence of plot, etc, as enough about that has been said already. I do feel dirty after watching this movie though, so I have to say a few unflattering words about it, and its creator. It is now clear to me that the author of this piece, whom I can not, in good conscience, call by name here, is the biggest fraud and hack in the movie industry EVER. Yes, both "The sixth sense" and "Unbreakable" stunk, and this is even worse.
The philosophical concept (the pitiful "You see, in this world there are two kinds of people, my friend" speech), that supposedly is the *actual* theme of the movie, is as shallow as it is flawed (or should I say, "as clumsy as it is stupid..."?). The movie make it sound like all skeptics (i.e. the people who concluded that the Earth is actually round), or "HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS TYPE B" as we are branded here, are altogether nihilistic, immoral, devoid of creativity and imagination, unable to find a purpose in life, and most insulting of all, THE ONES WHO ARE AFRAID OF LIFE? Did it not occur to The Unnamable that it is precisely because of the so-called "fear of loneliness" that people have invented gods, miracles and providence in the first place?
It's actually trash like this that makes me consider religion, just so I can believe there is a "place of constant summer" (by his own logic, The Unnamable is destined to go there, as he created this landfill guided by the divine, rather than by his own free will) for people who constantly insult my intelligence, and will sink to any level of self-degradation just to force their idiotic ideas upon the world.
"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about" indeed.
Even Mel Gibson, who plays the loving father and "Soldier of Jesus, America and Democracy", in movie-after-abysmal-movie, seems to cringe when forced to deliver that "key scene" (at gun point? I can picture The Unnamable standing just out of camera shot with a gun in his hand, waving at poor Mel: "This is my masterpiece! Say it! Say it!"). Other than that, he sleepwalks through the whole thing - even more so than Bruce Willis, in all his dramatic range, in those aforementioned movies.
Nobody else seemed to have a consistent personality either. The kids alternated between creepy, cute, lecturing, and indulging in their gimmicks (as opposed to personalities). Joaquin Phoenix' character was superfluous to begin with, he seemed to have been added for the "baseball" scene alone, and looked like a child molester the rest of the movie.
And of course there's a dog thrown in there for added melodrama, which I guess makes sense, because this guy is like the Dean R. Koontz of movie making.
Insulting, shallow, boring. Flush it.