Pseudo-Intellectual Codswallop

Rating: 1/10 (30 July 2008)

At last we have a 2001 for our time. Kubrick's film was full of nice images and had all the intellectual content of a 3 day old slushy, not surprisingly it made imbeciles feel cleverer than ordinary folk. Aronofvsky had previously made the shockingly bad "Requiem For A Dream", a melodrama so lurid and OTT it induced chuckles. I never believed he had the capability to outdo the rankness of that effort but astonishingly he has succeeded with room to spare. Over 3 different time spans of bad acting and worse dialogue we learn that love is good and death bad. Flicking channels after this I came across "Beerfest", in it's own way a very bad film, it seemed like a masterpiece after "The Fountain".