The Usual Morons?

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2007)

Movies don't get better than this. The pea-brains who write here that they could come up with a better movie (one person alleged he should move to Hollywood because he could top this "tripe") clearly don't like movies. They bitch that the movie "tricks" them. Hmm. Wonder what they thought of more recent movies like THE PRESTIGE or THE ILLUSIONIST? Probably didn't like them a lot. What movie isn't a "trick" if that's the way you think? Next, we'll be hearing that "the movie wasn't realistic, I couldn't 'relate' to the characters, there was no one I could 'identify' with," and other idiotic drivel. I hate to tell you folks, but art ISN'T life and doesn't imitate it. It may use elements from reality, but not to make a point or to teach a lesson or to simply entertain us. If your aesthetic sense of movies is based on other media (theater, prose fiction, etc.), don't go to the cinema. Go rent yourself some nice non-fiction prose or didactic propaganda.
I'm both amused and puzzled by those who complain about the movie "cheating." It's like, gosh, a work of the imagination that never once purports to be "reality" is supposed to restrict itself to the way our mundane concepts of how the world actually works? Gevalt.
For the rest of the readers, skip the nay-sayers, for they haven't a clue, and go watch the movie yourself. Several times. If it's not worth your time, sue me. :)