... and the award for most overrated movie of 2009 goes to ...

Rating: 2/10 (18 January 2010)

... The White Ribbon ! The older I get, the more I continue being surprised with the amount of head nodding style online wannabe movie critics. It is enough for one guy to post a link to Roger Ebert's review (a famous critic who rated it excellent) to start an avalanche of praising, lots of which contains questions like "hey, but what's is this movie about?" in the same sentence. How can movie be great to you if you don't understand it ?
To cut a long story short, I guess movie idea was mostly to show us what circumstances were in pre-WWI Germany, and how deranged family values led to evil youth generations which led humanity to the two world wars. I strongly disagree with this point of view and that's the main (but not the only) reason I rate it so bad. Families with strict parents existed, still exists and will continue to exist all over the world, not only in Germany. The reason we don't have so many wars nowadays is mostly thanks to the media like TV and internet, who entertains, brainwashes, and opens minds even of lazy people who doesn't read books.
I expected good crime/mystery thriller, but all I've got is dumb incoherent story I don't buy at all, and without an end.