My Humble Opinion

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2004)

I saw the movie and ... where to begin ...
In my honest opinion it was a TOTAL CRAP! I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BIGGER CRAP IN MY LIFE! Maybe Dogma was also crap movie, but not like this one, this goes NR.1 in my charts (by the way the Web Site is also crap, too commercial and very slow too). It was not the mixing of all those fantastic creatures that bothered me but the mistakes, insults and insinuations addressed to my mother country ROMANIA really pissed me off. Let's see ... We will take it point by point. 1. I consider it common sense (shameful) that when making a movie with a budget of billions of US dollars you do not know or don't pay somebody to look at the map to see that the capital of ROMANIA is BUCHAREST not Budapest (which is the capital of Hungary) as it was presented in the movie! For the Director and the Producer of the movie especially, I want to inform them that ROMANIA and Hungary are different (neighbor) countries. And by the way we Romanians are around for 2000 years we but we never had a gypsy as a king neither such a capital. Gypsy Kings are a latino band, my dears! If you didn't know that you should have asked, or maybe take some Romanian in the movie crew. Or next time just ask me I will offer my advice for free. 2. In the beginning of the movie it was said that the action takes place in Romania (Tansilvania is province of Romania) 'a cursed land inhabited by cursed people'. This doesn't sound very good to me. It is pretty much an insult to country itself and to the 23 million inhabitants of Romania. We may be cursed (it is normal when the medium salary is 100 US dollars/month) but the county I can assure you is one of the most beautiful and rich (in natural resources) in Europe and is not at all cursed as it was presented. And off the record the images presented there were more suited to describe Romania in the 16th century not 18th. What will people think now about us, after seeing this movie? 3. I don't know about the others but I am proud of being Romanian and I think we are a nation as normal as many on this earth, and this movie is not quite a good presentation for Romania. Anyway I just wrote that just to defend a little our image and to let people know that we have evaluated a lot since the times presented there in the movie, we even got Internet now (80% of the youth use Internet and has a computer). :p I hope that our government will sue the producers of this movie!