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Talhotblond (2009)
Absolutely one of the top ten OMG moments in cinematic history!
Love it or hate it, this documentary holds a mirror up to a dark, disturbing side of humanity. Of course you can choose to accept or reject that this lies within us collectively, but make no mistake, the director artfully tells a story that rates as one of "strangest but true" ever. The kind of story that evokes such emotion from the user who called this movie "awful" ... it's that good. On the technical side, the music selected for the soundtrack fits well. The narrator's POV is very effective, and the pacing has the gradual build up that makes the climactic point that much stronger. The story itself is the find of a lifetime for a writer. It could easily have been mistreated, but in the director's hands, comes out as a documentary masterpiece.
The Relic (1997)
Nothing Like the Book
Shrill acting. Disconnected story. Bad Clichés. All drawn from a great book. After watching the movie, I went to the Internet to see what reviewers and viewers thought of this. I couldn't believe how Roger Ebert (probably because it was set in Chicago) gave a nod to it, and how others could praise it in any way. All I can say is 1997 must have been a slow year for movies and the majority of the people who liked it must not have read the book. Peter Hyams used a well respected psych-Horror novel and used it as unbelievably stupid collection of movie clichés. Read the book. Watch the movie (if you can stand the idiocy) and you will most likely wonder, as I do, how something this bad was even made.