Typical Groening. Badly drawn, worn out jokes and boring.
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The Deer Hunter
(1978)
Quite boring
8 June 2012
Warning: Spoilers
3 hours long, the story can be told in a few words: Act 1: A wedding Act 2: Hunting Deer (now the first hour is over !) Act 3: America's nightmare - Vietnam (the rest of the world couldn't care less) Act 4: Coming home Act 5: Going back (searching for Nick, who was driven insane and kills himself playing Russian roulette), the best part of the film. Act 6: The burial
The movie is almost as boring as "Dances with wolves" as it is not able to tell a real story, but at least it has DeNiro and Walken (1 star for each of them). Sorry, but I have to take one star away for Meryl Streep. She was nominated for the Academy award - for this? No wonder she didn't win. Streep played but one role all of her life: Meryl Streep. She doesn't look good, her acting lacks depth, any third-class actress could play that. She is so... average.She really won 3 Oscars ? Wow, mediocrity awards, I guess.
Okay, enough talk about bad actresses. I'll give the star back for Myers' wonderful score. I'd prefer Alan Parker's "Birdy" as a movie about Vietnam veterans and their problems with getting back into the real world.
The movie is almost as boring as "Dances with wolves" as it is not able to tell a real story, but at least it has DeNiro and Walken (1 star for each of them). Sorry, but I have to take one star away for Meryl Streep. She was nominated for the Academy award - for this? No wonder she didn't win. Streep played but one role all of her life: Meryl Streep. She doesn't look good, her acting lacks depth, any third-class actress could play that. She is so... average.She really won 3 Oscars ? Wow, mediocrity awards, I guess.
Okay, enough talk about bad actresses. I'll give the star back for Myers' wonderful score. I'd prefer Alan Parker's "Birdy" as a movie about Vietnam veterans and their problems with getting back into the real world.
Over My Dead Body
(1995)
Would you believe - a German fantasy comedy ?
4 October 2006
Germans are absolutely not funny. I know for I come from Germany. Germans cannot make movies fit for cinema - at least nobody did after Herzog and Fassbinder - because they cannot think "big" enough. Directors who can - Petersen or Emmerich - have emigrated to Hollywood already.
So what could you expect of a German fantasy comedy movie ? See, that's exactly what I expected... and I was surprised how good this film was. Fun, fantasy, a nearly surrealistic story and - not one of the virtues of German productions - good acting by main characters Ohrt and Riemann, the latter I believe to be one of the few Germans to rightfully deserve the title "actress". Just watch her in "Die Apothekerin" where she plays a black widow killing her lovers and husbands and still remains kind of funny and pleasantly.
One of the most entertaining German comedies ... ever !
So what could you expect of a German fantasy comedy movie ? See, that's exactly what I expected... and I was surprised how good this film was. Fun, fantasy, a nearly surrealistic story and - not one of the virtues of German productions - good acting by main characters Ohrt and Riemann, the latter I believe to be one of the few Germans to rightfully deserve the title "actress". Just watch her in "Die Apothekerin" where she plays a black widow killing her lovers and husbands and still remains kind of funny and pleasantly.
One of the most entertaining German comedies ... ever !
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