froske1 Reviews

Surfer, Dude (2008)

A complete waste of time

[1/10 · 2 February 2012]

This movie is awesome in that you absolutely fail to get its point. Arguably, it was meant to have none, but then, why would anyone want to watch it?

It's definitely not about surfing, there's hardly any surfing in it. There is a lot of weed smoking instead, but that is somehow out of focus: it's not about weed smoking either. It's not about life, it's not about just chilling, it's not about sports becoming something perverted by advertising, it's not about media manipulation, it's not about goats or ecological agriculture, it has no point. You can only wonder at the waste of resources involved in producing it. That money could have gone anywhere from helping starving kids in Africa to improving ice rinks in Spain, and for the better!

There's not a scene in it that would qualify as comedy. It doesn't really belong to that category. Instead, one could create a "surfer, dude" film genre and dump this one in it. Forget the so-called plot, this movie's best summary is "Matthew McConaughey half-naked sells". Mind boggles: did they actually have to make a movie to prove it?

Acting A.I.: A Portrait of Gigolo Joe (2002 Video)

Quite interesting

[8/10 · 20 December 2005]

I definitely enjoyed learning a bit about the manufacturing process of Gigolo Joe: robots like him are truly hard to find! Despite its brevity it was quite instructive.

It had actually escaped me while watching the film that this character was learning to appreciate friendship, robot friendship. I suppose I had focused too much on the central character's story & sort of took Gigolo Joe helping David "for granted".

I may have liked to see more technical details, but on the whole I think it was worth watching & those that have seen the movie should see this too.