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This is film is unbelievably overrated...


Wow... I still can't understand its rank. Am i crazy? It's not the first time In don't agree with a movie's notation, but this is really crazy, how on earth can this thing get an 8 on IMDB?? It's not that I hate all of it: actually I thought that the idea was interesting, I liked the cast and also I tend to like huis-clos movies (I don't know how this is called in english, but it means a film with a single location indoors) and I like the general mood of the film. But unfortunately good will, good intentions aren't enough to make a good film. The dialogues, which are really central for this kind of stories, are terrible. I read somewhere that the acting was awful too but I disagree, fault is on the horrendous dialogues throughout the movie, so terribly terrible that no actor in the world would seem believable nor able to give a feeling of genuine truth to their characters... It's just not possible. Every character seems and feels like a caricature of themselves - the geeky biologist, the calm paced paleontologist, the still teenage like professor of I don't remember what who's dating his so much younger student, etc., etc. . Everything was so cheesy and felt like a real waste of a good idea.

In the end I thought, wow this is a good "movie student first film"... no wait, this is suppose to be a "real" Hollywood movie.

So bad...

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I think people are just impressed that it is a low-budget, independently funded picture.

i concur though, it is definitely overrated. I did enjoy it though. It got a 7 from me.


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Definitely not a bad film. I very much enjoyed a dialogue heavy movie; It felt a lot like Plato's symposium to me.

But I agree... 8 seems a crazy good score.

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I think the bad dialog is an attempt to make the location seem ordinary and the people, which they are according to the plot. I thought it added to the movie instead of detracting.

Otherwise what ... the guy is fantastically rich and powerful. He is a conundrum and more locations or a different location would take away from that.

The characters are kind of irritating, but there is a reason for that, they are regular people. Whose conversations around work or with friends are so fascinating. The point was different from a normal movie ... and thankfully so.

But I could understand your criticisms .... it just isn't a bad movie.

Go see "Dinner With Andre" or "Vanya On 42nd St."

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You're not crazy. You just have poor taste.

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by comerb » You're not crazy. You just have poor taste.

Oh no he ditn't!

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maybe your perceptions are too wound up into yourself to see what the film has to offer.

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Oh just go watch your tarantino or Star Trek reboots by that abrams hack or whatever it is you thing of as properly rated.

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Dude, you gave that terrible movie Brüno 10/10. Your opinion is essentially worthless.

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Not every movie needs action and suspense, its called having a brain

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It's called having *beep* taste and been impressed by simplistic concepts, like a dumb person that is made to feel smart would do.

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