jan-277

I AM HELPLESS !!!! I do not know what else to say about this disgusting, unimaginable piece of human feces than "please save your time, your brain energy or whatever you might call it", and never ever watch this. If you just bought the DVD, go burn it. If you like WW2 Movies, get yourself a copy of "Saving Private Ryan", if you need to be reminded of how cruel humans can be to others in total disrespect of life, love, and anything that matters to most of us today, "The Pianist" is a wonderful, yet very disturbing piece of Art, as it is "Schindlers List". If you like good Fantasy Stories, maybe have some episodes of "Twin Peaks". Drama: "Requiem for a Dream" is A MASTERPIECE !!! And if it so happens that you are an absolutely devoted fan of deep-brain-cell-destruction-while-in-a-totally-drunken-state-of-mind, a copy of jackass, jackass the movie 1,2 or (even 3 someday?) might be your choice of the moment. All of the above are movies or series that I enjoyed watching a lot, depending on whether being up for something intelligent, entertaining, sad, or just stupid time-wasting. But " Die Blechtrommel" is just nothing . No Sense. No enjoying. No crying. No nothing. Please burn every copy. It is more senseless than watching 2 hours of your local station's test signal or a digitally transmitted picture of a fireplace. My only relief right now would be to see the people mainly responsible for that movie burn in the just mentioned place right now, really. Or at least in a nice and secure place where they are being helped to cure their diseases.

That is by far the most awful movie I've ever seen. I admit it takes something to bring to life such a perfect picture of perversion and sickness, but for what ? Seeing that movie is like watching a pile of crap and enjoying its smell for more than 2 hours. That one leaves nothing but a bad taste in your mouth, and the wish to forget about it asap. Where "American Beauty" had something strange but still sympathetic, this one has got nothing. It is just a picture of the scum of some sick and frustrated dude's mind, the picture the director is painting here is worse than the most perverted mind could ever imagine. That movie doesn't do any good in any way. The only thing one has to admit is the incredible sickness and unhappiness, the incredible frustration that the characters of that story live in, and how that is brought to the viewer by the movie. But it still was one of the most awful movies I've ever seen in my whole life, and that comes from a guy who loved "twin peaks", "american beauty", and most admired the brutality of schindler's list, because at least in that movie there was a sense, the sense of showing people how to make the future better than the past, but "Happiness" erases all hope to make anything better, it's just a story of a bunch of people facing nothing but the absolute bottom of social life, and a director who himself seems to enjoy stirring in human excrement up to the very last detail.

My respect to the actors, though. Must have taken a lot, especially to the children playing that hard stuff.

But why spent 2h15 just to see everything that makes you sad everyday anyway, that you will never be able to change and that is so unhappy that you would never even think about making fun of it ?

Sorry to all the folks that still consider that one a simple and dumb action movie,but you haven't got any idea of what this movie is about. In the year 2004 it still takes my breath how up-to-date and great in every detail this movie is.This is my all-time favourite, definitely. The actors do a perfect job, the story is ,apart from the time travel thing ,truely credible (and I am an IT professional),the action is great,I nearly crapped my pants when I saw the movie the first time when it came out(I was 20). And look at the message:why do we need machines to get to know how worthful human life is?Look where we are today?Everything depends on computers,internet,communication.Everything needs to be faster,more colorful,more tasty,more perfect and efficient,but does that bring us any benefit in the end? - Sorry,didn't mean to start any philosophical monologue here... To put it in a nutshell: To all the poor people who missed it in theaters : go and watch it!