szigma

I went to see this one with little expectations. The director's previous movie was quite innovative, but lacked everything to make it good. It was slow, clumsy with needless and bad lines and of course (Hungarian movie!), not too good acting. After seeing a trailer and reading about this movie, I thought that it too would suffer from the same problems.

But I was quite pleased. The movie indeed is too long and slow, with some of the dialogues pointless and badly written, but at least the storyline is enjoyable, and there are some realy good jokes (for Hungarians, don't expect to understand anything in this movie, if you're not Hungarian). Some of the characters are realy good (It seems that to have big actors for small roles can really help). It appears that the director got the hang of it during the making of the movie, because it starts out very awkward but gets better about the third way through.

Although full of bits that are annoying because they could have been done better, this movie was worth the prise of the ticket. Nothing like Monty Python and the Holy Grail (although clearly influenced by it), but good for an otherwise pointless night.

I guess I do not have the right to comment on the show, since every time I wanted to watch an episode I got bored to death and changed to Discovery instead.

As I understand, the series is about a bunch of guys, who have all the power in the world, but must fight hard every episode to be able to erect homeless-shelters, bring joy to the people and achieve world peace. Yeah, well, in old comics they would be flying around in red-white-and-blue capes killing the nazis with their laser-sight. At least that would be sincere... This is just plain stupid, Hollywood style worthless piece of "make'em feel the real human drama and give us an Emmy!" Soooo far from real life, even the cops in Third Watch who take little gangsters to school and make them promise to be good seem lifelike.

After 9/11 the channel running the show here in Hungary announced that a special episode was made about the question. I was still shocked, so decided to sit through this episode to get some answers. (I got bored again at halftime, so missed the ending) Well, this episode was either right and told us what most Americans know about world politics (In this case it's easy to understand why the US is hated all over the world), or this episode was just another opportunity to cash in on an award with it's stereotypical and meaningless childish chauvinism (And in this case it is the most disgusting example of moviemakers living off other peoples misery).

Anyway, go and watch the show if you're not bothered by the fact that you are treated as immature and naive by the authors, but I think that even the most exciting plot and lines full of wit can't make up for something really wrong in the first place.