kustom135
Joined Sep 2005
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I give this a 1 out of 10 because, with the release of this film, clearly the filmmakers and distribution house had absolutely ZERO respect for their customers.
How they convinced Charlotte Milchard to play the substantial role of Abigail Tyler uncredited is the real mystery. Perhaps she was paid very handsomely.
Another mystery is just how gullible some people are to this kind of movie-making chicanery. There are people who believe this film to be a true documentary and the filmmaker and distributor took full advantage of that silly sector of the movie-going public.
'The Fourth Kind' is an egregious lie--of a new kind.
This kind of marketing, were it a person, I'd call a scumbag. I guess somebody said the same of Orson Welles way back when, though!
How they convinced Charlotte Milchard to play the substantial role of Abigail Tyler uncredited is the real mystery. Perhaps she was paid very handsomely.
Another mystery is just how gullible some people are to this kind of movie-making chicanery. There are people who believe this film to be a true documentary and the filmmaker and distributor took full advantage of that silly sector of the movie-going public.
'The Fourth Kind' is an egregious lie--of a new kind.
This kind of marketing, were it a person, I'd call a scumbag. I guess somebody said the same of Orson Welles way back when, though!
ZERO out of ten.
If so-called filmmakers continue in this mind-numbingly STUPID post-millennial vein, I'm gonna abandon the medium altogether.
Since 1998 or so we've been subjected to this kind of garbage. It seems to be derived from 'Seinfeld': film devoted to recording NOTHING but images hanging from a flimsy, even non-existent 'story' lacking in effective dialogue and narrative development.
Face it, folks. Storytelling in film died in the late 1990s. All people want to see now, and all they can handle, are empty, directionless, and plainly silly contrivances like this one.
I've tried to stay contemporary, but writers, actors, and directors today in North America are simply weak and incompetent. A film like this shows how vapid both filmmaker and watcher have become. Way to go.
If so-called filmmakers continue in this mind-numbingly STUPID post-millennial vein, I'm gonna abandon the medium altogether.
Since 1998 or so we've been subjected to this kind of garbage. It seems to be derived from 'Seinfeld': film devoted to recording NOTHING but images hanging from a flimsy, even non-existent 'story' lacking in effective dialogue and narrative development.
Face it, folks. Storytelling in film died in the late 1990s. All people want to see now, and all they can handle, are empty, directionless, and plainly silly contrivances like this one.
I've tried to stay contemporary, but writers, actors, and directors today in North America are simply weak and incompetent. A film like this shows how vapid both filmmaker and watcher have become. Way to go.
All I can say is that 'Melancholia' is on a par with '2001'.
Simply, you'll either be captivated or you won't. Some viewers of '2001' react with hostility upon the conclusion of that film. You can explain it to them over and over and they just see garbage.
'Melancholia' is to emotion as '2001' was to intellect. It forces one into the most emotional extreme there is the same way '2001' forces one to grasp a greater intellectual construct.
Those who call films like these "garbage" simply don't get it. But it's simple, really: the two films posit there may be something out there bigger than we are.
98/100
Simply, you'll either be captivated or you won't. Some viewers of '2001' react with hostility upon the conclusion of that film. You can explain it to them over and over and they just see garbage.
'Melancholia' is to emotion as '2001' was to intellect. It forces one into the most emotional extreme there is the same way '2001' forces one to grasp a greater intellectual construct.
Those who call films like these "garbage" simply don't get it. But it's simple, really: the two films posit there may be something out there bigger than we are.
98/100