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Rubber (2010)
It's a tyre doing stuff
I didn't know if the title of the movie was to be taken literally or if it was a metaphor for the plot. Indeed the movie was about an actual tyre waking up and doing stuff, and this made me so happy! It's very much like that car Herbie in the old days, only with a f*cked up, evil twist and weird humour inserted.
I loved the part where the tyre rolled around. Watching it discover new things was also nice. Other than that the main story could've been better, I thought the tyre was gonna do more normal stuff,--- and not blow peoples heads off--- things like going to the movies or discovering the city or go to the zoo. Meh...
Somewhere (2010)
Enjoyable and different
The movie doesn't have a lot of climaxes, I like that in a movie. I think Sherlock Holmes was the same way, it didn't end with a big boom but afterward it felt like you could just move on with your life, there was no happy message in the end just a regular ending for a simple movie.
There's really not much to say about the movie, it was a simple down to earth movie with an indie feel to it. If more movies were like this then we'd have better movies to watch.
If you want action or emotional drama, then this is not the movie for you. As a side note the movie contains a lot of nudity and hot girls, so that part of it is nice as well.
Being There (1979)
A movie about the relativity of status
One man is a builder, the other is a highly esteemed writer. Looking at what they have done on paper gives one expectations on these gentlemen. When seen up close, in person, one does not know the builder from the writer.
Being There illustrates this relativity of a persons skills and social status in the world. A person who has only the knowledge of the world through a life of gardening and avid TV seeing is put in the world as has been seen on the TV. Knowing not what the world is as others know it, but only through the reflection of the TV, he has no expectation of others or his own behavior. Like a paper without lines or writing.
Chance is glad to be called anything, to be met anyhow, he operates through the world with ease and has no experience of effort. Mistaken often for empty, the viewer is lead to believe there is more behind his actions than mere emptiness, an awareness that is simple and clear, not shackled by memory or experience, not deterred by social roles or shameful memory. Perhaps he is what many think, naive and unaware, perhaps he is not. What we can be sure of is that there is something to the saying "As you think, so shall you become", there is a way that the movie clearly illustrates, that nobody really knows who is who, that at any circumstance a person can decide to jump out of his own life and into another one, unhindered, just like tapping a button.
Maybe I look differently at the movie than others, but if not about this, then the movie must be about something very different. Perhaps he is simply incapable of responsibility, of adult life, and yet moves with such childlike finesse that one would rather have the mind of his than the mind of the rest.
Friends with Benefits (2011)
A movie directed at unknown group
As I started watching this movie the first thing I noticed was Justin Timberlake's horrible acting. Honestly, the guy shouldn't be in movies this way. He always acts as, more or less, his real life self (a unisexual boy with a cute voice and good social intelligence).
The movie was more or less a sex romp with popular songs as background music and hints of homosexuality from supposedly straight actors (?).
Personally I enjoyed the last half of the movie more than the first, to be honest the first half of the movie was the biggest piece of rubbish I've seen in a long time. It made me think that the actors were somehow tricked into signing up for the movie, because no one in their right mind would volunteer for such a lousy script. The whole romance satire thing was overdone, and I could never quite figure out who the target audience was supposed to be. Was the movie made for college kids, teenagers or adults? It didn't quite fit into any of the categories and just left me confused and annoyed. What was I watching?
Nevertheless, there was some good stuff in the movie toward the later half which left me giving this movie 5 stars (would've been 2 stars if it kept going like the first half).