The Pianist.
Y'all read the reviews. It's as good as advertised. Just a hard movie to suspend belief and enjoy. I had to take a break a the midway point as the mental burden was getting too much to bear.😢 The is no dramatization, like when the soldiers throw a man in a wheelchair off the balcony. We don't get a close up of him pleading for mercy, no Nazi showing pleasure in the murder. It's all so matter of fact.
Have visited both Dachau & Belsen in the past. There was a deep feeling of despair and a sense of pure evil. Would never wish to revisit such a place... The Pianist is indeed an extremely powerful film, yet equally disturbing.
Visiting Prague, we toured Terezin, one of the tamer location camps, but it was no less disturbing.
Was back in the 80's equally saw enough... Pacific war was no better, if not worse for those that suffered at the hands of war criminals.
Thought it was garbage, at least Prey was different... Predator Sadlands, they might want to take a break for a decade or two.
For popular appeal, it got 86% audience like at Rotten Tomato’s and 75% at IMDB, but there are a couple movies I’ve loved that have been trashed there, so goes personal taste. Yes, this movie split from the “Humans are my prey” theme, and revealed more about their culture. Caveat, I have not seen every Predator movie.
Be wise to stop at Predator 2 maybe Prey, rest are like the Terminator franchise brain rot for the masses. Admittedly the first two films are storming. Hollyweird needs to get better writers as what they are churning out today is mostly garbage...
It’s reported to be live action with heavy CGI elements, Dek’s face is CGI rendered, his voice is a different actor than the body (frame actor). The synth actress lead, it’s possible her face was transferred into her frame at least till she gets her legs back.
Some good ideas, followed by milking it with … garbage, many franchises especially Alien. My opinion is, this is a different kind of Predator movie, and I don’t insist anyone like it, but I did. 🙂
Agreed, this maybe an expectations issue, but I think the movie previews illustrates what kind of movie it is and apparantly a majority of the people who bothered to review it, liked it by a significant margin. 🙂
