Manderlay
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Movie Reviews of Manderlay
Movie Review: Boring crap
Summary: 1 Stars
Man, this movie freakin' sucked!! To me it seemed plotless and just plain BORING. I guess I'm missing something here. Apparently, it is a movie in a series of other likely boring, plotless movies about slavery. What's with the environment anyway? Why it like one huge stage? I know it's probably supposed to be "historical," but it's just not my cup of tea. It's my cup of poison. I'm far from being a racist, believe me, I just couldn't get into this movie AT ALL. It's not the characters, it's not the actors, it's just a slow-paced, slow-moving, boring movie about slavery that didn't make any sense to me. At least, as much as I watched because I found it almost unbearable to watch the whole thing. I guess I hated it because I'm not following the track that every other reviewer is because they know the stories and all that junk. If you want my opinion, I don't recommend this junk. The story, the environment, and the pace of the movie all sucked. In fact, I had never even heard of it until I came across it on Netflix. Most of the movies I'll review from now on will subtlely be from there. It was just too slow and too boring for my taste. If you haven't seen it, I hope this helps. If not, waste time and watch it and praise it just like everyone else. Take my advice and don't expect much if you do plan on seeing it because I have nothing to spoil.Movie Review: Terrible, Slow and Just a little Bit Racist
Summary: 1 Stars
As the song from Avenue Q goes, everyone's a little bit racist, and that definitely applies to Lars Von Trier who takes a convoluted story about a plantation and a well-meaning white woman with her jones on for black dudes and hits America over the head with a sermon about how America should just leave well enough alone. Bryce Dallas Howard plays the white woman who forcibly frees plantation slaves only to discover that all of her well-meaning plans go awry. The plantation slaves are the typical shuck and jive "massa always knew best" types that post-Civil Rights Hollywood directors would blush at.
Worse than the implicit racism running through the movie, there's a smug, satisfied narration that makes the whole thing that much more tedious. As with Arthur Miller, Lars Von Trier is one of those directors who thinks that he must tell the audience what to think. And as usual, the audience ends up thinking "I wonder if there's anything else to watch."
Tired, boring, self-satisfied and racist - I suppose it plays well at Cannes.
Movie Review: Complete Distortion of American History
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie would have you believe that the American constitution is based on majority rule. It sets up that straw dog and then demolishes it -- in an attempt to demolish America. America is based on the innate rights of man that no majority has the right to negate. Slavery was an evil, a violation of the Declaration of Independance that destoyed countless lives and was finally resolved by Abe Lincoln in the Civil War. "A new birth of freedom," he said. The greatest president America ever had was able to correct that original evil.
This director would have you believe that, because of slavery, nothing can be done, that Afro-Americans are better off enslaved rather than acting on their freedom to better themselves. That such a quality actor as Danny Glover would let himself be used by this director to spew his own hatred of American is extremely sad. Overall, an abomination of a movie and a distortion of history.
Movie Review: Unrealistic, Feels Cheap and Contrived
Summary: 1 Stars
I turned this movie off part way through. First of all, it's not even a movie but a video recording of essentially a stage performance with bad lighting.
The idea seemed interesting, but it moves at a strangely hurried pace and the interactions among the characters seem really...clumsily scripted.
The pictures on the front and back of my copy (different than what is shown here) depict a landscape and a house - none of which is even part of the show. The entire set it on a flat, white stage.
Not worth watching! Blahhhh!