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Khan kluay (2006)
Typical
Was enjoying watching it with my kids - the animation is good and the story was interesting enough. But then it came to the part where they are teaching kids that animals don't harm one another unless they are being threatened, "only MAN does that".... First of all, that's a total crock. Animals of all different species will hurt and kill each other for a variety of reasons and not always out of some basic necessity either. I'm tired of movies promoting this idea that the animal kingdom is this peaceful wonderful place and that humans should feel guilty and bad because we're horrible awful creatures. Embedding this guilt into our psyches and teaching kids to think this way is how we end up with tragedies like Timothy Treadwell's death. Am I getting a bit worked up over a simple kids movie? Perhaps. But for me it felt like the straw that broke the camel's back, there are far too many children's animal/nature movies like this, created by people who don't know a thing about nature.
Babar and the Adventures of Badou (2010)
Pretty Bad
Visually it looks like a lot of other cheap quality looking shows that are on. It has no real visual appear at all, there is nothing that grabs you about it. Just cheap looking computer animation. My son doesn't seem interested in it at all. The word "tusk-tastic" forced into every other sentence is distracting and annoying. We usually will change the channel when this one comes on. There isn't really much in the way of learning anything from this show either, it's pretty basic and not very engaging for kids. It's kind of a shame because I remember the Babar cartoons from when I was a kid and they were actually pretty interesting and well done. This show just seems poorly made on someone's computer.
A History of Violence (2005)
Played out like a bad 80's made-for-TV movie
All in all I have to say I was pretty disappointed in this movie, and I can't understand how it's being glorified as one of the best films this year. Which sucks, because I really wanted to like it, and I was looking forward to seeing it. It was just way too cheesy and predictable. There were "plot twists" (if you want to call them that) that were so predictable, I was left thinking "Were we NOT already supposed to know that?..." We walked out of the cinema laughing our heads off. (*slight spoiler but not really*) Did the "evil bad guy" character not seem just a little over the top and clichéd? Deep gravelly raspy bad-guy-voice, the mysterious facial scar, the dark sunglasses hiding the trademark "bad guy eyeball". Seriously. When I was watching this in the theater, and it came to the part where he was slowly taking off his sunglasses, I thought to myself "Jesus Christ if he has a Bad Guy Eyeball i'm going to laugh myself off this seat." and ta-da, there it was. It was pretty bad, like some 80's made-for-TV movie or Walt Disney villain. I kept waiting for the bad-guys to fly up into the sky back to their secret lair or something. I also have to add that the whole "country life is so innocent and happy and wholesome and harmonious, until the big bad City Thugs show up!" thing was so painfully overplayed. Laughable. I grew up in the country and various small towns. Nobody goes around picking up other people's trash, and baking pies for the county sheriff. In Hollywood idealistic dream-land maybe, but not in real life. Cutesy teenage girls in pigtails sharing malt sodas with their boyfriend in a diner like it's 1955? I also liked the "rustic" traditional break-action shotgun, in lieu of a pump action, so that in between setting blueberry pies to cool on the windowsill and pioneering the wild frontier, we can go out back and shoot old yeller.
The Locals (2003)
Boring, bad, not even worth laughing at.
I couldn't even get through the first half of this movie. I love watching good b-horrors, almost as much as I love watching bad b-horrors for the laughs. This movie fell into neither category, as it was boring as hell and badly done, but not "funny" bad. Just bad.
This movie pulled out all the stops. The "road trip adventure". The "car that breaks down". The "cell phone that won't get any reception". The "crazy goings-on with the backwoods folk". That's about when I shut off the TV.
The two main characters in the film are supposed to be best friends, they pal around and make jokes at eachtother, etc, but it seems very unnatural and like they just met that morning.
It seems as though the only people who enjoyed this film are patriotic Kiwis.