This film is a disaster. The narrative is scrambled....sometimes schmaltzy, sometimes lost, sometimes both. Note to writers and director: humans don't talk like this. Characters are all either one- dimensional or no-dimensional. Camera-work...seriously? Every 5 minutes there's a shot out of focus, and another that focuses on something completely irrelevant. It's a real shame, because there's a wonderful story to be told here, but not by this cartoonish treatment. In the real world, people don't walk around with either a halo or a black cloud over them---in this 'video' they do. May as well have them actually wear black and white hats, does the filmmaker really think his audience is this stupid? (hey, maybe he's right). If submitted by a high school film student, this is a solid B-. Don't waste your money, wait for NetFlix then avoid it.
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Worst Film Ever Made
13 July 2014
First time I've walked out of a movie. Meaningless plot, clumsy dialog, CGI worthy of a 1983 Sega, this is truly the worst film I've ever seen. The plot literally makes no sense whatsoever, none. Every element is counter-rational. The graphics look like what you'd get if you let a 9-year old use freeware from the web. From the first scene, you're scratching your head "is that supposed to be a bear?" "why is there a bear?" Then you spend the next hour thinking "wait...why'd he do that? Why blow that up? Why are they hurt?" No part of this movie makes any sense whatsoever. You could get better plot and dialog if you just asked a couple of 8-year old boys to make up a story about monkeys. Gary Oldman and Keri Russell need to fire their agents, they're both better than this stain on their careers. My advice--wait until it's on TV, and be sure to avoid it then.
Ivory Tower
(2014)
A Mess....a Waste
1 July 2014
90 minutes of children whining "SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD PAY FOR MY LIFE". A pathetic, disjointed, chaotic mess. An 8th grader with an iPhone could make a better movie. Watching students stage a sit-in because the college threatens to make them pay tuition for the first time (EGAD THE HORROR) is the essence of first-world infantilized narcissism. There is no narrative to the film, no beginning-middle-end. It's as if the director passed around a camera and asked everybody to "talk about education stuff for 5 minutes". At best, it's a (horrible) campaign commercial for Elizabeth Warren, as is the website. There is no 'there' there. A convoluted and inept political hack job. Save your $15.
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