petegallows
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The theme is great, because Mark Lanegan was a great singer, the rest of the show is just a sad man, talking to people, who's life stories apply to 0.1% of the population.
Anthony was very obviously a troubled soul. A depressed drug addict and an alcoholic. (Yeah..many interesting people are..)
He had an immense talent in finding the most obscure subcultures and talking about them throughout the episode, as if they mattered.
"Yemeni trans gender rappers in Budapest, how do they feel about the cruelty of WW2, while eating a langos off a paper tray at a bus station at 4am. Or a nihilist self harming interpretative dance street theatre group director in Peru, who is exiled from Romania, will take you to his favourite baby mud wrestling show, where they serve sausage on a bread" - well, I am exaggerating, but only slightly.
Rome has almost 3000 years of history, yet the whole episode is about fascism, that was over in less than 20 years. The family he dines with has Buddha statue by their dinner table, 0.6% of Italians are Buddhists, while 79% are Roman Catholics.
It's always like this. He doesn't talk to real people, always the most obscure individuals, he finds fascinating, for whatever reason.
The food is probably authentic, because the places look very "local", but the background/the backstory is always very weird.
"But that what Parts Unknown means. It's about unique places and unique people...blah blah blah" - hanging out with these sort of people and focusing on all the weird stuff, helps to explain his demise.
Anthony was very obviously a troubled soul. A depressed drug addict and an alcoholic. (Yeah..many interesting people are..)
He had an immense talent in finding the most obscure subcultures and talking about them throughout the episode, as if they mattered.
"Yemeni trans gender rappers in Budapest, how do they feel about the cruelty of WW2, while eating a langos off a paper tray at a bus station at 4am. Or a nihilist self harming interpretative dance street theatre group director in Peru, who is exiled from Romania, will take you to his favourite baby mud wrestling show, where they serve sausage on a bread" - well, I am exaggerating, but only slightly.
Rome has almost 3000 years of history, yet the whole episode is about fascism, that was over in less than 20 years. The family he dines with has Buddha statue by their dinner table, 0.6% of Italians are Buddhists, while 79% are Roman Catholics.
It's always like this. He doesn't talk to real people, always the most obscure individuals, he finds fascinating, for whatever reason.
The food is probably authentic, because the places look very "local", but the background/the backstory is always very weird.
"But that what Parts Unknown means. It's about unique places and unique people...blah blah blah" - hanging out with these sort of people and focusing on all the weird stuff, helps to explain his demise.
This "documentary" - as the left refers to is, is a made up story, about a made up issue, that will leave no dry eye in the house, that's how "powerful" it is.
The film makers make up a story and then cry about how horrifying it is.
"Oh look, somebody is setting these cute puppies on fire and then dragging them behind his car across broken glass! Isn't it horrible? Oh look how badly they're suffering..those poor things..how can anybody be this cruel..it could happen to your puppy"
Andrew Tate is a walking and weird talking parody on manhood, but sorry, he's not responsible for the death of this made up girl.
There is a knife crime on the rise in the UK, especially over the last several years, that has nothing to do with tools like Tate and everything to do with immigration. "Asian" grooming gangs, are not exactly Japanese hairdressers and makeup artists - the crimes that are perpetrated, are generally perpetrated by someone else, than white individuals, or 13 year old "incels".
The whole "concept" of an 13 year old being even referred to as an incel, is sick. A 13 year old is a child. He or she is not supposed to be interested in such things. They're barely hitting puberty.
You can make up a story about whatever you want, but this is a strawman targeted at people, who have done nothing wrong.
The film makers make up a story and then cry about how horrifying it is.
"Oh look, somebody is setting these cute puppies on fire and then dragging them behind his car across broken glass! Isn't it horrible? Oh look how badly they're suffering..those poor things..how can anybody be this cruel..it could happen to your puppy"
- well yes, it is horrible, because you made it up that way. It also isn't true and you're avoiding making movies about real issues, because you're cowards.
Andrew Tate is a walking and weird talking parody on manhood, but sorry, he's not responsible for the death of this made up girl.
There is a knife crime on the rise in the UK, especially over the last several years, that has nothing to do with tools like Tate and everything to do with immigration. "Asian" grooming gangs, are not exactly Japanese hairdressers and makeup artists - the crimes that are perpetrated, are generally perpetrated by someone else, than white individuals, or 13 year old "incels".
The whole "concept" of an 13 year old being even referred to as an incel, is sick. A 13 year old is a child. He or she is not supposed to be interested in such things. They're barely hitting puberty.
You can make up a story about whatever you want, but this is a strawman targeted at people, who have done nothing wrong.
...at least keep the noise down.
This is literally one of the films, I would watch to the end under these circumstances only: you put a gun to my head, you hold my family member hostage, you pay me a lot of money (hey, I like this option much better than the rest, hit me up - start a GFM for a few hundred thousand $ and I'll give it another shot), you end a war (also pretty good). At the moment, I can't think of other reasons.
I've watched probably thousands of horror and "horror" films over the decades, as I watch at least one, but probably around 3 every week, some I've seen many times, some I just barely watched the one time. Even the most low budget films usually have at least something. At least it's funny, how badly it's done, or something.
This one I've attempted in 2005, and again yesterday.
The corniest behaviours, the ciggy, the pathetic bad boy attitude (like the redhead guy from csi, or whatever the show is, that pulls down his shades - that's the level of corniness), the useless characters, that add absolutely nothing, the lowest rent special effect demons - just put a guy there, who looks menacing and says "I am demon" (or he can have a "demon" name tag on his shirt? Still more believable and scary, than anything in this film, instead of the "swarm of cockroaches demon", or whatever that was supposed to be.
I get, that there's Keanu Reeves fanboys and fangirls, good for you. Apparently, he's a good guy in real life - which is fantastic..but this film is still lame. I get, that there's comic book fans, but this was "meh"-er, than the "meh"-est episode of Supernatural, and I've seen all of them..and there were some pretty meh episodes there.
The hell effects were well done. That's the only reason, why it doesn't get 1*, but 2.
This is literally one of the films, I would watch to the end under these circumstances only: you put a gun to my head, you hold my family member hostage, you pay me a lot of money (hey, I like this option much better than the rest, hit me up - start a GFM for a few hundred thousand $ and I'll give it another shot), you end a war (also pretty good). At the moment, I can't think of other reasons.
I've watched probably thousands of horror and "horror" films over the decades, as I watch at least one, but probably around 3 every week, some I've seen many times, some I just barely watched the one time. Even the most low budget films usually have at least something. At least it's funny, how badly it's done, or something.
This one I've attempted in 2005, and again yesterday.
The corniest behaviours, the ciggy, the pathetic bad boy attitude (like the redhead guy from csi, or whatever the show is, that pulls down his shades - that's the level of corniness), the useless characters, that add absolutely nothing, the lowest rent special effect demons - just put a guy there, who looks menacing and says "I am demon" (or he can have a "demon" name tag on his shirt? Still more believable and scary, than anything in this film, instead of the "swarm of cockroaches demon", or whatever that was supposed to be.
I get, that there's Keanu Reeves fanboys and fangirls, good for you. Apparently, he's a good guy in real life - which is fantastic..but this film is still lame. I get, that there's comic book fans, but this was "meh"-er, than the "meh"-est episode of Supernatural, and I've seen all of them..and there were some pretty meh episodes there.
The hell effects were well done. That's the only reason, why it doesn't get 1*, but 2.