One sentence synopsis: A Russian handiman confronts a corrupt small town mayor and the legal
and religious systems around him intent on forcing him off his land and
ruining his life.
Things Havoc liked: ...
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Ahem?! Things Havoc liked:
Go away.
What?
Go away. I don't wanna.
What the hell do you mean you don't wanna?
I don't wanna review Leviathan! I won't do it!
Oh come on now, it can't have been that -
It was that bad! It was awful! I don't wanna relive it! I'm not doing it!
Don't be such a baby.
TWO AND A HALF HOURS! I sat through this fucking thing for two and a half goddamn hours and you wanna call me a baby?!
But every critic on Earth called this a great film. Hell it was a nominee for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars!
SO WAS UNDER THE SKIN!
And this was -
- WORSE!!!
I don't believe that. Under the Skin was a hole in the space-time continuum. This thing at least had nice cinematography, didn't it?
*Sniff* Yeah...
And the actors weren't bad, were they?
I... I guess not...
So how bad could it possibly have been?
You don't understand... this movie is just... contrived misery. For hours on end. Everything sucks and we have to make sure it keeps sucking artificially, even when it makes no sense for it to suck. We've gotta drop plotlines midway through and arrange macguffins and use every contrivance in the book so that everything can suck as much as humanly possible BECAUSE ART.
I get all that, but -
YOU DON'T GET SHIT! You can't understand how horrible an experience it is to sit through something this goddamn vacuous for that long with no actual purpose to it beyond some pathological need to display arbitrary suffering.
Well it's trying to be a daring indictment of Russia's corruption and culture of alcoholism
BULLSHIT. It takes more to indict something than just splashing it on the screen. Russia isn't corrupt because God and the impersonal forces of the universe are in collusion to ruin some drunken idiot's life. That's like saying Commando was a daring indictment of South American kidnapping rings.
But... you liked Commando.
I liked Commando because it's entertaining. This movie's as boring as wallpaper paste. I started trying to identify the make and model of the shuttle busses just so I wouldn't go completely mad. It's not like the plot was occupying my attention.
Did it even hold together?
Hell no! That would have required straying away from the daring thematic elements. Think about this one. Let's say you've got a corrupt mayor, who is being threatened by a hotshot lawyer from Moscow who has dirt on him so explosive that he nearly has a heart attack to see it. The lawyer is established as having high level connections in Moscow, and yet the mayor decides to drag him out to a rock quarry and beat him up with goons before throwing him on a train out of town. What do you think happens next?
The... lawyer goes to his connections and gets the government to -
NOTHING HAPPENS WHATSOEVER. We never hear from the lawyer again. Why not? Because Evil Must Triumph Or It Isn't Art!
Surely you're being a little overdramatic...
There is a scene in this movie where the main character sits down on a beach littered with whale bones, drinks an entire bottle of vodka in one swig, then looks out at the camera and says, in perfect dramatic seriousness, "Why?!"
... really?
I swear to God.
Okay so... not very good then.
Not something I'm gonna be running out to buy the Blue-ray of, no.
But you've reviewed bad movies before. What's the problem with this one?
I... I just hated it SO MUCH. Every time I sit down to write the review I degenerate into incoherent screaming. It was an atrocity. And everyone loved it because it was "daring" enough to claim there's corruption in Russia!
Sounds kinda like Under the Skin.
Don't remind me. Still... you're right, I do kinda have to do something.
See, that's the spirit! You'll think of something, don't worry about -
Wait, I know!
You do? Great! What's the plan?
I'll review it IN SONG!!!
Wait, WHAT? NO! NO DON'T YOU DARE! WE ARE NOT HAVING ANOTHER MUSICAL NUMBER IN THIS GODDAMN BLOG! DAMMIT, YOU GET BACK HERE AND REVIEW THIS MOVIE NORMALLY!!!
*Skips away in psychotic glee*
GODDAMMIT, WHO FORGOT HIS MEDS THIS TIME?!
Things Havoc liked: ...
...
...
Ahem?! Things Havoc liked:
Go away.
What?
Go away. I don't wanna.
What the hell do you mean you don't wanna?
I don't wanna review Leviathan! I won't do it!
Oh come on now, it can't have been that -
It was that bad! It was awful! I don't wanna relive it! I'm not doing it!
Don't be such a baby.
TWO AND A HALF HOURS! I sat through this fucking thing for two and a half goddamn hours and you wanna call me a baby?!
But every critic on Earth called this a great film. Hell it was a nominee for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars!
SO WAS UNDER THE SKIN!
And this was -
- WORSE!!!
I don't believe that. Under the Skin was a hole in the space-time continuum. This thing at least had nice cinematography, didn't it?
*Sniff* Yeah...
And the actors weren't bad, were they?
I... I guess not...
So how bad could it possibly have been?
You don't understand... this movie is just... contrived misery. For hours on end. Everything sucks and we have to make sure it keeps sucking artificially, even when it makes no sense for it to suck. We've gotta drop plotlines midway through and arrange macguffins and use every contrivance in the book so that everything can suck as much as humanly possible BECAUSE ART.
I get all that, but -
YOU DON'T GET SHIT! You can't understand how horrible an experience it is to sit through something this goddamn vacuous for that long with no actual purpose to it beyond some pathological need to display arbitrary suffering.
Well it's trying to be a daring indictment of Russia's corruption and culture of alcoholism
BULLSHIT. It takes more to indict something than just splashing it on the screen. Russia isn't corrupt because God and the impersonal forces of the universe are in collusion to ruin some drunken idiot's life. That's like saying Commando was a daring indictment of South American kidnapping rings.
But... you liked Commando.
I liked Commando because it's entertaining. This movie's as boring as wallpaper paste. I started trying to identify the make and model of the shuttle busses just so I wouldn't go completely mad. It's not like the plot was occupying my attention.
Did it even hold together?
Hell no! That would have required straying away from the daring thematic elements. Think about this one. Let's say you've got a corrupt mayor, who is being threatened by a hotshot lawyer from Moscow who has dirt on him so explosive that he nearly has a heart attack to see it. The lawyer is established as having high level connections in Moscow, and yet the mayor decides to drag him out to a rock quarry and beat him up with goons before throwing him on a train out of town. What do you think happens next?
The... lawyer goes to his connections and gets the government to -
NOTHING HAPPENS WHATSOEVER. We never hear from the lawyer again. Why not? Because Evil Must Triumph Or It Isn't Art!
Surely you're being a little overdramatic...
There is a scene in this movie where the main character sits down on a beach littered with whale bones, drinks an entire bottle of vodka in one swig, then looks out at the camera and says, in perfect dramatic seriousness, "Why?!"
... really?
I swear to God.
Okay so... not very good then.
Not something I'm gonna be running out to buy the Blue-ray of, no.
But you've reviewed bad movies before. What's the problem with this one?
I... I just hated it SO MUCH. Every time I sit down to write the review I degenerate into incoherent screaming. It was an atrocity. And everyone loved it because it was "daring" enough to claim there's corruption in Russia!
Sounds kinda like Under the Skin.
Don't remind me. Still... you're right, I do kinda have to do something.
See, that's the spirit! You'll think of something, don't worry about -
Wait, I know!
You do? Great! What's the plan?
I'll review it IN SONG!!!
Wait, WHAT? NO! NO DON'T YOU DARE! WE ARE NOT HAVING ANOTHER MUSICAL NUMBER IN THIS GODDAMN BLOG! DAMMIT, YOU GET BACK HERE AND REVIEW THIS MOVIE NORMALLY!!!
*Skips away in psychotic glee*
GODDAMMIT, WHO FORGOT HIS MEDS THIS TIME?!
The Russian Film 'Leviathan'(Sung to "The Yellow Rose of Texas") There's an indie film from Russia
The worst I've ever seen
With characters so wretched
They drink like Charlie Sheen
Two hours or more I sat there
It damn near stopped my heart
And if I find the filmmakers
I'll tear their lungs apart.
It's the bleakest fucking movie
This critic's ever viewed
With plot holes wide as oceans
And pace like superglue
You can talk about your Requiems
Or the Choices of Sophie
But the Russian film Leviathan's
The one that finished me.
When the Fireflies are buried
No longer shining bright
And the lists of Oskar Schindler
Have vanished in the night
I will lie awake regardless
For how was I to foresee?
That Leviathan will stick with you
And never leave you be.
It's the bleakest fucking movie
This critic's ever viewed
With plot holes wide as oceans
And pace like superglue
You can send me to Elysium
Or the Life of Timmy Green
But among them all this film's the one
I wish I'd never seen.
And now I've seen this movie
And my heart is full of woe
It's like the Last Airbender
Crossed with The fucking Road
Under the Skin was awful
Worse than any film before
But the film that I most hated
I shall call it nevermore
It's the bleakest fucking movie
This critic's ever viewed
With plot holes wide as oceans
And pace like superglue
You can talk about the second Tron
Or sing of Matrix 3
But I would not give Leviathan
To my worst enemy.
Final Score: 2/10
... fine.. how about Silver Linings Playbook 2: This Time It's Personal? It seriously cannot be worse than this.
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