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Chrysalis (2014)
Ignore the bad reviews from Hollywood insiders & their minions
I don't know why the hate for this movie I thought it was quite good. I suspect spamming by insiders and their minions who don't want creative new blood interfering with their gravy train of big budget Hollywood garbage films. Some elements of The Road and Blair Witch project but with the best post apocalyptic scenes I think I have even seen in a movie. OK, the zombie thing is getting stale as of 2014 but with Ebola going around this movie is also timely. I thought acting was good or at least good enough to put you into the scenes with the actors. Gary Indiana was a great location to film. Soundtrack was really good also. Hopefully we will see more from this group in the future.
In Bruges (2008)
Horrible gratuitous violence, shallow plot. Sick garbage film.
Horrible gratuitous violence, shallow plot. Horrible acting (non- Flemings pretending to be Flemish) Every scene degenerates into some kind of bar fight. The only thing going for the movies is that it is filmed in Brugges but that is the only thing Flemish about it. Of course there are the stereotypical fat Americans in the first Brugges brawl scene (one of many). More Americans/Canadians in the second or third restaurant brawl scene. Had I seen this in a theater I would have walked out but in my own home I had a morbid fascination at how this pre-adolescent type plot would work out and how many more sick acts of gratuitous violence could be added into one shallow plot. Save your time and money and go play Grand Theft Auto or go watch a Claude van Damme movie if this kind of twisted misanthropic garbage gets you off.
Zwartboek (2006)
More preachy Speilbergesque tripe from Holland
Thank G-d for the Dutch having the moral authority to tell the world how to think and behave. What would we do without them? The movie is worth watching but the forced plot and Speilbergesque silly action parts and pandering get really tiresome (Speilberg was born in Holland so the comparison is not random). I am no historian but the idea of an organized Jewish/gentile Dutch resistance seems implausible to me (their unions agreed to strike to support the Normandy invasion but only if the Allies agreed to make up for the lost wages). Glossing over the starvation that occurred in 1945 makes the movie even more superficial (one scene with kids scraping food out of trashcans based on one very overplayed dutch propaganda film). What is interesting though is how the movie moves between at least 3 (maybe 4 or 5) languages with no subtitles in the version I saw. The plodding preachy forced plot is very typical of Dutch movies. If you are not Dutch or have not lived in Holland you will probably have a better opinion of the movie than I did.