Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

druidistic (spoilers are a real time saver)...Imagine a world, in the not so distant future, where people resemble CGI renderings of the "Team America: World Police" puppets...So lemme get this straight - natural resources dried up and the global economy collapsed as the 3 sentence text intro narrates for us. And yet, they were able to link up a continental metro system and keep it up and running? mmkay.Dandruff shampoo is used to read and manipulate the minds of the masses. Altho the shampoo doesn't eliminate dandruff, it is used by everyone (actually half of everyone), including bald people, ... unconditionally. (What did you think of my conditioner pun?) Maybe that shampoo is their only option because of a future shampoo monopoly. I mean, You can't just not wash your hair in grungy dysfunctional dystopiaville. Or maybe the hot blonde in the brainwashing ad was just too convincing. I don't know, everyone uses the same shampoo, just go with it.And listening in on your thoughts (as provided somehow by shampoo) from the other end is some dude at a desk. There's a one-to-one ratio between people on the shampoo and people being controlled. Half the population controls the other, but hey, they just work there, what else can they do?Look, I understand it's an art form and you gotta take liberties, but c'mon, this is just too dumb to be serious. I dunno, maybe I'm just too left brained for this one.The main character is just a "normal" guy us simpletons in the audience can identify with. Ah, how pleasantly belittling.The music was as empty as the blank expressions on that blonde girl's face.It was so dark I could barely see half the time.Some of the voice acting felt flat, forced, like read from the script. Comparing it to a cheap video game would be a slight exaggeration, but it made me think of such nonetheless.I used to enjoy dystopian movies, but I guess I'm getting burned out. What are they supposed to represent? The evil corporations? The ones that put high fructose corn syrup in everything? Little known fact - the only reason we know about high octane sugar is because they're required to give us an ingredient list.

Armand a dystopia. not different by many others, under the same George Orwell mark. but fascinating for its special beauty. dark, cold, ashes atmosphere, a story about a kind of ghosts or zombies, almost an experiment with any success ambition. a film about future like a very simple puzzle. few elements, an unusual hero, crumbs of sexuality, pieces from Brazil. not real convincing, it is only a question from a long evening, warning about technology and one of that stories about nothing who, after their end, remains a confuse collection of memories with role of emotions. the strange beauty is the basic virtue of film. and that could be all. or, only , the beginning to see again.

Vincent I kept waiting for something interesting to happen but it never did.It is an anti-capitalist fairy-tale set in the near future.The animation style is unusual and original but no one seems to have noticed that different is always the same as good. You have some photo-realistic parts, mostly the faces, coupled with animated parts but neither is done well. In the animated parts any movement, walking in particular, looks like those 1950s cartoons where everything is jerky, more like the movement of a puppet than a person, maybe this is an intentional style but it just looks badly drawn. In the photo-realistic parts they are just realistic enough to make their flaws seem bigger, the faces look excellent when not moving but when they should be showing facial expressions they look dead, and this is distracting in a way that normal animation isn't.The plot is rubbish; a dull, unimaginative and unoriginal story with nothing to recommend it.The pace is really slow, this might be because 10 minutes of plot is being stretched into a whole film.The characters have little personality and what they have isn't likable.I like dark films, I like sci-fi, I like animation and yet I honestly could not find a single thing to like in this film.

Samiam3 Take a trip to Europe in the year 2024. This is a dark age, where the automobile is no longer in use, replaced by a cross country subway system. The most popular product on the market (in fact pretty much the only item) is a shampoo manufactured with a secret mind controlling chemical, which the major corporations use to monitor the public in George Orwell fashion.In an age where animation can do anything, the decision to do almost nothing certainly stands out in film. Metropia is without doubt the bleakest animated feature I know; a murky institutional world, without a drop of color or sunshine, and everywhere we go is under lit. This makes enough sense when taking into account that this is a future where society is low on energy. Not everything however feels credible. The absence of people in great numbers is unusual. The few people who do wander in and out of frame are almost hollow shells. They have no soul, but more importantly they have no movement. Metropia uses the least amount of energy possible to give life to illustrations. To attempt to describe it is not impossible, but it's something that is better off seen for ones self. Metropia is a haunting experience. It's almost a ghost world, not just from the absence of sight, but from the absence of sound. Metropia makes effective use of silence in all the right places, accompanied by an effective, very new age score. As for the storyline, it is familiar, but not painfully so. It's similar to Brazil, which itself is the product of George Orwell's influence. The climax here feels a bit rushed, and easy, leaving Metropia a bit shorter than I think it should've been, but it remains an entertaining experiment.