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Thirst (2012)
Unrealistic Premises for a Superficial Story Line
The Australian desert provides a scenic setting for this movie. Unfortunately, we don't get to see much of it; almost the entire movie is filmed in or around a cabin in the desert. Adding to the monotony is a sparse cast of only four characters.
The story revolves around the four characters who are stranded in the desert without water, transportation, and communication capability with the outside world.
When the movie begins, Minna is living alone in the desert with enough food for her to plan on living in the desert cabin for the next six months. She also has a water tank containing a plentiful supply for her to have been watering a tree she's planted in front of her cabin.
Boyce arrives at the cabin to evict Minna because her lease has been canceled. Minna does not want to leave and, when physically forced by Boyce to leave, decides to sabotage him by puncturing the fuel tank on his truck. (If you wonder why she's so adamant about not leaving to take such a measure, you'll need better luck than I had to find a convincing reason in the movie.) Before Minna could use her computer to call in help to take Boyce away, two teenagers passing nearby encounters car trouble. Minna and Boyce go out to find the broken down car and to offer help.
The teenagers steal Boyce's truck and uses up what little remaining fuel to get to Minna's cabin. We're told the youngsters are fugitives from police and for that reason they destroyed the computer to break contact with the outside world. The two also exhaust the water supply at the cabin by liberally washing their hands and hair. They did this despite having carried no water with them on their persons or in their broken down car even though their travel plan involved driving into the middle of a vast desert. At this point, the characters have set the nonsensical premise of the movie by knowingly putting themselves into a situation where they have no transportation, no communication to the outside, and no water in the desert.
If you expect the rest of the movie to offer clever escape plans (something like siphoning fuel from the teenagers's car to use in the truck) or arduous efforts of survival, you'll be disappointed. What you'll likely get is more nonsensical drivel.
Un secret (2007)
The central premise of the movie is idiotic.
The heart of the story is fatally flawed by an idiotic premise which negates an otherwise decent movie. We are told a mother betrays her son to the Nazis -- an act of lunacy or depravity which is not explained or supported by the rest of the movie.
The movie is presented as a series of flashbacks. These flashbacks jump back and forth among several different time periods; they seem more like gimmicks than useful tools for telling the story. A flashback to one previous time should have been enough to show the family secret.
Watching this movie leaves one with the feeling that the director and writer are obtuse or that they think the audience are.
Capri You Love? (2007)
Thoroughly bad movie on the level of one made by a bunch of inexperienced high-school kids
Here're some of the things I find wrong with this movie.
1. lighting and camera work are the worst I've ever seen in any movie
2. editing is poor such that some adjoining scenes are confusingly disconnected; they left me wondering what happened
3. the script is just garbage; I'm either bored with what's going on or I just don't care
4. the acting is horrendous
5. the indoor sets look cheap and ugly
6. the casting is atrocious; a pregnant woman plays one of the leads without the script mentioning why it's relevant
I feel that I wasted an hour and a half of my life watching a piece of trash and am compelled to warn others about it.