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Penetration Angst (2003)
Not a bad movie...it's worse
Am I the only one to think that this is a bad movie?
I admit that horror movies often lack things like a big story or good acting or even good special effects. But the way these deficiencies come together in this movie is surprisingly pitiful.
Miserable story: The idea of a raped vagina that takes revenge by turning into a man eater sounds quite funny, but what the writer made out of it is stupid.
Bad acting: The actors move like marionettes. They play and look like people, who really try hard but completely fail to act.
Bad FX: Especially the explosion of the Van looks unspeakably cheap.
It is surprising that a director who made some nice movies during his carrier changes over to such messy stuff.
The Straight Story (1999)
Discovering slowness
I think, nearly everything has been said in the previous comments. So I only want to give some personal annotation about this beautiful movie.
I started watching "The straight story" when I came home from a party. I was drunk and tired, but also curious about this one, because other Lynch-movies I saw gave me much to ponder.
It started with this long and slow sliding of the camera through the garden of Alvin Straight, passing the fat woman dressed in pink, arriving at the rear window... And then...I fell asleep. I awoke several times while the movie went on. But every time I awoke the movie looked the same. Alvin Straight was slowly moving through America. Endless fields of wheat and corn surrounding him. To only get these snapshots accompanied by the fantastic soundtrack, while dozing, was quite surreal.
The next day was a Sunday. And in the afternoon I watched this wonderful movie again. It was one of the best Sunday afternoons I had this year.