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Barbarosa (1982)
8 for the unedited version, not the junk MGM marketed
Radnar123, you are correct. What you described in your inquiring review is correct. That was the original, unedited version that MGM, to my knowledge, never released for sale. They only sold the version missing that scene you described, the scene that made the entire movie make sense and contained the director's vision, the brilliantly built in message.
This senseless, cut and nearly valueless version is also all that I can find anywhere. Online, any streaming source, everywhere I've looked, the version we want to see cannot be found. It's as if the studio realized there was a bit in intelligence to the motion picture, said 'we can't have that', and removed it from the face of the Earth. And, it's a damned shame.
Extract (2009)
I'm confused, and would rather have my 90-minutes back..
I love many an episode of "Beavis and Butthead", as well as the motion picture "Office Space". (Note: if you don't get why "Office Space" has such a cult following, you are far too out of touch with the world we live in to be rating films viewed by those of us who do actually live in it.) I enjoyed a good deal of "Idiocracy" though in my opinion it was only a 4-5 out of 10 film. I am aware enough to comprehend that just because I enjoyed a film does not mean its a great film; it simply means that I enjoyed it. The concept of "Idiocracy" alone is brilliant...as well as being completely true. Just visit any shopping mall parking lot on any Saturday for verification.
I really like the cast of "Extract", and I believe that everyone carried their weight, giving their characters what they could within the confines of the script. This brings us to what I perceive as the problem with "Extract". I am easily entertained and not at all picky. However, I just sat through a Mike Judge film, chuckled twice, smiled maybe a dozen times, and feel overwhelmingly not entertained.
While not an awful film, deserving of the dreaded "1"-score, I believe that "Extract" suffers from it's base: the script. I found it lacking in most any reason to watch the film, and wonder if this was possibly a result of over-compensating in an attempt to go in a different direction and make a different type of film.
As previously mentioned, I don't feel that it's an awful motion picture. I can understand a sane person giving it anywhere from 2-6 depending on their altitude, shoe-size, or whatever. However, I am truly baffled as to how any movie goer claims to have been entertained on an 8-10 level unless there are drugs involved.