The Matrix is nothing but a cheap and effect overladen copy of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's excellent TV-movie "Welt am Draht", which was broadcast in 1973. Typical Hollywood overblown style, where they think FXs are everything. The Fassbinder movie hardly uses any effects at all, but is ten times as intelligent and a hundred times more enjoyable. Yach! Sorry, brothers Wachowski, have a look at the Fassbinder movie again and learn that less is more. Some people like this kind of action; for me it ruins a movie completely. I was still a kid when I saw that Fassbinder movie, and I would like to see it again; but their are some legal problems about the rights to this movie, and it can't be broadcast at the moment.
Reviews
3 Reviews
Notwehr
(1977 TV Movie)
Clash of the Cultures
19 June 2005
A rock band moves into a farmhouse in a little village. They are eyed suspiciously by the citizens of the village. It finally comes to a killing in "self-defense" ("Notwehr" is he German word for self-defense). The most amazing thing about this movie is the acting of the rock band "Guru Guru", most notably Mani Neumeier. His character is absolutely believable. Of course he only plays himself, but it is stunning nevertheless. And the music the guys play is superb. Good acting from Günther Lamprecht too, as always. I only wish they would rerun this on TV. The first time I saw it already was a rerun; I was only 8 years old when it was first shown.
12 Monkeys
(1995)
Very twisted tale
26 January 2005
Warning: Spoilers
This movie has a very complicated plot, but only after having read some of the other comments I noticed how very complicated it is. The very final scene, after the shooting of Bruce Willis at the airport, is the crucial one and seems to have escaped some of the reviewers. I am referring to the old woman speaking to the psychotic killer at the end of the scene She also appears among the people around Bruce Willis in his scenes in the future. The appearance of this old woman seems to hint at the possibility that the past can be changed indeed (after the people in the future found out who is responsible for the pandemic that kills mankind they send a killer themselves; at least that's how I interpret this scene). Nothing is said about her success and what indeed would become of the future should she succeed (this is one of the crucial paradoxes of time travel). But it is this open ending that I love most about the movie. I'll give it an 8 out of 10.
Tell Your Friends