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I knew "Shall we Dance?" was going to be a dreck... but I could not have imagine the magnitude

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Victor Khomenko

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So when the American version popped up diring a routine channel flipping, I set back to watch it.
The word "disgusting" doesn't even beging to describe that monumental piece of crap. Even disregarding the high standard set by its heritage, the film is truly offensive in its primitivism, lousy acting and directing and that unmistakable sense of serving to the lowest possible denominator.
Films like this make one painfully question whether the severe decline of the American culture is actually even more severe than it sometimes seems.

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Bahahahah - Jon L 09:28:40 03/10/06 (2)
I've expressed my dismay about this film earlier here at AA. Did you make it to the last 10 minutes or so starting with the scene where Richard gear comes up the escalator with flowers (very Pretty-Woman-esque) through the ridiculous goodbye party scene? The magnitude of sewerage does scale exponentially in the end...
- Re: Bahahahah - Victor Khomenko 11:03:52 03/10/06 (0)
  I stayed till the end, all the while mumbling curses to myself... I like Tucci, but even his presence didn't help much. Don't know why I continued the torture... I guess it was like pressing on the tooth that hurts - we all know the feeling!
  Amazingly, that film managed to get reasonably good responses on imdb...
  As far as the Pretty Woman... I suspect I might be the only person here... in the country... in the whole darn world who has not seen that marvel!
- Re: Did you make it to the last 10 minutes.... - patrickU 09:51:18 03/10/06 (0)
  And I thought movies sould/could be fun.
  It sounds like an old far east torture.....
You do know that one must be careful to judge culture by looking - tinear 07:14:49 03/10/06 (0)
at highly selective offerings such as films?
Today, we only see the better films of yesteryear, the "dreck" justifiably having been thrown into the dustbin long ago.
Also, many countries today praised for their wonderful films only produce such quality in miniscule quantities, comparatively, a fact not lost upon the citizens of those countries but not apparent to film watchers in other countries.
Re: I knew "Shall we Dance?" was going to be a dreck... but I could not have imagine the magnitude - patrickU 07:12:13 03/10/06 (4)
Richard Gere? Ha,ha, your own fault!
You got too much time to waist, you will regret it later....
- Fortunately I only spent about 40 minutes with it... - Victor Khomenko 07:18:45 03/10/06 (3)
  ...and some of that was reading the magazine.
  But I was particularly disappointed at his moves. I thought given enough time anyone could be taught to move reasonably well, but apparently not him.
  He should play Al Gore in his biography.
  - Re: Fortunately I only spent about 40 minutes with it... - patrickU 07:25:28 03/10/06 (2)
    If there is one actor I can not stand it is him...I feel him some how as " greasy ".
    Well, definitively not my cup of tea...
    So you like Al Gore?
    - It is interesting... - Victor Khomenko 07:32:36 03/10/06 (1)
      ...that in his interviews (things like the Actor's Studio) he comes across as a normal human being, with some positive qualities. Is that just his choice of roles, or he also believes the actor is supposed to "act" in a particular way? A complete disaster on screen.
      - Re: It is interesting... - patrickU 07:44:33 03/10/06 (0)
        
        In Reply to: It is interesting... posted by Victor Khomenko on March 10, 2006 at 07:32:36:
        
        Yes, that it is what I almost wrote!!! As a person he seems quite nice.
        But his roles and the way he act...Brrrrrrrrrr....

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