peter-543-821985 Reviews

The Farm (I) (2018)

Disturbing, well directed, feels like Euro Horror

[7/10 · 29 June 2020]

Obviously not everyone's cup of tea on this one. There's definitely a role reversal of sorts aka the vegan comments in other reviews. However, the movie is better than 80% of the rest of the trash out there. The ultra wide screen format was a nice touch and usually i'm not a fan as it can be a bit gimmicky but it really fits on this film. Has a bit of a euro-horror feel to it. If you like the short Next Floor or La Meute (the pack 2010), With a friend like Harry, and similar styled films then you would probably like this. Good acting, good locations, good cinematography and visceral.

I hardly review any films, but had to chime in due to all the negative reviews.

The Beyond (2017)

Primer style with a strong concept

[6/10 · 10 January 2018]

Dry, low budget, fair acting, compelling concept. I liked it more than most Indi-Scifi. If you liked the style of Primer, or the concept of Contact, you'll probably like this. Great attempt at realism over Hollywood and great use of limited CGI. A solid 6. I wish more scifi films took this approach.

The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

Bleh! Don't waste your time. Even if it is Soderbergh.

[4/10 · 30 September 2009]

OK, somewhere between 1 and 5.. Look, I'm a fairly big Soderbergh fan, Solaris - perfect!, Kafka (where can I buy this now!!), Sex Lies., The Good German and etc.. But what the heck was this movie? I was waiting during the entire movie for the "it's about to get interesting", it has to get interesting because the acting sucks.. right?.. "it's just about to get.. " nope. It never was interesting. And oh I had high hopes for Sasha, not that I know who she is because I had to look her up on Google. But because I love to root for the underdog - thinking just maybe a porn star really could break into mainstream. Oh right, that kinda sorta did happen once from that porn star from the 80's Traci lords.

Despite how 'high brow' Sasha is supposed to be, she was anything but barely interesting during the entire movie. I'm not sure if it was her acting or the script. Hard to tell.

Seriously, this is bad indie at best. It was almost like it was trying to be an indie film, but Sasha Grey didn't have really any interesting lines, she just sat there with uninteresting (understatement) responses. She did cry well, that was about the most challenging part - again the script.

Too bad, I thought this was going to be good by reading those reviews on the box (ah, suckered in by the reviews again!),

I never write reviews about anything. I had to sign up for IMDb just to write this. :) Other than this film, however, Soderbergh rocks, and Sasha Grey probably could act if challenged. She is certainly interesting to look at both in the screen charisma sense and in the other sense.

Well, it was only 5 bucks at BB and 2 hours of my time.