Tonka Truck

Pointless load of rubbish. I have given three stars because it is only my opinion and others seemed to have liked this. I wish I hadn't chosen to watch this based on the high ratings. This is one storyline for the majority of the movie. And then in the last possibly 40 minutes it turns out it wasn't that at all. It then becomes a tedious mess. Fact is that right from the beginning when the wife contacts the woman she knew in school the other woman would never have gone and met her knowing what she did. I don't know who thought this story up, but they must've been laying on their back, bored out of their brain and feeling unimaginative and just coming up with anything and adding to it. Then after an hour they started really getting bored and reaching in all directions whilst destroying their own soul. The reason for why this wife planed what she did apparently had to be more than her husband cheating so the writers came up with a reason so messed up. I'm not saying kids wouldn't do this. I just think it was thrown in there so as to give the wife more reason and for that reason I find it a bit disgusting. I'm wondering who came up with it. Bottom line is a lot of spouses would plot like she did without the abuse thrown in. And yes I get it. The person trashing your life is the person who trashed your life and continued to trash your life in all the ways the other person does. I just don't think the meeting would have taken place. Plus if you've been drugged and bound it will be obvious so she didn't achieve anything.

I can't stop thinking about this since watching it. The more I think about it the more I realise what I viewed. Without giving anything away on the surface of it, it's viewed as one thing. Then the more it's absorbed over time the reality of the story is another thing that is sinister. It negatively effected me. The acting is very realistic. The families members lives and their home and the dialogue between them is realistic. It felt likebeing a fly on the wall. The young lad playing the main role was an excellent choice for the part of Jamie. I think that's why this series affected me so much because the acting throughout was realistic. There's not a single bad actor in the series and the character Jamie is typical of a sweet looking and well behaved child. So many viewer's will have in their family or know a child that resembles Jamie. Regardless of the somber nature of this series it needs to be watched. When you take away all that you feel may have influenced the outcome, then what you are left with is what you actually witnessed.

When this first came out I thought it was excellent, but hardwork. I think it's because Annie Wilkes is hardwork and it all takes place mostly in a bedroom. And it's pretty much all the same throughout. Having just watched it again since 1990 I found it slow. In fact I found it so slow it was making me feel stuffy and a bit tormented by the slowness of it and Annie Wilkes outburst and her overall mentality. Maybe it's intended to make the viewer feel that way so that they could relate to the guy. I didn't feel terrified for him though. Maybe it's because I had seen it before, but I didn't get the feeling the guy was afraid either. In fact it was more like he was reacting to her as though he was in a place where he could judge her crazyness without being at risk of being killed by her. Like the looks he kept giving as if to say " ok, we've got a right one here". Also like when he gave her the finger through the window after she had done something horrific to him. The whole situation with him not being able to run and her coming constantly through the door in another horrible outfit like a denim pinafore over a plaid shirt and her hair grips honestly made me feel exhausted and stifled. I could feel the cabin fever and I got sick of being shut in with the both of them. So it's a generous 3 from me.

It's a good movie, but if people did this to me I'd cut them out of my life.

I'm not sure why this has had so many bad reviews. I'm fussy about what I watch and in the last maybe seven years it feels like there hasn't been many decent movies or shows. This one is not rubbish. Yes it's slow paced to a degree, but it's not boring. A lot of creativity has gone into this movie with regards to the setting and the whole Dutch theme in a remote town. Its kind of like taking something from a Stephen king town vibe and from that mid sommer movie like pagens and Amish and the stepford wives and Dexter and mixing it all together in a blender. It actually takes a while into the movie to realise what the husband is all about and I think that is why some viewers probably found it slow. Not because they were trying to work it out, but because they probably thought like I did that maybe he wasn't up to anything or that maybe he was upto what his wife thought, but if he was it wouldn't be that eventful because he was a uneventful husband. Then you wonder if maybe the town has a secret because he took her to live there and all the wives are duty full house wives and Nicole Kidman was the main character in stepford wives. You can see why she was cast for this because her having been cast in stepford wives throws us of course and down this line of thinking that maybe it's a town secret. I think the lead up to discovering what's going on is perfect because we are seeing things from the wife's prospective for such a long time and it's a contrast to the reality and allows us to be to a degree as shocked and surprised as her character is after spending the majority of the movie in a quaint little life where the highlights of her day is a knitting group, baking meatloaf and preparing for the annual tulip festival. The movie is left open to interpretation though and some might feel after all of that, that they would like an ending that isn't left for them to decide. It's not that it isn't a wow ending. It just for me personally isn't satisfying enough if I have to decide for myself. It almost feels as though the ending is missing. A bit like when you watch several seasons of a show and it gets cancelled. I did however think instantly what the ending was and I did think wow! Then I questioned was it what I thought and had to Google to find out. After reading the directors discussion on the ending I realised what I thought it was wasn't what he suggested it might be. And in actual fact it can be whatever you want it to be and is most likely what the director feels it could be as they are the director. That disappointed me that it isn't what I thought unless I want it to be. That is irritating and the only thing about this movie that I didn't like. What did I think the ending was telling me the viewer?

Not only was this boring, but the main characters were 12 at the time of filming and they touch eachother up and comment on the lads errection and the girl says she likes it. The girl is filmed in her underwear and there are camera shots of her knickers throughout. The police officer gives the lad alcohol. There's even almost a child suicide pact. The parents of these child actors must have been desperate to make money out of their kids. What I don't get is , if the makers of this movie aren't perverts then why not use adults that look like 12 year olds? They obviously wanted to exploit these kids because they were kids. Why even have the scene of them french kissing and touching and pressing up against an errection? A true artist would have been able to portray a coming of age movie without subjecting the kids and the viewers to filmed acts of paedophili. Not even worth one star.

Giving three stars because the review is only my opinion and movies and shows are personal taste, but really wish I hadn't bothered watching this. I found it very boring. It really dragged and was depressing. It all takes place in a cottage and right from the time the couple arrive at the cottage at about roughly 10 minutes in the female character is going through all the emotions of what people go through when they don't want to be in a relationship. So basically it's toxic from ten minutes in. Then it gets more toxic with the arrival of another character. The acting is obviously great given the actors, but it lacks anything of interest. Cillian Murphy portrays a character who starts off normal and becomes wooden throughout the majority of the movie. His acting is still great, but his character lacks character. The female is immature from the outset and gets very annoying throughout. The other character is unpredictable. So you've got this wooden guy for the humdrum mood whilst it drags. And the female who makes you want to say " please shut up" not being sexist because I am female. She's just annoying and dull. Then you've got the guy who's acting like he's lost his foil hat and thinks the other two have it. And omg if feels like it's going on for ever with nothing happening except that. In a dreary cottage on a dreary British island in winter. Not another living soul around. They literally do nothing but smash up old wooden furniture and put you through anxiety, bordem and irritation overlapping and up and down. There's even a galvanized wheelbarrow being heaved along with way too much effort in the bleak wet , blustery British weather at the end just before the most negative ending. As if spending the entire movie shut in with the three of them wasn't enough. The second they move the show outside it's more of a struggle. There's no sense of relief being out in daylight and fresh air. The wheelbarrow is grey. The rocks are grey. The sky and ocean is grey. Jeeze. I'm pretty sure two of the characters were wearing grey throughout.

It's been a while since cinema put out anything worth watching. Over a number of years now there has been less than can be counted on one hand. I think a lot of us during this time have probably gone back and watched movies that were once considered greats and were raved about in there day and found them cheesy now. I know I have been asking myself "were they ever great? Or was I easier to please when I was younger?" There are some though that stand the test of time. And you know which ones they are because if like me you said you would never watch a movie or series more than once and couldn't understand why your parents did. Well they are the shows that we have all been revisiting over and over again during this dry period. This movie in my opinion as someone who really has to be sucked in and engaged. This movie is going to be watch over and over again for generations to come. There is a lot of positives and no negatives I could list here, but I won't because people reading reviews are less likely to read long ones. So I will just say that all the things that make a movie great this one ticks all the boxes.

No one acts like the character Turner and you can tell the female lead wasn't comfortable especially in the setch where she is whipping eggs. His character is erratic and exhausting. And animals should never be exploited for any reason. Also one , one star review mentions this being a poor representation of OCD. I struggle to watch the movie other than it being on in the background so I couldn't say if any of the characters claimed to have OCD. If they did they don't have OCD. Nothing in the movie portrays OCD so I can agree with that.

What a load of pointless, disgusting garbage.