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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
A complete waste of time.. A piece of nonsense
This movie -if one call that crap "a movie" that is- is an outright insult to the art of cinema. Sound and songs are awfully annoying, acting is way down below zero...
Some psychopatic killer makes a story eh? Please gimme a break! Any wacky teenager would make a better movie out of this story.. (When I say story, I apologize to all those who appreciate a real story.. Sorry this crap doesn't even have a story)
I have serious concerns about the mental health of those who could grade this crap as a "masterpiece". I guess those people must get some professional help.. NOW ... not any minute later
Long Weekend (2008)
total waste of time
this is just an insult to the art of cinema! A pointless, boring, stupid sequence of frames
I guess the director is just being a wacko by keeping the audience as if "something meaningful" is soon going to happen
what happens in the end is the sense of "deception"! As a spectator you feel like you are deceived by the crook director who's stolen your time & money at the end of the movie.
Any other movie could be much better than this one but if these stupid movie directors are ready to startle you with even a worse movie at the moment you think it is impossible
20 Years After (2008)
Run away like hell if you hear this movie is on
I vote level 1 for this movie for I cannot vote any less. This movie is worse than anything you have ever seen as "movie" This is not a movie, this is a disaster! Not only a waste of time but a great insult to the art of cinema!
I request only one thing from Mr.Torres and his accomplices: PLEASE do not make any movie or any other production in the future. That will be your BEST contribution to the art of cinema and world audiences will like you better if you do not appear in credits at all.
Geez, I cannot believe I had to write a commentary on such a waste but I guess it's my civic duty to warn other cinema fans.
Bana Sans Dile (2001)
The script is stolen from a story of Mr.Stephen King's
the movie is claimed to be made in 2001 yet entering the scene in 2007. As if this not enough to raise some suspects, the entire scenario is STOLEN from (or let's say "highly inspired by") a story of Stephen King.
I don't know if you ever read "Rage" the novella by Stephen King (Pls check out the book in your local book store or at amazon.com) The original story was first published in 1977 under the alias name Richard Bachman.
A story about a high-school student called Charlie Decker who went insane and took hostage of his entire class. The story brings out many reflections on every sort of criticism to the education system and society all through the eyes of a 17 y/o kid along with a first-class thriller.
Cagan Irmak is FOOLING the Turkish audience by a script which, he hopes, no one else remembers or knows of the original story.
Any note or tribute to Mr.Stephen King? Please, don't make me laugh! We're talking about the Turkish cinema here
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
Not satisfactory as a documentary
I have been living in Istanbul for 24 years and I (a 39 years of experience would suggest) do know what Istanbul has gone through all those years.
Faith Akin is still quite young (born in 1973) and falling in the great mistake of being ORIENTALIST when looking at Turkey (just as his other movie Gegen Die Wand did) This movie SERIOUSLY LACK contemporary urban Turkish life AND MISLEADS the audience when giving out (quite false) clues as to the geographical and cultural spreading of Istanbul.
Anyone who could speak Turkish could easily attest that many underground bands & groups depicted in the movie (Siyasiyabend for one ) are SO MISERABLE and their members cannot even speak a proper language that they cannot be taken as 'representatives' of the contemporary Turkish music. Much less a piece of crap which many Turkish listeners even do not know about at all.
We Turks have long been accustomed to 'superficious' westerners who look at Turkey with some Orientalist point of view: trying to fit the actual Turkish image into their mind molds.. What is new in this movie is the fact that now a Turkish originated director (Faith Akin) is making the same mistake: Looking at Turkey with some false western glasses and scrambling to depict it as if he understands better. All of a vain effort.
Just ask any Turkish friend of yours: What sort of a musical documentary is this without mentioning the names : Zeki Muren, Baris Manco, Ajda Pekkan, Teoman, Muslum Gurses, Ibrahim Tatlises, Ferdi Ozbegen?.. and many others who have SHAPED so far the real MUSIC we are listening today?
Faith Akin has a long long lesson to learn before babbling away and confusing other people's minds with false images about the contemporary Turkish Music.