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MichaelB wrote:Basic Instinct is pretty mainstream, and Sharon Stone's labia majora are certainly visible.

Mathew2468 wrote:But really, how many labia have you seen in a film? Only 3 or 4 for me, and not mainstream at all.

As a movie its not really bad and done professionally. However its not what i am looking for when i am wasting my time. There are at least four main ideas at the same time and all of them depressing.
The first is Polish country itself which filled with mafia, poor people, suicides, dilapidated building; the second main character obsession with his finding of old, supposedly 2500 years old corpse which he declare a shaman; the third the director manage to connect unprovable events in that shaman's life to his characters lives; the fourth is female character itself which has mental problems but somehow nobody pays attention anyway as supposedly men attracted to her and are trying to have sex because of her animal magnetism. And sexual part is most depressing where the director stick to self-sensoring or maybe he dont understand anything in sex anyway and i dont want even mention the movie's end and, in short, its all in the past.
Yes, if you looking for something more appropriate for 21 century try "Enter the void"

Mathew2468 wrote:Back on topic:

One star Amazon review of Szamanka.

As a movie its not really bad and done professionally. However its not what i am looking for when i am wasting my time. There are at least four main ideas at the same time and all of them depressing.
The first is Polish country itself which filled with mafia, poor people, suicides, dilapidated building; the second main character obsession with his finding of old, supposedly 2500 years old corpse which he declare a shaman; the third the director manage to connect unprovable events in that shaman's life to his characters lives; the fourth is female character itself which has mental problems but somehow nobody pays attention anyway as supposedly men attracted to her and are trying to have sex because of her animal magnetism. And sexual part is most depressing where the director stick to self-sensoring or maybe he dont understand anything in sex anyway and i dont want even mention the movie's end and, in short, its all in the past.
Yes, if you looking for something more appropriate for 21 century try "Enter the void"

Director Roman Polanski caused controversy by giving a real life Satanist a part in the film's rape scene, and the self same man became implicated in the Manson murders which killed his wife Sharon Tate a year later.

Empire

Length: 485 mins

Why That's Too Long: Andy Warhol's silent black-and-white film is eight hours and five minutes of continuous slow motion footage of the Empire State Building. And, well, that's it.

How We'd Fix It: Admittedly, he was probably going for more of an art experiment than coherent narrative, but surely four hours would've served as perfunctorily as eight?

Roger Ebert wrote:No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

The Green Mile (1999)

Length: 189 mins

Why That's Too Long: There was a time when most Stephen King adaptations were just 90-minute horror flicks.

How We'd Fix It: The framing device featuring an aged Tom Hanks can be cut out almost altogether (we’d keep his age reveal) with little effect on the overall story.

How We'd Fix It: Admittedly, he was probably going for more of an art experiment than coherent narrative, but surely four hours would've served as perfunctorily as eight?

The Pianist (2002)

Length: 150 mins

Why That's Too Long: It’s a harrowing tale of Holocaust-era tragedy. Powerful it may be, but we can only take so much…

How We'd Fix It: Adrian Brody’s Szpilman spends so much time in a big almost-empty house hiding from the outside world that it starts to feel like… um… nothing much is happening.

Jackie Brown (1997)[...]How We'd Fix It: Simplify the plot and cut down on the stylish homages.

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)

Length: 166 mins

Why That's Too Long: In a fascinating story about a man who grows younger with age, we really don’t need to see his entire life to ‘get it’.

How We'd Fix It: Focus on the love story between Benjamin and Daisy, leaving out the huge middle sections of his life where he is off doing his own thing.