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nudity is not the issue

posted 13 years ago by candypants42
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I honestly have no idea how this movie has a 7.4 rating. I consider myself a feminist,and i do think it was partially sexist, but it was more as a movie lover that this movie offended me. There is nothing original about Cashback. Out of all the useless plotpoints in this movie I found the one concerning a bored low-wage worker pretending to undress random women most believable, and random nudity was the only thing that kept me awake through this utter piece of crap. Between the boring recycled jokes,the unconvincing depiction of insomnia and artistry, the no-chemistry love story, the cheesy dialouge, and horrible timing I don't know what was worse. It reads as if though someone watched Go!, Fight Club, and Art School Confidential, recycled some themes and visuals, incorporated them into a boring generic break-up story and made it intensionally bad.

If someone who enjoyed this could explain to me how, I would be grateful.

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[–] Jose Guilherme 13 years ago

Maybe this film makes more sense to boys ?

Relationship discussions seem a bit just like the film... your like a spectator in them.

I agree the humor was many times campy and silly... but it wasn't overdone. The nudity though in good taste certainly might be construed as soft-pornish as some have said... but not overdone.

The insomnia is more about not knowing what to do with your life than an actual case of being an insomniac (these do sleep once in a while). When life is just routine it seems exactly like he shows it.

I really liked how he filmed it... the small details. The frozen world was very well done... and its something from my childhood. I remember imagining how it would be to stop time for a few minutes/hours. So for me this was what made me like the movie most.

So I understand why some people might get caught in some details that stop this film from being a great film... but they might skip over the details that do make this a good film.

[–] candypants42 13 years ago

Never said it was overdone, (except in the sense that it containded a lot of clichés that have been done over and over in movies before) I just don't know why the movie was done at all..

Neither do I understand why it would make more sense to boys, maybe if the main character was more complex one could have argued that, but that isn't the case. What is there in his character or choises that I couldn't understand as a girl?

I get that one could like the movie based on details or find it funny (even though I didn't) as comedy is subjective, but it still not a "good film"

Sure, the frozen world was well done, but the fact that the rest of the cinematography was so sloppy gave the film a feeling of amateurish unevenness.

You don't build a whole movie on one cool slo-mo sequense that has been done in different variations a thousand times. It's as if there was no love or effort put in to this at all.

[–] sabenge 13 years ago

I think the problem was that it was created from a short video. The creators probably didn't know what to do until they found TVTropes.

[–] chaoslex 13 years ago

The second post made perfect sense. This movie will at most levels appeal to people who were like Ben Willis at his young age. I was alot like him and related well with this movie. Like how men don't get women, the same applies to women and how they don't get men. So I see why women would find this movie odd. Alot of guys are like Ben in this movie.

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[–] Thrillseeker303 12 years ago

I guess it all comes down to different taste.
Personally I love the atmosphere the movie presents.
The ethereal music also helps accentuate the moments of beauty in the movie.
I'm a man so offcourse my "liking" this movie might be influenced by seeing the beautiful models but it's more than that.
It's mostly because I can relate to Ben and his need to escape the boredom of his life.
Finding those precious moments and try to enjoy them as much as you can.
Trying to freeze time and make those moments last.
The movie may not be a masterpiece but it was definately entertaining to watch how Ben interacts with the world around him.
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[–] BobCH88 12 years ago

I agree wholeheartedly with you candypants.

I hated this movie from the first scene. it is boring and stupid. if it weren't for the naked babes in it, it would be completely unwatchable.

why are we supposed to even care about the protagonist? He just seems like a loser with a little dick. Couldn't even kiss his girlfriend in school when she made the first move!

[–] tecnogaming 10 years ago

Listen to what I'm going to say to the OP, it speaks volumes of how bad this movie is.

I never agreed to any feminist because of the simple fact that I consider being a machist or feminist something negative, the reinforment of someone's sexuality is not necesary, women are women and men are men, period... the world does not need real men or real woman, machists or feminists, the world just need good people.

Having saying that. I agree with the OP 100%, in fact, me being a man and she being a woman reinforces the fact that there is a severe problem with this movie.

If I wanted to add something to what the OP brilliantly said is that this movie posses as art like some dog-sh-it on a musseum, it's a disguise.

The movie is boring, period, it's simple disguesed as complex and phylosophical, it's incredible depresing and has about the worse casting for a male lead I could think of.

OP was spot on all that she said. So, no, this is not a man's movie, this is just a bad movie, and no, nudity is not the issue, bad timing, undecided director not sure if he was filming a comedy, a dramedy, a sci fi and a mix of incredible bad dialog and boring script.

OP comment about this movie is one the most precise I read in this forum and one I fully agree on, It really feels like you know what you're talking about.

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