Learningbywatching
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If you like movies about criminal conspiracies by large companies like the oil industry etc. and if you are not hoping for baam boom bang action, and if you respect the release date of this movie, you shouldn't be disappointed watching it.
We got different actors here that have a pretty good career ahead of them and I'm not just talking about Cher (who already was pretty famous at that time) but also Craig T Nelson who started his cinema career about that time, also did Fred Ward and with Ron Silver, the same thing. Not to speak of Kurt Russell and Meryl Streep.
So what we've got here is a biographical movie and it is about a conspiracy making one person the victim of something she might haven't done. She's put under pressure and we see how she's dealing with that.
The movie is made really good and its worth watching it but the real criticism fails. There is no real political statement in the whole conclusion so please don't expect that, rather expect a nice flick. If you are looking for really critical hot stuff that must have changed things and opinions of people at that time like the "China Syndrome" with Michael Douglas, you are absolutely wrong here.
I'm giving it a 5 out of 10 because, positive: I liked the actors and the atmosphere. Negative: the plot builds up to something that doesn't come out, even if it's biographical, this was pretty weak and i don't mean the person, i mean the movie.
We got different actors here that have a pretty good career ahead of them and I'm not just talking about Cher (who already was pretty famous at that time) but also Craig T Nelson who started his cinema career about that time, also did Fred Ward and with Ron Silver, the same thing. Not to speak of Kurt Russell and Meryl Streep.
So what we've got here is a biographical movie and it is about a conspiracy making one person the victim of something she might haven't done. She's put under pressure and we see how she's dealing with that.
The movie is made really good and its worth watching it but the real criticism fails. There is no real political statement in the whole conclusion so please don't expect that, rather expect a nice flick. If you are looking for really critical hot stuff that must have changed things and opinions of people at that time like the "China Syndrome" with Michael Douglas, you are absolutely wrong here.
I'm giving it a 5 out of 10 because, positive: I liked the actors and the atmosphere. Negative: the plot builds up to something that doesn't come out, even if it's biographical, this was pretty weak and i don't mean the person, i mean the movie.
Why did it get such a high rating on IMDb? I've seen movies that actually had something in it with way less points. A seven should be a really pretty good comedy like for example "Hangover".
"Burning Palms" is pretty much a cynical and pretty nasty way to make fun on people that have a mental problem or a mental illness. It's insensitive and even if you are an insensitive kind of men or women it's just not funny. Go to a clinic for mentally ill people sit around there and laugh at them. And hope you will never be there. That's what this movie is.
I don't want to be too emotional about it, so I just say, it's unwise, intolerant, ignorant and absolutely without any care for the people around you to make such a movie.
In other words: The filmmakers are actually hurting other people.
"Burning Palms" is pretty much a cynical and pretty nasty way to make fun on people that have a mental problem or a mental illness. It's insensitive and even if you are an insensitive kind of men or women it's just not funny. Go to a clinic for mentally ill people sit around there and laugh at them. And hope you will never be there. That's what this movie is.
I don't want to be too emotional about it, so I just say, it's unwise, intolerant, ignorant and absolutely without any care for the people around you to make such a movie.
In other words: The filmmakers are actually hurting other people.
... then you shouldn't be disappointed.
A young couple in a hotel out in the desert somewhere close to LA. The Hotel office guy acts strangely, and so do all the other people the couple, mainly the guy, will meet during that night. Up to here it is an absolute cliché but this leads the viewer into the wrong direction.
Things are getting stranger and stranger but instead of hysterically screaming girls and bloody massacres, suspense keeps steadily up by clues to the reason why this is happening. But of course there is also a little screaming and blood. Even though this movie leads into a rather parallel World it is pretty reasonable.
So people who are able to find a movie mysterious enough without too much blood and bones, but rather by a good and also surprising story and characters should have a good one and a half hour with this one.
A young couple in a hotel out in the desert somewhere close to LA. The Hotel office guy acts strangely, and so do all the other people the couple, mainly the guy, will meet during that night. Up to here it is an absolute cliché but this leads the viewer into the wrong direction.
Things are getting stranger and stranger but instead of hysterically screaming girls and bloody massacres, suspense keeps steadily up by clues to the reason why this is happening. But of course there is also a little screaming and blood. Even though this movie leads into a rather parallel World it is pretty reasonable.
So people who are able to find a movie mysterious enough without too much blood and bones, but rather by a good and also surprising story and characters should have a good one and a half hour with this one.