oroviejo Reviews

The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

Ridiculous Teeny-Bop Soft-Porn Noble Savage Tripe

[1/10 · 20 November 2003]

Utterly unbelievable that colonial Brits and natives of Sarawak in the first third of the last century had perfect teeth, perfect complexions (in spite of mixed ancestry), and that women groomed themselves with shaved legs and shaved arm pits! What a typically absurd Hollywood distortion of reality! It was like watching the old black & white `historicals' from the 30's or 40's with all the stars having their then current hair-dos and facial hair (e.g., pencil thin mustaches on the men, etc.) none of which had any historical accuracy whatsoever and look totally absurd in retrospect. It was silly.

This is an expensive `passion pit' movie designed to get the teeny boys and girls hot 'n bothered on their night out. A totally vapid and worthless romance. A shame to the genre.

Safe (1995)

An "Info-mercial" by any other name would stink as bad....

[1/10 · 26 March 2003]

This movie will only be of any real interest to those poor souls afflicted with an "environmental allergy". The film is reasonably well-done and held my attention until the "plug" or "ultimate product placement" for the "Recovery Center" started.

Believe me, Safe is nowhere near the "Bladerunner" league as one review tried to imply. This is not a thriller, or science fiction. The pacing is plodding and static. At best it is one-sided documentary, at worst, an "infomercial". Recommend viewing only by those with a particular interest in the environmental allergy phenomenon.