review by Andrew James Pro
Rubber 2011
Reviewed Mar 15, 2012
Andrew James’s review:
Sort of a nice concept but completely wears thin and pops after about 30 minutes. This thing is not the awesome piece of genre fare that it could've been. Would've worked great as a short. Seriously, the novelty of watching a tire shake for a second and then seeing a head explode starts to really lose its lustre after the 15th take. Boring boring boring.
A film that was trying to be too arty for its own good.
You're my hero, Andrew!! lol I thought the EXACT same thing - neat idea, and it works for a while, but it way runs out of steam like you said. My favourite part by far was the "No reason" speech at the start. I don't get the love for it.
I fell asleep.
am disappointed that no one thought to tyre-fit kit its arse
I love this movie.
Yeah well you love dildo chairs too. So there you go.
Rubber + Dildo Chair = safe chance of not getting a disease or pregnant.
This review echos my sentiments exactly.
I'm with Kurt on this one.
However, I'm not so sure what a dildo chair even is (though I'm guessing it's a chair with a dildo on it)
WORE OUT ITS WELCOME, after about an hour. Also, it should've ended at a certain point involving its "reincarnation" but decided to go on. I wasn't a fan of the cutaways to the audience after awhile either. I love the idea absurdest comedy mixed with a postmodern horror satire of sorts, and I can admit it starts out strong. But overall, I thought it was kind of a failure and the laughs did not sustain after a certain point.
"No fuckin' reason"
Should have been a short, like 20 minutes or less. The filmmaker is too in love with his own concept and the meta stuff is extremely grating and comes across as self-congratulatory. It ruins the fun b-movie aspect of it. Somehow a movie about a rubber tire that makes heads explodes becomes pretentious drivel.
This is just the kind of pretentious twaddle I like! If you cannot take pleasure in deconstructing trash in this fashion, and require simply another piece of trash, well, there is no shortage out there. I for one, embraced it's often high-falutin' wankery and enjoyed the hell out of it.
http://www.rowthree.com/2010/07/11/review-rubber/
Deconstructing trash is all well and good, but it doesn't justify its feature length. It made its point and didn't know when to stop, and didn't have enough to expand the point.
Imagine if Funny Games it was triple the length, and had already made its case after 90 minutes, and you still had another 180 to go.
That's Rubber.
I enjoyd it. but I like some weird movies.
to each his own , I got a kick out of it.