YU and Former Republics

Not bad, but extremely boring

I realize that storytelling is not what this movie intended to do, not even characterization, but simply attempt to represent one dark period of our past. And it does it really well. But that does not change the fact that this movie is boring to death. I may be stupid, but for me, this is just one more in the long line of completely redundant accomplishments in YU/Serbian cinematography. Recommendation to those who suffer from insomnia.

4/10

Nesrecnik sam od malena,
od sve tuge pesme pevam.
Voleo bih, majko mila,
da sve ovo samo snevam.

10/10

Verovali ili ne, upravo sam po prvi put u životu gledao "Tesnu kožu". Preostala tri dela neću ni da pokušavam da gledam. Znao sam da je "Bela lađa" proizašla iz "Tesne kože", ali sam stvarno očekivao da će original biti bolji. Nažalost nije. Isto sranje, drugo pakovanje.

4/10

Redundant

I was always wondering why Yugoslavia and then its independent ex-parts persistently make this kind of movies. Slow, without action to keep your attention, without depth to make you think, not bad, just completely redundant and unneeded. It is a drama, but the drama is nowhere to be found, it is a comedy but it is not funny, there's no message hidden between the lines, absolutely nothing to make it worth watching. For an hour and a half something is almost happening and then it ends. Where have you been, what were you doing, two hours wasted... Compared to this one, "Žikina dinastija" deserves Nobel prize for humor.

4/10

Beautiful women, great Bata Stojkovic and probably the best role of Slavko Stimac. Movie that never gets boring.

Najbolji domaci film i, po meni, jedan od najboljih filmova uopste. Savrsen u svakom pogledu.

<3 10/10 <3

• Sunce li ti jebem zarko, ti ces meni zivot da zagorcavas, je li?!
• Evo i tatu ste mi probudili.
• Ko na nas krene iz mesta je najeb'o.
• Koje dete?! To je kreten!
• Ponovo radi bioskop!
• Sve moze da propadne, da nestane, samo je smrt siguran posao.
• Njegov poslednji prijatelj je umro krajem prosloga veka.
• Ja sam rekao svoje, drukcije ne pristajem!
• Mo's misliti, ti me volis, volim i ja tebe pa te ne napadam.
• Mars napolje, bando pokvarena!
• Sta ce biti s kucom?! - Zapalicu je!
• Pa krvi cu ti se napiti.
• Laki je malo nervozan.
• O, Boze, s kim ja zivim...
• Vracaj dedinu sliku da ne bih s tobom probao furunu!
• Ko mi jos jednom pomene ovo cudo glavu cu da mu razbijem!
• Ljudi, pa ovo i nije tako lose.
• Da znate da je ukusan Pantelija.
• Umro si u cvetu starosti...
• Ocu svoj deo, necete da me prevarite.
• Njemu se i ne isplati da izlazi iz groba.
• Sad mu nije nista, ubio si ga ko zeca.
• Dalje od mene s mrtvacem, smrt je prelazna bolest.
• Kad se sad nisam slogirao, nikad necu.
• Izlazi iz mog groba.
• Ko je vas poznavao ni pakao mu nece tesko pasti.
• Iskopace tebe Bili, ja ti kazem.
• Sta to radis, kume?! - Pa probamo, kume, vezbamo za film. Ti ces ovo isto da radis, samo sutra.
• Svi su mi govorili da si kurva, svi, a ja nisam verovao.
• A ja sam govorio da pseto treba ubiti.
• Pa jesi l ti ikad puc'o iz pistolja? - Jesam. - Gde si puc'o? - Na svadbama. - A u sta si puc'o? - U vazduh. - Pa jesi pogodio vazduh?
• E tako se to radi, kratko ali jebitacno.
• Tata spalio Djenku. Ostali samo dugmici.
• Ala je opravio, svaka mu cast.

Avoid at any cost

I cannot remember who recommended this to me, and that's a good thing because revenge would be cruel. The movie is boring, needless, lousy made and even naked Neda Arneric can't improve the impressions. The story could be told in 20-30 minutes and with better directing it maybe could be a decent movie, because the basic idea is good. But when you slubber that idea and stretch it to two hours result is agonizing boredom. Something like this you can find only in YU cinematography. We do not have OK movies. We have masterpieces like "Maratonci trce pocasni krug" i "Ko to tamo peva" drowned in a heap of nonsense like this one. And then, after decomposition of YU, the new wave of movies comes, movies that are modern and much better produced, more westward, but even if they are not boring like before, they are equally needless. Respect to exceptions like "Lepa sela lepo gore" and a few more. All in all, I will definitely give up on domestic cinematography, except if a particular movie is recommended by at least a dozen people I trust.

4/10

Čedomorac
14 December 2016

As if it's not enough that it's winter, cold, gloomy and depressing, but everything you reach for goes wrong. And then you simply toss everything, sit on the couch and watch "A Big Mess", and the day starts to look much more cheerful.

I really can't attribute any special qualities to this movie, but at the same time, this is a movie you simply can't dislike.

7/10

At the very top of Serbian cinema. In my opinion, only "Lepa sela lepo gore" can compete with "Angels". Of course, I'm talking about Serbian, not Yugoslav film. Movies made from World War II until the breakup of Yugoslavia are completely different category and I think that these two periods can not be ranked together at all.

10/10

Maybe it's not one of the best, but it surely is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen.

Sweet

I have no expectations when it comes to sequels, but if I did, this movie would exceed them. Sure, it cannot be compared to the original movie, but almost nothing can race against first Angels, so that's not a real shortcoming. Easy entertainment on a very satisfying level. Warm recommendation.

7,5/10

The budget was so low that none of the actors got paid

I'm searching online for last hour and I find only negative reviews. I gave fair chance to negative argumentation and I absolutely disagree with all those reviews that underrate this movie. I saw it on the big screen when it was released and I left theater under strong impressions. 15 years later after watching it again on my computer I still have the same opinion. This is a great movie. Of course, it is not a masterpiece of cinematography, but which slasher horror is... This movie is important as first real Serbian horror. Many domestic movies have horror elements, but this is first completely horror movie. And within slasher horror genre it is excellent. Good story, strong acting, original ambient, and the overall atmosphere is perfect for this kind of film. To this day no movies came even close to this one, except maybe "A Serbian Film" (2010).

8/10

"Sve mi se čini, rođaci, da sam ipak prošao bolje od vas."

10/10

When Serbs decide to make a thriller... Is it really needed to say anything more... Good idea, interesting plot, but the lousy realization, although it is a big budget movie within Serbian standards. Within post-Yugoslavian Serbian cinematography this is weak eight, overall it's barely six.

7/10

Life role of Bojana Maljević and the only movie where Lečić isn't annoying.

7/10

After first episode I was about to quit, but I didn't and soon I was hooked. Even if story isn't "your cup of tea", realistically dark atmosphere is strong enough to keep your attention on its own. In just 12 episodes they succeeded to develop characters deep enough to make you feel you were there. This is thanks to good script, but also to fact that cast is made mostly of the most famous names on YU scene. For many of them this show was jumping board for their careers. And not to forget legendary song "All I Want in This Moment". They slightly spoiled it with last episode, which is, in my opinion, complete failure, but all in all, it's one of the strongest shows in history of YU television.

8/10

Good movie, terrible name

At first, I was rejected and disgusted, but then I decided to give it another chance without prejudice.

Technically speaking, the movie is very well done, far better than almost every other Serbian movie I ever saw, and as I am Serb I saw quite a few. Story... OK, it's morbid, sick, disturbed, even insane, but the warning is clearly stated: drama/horror/mystery, so those who do not like horrors are warned and should skip it. Nobody forces them to watch. However disturbing it may be, in its own genre it is not so shocking, no more than "Hostel" or "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" for example. It has an easy introduction, a good plot, few nice twists, and an ending typical for its genre. The quality screenplay, pretty good acting and, for Serbia, fantastic production. Within the genre, it's surely the very best Serbian movie.

The main issue with this movie, the thing that makes it controversial and repulsive for a domestic audience and even lovers of the genre, is its name. "Hostel" was not named "Czech Movie", it was named "Hostel". This country, if we had a real one thou, should have censored this title and force authors to change its name before releasing the movie. They had no right to represent our country this way. There's enough prejudice against Serbia and other Balkan countries already, we do not need more negative representations. After all, it is just a movie and it should be observed like fiction that it is, but under a different name, more fitting to the horror genre, it would be much better accepted.

For the movie: 7/10
For the title: 0/10, and the one who came up with it should be sued or simply kicked in the butt.

Since for decades, in almost all domestic films, we are watching all the same actors, sometimes I wonder to what extent goes their objective quality and how much is it clouded by our habit and emotional attachment to the faces we grew up with. Anyway, something like this should be far below their level. Nikola, Zoran, Vesna, Natasa, why the hell?! I understand political satire and it's completely in place, but why did it have to be this vulgarly obvious?! Production is not included in the rating, because this is Serbia, but ridiculous budgets are not excuse for totally uninspired scenario. Except few decent jokes and performances of leading actors, there's nothing worthy in this movie. I don't even know why did I watch it through at all.

4,5/10

"Ipak, jednu metropolu možda najtačnije određuje hronika zločina. Uzalud široki bulevari, uzalud saobraćajne gužve i metroi, ako u jednom gradu nema manijaka taj grad nije metropola."

7,5/10

"However, a metropolis is maybe most accurately determined by the chronicle of the crime. In vain are wide boulevards, in vain traffic jams and metro, if in one city there is no maniacs, this city is not a metropolis."

Montenegrin drama "Look at Me" from 2008 is a very strange film for this region. It's slow, it develops in several time lines and it's so vague and confusing that I'm not even sure how many timelines are in question. The film was so boring that I was on the verge of giving up on it all the time, and again there was a kind of hypnotizing atmosphere that kept me going little by little, step by step, to the very end. And then the story unreveled and everything I've been watching so far has become painfully clear and I was no longer sorry I "wasted" an hour and a half. An unusual and emotional movie, for its time and climate surprisingly well-acted and directed and followed by very atmospheric music. Nevertheless, although the ending puts the first hour in a completely different perspective, it does not change the fact that most of the movie is terribly boring and that many viewers will give up on it before they experience the powerful end. That's why I can not rate it higher than

7/10

As much as Yugoslavia had reputation for good movies, especially in the 1980s, ex-Yu republics are doing their best to destroy this reputation without mercy. This was meant to be a black-comedy about the Montenegrins, their tradition of vendetta and their "occupation" of Belgrade. Also, the same story could have been done as an action drama. Unfortunately, it's neither. The story dramatization and characterization are tragic. Characters are completely two-dimensional, and the story acts as a dismal joke about Montenegrins stretched for an hour and a half. Jokes based on prejudices about Montenegrins are too exaggerated for a serious film, and yet insufficiently humorous for a comedy. True, I laughed here and there, but that does not change the fact that this is a very stupid movie.

4/10

I laughed. Aloud. Since cult comedies of the 1980s, this is an extremely rare phenomenon. Production is lousy as usual, story is nothing special either, but it can not be denied that it's really entertaining.

7/10

Although I do not like Dimitrije Vojnov, I must admit that he wrote quite decent screenplay, and for director Danilo Bećković, after Mali Budo, this is a significant jump in a positive direction. If you are familiar with Serbian cinematography in the last few decades, it makes little sense to comment on production that is more or less constantly at the same level, as well as acting because once again we have default cast with their default performances. Is it work of art - it's not, is it masterpiece of cinematography - it's not, is it fun - yes, it is. For me it was pleasant surprise and I really enjoyed it.

7/10