The Loneliest Planet

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Is there a reason to like this movie? I can't find one and am surprised by those who do. What is pictured is two young characters who like to walk through rugged terrain, play word games, have sex in the dark, and stay trim. Do I have a reason to like either character? No. What I heard was inane dialog, heavy music as if something was going to happen and doesn't, very little sound of any sort to engage my ears. Was I amused by the word games, liked the music, or understood the inane dialog and stories the players tell? No. I was shown photography of some rugged terrain in the Georgia mountains, a place that few have seen. Was I supposed to be impressed by the beauty and awe of this natural setting? The answer is that it wasn't something I'd seen better done in other movies. The movie seems to suggest that relationships can change radically because of an insignificant happening. But never tell us if they change. I'm still waiting to think of a reason for liking this picture.

This movie was an EPIC waste of life. After debating on whether to watch this film or not multiple times, I decided to give it a shot. About an hour into the movie, I felt extremely bored as NOTHING had happened. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, thinking that there is no way a movie can be almost two hours long and have no point...I was wrong. I hung in there waiting for a moment of anything even remotely interesting, and I was severely let down. When I say nothing happens in this movie, I mean NOTHING. You are better off staring at the ceiling for hours than attempting to watch this life draining piece of crap. Just saying. Spare yourself the suffering of watching this movie. Seriously. There is no plot, almost no dialogue, and the dialogue that there is is nothing more than random gibberish, or it is inaudible anyway. There is no character building, and there are no explanations for any of the (very few...) actions that take place in this film. I have never actually been ANGRY at a movie until seeing this one, if you can even call it a movie. Don't waste your time.

Watching sloths on the discovery channel would have been more interesting. This movie had intentions of being very deep and thought provoking without the characters actually speaking, however, the characters were not able to develop themselves or their relationship enough through the muteness to keep myself interested. The movie is comprised of long shots of the characters walking through the mountains. I could walk out of the room and come back five minutes later to the same scene of walking. The director is relying on the beauty of the scenery to carry the movie for her. Instead of directing a movie and developing characters, she should have been a photographer. If they cut out about thirty minutes of walking from the movie i might of been able to see the depth the movie was trying achieve.

This movie had serious potential. It's filmed in Georgia and the scenery is amazing. You also have three obviously interesting characters but you don't ever get to know them. In fact, I didn't even know their names until I went on to IMDb. Because you don't know anything about the two main characters (other than some tidbits revealed near the *end* of the movie) it's hard to care about them. Are they grad students? Are they American? Why do they like to travel... hell, WHY are they in Georgia? There's no story here. This is why I say the film is pretentious. The people who made the film assume that you can care about the characters without knowing anything about their story. The film is also about half Georgian/ half English with NO subtitles. Now, I get why the filmmakers may have done this. They want you to be as clueless as the two main people when the "misunderstanding" occurs. The problem herein is again, the filmmaker assuming you care enough about their story to *not* be frustrated by the fact you aren't getting any of the dialog. The two main actors speak some Georgian so they know more than we do. They are getting some of what is going on. There's also some Spanish thrown in just for kicks. Your head spins. Like mine did when I found out this was supposed to be a thriller! Huh? If you want an actual thriller about a misunderstanding that happens in this region of the world, watch "Transsiberian". I would also like to point out there are at least two instances where you have the camera pan out and you are forced to watch the characters slowly walk from one side of your screen to the other. If this is a character study, you can observe as much about human emotion by sitting on a bench at the mall on a Saturday afternoon.

This is one of the worst film I've ever seen. I didn't leave during it, only because I kept thinking, "It's got to get better," but it never did. The resolution of the HD camera filming was excellent, and some of the filming technique was interesting, yet way overdone. For example numerous very, very distant shots of people simply walking… and walking… and walking… and walking. It radiated a silly air of contrivance with a hope and prayer to sell that and a lousy plot off as an "Art Film," which might somehow win it acclaim. Didn't work with a damn! As with other forms of art, there is a great debate as to what is "real art" and what is not. The Arts Community loves to say that everything a creator makes and calls art, is in fact "real art," along with a supposition that being "real art" is ergo "good art and worthwhile art." NOT TRUE! The plot in this movie is so well hidden that after the storyline's main incident finally happens, most viewers can't even realized that "it" was the "main incident." The movie repeatedly radiates "amateur" with respect to the plot and directing of the film. That said, the three actors give fairly good performances, but I'm sure they have been very embarrassed by the final cut, which simply stinks.

I went to a showing of this film with high hopes and left feeling I may had just witnessed the worst feature film ever made. First, the character development in this film is non-existent. While the summary of the film claims the couple is engaged, there is nothing the film that tells you the slightest bit about who they are, where they are from, what they are doing in Georgia, and even the slightest reason to be interested in this couple. The man and woman are two of the shallowest and least interesting characters put on film. Second, the cinematography is amateur, at best. The scenery in Georgia is supposedly beautiful, but you would never know it from the static camera shots that dominate this film. And the editing is equally bad; as others have pointed out, this could have been an OK short film but unfortunately about 90 minutes of it did not make it to the cutting room floor. All in all, it takes low-budget to a new low. Third, the sound track could be the ring tone from hell. Blasts of quasi-classical music that abruptly end in mid-bar. The only up side of the music is it keeps you awake. Fourth, minutes upon minutes of ... nothing. Absolutely nothing. A static shot lasting several minutes of a trail with the three actors walking from one end of the screen to the other. If I wanted to see real-time hiking in Georgia, I'd fly there and do it myself. Finally, the "big moment" in the movie, when the couple is threatened by a man with a gun, not only leaves you asking yourself, "was that it?" Worse, it is completely unbelievable. If the couple are supposed to be such experienced world travelers, is this really the first time they were threatened? And what did they expect roaming around in the wilderness of a former Soviet republic ... to be greeted by a concierge? And why in the hell did none of the three characters then feel compelled to talk about what happened? There is simply not enough time or words to describe how bad this film is; if you have two hours of your life that you hope to never get back, then be sure to watch.

I just sign up an account in IMDb just to be able to rate this movie, which has been the worst thing ever I have watched or experienced! I don't even think that any movie can top this! It is so horrible that it is not even worth the one-star-rating!! Just the three of them walking through some green mountains and that is it! No dialog, no subtitle when its need, no story, no lines to act to, no action, no empathy, no emotion, nothing!! Nothing at all! The pivotal scene we waited for in hope that there will be an essential turnover was so insolently lame. The problem was: we were stuck at a small theater that we couldn't leave, so we had to sit there and punish ourselves till the end of the movie, playing angry birds or reading newspaper!!! For those, who wanna die bored: this film is a catch! Don't miss!

I was drawn to this film mainly because of Lisa Shwarzbaum's review in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. I watched it on Netflix instant; if I had seen it in a theater, I would have walked out. This movie gives us a young couple vacationing in the mountainous regions of Georgia and expects us to care about them without giving a single reason as to why. We know nothing about their relationship, or why they chose this vacation over something else. Instead we get lengthy scenes of them walking silently that quickly grow tedious despite the pretty scenery. No attempt at character development is made, but there is a truly painful sequence in which the woman teaches their guide how to swear in English, and so he does, again and again, for what seems like forever. After an hour of sheer boredom, our couple runs into a man and two children. The man pulls a gun on them, and then reconsiders. Why? Who knows?! Amazingly, this dangerous encounter is never discussed by the couple or their guide. Instead it's back to more boring scenes of them walking. And another dull scene of the woman singing at the camp fire! Generally speaking, I'm fan of so called "art films" (loved PARIAH and FOOTNOTE earlier last year), but this film? It's every excess of the art film laid bare in all it's boring glory. I have no idea why this has gotten good reviews...

Dear God... No. Just no...I wish I could have my 113 minutes back. I would use the time to clean my A/C vents (as I had planned to do until I got interested in this hunk of doo after reading the synopsis). Seriously, I regret wasting my time on this "movie". How disappointing. Nice scenery. The acting is fine. No plot. No message. No character development. Nothing. a bunch of nothingness. No, just NO. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING to this thing. Nada. Ziltch. I NEVER write reviews ...THAT is how much this thing sucked. I only wish to warn other poor, unsuspecting souls who might consider watching this. I am actually ANGRY! Yes, it is that bad.