Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Izaak321 I've only seen the first 2 parts (so half an hour of the so called film), and its just so boring. I mean am I missing something here? Maybe I'm not intellectual to understand maybe there's metaphors hidden message and sh!t like that behind I all but seriously from what I've seen, it's just terrible. The only reason i watched it was I stars Björk and as much as I want to like it because i love her, I just can't. I think it might be a silent movie I didn't here any talking throughout what i saw. Maybe what I'm missing is it to have a story behind it. Nothing is going on apart from weird boring stuff that I simply don't get. The only good thing is that Björk is in it but she does f@ck all from what I've seen so far. I mean maybe I should give it more of a chance? Nahh I doubt it gets much better, well I mean it can ONLY get better but I can't imagine what Matthew barney could do to turn me around into thinking the film is actually good. Unless Björk gets her t!ts out but I doubt that would happen or when I typed in "Björk t!ts" on g00gle search I would of found more than just her getting them out in that pagan poetry song (which by the way is epic but that's a different subject). .. So yeah.. It's sh!t. don't bother.Btw I loved the trailer to this movie, but the movie itself, nah

info-16301 I couldn't agree more with another reviewer that mentioned Jodorowsky.Barney seems to be utterly boring and uninspired "content-wise". He can produce eye-candy (and I like candy), but its pretentiousness and fundamental artistic emptiness just diminishes all the joy. I am afraid that many people don't distinguish between similar (but really only on the surface) works of Jodorowsky or even more linear film-makers like Tarkovski or Kubrick (I love 2001 Odyssey and was never bored through the ending scenes...) That kind of art as M.Barney's makes adds confusion and fends off the viewers that could otherwise start to appreciate experimental cinema. Typical empty post-modern "conceptual" art. And check his interviews. I just don't buy it, sorry. And so boring. I was never bored seeing Alejandro Jodorowsky's movies, while Drawing Restraint 9 was an utter disappointment. Especially while it offered the possibilities to be something, to actually tell something in a non-linear unorthodox way (like the beginning and the great choreographed dance and preparations for the ship to sail out. Ships "meeting" on the sea... Ideas of feces as an object of value(if it was feces). Those "pearl" divers... Everything could construct a great surreal movie with some content. But it didn't. ANd those horrible pretentious scenes of dressing up and fake tea ceremony... How vain and fake and philosophically pretentious but empty can it get?I has some great picturesque scenes, but the whole movie became so boring and pretentious and utterly empty and fake that it made me physically sick.And it doesn't have good tempo. I like slow pace movies, but this was just boring in some scenes - because it was pretentious and fake - so I was just forced to witnessed prolonged scenes of artistic vanity...That kind of movies just kill the art and spirit in my view. I want more Jodorowsky!!!

mountain_lights I watched this movie as a preview of a Matthew Barney art exhibit. It certainly prepared me. I almost skipped the exhibit and, in retrospect, probably should have.Aside from the score being great (Bjork) and the photography rich and colorful, the content was mostly tedious and predictable. Gee, I really needed to see someone wearing pearls to figure out what the pearl-divers were up to. The film was mostly a silly mixture of Japanese cultural references and industrial shots of modern whaling technology being used in a mock-hunt/harvest. The film "peaks" with enough gratuitous shock-art to turn your stomach.What was the point of the movie? While others might argue that it is an anti-whaling piece, one could equally argue that it somehow also justifies whaling. Personally I think it was Barney's attempt at "flashing" the audience with his anal, fecal, self-mutilation, and cannibalistic fetishes.Bottom line: unless you really get off on Barney's sense of art, don't bother seeing this movie. The message is obscure, the pace slow, and the cultural references pretentious. If you're after shock-art, you'll do better at one of the many "Undead" movies or hunting down an old copy of Hustler and taking in a fecal-cartoon.

kutsin Slow and nice images changed one another, with sometimes annoying music (you know Bjork) in background, for the first 75% of the movie. If you did not have enough sleep, that's a good time. But, in the last 20% of the movie director decides to bring idea of re-birth, re-incarnation or else, through S&M images: "spiritual lovers" are cutting each others bodies with knives. For me it was very much disturbing and actually changed general impression of blend of abstract art and images of modern Japanese mystery. Operator and director are great, but weird. Did not enjoy it at all.