Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

gavin6942 An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.Not surprisingly for the guy who gave us "Salo", the film contains abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humor. It is never as offensive as "Salo" is, but if you are easily taken aback by male nudity, you might want to shy away... because this film gives no care at all about your sensibility.I am not sure what issue Pasolini had with the Catholic Church, but he pokes fun at it here, as he is known to do. You might think this would be a problem in a heavily-Catholic country like Italy, but yet he has gone on to be legend, not least of all because of his courage in courting controversy.

grantss Has its moments but mostly uneven, with atrocious performances.Nine stories from Giovanni Boccaccio's novel of the same name. Directed and written by Pier Paulo Pasolini.Some of the stories are interesting, even amusing but none of them really hit the mark in a big way. Most feel anti-climatic, and needing of more substance. Some are just plain pointless and/or over before they've even started. There are some recurrent themes, especially those of morality and religion, but nothing really gets tied up. I kept hoping for something that would connect all the different stories, to make them collectively profound, but nothing came. The closing line of the movie was one rare moment of profundity though, but it didn't really have a context.Then there's the acting. The performances in this movie are incredibly bad. Think primary school play bad. There's a handful of exceptions but it's a cringefest from start to finish.

ebiros2 I've seen the trailer of this movie about 40 years ago, and always wanted to see this movie.The stories chosen out of Boccacio's original stories for this movie are mostly erotic, but I see the director's preference to show more of male sexual organs than those of female. In fact, there're hardly much nude scenes for the female compared to those of the male.Is this the Italian style ? I don't know, because I have no reference to their culture. I hate to put any more negative references, but the people in this movie are not very attractive. Maybe they were chosen to enhance the realism of the story, but I guess this is Italian's view of their country 500 years ago.I'm grateful that Boccacio left this volume of work to show what life was like in 14th century Italy. I can see that it was difficult to expand the mind beyond the ordinary day to day affair. Except that sex seems high in their priorities. When you have little else to enjoy, maybe it's natural that their attention points towards it. But even in this condition Galileo was able to make world changing discoveries.I failed to see any great value to this movie or its stories. Maybe it's interesting for people who've grown up with Boccacio's works, but if you just choose to watch this movie without any reference, it's a pretty bad and boring movie.So one needs to be aware of how the movie may appear depending on their cultural background.Take a look at a relic from the 14th century and 20th century, and see if it has stood up to the test of time.

elshikh4 The tragedy is that this piece of rubbish was part of my curriculum while I was studying cinema. So imagine how I was forced to watch it in complete. Believe me going through hell is much much easier. Our professor told us that this is some film ???, but he never thought that we'd disagree or assume the apposite. I don't think that there is any gods on earth, we're only humans, so all the filmmakers, therefore they CAN make mistakes, bad movies.. Or very bad too. The main problem wasn't that art, by all means, is susceptible to endless points of view, but that a lot of people just don't get it, that every single human got his own genuine taste, his own opinion, hence what I suppose it the greatest movie ever made, can also be your worst one ever, and how that is right both ways, but how many people can understand this correctly?. So my professor believes in this movie, and simply I don't. However, the only way to evaluate this "thing" is by measuring it by its original intent to show us different kinds of old folk stories or whatever to catch on this society's mentality, imagination, and nature. To tell you the truth, Mr. Pier Paolo Pasolini as the scriptwriter and the director made it too unbearable to watch in the first place. The movie is so UGLY. I can't stand this, so how about analyzing it, then discovering the potential beauty in it !! It's beyond your mind hideousness, and strangely not for the sake of the movie's case or anything, it's for the sake of the unstable vision of Pasolini. His work is so primitive to underdeveloped extent. The deadly cinematic technique, the effective sense of silliness, and the incredible horribleness made everything obnoxious. Look at the atrocious acting, the unfruitful cinematography, the awfully poor sets, .. OH MY GOD I've got the nausea already. It can terminate your objectivity violently as watching this movie is one true pain like taking the wisdom tooth off by a blind doctor. There are dreadful nightmares which could be more merciful than this. So originally, how to continue THAT just to review it fairly ? Actually, you don't. As this very movie doesn't treat you fair at all. There is really memorable scene in here where some boys are peeing into the eye of the camera (!) I'm trying to connect some things like that with Pasolini's end as murdered.