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		<title>FUNNY GAMES U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Written &#38; Directed by: Michael Haneke

Based on his own 1997 thriller Funny Games made in his native Austria

Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon

Distributed by Warner Independent Pictures

Film was released in the U.K. on April 4th 2008

Review by Matt Holmes


[rating: 0.5]

In a small art house theatre this week I saw what is undoubtedly the worst and most insulting motion picture of 2008 so far and thankfully it's now pretty much completely out of U.K. cinema's so you can avoid this cinematic tragedy. It's not because it's badly directed, it's not because it's badly acted... those are fine, really good at times in fact but it's because of it's tone and shameful exploitative art exercise which serves no other purpose than to lecture the audience in something which the film itself promotes.

If ever the term "having your cake and eating it" reigns true it is for this piece of garbage.

I don't like being told off when I go to the theatre, especially when it's for something I haven't done. I've paid my £5 to sit down and be entertained, be moved, be challenged psychologically or philosophically. I pay my money to see ...]]></description>
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