badhabitslounge After recently watching The Pianist, I next watched Rubber. One can argue what a great film The Pianist may be, but to argue that Rubber is something other than garbage is a total waste of time.

gengar843 This film wants to be its own critic, as well as a critic on the film industry. I actually don't think anyone short of Woody Allen or Fellini can pull that off, and I don't think they actually have, at least not in my book. So, call me a snob, but RUBBER is not even close to what I would expect as a scathing rebuke of cinema.What we *do* have is THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (Weir, 1976), itself an excessively sarcastic film (as well as a cousin to the Michelins here), mixed with perhaps a lower-budget EASY RIDER, without the sauciness. Now, regarding the stabs at filmmaking, we have a focus-group audience out in the desert, served a turkey that kills them. Well, the filmmakers certainly didn't have high hopes, did they? So I guess they'd figure, head off the critics at the pass. The idea that one spectator survives by merely not eating what is being served makes it seem that there's more than meets the eye, more to stay alive for, but even here the writer(s) just can't bear it, so they eventually put even this castaway (in a wheelchair yet!) through the paces, including letting him believe he can be part of the creative process.OK, so maybe you're thinking, "that doesn't sound so bad." Maybe if they'd stuck to this sort of premise while still making something substantial or stylish, but unfortunately the filmmakers made a dud inside a dud. Don't get me wrong, it's just interesting enough to see if they'll go full Monty Python, but it just falls flat like a bad episode of Reno 911.I can't fault the logical progression of events, except for the mannequin bomb, which Wings Hauser points out is quite stupid, but do we really need to be told that?FInally, the tire squadron makes it to Hollywood but somehow the conquest ends there. I found this ending to be entirely oppressive, though it felt like I was being told this was the Martin Luther King Jr. of tires. Sigh.

Leofwine_draca RUBBER is a film that wants to be hip and cool so badly that it physically hurts. It's a high concept - so high it belongs in outer space - comedy horror about a sentient tyre that goes around killing people and things. That's it. There's no attempt to rationalise or explain the events on screen, it's just one death after another, with lots of wraparound stuff to pad out the running time.This wraparound stuff goes for self-referencing in a big, post-modern way. Classic films are discussed and a group of audience members seem to be watching the film in the same way that the viewer at home is. Unfortunately, to enjoy this film you seem to need to be to find the events taking place on screen funny, but I never did. Watching animals - and later people - getting blown up by a psychic tyre didn't make me laugh.What RUBBER offers is cheap gore and cod, pseudo-intellectual dialogue, without any decent acting. I suppose the desert setting recalls favourably the likes of TREMORS and the special effects used to animate the tyre aren't bad, but otherwise this is a dog's dinner of a film.

kelbiwaters This movie is straight forward and meaningless, yet with a lot of meaning. Consider it a satire! It mocks the movie industry and all of it's cliché's. It criticizes the movie industry in a subtle way, claiming that all movies have predictable and outdated concepts and plots. The makers of this movie intended for it to be very subtle, so if you can't see it, than this movie would be a very pointless waste of time; redundancy on purpose. If you're curious and really want to see the satire of it, don't over-think what you are watching, and notice how each scene connects to all movies in general. It's on Netflix if you are interested in watching.