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Title: don't believe the hype. OVERRATED
Review: after reading many reviews on this so called masterpiece of surreal cinema I finally gave in to purchasing this DVD. comparisons to such geniuses such as Murnau, Cocteau, Bunuel, and Lynch which are repeatedly made to Maddin are idiotic. no offense to him but Tales from.. is in no way comparable to Eraserhead or Blood of a Poet. Tales from the Gimli Hospital is not a horrible film but it's not what people have hailed it to be. maybe I'm missing something that everyone else isn't. there are signs of a talented filmmaker none the less and his later work has proven that. that doesn't help the dullness of the story and the horrific acting that could only be compared as .......-like. anyway, judge for yourself. but don't be fulled by statements such as: "this is a must", because it isn't. just because something is filmed in black and white and vintage techniques are thrown in does not make it a digestable surrealist piece.
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