Thirst

The worst movie I have ever seen was called Vulgar.  There were no redeeming qualities to it, and I strongly suggest you go nowhere near it, if you can find it.  We saw certain names attached and decided to watch it.  That was a mistake.  Sometimes, previews or involved parties can be misleading.  Unfortunately, Mark and I fell victim to that same problem when we decided to watch Thirst.

I can't blame Thirst for being something other than what I expected; I was more than capable of furthering researching the film before watching it.  From the preview we had seen, the movie appeared to be about a priest who becomes a vampire through a random occurrence.  From there, he fights the evil, both inside and outside, of himself.  As it is a foreign film, maybe I missed some points in the trailer.  If so, I wasn't the only one; Mark also came to the same conclusion.

In reality, the film is about a priest that becomes a vampire.  After that, the movie was nothing like what we expected.  It turns out that the film isn't really about the struggle with being a vampire.  It's a love story with a murder plot, seasoned with some soft core porn.*  You could completely subtract the vampire element, and it really wouldn't have much of an effect on the story.  If they had been kind enough to do just that, I wouldn't have watched the film.

It's pretty clear that Thirst was not my type of movie.  We only finished it because we refused to admit defeat.  It was uncomfortable, and I regret watching it.  The film just doesn't know what it wants to be.  There was one touching scene in the film, which gave me hope.  Then, the film went back to meandering around.

There are a lot of quality foreign films.  This isn't one of them.  It doesn't even work as a character study.  Please, don't watch this film.  You would be better off watching a Transformers sequel, and that says a lot.**

*The included sex scenes were about on par with the stuff you see in the HBO shows.

**I'm saying the movie is so bad that you would be better off watching one of the Tranformer sequels, which are terrible.