Man Bites Dog (1992)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Admirable film.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Man Bites Dog (French: C'est arrivé près de chez vous (It has Happened near your Home) (1992) Brave original, Serial killer gives tips, As we meet his kin. Funny in its nonchalance, Biting Belgian black humor. Then a line was crossed. Then another, and again. Making a statement? Backfired, too numb to care. Well-earned NC-17. Somonka is a form of poetry that is essentially two tanka poems, the second stanza a response to the first. Each stanza follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. Traditionally, each is a love letter. This form usually demands two authors, but it is possible to have a poet take on two personas. My somonka will be a love/hate letter to a film?) #Somonka #PoemReview

This 'film' rudely surpasses not only the point of cinema in its sheer purpose of entertainment or infotainment, but it also fails at mocking the media in its attempt to shock audiences by zooming in on rude violence on a daily basis to get viewer's attention.Labeling this film as a form of art would be similar to labeling actual violence and rape as art. Killing someone in a fashionable or seemingly emotionless manner, doesn't making killing and rape a form of art. In the same way, filming killing and rape in black and white, adding some clever sound tricks, bad lighting and philosophical lines straight from the cereal box, doesn't make these inhumanities funny.If there was a point to be made with this film, they should have made it clearly. Violence like this always demands a reason or an explanation, and what the film does without it, is exactly the opposite of what fans of this picture advocate for: it inflicts ruthless violence on people and makes them label it as fun and entertainment.As to the film effects and acting performances - many potential there. A waste of talent and a lack of intelligence. There were so many other ways and topics in which these could have rendered.

Everybody shut up please, and listen. I am from Belgium, so I have a right to speak. Hear ye! Hear ye!No, seriously, everybody's opinion is worth as much as the next one, I'm just joking, but I want to write a few words about this movie, so people can understand it better.First of all, some people don't realise that this film was made with a budget of less than 50.000 dollar. The actors in the movie are mostly family and friends. Benoit Poelvoorde, who plays the main role, is the only professional, and he delivers a fantastic performance as the talkative, self-absorbed, hyperbolic, maniac Ben, we all come to love. It was the role of his life. The director and sound engineers had just graduated film school. They still had a lot to learn. So you have to give the makers credit for that. Knowing all this, you understand this has to be seen as a cult-movie. A cult-movie, with a great script, witty dialogues, and legendary scenes. With a great sense of irony.My favourite scenes of Man bites Dog are the chase in the abandoned factory (with the pigeon poem), and the bar scene, ending with Benoit Poelvoorde singing the cinema song, with fake beard. Most film fans in Belgium can recite whole passages upon request.The ending is a bit abrupt, and some scenes are superfluous, but the film has the streak of genius all the way through.Hope you enjoy it.

I can't believe that some people consider it as a cult movie.One guy (serial killer and psychopath) very talkative, kills and destroys anything he wants to for a pleasure and tried to find out the purpose of his behavior in the front of the camera that follows him. This is very cheap movie without any sense. The main protagonist thinks he is smart and keep talking about his life while killing other people, robs their money and throws corpses over some kind of bridge while explaining the technique.In the end he got killed for causing troubles to the other gangsters.The crew that follows his crime and record it is sick and dumb too and off course got killed too.Is this kind of a movie that you wanted to see? Just sickness.