A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.
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Too much of everything
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
hyped garbage
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Tyre becomes self aware. Tyre meets girl. Tyre does nasty things. Yes, you need to watch this movie, for nothing less than helping the production people recover their costs and to help the actors through this harrowing time. Having said that, this film does exceed in terms of B-grade beauty, yet could do with a soundtrack like 'Paris Texas'. It brings on memories of 'Duel', 'Psycho', 'Weekend At Bernies', 'Rocky Horror', 'Scanners' and that Tomato movie. I was one of many who had to see this out. It posed so many questions that do not get answered until the final scenes. So don't hit the eject button too early, else you will miss the best bits.
I went to the barber this weekend, who usually has a bootlegged movie playing and while I was waiting, this movie started. I probably watched a good 45 mins. before I left and I felt like that was more than enough.Quite literally, this movie is about a tire that has telekinetic powers and can blow peoples' heads up. Even more odd are the people watching the tire from a distance with binoculars (and making creepy commentary).I didn't see the ending, but truthfully I had no idea what was going on. There were odd and creepy sex jokes, heads blowing up every 5 minutes, and just no detectable plot in the movie. One minute the tire is at a gas station blowing someone up, the next he is taking a shower, then next thing I know the police are attacking each other?There was another guy, about my age, waiting for his haircut and we both were puzzled as to why the barber was playing this movie. I've seen and enjoyed sy-fy channel movies and B-horrors that are way more tolerable than this!
An unusual story of a rubber tyre that uses telekinetic powers to kill. The movie is based around the notion of things being meaningless. Why would a tyre have consciousness? No reason. Why would it kill? No reason. It is absurdist horror at it's best. The story itself is almost irrelevant, what makes the movie is the score (wonderfully provided by mr oizo) and the camera work. It is shot so beautifully that you will forget how ridiculous the premise of the movie is. Alternatively if you're not into hidden meanings and what not, rubber still serves as a deliciously odd screwball b-movie. Surely not a film for everybody and perhaps not one I would often re-watch... but one you should most definitely take the time to see.
This movie provides original comedy at first but the move overstays its welcome as its premise gets repetitive.An inanimate tire comes to life and it discovers that it has telepathic powers which it can use to make things explode. It then starts killing animals and people as it makes it to a motel.Firstly, I do get its comedy. Near the beginning, I thought it was quite funny. It contains an original and unique take on humor. It provided some funny scenes and I laughed along with it a lot. It's also great that it stays committed to its ridiculous premise. I also thought that the idea of the spectators was pretty creative.As I said, it does contain original and unique comedy. However, the movie gets carried away with itself because its comedy overstays its welcome. 85 minutes proves to be a far too long running time because the movie's plot grows repetitive and thin rather quickly.Also, the movie has a very slow pace. It takes a while for it to get to its climax and some viewers may become bored or uninterested because of it. In my opinion, this should've just been a 45 minute short film. It would be so much better if they removed several scenes from its middle because I think that is the weakest and least funniest part of the film.Nowadays, most modern horror movies have weak acting and Rubber is no exception here. The acting is really uninteresting. None of the actors really impressed me that much. However, there was only 1 character who I felt was memorable and I actually really liked him. But it upset me greatly when he was killed off. I know that it's not a bad thing for a movie to kill off a memorable character you like but that's only if the movie handles it well. His death felt so forced, unneeded, and random.In conclusion, I didn't really care for this film too much. It does contain original comedy near the beginning and it does do a few things right. However, the movie gets dull very quickly and it just isn't my type of movie. I still think that it's a good recommendation though. Just don't expect anything decade-defining to come out of it.