Rubber

2010 "Are you TIRED of the expected?"
5.7| 1h22m| R| en| More Info
Released: 09 November 2010 Released
Producted By: ARTE France Cinéma
Country: France
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.rubberfilm.com/
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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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Gryphonn Phoenix 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.
Laurie Ann Reynolds "Rubber" is as if Samuel Beckett -the Irish playwright, not the character from "Quantum Leap"- wrote a horror movie in the same way that the initial subject seems to only be something shallow and ridiculous but ends up being very thought provoking, brings up some deep meanings, and is really out there. Perhaps I am just over thinking this movie and projecting onto it more dept than was really intended to be in the film in the first place but truly why not? That is what art is for right? Finding some meaning? The opening monologue, nay, the opening scene is brilliant! That whole sequence gives me reason to rate this film highly. If you are not going to watch the whole movie at least watch the entirety of the opening monologue. Please, just go in with an open mind and realize it is a comedy, a dark comedy.It is rather slow paced so do not watch it unless you have the patience for it at the time. You actually have to pay attention or you will be lost more than you already are watching a tire roll around and blow up things with psychokinetic abilities.
clareparkinson788 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.
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.