Melancholia

Released: 2011
Drama? Sci-fi?
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgard
Running Time: an agonizingly slow 136 minutes
Rated: R

The breakdown:  I don't really know how to summarize this one.

This movie is a ripped off idea, style-wise from Kubrick's 2001.  The opening sequences are all slow motion and has a backdrop of classical music while strange impossible images are shown involving space and planet's colliding.

The first half of the movie, complete with black and white title card using one word, just like 2001, is about a wedding of Kirsten Dunst and some other actor I've never seen.  They are two hours late to their own reception apparently trying to help the limo driver navigate the long driveway.  Dunst is ill with either depression or bi-polar disease because she's terribly unhappy and stops in the middle of the celebration to take a bath upstairs in her sister's house.  Oh, she also sleeps with some random guy out on her sister's golf course instead of her new husband, who she left waiting for her in a bedroom upstairs.  I should mention her sister and brother-in-law have a huge mansion and their own golf course and paid for the wedding.
Anyway, the husband's tired of waiting for her to come up to have sex with him so he leaves her, as in, I want to divorce you.  So then she's alone.
Second half of the movie, they finally start talking about the new planet that supposed to either pass by Earth or collide with it.  The sister who isn't Dunst, has a child and seems to have some sort of anxiety problem as well.  Slowly, the non-Dunst sister gets more and more concerned that the other planet is going to collide with Earth.

This movie was a HUGE waste of time.  It's not stylish in a creative unique way, it's a direct rip off of Stanley Kubrick's style for his own sci-fi movie from the 1960's.  There's also not a lot of dialogue as was the case with 2001, but this time it doesn't work.  It simply is annoying and makes the movie seem even longer than 2 and 1/2 hours.  It was painfully slow, agonizing to watch, and I don't know how such a useless movie got such good reviews on Rottentomatoes.com.

I hated it.

0 out of 5 for annoying the hell out of me and having nothing redeeming about this movie to say.