Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Just perfect...

Expected more

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

(Flash Review)Abound in Italian style, attitude, symbolism and culture, this is a film that properly uses the medium of film, as only film can do, as it explores the story of essentially a film director with a creative block. While attempting to direct a film with a big budget, the director is dealing with the complexity of it all as he is unable to give answers to questions asked of him along with assorted personalities and their influences on his efforts. Everyone he encounters seems to want to get a part in the film, famous or not and his wife is frustrated by envy at his popularity and with all the woman in and around the film. The film's timeline jumps around a bit rather seamlessly so pay attention. Mixed into that approach are musings on age, life & death, love, fame as well as frequent Catholic religious references. Will the director get his inspirational spark? How will assorted relationships play out? Awash in slick cinematography, the scenes looked stellar and had rich blacks and whites. While the pace was slower, it allowed time for contemplation and this would be an ideal film to rewatch and analyze with a film class as I'm sure I didn't catch all the story points.

I cannot believe how this trash could have won an Academy award for Best Foreign Language Film. Don't get me wrong: I saw two Fellini's movies years back, Amarcord and I Vitelloni, and I found them very valuable. In particular, I consider I Vitelloni as a true masterpiece.Nonetheless, I really tried to figure out how Otto e mezzo can be regarded as one of Fellini's best movies in his long career, but I haven't found a proper answer to my question. The movie is so boring, nothing ever happens. Just 138 minutes of confusing and random thoughts generated by the mysoginistic mind of a troubled Italian director. The acting, the plot, everything is totally nonsense. The brightside, at least, might be that people should think you're "cool" because you watched such a "intellectual Fellini's masterpiece", but at the end of the day you will regret every single minute wasted of your life by having even thought about watching this trash.I don't usually rate a movie 1 out of 10, I always find a reason to give a higher rate, but in this case I got no choice but doing otherwise. Sorry Fellini, maybe next time.

I won't say too much, because every possible thing to say, has been said millions of times. This is a top 10 Movie of all time and if you love movies, this is a MUST.

For the time -- and probably still for those who haven't caught up to such as explained further along here -- 8 1/2 was a dandy treatise on Catechistic moral absolutism vs. trying to manage one's having been thus in-struct-ed, programmed, conditioned, socialized and normalized into codependent shame, guilt, worry, regret, remorse and morbid reflection with lots and lots and lots of romantic and sexual relationships, and then having to deal with all the moral repercussions. Guido is bemused and de-tached here and there, a-ttached and caught in the grind of shame and guilt here and there, and plain lost in the cultural F.O.G. of fear, obligation and guilt at other times. Fellini had read the classics, as well as the psychoanalysts, social constructionists and existentialists. And having the capacity to manifest what he learned in scenario, character and dialogue, he enlightens the rest of us.