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The Bay of Love and Sorrows (2002)
Exactly the kind of film that Canada needs to make more of.
Canada exports a lot of talent to Hollywood because it's well known that we don't make many great films here, but this is one of the exceptions.
The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an incredibly finely crafted film that I had an extreme pleasure to watch. It's exactly the kind of quality drama that Canadian producers and film makers should make more of.
The characters are vividly portrayed by the actors, the cinematography is superb, the music is fitting, the locations set a perfect tone for the story and the story is incredibly engaging.
Cliché doesn't live here. This is the home of quality.
Guilty by Association (2003)
This director must have peed his pants at nabbing Morgan Freeman, which explains the smell of this movie.
I was confused from the start of this film. I couldn't understand how Morgan Freeman's face and name were associated with what I was seeing. The film quality, acting, lighting, sound, and every other aspect of this movie were so bad that I started thinking of how high-quality The Blair Witch was. In fact, S.W.A.T even started looking Oscar worthy.
Speaking of Oscar, I'm hoping that because of Morgan Freeman's recent Academy Award success that he'll never have to be associated with a film like this again. It was embarrassing. Of course, the moment he appears on scene he commands your attention. Sadly, it was like watching Sir Anthony Hopkins acting in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I respect that every director has to have a start somewhere but a movie of this caliber DOES NOT deserve an actor as talented as Freeman. It was horribly apparent that the film's budget could not afford his salary, either. He's in the film for a few minutes and his entire dialog is shorter than the ingredients on a box of salt.
One has to wonder about the back story of the casting on this one. I wonder if Mr. Freeman's agent is still employed.