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Chapter 27 (2007)
Fine performance, hollow movie
Jared Leto is superb here, but the movie is somewhat hollow. Maybe it was too great a risk to make the movie such a one-man show, when the one man in question was such an empty shell of a nobody.
Also want to point out that the soundtrack, although quite lovely in its own right, is at times an absolutely blatant rip-off of Alexandre Desplat's simply beautiful soundtrack for Jonathan Glazer's underrated 2004 masterpiece, Birth. Both films concern disturbed characters hanging around swanky upper west-side NYC apartment buildings where they don't fit in, having read things that convinced them they were taking on the persona of another character. Interesting.
The Basement (2017)
laughable
I enjoy horror movies, even low budget horror movies. In fact, *especially* low budget horror movies.
But I don't enjoy low quality movies, even when they're 'only' horror movies.
If you are a connoisseur of inadequate acting, coma-inducingly bad writing, stilted direction and perfunctory camera-work, you may - may - just manage to derive a very small morsel of warped pleasure from this celebration of amateurism. In all seriousness, it feels as though a student made this film. And not necessarily a film student, either.
But like I said, if you don't demand any quality at all from cinema, if you like those moments when a character stands awkwardly still in a weird position for several seconds while having their throat slowly cut because the budget is low they have to get that prosthetic neck bleeding properly in one take, then sure, give it a go. You'll regret it, but that's not my problem! :)
Tonight She Comes (2016)
Insomnia Instantly Cured
I'm an insomniac. I have trouble sleeping. This film cured me. Within an hour. In fact I not only fell asleep, I went into a self-induced medical coma. Messages appeared in blood under my skin: "Please do not revive me until this alleged movie is finished. Please. I beg you."
The characters are unpleasant, but more importantly they are tedious. The plot is derivative, second-rate, incoherent and childish - but more importantly it's tedious. The screenplay is laboured and leaden, and quickly becomes, yes, tedious. The acting is wooden and amateurish, (despite Larissa White occasionally coming close to showing signs of life) but never entertainingly or compellingly so, it is merely tedious. The directing, the camera-work, and the editing are equally cheap, tediously cheap. This is not one of those entertainingly bad films. It's just bad, tediously bad.
I've spent a considerable amount of time wondering why nobody involved in this production, not one of them, had the guts to say to the director, "Why are we bothering? The world would not be diminished even one iota if we abandoned this asinine project, packed up and went home." Why did they bother? I have no answer to that question.