Dogleg

Very interesting and pretty rare movie. It's giving early Buster Keaton in moments and then sort of a flatlined Almodovar at others. By the end I was seeing echoes of After Hours but way more complex and experimental. It's really quite a frustration dream. I'm not sure if everything makes sense, but it does work. This kind of film resets your brain after too many hours of straight narrative TV. It's the kind of movie you want to tell your friends about, but 99% of them won't like or get it. This is about as far from superhero movies as you can get and I'm glad it exists. I'm having a group of friends over to watch it again tonight on the projector.

Another movie about a Hollywood producer or whatever and anxieties and whatnot, but without any substance. Where is the "comedy", I ask. Where is... anything?

It is like a vacuum of meaning. There is not a single element that matters or makes sense. The movie within the movie is uninteresting almost to the point of becoming interesting. Well the actual movie falls far short of that, it is just a self-project. Red Flag when the director is also the writer and the "star"...

Calling this "lame" would be a compliment. I'm only adding a star for the dog and another for a scene with the clouds. Beyond that, there is nothing to see here.

Thank you, Al Warren, for this awesome film! I will not spoil it with any description whatsoever, but Dogleg contains one of the best choreographed and funniest scenes ever for me (and the juxtaposition with the rest of the story and the build-up is equally as amazing). And I'm 66, so that makes a lot of movie watching. I agree wholeheartedly with the other user reviews here at IMDb, so read their reviews, as well. This is a great film about a special slice of American life, specifically, LA, and its faddish obsessions at the expense of real human needs. And like the Nebraska tourist ads wryly state, it is not for everybody.

A perfect comedy. Funny and beautiful. Obsessed with Al Warren - maybe the next Albert Brooks type. A inspiring film for me - I love it. I can honestly say this is a film I'd be evangelizing if there was only one film I could talk about this year. It is so rich...the performances, the story, the music. It feels like it's from another time yet very fresh. Calls to mind Altman and Woody Allen's good films but doing its own thing. Blows genre out of the water and goes to a new place. Fantastic performance in the lead role as well. Nailed it. Once again instills in me that life is art.

A definitive LA film.

A definitive filmmaking film.

Checking every box along the way.

Eager to rewatch this with another set of friends soon.

Just brilliant.

It's a nut-punch of a ride through messy moments, delivered with an authenticity that few indie films dare to explore.

The performances are spectacular. The moments felt grounded in truth but kept me on my toes (maybe that's why it kept me on my toes?). There's a certain magic in the way Dogleg does failure and exuberance side by side like it's the chaos that becomes the twine that connects the world. The pace is fast but the camera is slow, the comedy is surprising, and the energy is infectious.

Al Warren is someone I'll be watching. Dogleg seems to celebrate simply surviving and I like that.