ladybug-48595
Joined Jul 2015
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Don't waste your time, this is a painfully, painfully slow burn, that ultimately never even strikes the match.
It's rife with so many historical inaccuracies that they should show it in film school as an example of what NOT to do!
Others have spoken of the quite obvious animal cruelty, and while i'm not squemish, it is so overt and in-your-face that its impossible to ignore.
As to the acting, well, Huston is probably the best of the lot, but really he just barks some orders and looks gruff in every scene. Harris has a lot of physical work to do here, but other than learning to grunt and groan a lot, its nothing to write home about; calling this his 'greatest film' is literally spitting in the face of all his other, actually good, movies!
So crawl away as fast as you can, this just isn't worth bear-ing!!
It's rife with so many historical inaccuracies that they should show it in film school as an example of what NOT to do!
Others have spoken of the quite obvious animal cruelty, and while i'm not squemish, it is so overt and in-your-face that its impossible to ignore.
As to the acting, well, Huston is probably the best of the lot, but really he just barks some orders and looks gruff in every scene. Harris has a lot of physical work to do here, but other than learning to grunt and groan a lot, its nothing to write home about; calling this his 'greatest film' is literally spitting in the face of all his other, actually good, movies!
So crawl away as fast as you can, this just isn't worth bear-ing!!
If you like long scenes of a guy sleeping in a subway, or smoking (endless!) cigarettes, close-ups of him staring into nothing, or just wandering around NYC at night, this is the film for you! Although frankly it should only be watched by art school grads, I honestly can't think of any other realistic target audience. Insomniacs I guess?
We learn almost nothing about the main characters except they like to drink, smoke, and live on the margins in New York. What brought them there? We are given only small clues, and that is slooooowly drip-fed to the viewer, so that by the end we are left with far more questions than answers.
Ultimately, nothing happens and the director takes almost 2 hours to take us nowhere.
3/10.
Oh, and at NO point does a man push a cart. He sure pulls it a lot, and while that minute difference may seem pedantic, it does characterize this film well overall: a promising idea that fizzles mightily!
We learn almost nothing about the main characters except they like to drink, smoke, and live on the margins in New York. What brought them there? We are given only small clues, and that is slooooowly drip-fed to the viewer, so that by the end we are left with far more questions than answers.
Ultimately, nothing happens and the director takes almost 2 hours to take us nowhere.
3/10.
Oh, and at NO point does a man push a cart. He sure pulls it a lot, and while that minute difference may seem pedantic, it does characterize this film well overall: a promising idea that fizzles mightily!
