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ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019)
Disappointed
It is a very good and informative documentary, till the end. They ruined it. SEMI-SPOILER: instead of a womanizing money show-off getting rolled . . . . oh please, really? Wasted my time.
Hold the Dark (2018)
Couldn't tolerate it within 15 minutes
I rarely hate a movie right off the bat. So after 15 minutes, couldn't stand it. I went right away to read other reviews, then I decided not to waste the rest of my time. Interesting premise for a story, but it went downhill when the female opened her mouth.
I hated the sound. It was torture to hear the female talk. She breathlessly whispers. I listened on the iPhone all the way up. I could barely understand her. Then I used the earbuds and usually that makes things clear. It didn't. They are in bloody Alaska for Christ's sake and she whispers reading a letter, alone in the house, and then when the guy shows up, oh HE whispers, but not as bad as she did. Then she takes a bath in a terribly dark scene, I couldn't make out anything for a bit (iPhone indoors) and she whispers worse than I have ever heard in a movie. There are captions but why do you have to totally depend on them? What kind of lousy filmmaking is this? It struck me as pretentious. I felt it was created with disregard for the viewer.
Did the actress do it on her own? Why did the director allow it or make it that way? Then she crawls in bed with him and is completely weird about that to boot, not even kissing him. She doesn't know him and a wolf just ate her kid. That was it. Done.