nathanrosen Reviews

Bad Buzz (2017)

Predictable, insulting, cliché, unfunny

[1/10 · 21 November 2017]

Well, that was... something. You can barely call "Bad buzz" a movie. It's more of a series of skits. Imagine the most unoriginal, unfunny jokes you've ever seen. Random dance battles, angry cats that are thrown away, people yelling at each other. That's it. That covers the 71 minutes of this movie. The first fart joke probably breaks a new record: 21 seconds. Including the EuropaCorp company logo. Yes. The actual first joke of Bad buzz is a fart joke. That's how low they went.

• : Horribly acted Incredibly cliché and predictable Awful "script" Terribly written and unlikable characters Non-existent cinematography and directing One of the most unfunny and unoriginal french comedies I've ever seen Random, forced cameos

+ : It's short! The ending credits have kind of decent "bonus" jokes, that's nice

This needs to stop. France needs to stop and think how they produce movies. We can't just give money to any random project. We got talented people, thousands of them, many original ideas. Make them happen. Not that kind of comedies. No one is interested in them (around 50 000 people went to see Bad buzz, that's saying something). This doesn't deserve your time

Curve (2016)

An extremely tense, terrifying, brilliant conceptual short

[9/10 · 26 June 2017]

Palms are sweaty. Not just because it's hot outside. "Curve" is probably one of my new favorite short films. The concept is simple: a woman wakes up on a smooth, curved concrete surface, with a bottomless pit a few inches from her. What happened? Will be survive get out of there? Will she fall to her death? This is a simple idea, a primal fear. Every second of the short is extremely tense and terrifying. I instantly had many questions and got sucked into it.

Laura Jane Turner, the sole actress, kills it. An unnamed character, not a single word said, and you identify to her immediately. I'm not an expert on the directing aspect, but Tim Egan did a great job. The whole short takes place in a very small space, barely more than a square meter, and the various angles saves things from getting boring. Kind of reminded me of "Buried" (that movie where Ryan Reynolds is buried alive inside a coffin). The cinematography is great too, and the visual effects are great. The absence of soundtrack and the sound design help you immerse even more in the short.

Not gonna spoil anything, but the ending will kick you in the gut. At least that was the case for me. As memorable as the last shots of The Blair Witch project, The shining, The mist, Martyrs, The descent (the original ending, not the one where they cut the last minute), in my opinion.