What movie are you viewing at the moment?

[forfucksake]

Just started watching Meg, it seems to be going down a different path to the books which are excellent by the way. I highly recommend people read them.
The movie stars Jason Statham, he hasn't kicked anyone in the face yet but there is still an hour to run.

[jomama]

Halloween (1978)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/

[Brecht]

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)



Trailer

During the Great Depression: recently released from prison, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) makes his way back to his family's farm in Oklahoma. He meets the former preacher Jim Casy (John Carradine) who tells Tom that his family was forced off their land like many other farmers. Eventually, Tom manages to locate his family, joining their journey to California where there's "plenty of work". The income of a wave of migrant workers is another chance for California's rich to become richer and so the Joads get their own taste of the "promised land".

An okay film but hard to take seriously. It lacks the authenticity that was so necessary at the time it was shot but that's not what you'd expect from a film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. I guess the book by John Steinback is better.

[Oh hi Mark!]

Batman Ninja





I didn't plan this ahead of time, it was a bit impulsive, and it came from someone I know raving about the movie early Wednesday. With this animated movie being only 85 minutes long, and being awake the most in the first few hours of being awake (in this case it was the morning), it was easy to give this a try. Supposedly it's on Netflix, but I can't get on my shared account, so torrent time! Since it was released a couple months ago, it was easy to find. It may be difficult though to find the Japanese version of the movie, which I didn't know about until after watching the movie, more on that later. Incidentally, this breaks my 2018 movie drought, being the first movie released this year that I've seen. I had previously heard about this movie from another person back when it just came out, and they said that it was bad. With an IMDB rating of 5.7/10, a RottenTomatoes audience score of 41%, yet an 80% critic rating (though it says the average rating is 6.6/10), this looked to be a sentiment shared among many other people. I didn't bother reading reviews, so my criticisms towards it are not drawn from other reviews, nor did they affect my viewing of the film. It's possible that it would have, so it was important to make that clear. One exception I just found was IGN giving this a 9.7/10, and judging by a snippet of the review, it's probably focused mostly on the animation, which makes sense.


The biggest compliment I have for this straight out the gate is how this movie was almost entirely done by Japanese people. I only spotted American producers, and then learned about some other American involvement after the viewing. Again, more on that later. Of course, I watched this in English, so that's more American involvement. For anyone who hasn't researched the movie and know the animated series and a couple subsequent animated films, I'll say straight away that this movie doesn't have the classic voice cast. Kevin Conroy, who I'm progressively labeling as my Batman, since I did watch The Animated Series a lot as a kid, but my movie history of Batman started with the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy. Mark Hamill, who would be my Joker if it wasn't for Heath Ledger, the debate rages on in my head over who is better, but let's not dwell on that. These people, Arleen Sorkin (Harley Quinn), and most likely other voice actors from The Animated Series, do not reprise their roles for this. Of course, there's been other people who voiced Batman over the years when the TAS cast weren't involved, but I haven't really experienced those different casts. This does instill an immediate bias in my thoughts on this cast. Just to get it out the way, and being general on it for now, this cast doesn't compare to the classic TAS crew. Surprisingly though, and I didn't catch it in the credits, Tara Strong voiced Harley Quinn. I didn't have any problems with Harley here, she sounded like the TAS version, which is good and bad. Good because I know and love the voice, bad because it doesn't establish an identity to the voice actor, thus the Strong info surprised me. I'll hold off on more negative thoughts with Harley here, as Strong is a sacred cow, a legendary voice actor who has been a major voice in my childhood (I learn more and more how many characters I loved that she has voiced). As far as the other actors, there's nothing really major to say about them in terms of hate or even disdain. The closest feeling would be apathy, which is still not a great thing. Again, more on that later.


The biggest problem and area of confusion with this movie is the plot, the story premise. When I heard about the movie, I thought it was basically a Japanese version of Batman, being a ninja and kicking ass. However, it's something more convoluted. Batman, and conveniently every damn character in the series, except for Jim Gordon, got sent back in time. The logic in that is really shabby, and the exposition given mostly by Catwoman in one scene didn't really make it clear. I don't feel like going back to the movie to get the story details right. I admit to being a bit distracted as I was playing a romhack of Pokemon Crystal that was insanely addicting. I only put the game down a few times, but I caught almost everything regardless. I can multitask in that instance, though I did have to go back at some parts to make sure I caught things correctly. The convoluted nature continues even past the time travel. Four of the biggest villains have ownership of individual states in Japan, one for each basically: Poison Ivy, Deathstroke, The Penguin, and of course The Joker with Harley Quinn by his side. The gorilla villain who made the time machine and is responsible for all this, Gorilla Grodd, at first chills in the background of and comes in like an opportunist and strategist as at first he tricks Batman into helping him. A discouraging gag here was Batman being betrayed by villains, twice, him being way too trusting. The second time, which involved The Joker was actually convincing, despite the initial thought that it was way too obvious. They did a decent job at deceiving the viewer for one pivotal scene. The weight of this though is compromised by the previous alliance and betrayal of Grodd towards Batman that happened just about 10 minutes before. It feels like the movie tried to cram a lot of things into a small timeframe, while at the same time, the movie kind of meanders. It's weird to say that and it sounds like it doesn't make sense. Just trust that there is an odd dichotomy of busyness and idleness. Anyways, the goal for the four feudal lords/Batman villains is to take over the other states, unite them and rule over Japan. Grodd would thus swoop in during the point of these four pillars meeting for a battle royal, and he'd take over. As it turned out, through mind control (The Joker's MIA at this point though, it'd be unrealistic if he fell under mind control), he'd get the other villains on his side.


One example of the plot being really confusing when it comes to time travel is Catwoman claiming to have been in Japan for 2 years. In a way, I have to accept it, if I think about it too much, I may get a headache. Similar to Back to the Future and how it treats time travel and how Doc Brown would live in the American Western era for an extended period of time. The thing is there was a charm to that and you had two movies worth of content that led to such a thing. Here, Catwoman's info comes less than 15 minutes or so into the movie, and it becomes a matter of convenience that every single Batman character except for Jim Gordon (and Barbara Gordon, just remembered) were in one general area, within range of Grodd's time machine, and all before Bruce Wayne. Yeah the setting for this convenience was Arkham Asylum, where the Batman villains typically go to, but it's still off-putting. The opening scene of the movie has Batman being sent through time, and he was trying to destroy the thing. This kind of leads into the fact that 4 little parts of this time machine, which Robin in his Mark Hamill circa A New Hope voice would refer to as “power converters,” were separated during the travel back in time, and each of the four feudal lords end up with one. I feel like Robin acting all Luke in that little scene had to be a nod to Mark Hamill. My Batman knowledge is limited to the Burton and Nolan movies, as well as The Animated Series and a couple animated films that came out in the 90s. Also, Justice League and Superfriends, but that's not all about Batman. That being said, I have no idea who Red Robin is. I assume that's a former Robin since Nightwing is one and he's here, Red Hood, and there's the current Robin. That leads me to ask how Bruce didn't do anything to find Robin, did he even notice his absence? It's assumed that Robin had been back in time for quite a while, as he and the other former Robins were fully ingratiated in Japanese culture, with the young man specifically being best friends with a little monkey. It could be a similar situation to Selina Kyle, which again relates to Back to the Future. If so, it's just me wanting to criticize Batman for being irresponsible.


A major strength in the movie is the action. When things get going, they really hold the attention the most. I wouldn't say the movie was terribly slow paced, it does take a bit of time to get to the action. Still, it's mostly worth the wait. It does tie into a broader strength being the animation. It does look very Japanese, classical, not following modern anime styles. There's a montage sequence where it becomes more like expressive images that are mostly still, but certain things have movement. It's pleasing to the eye. The character designs are really nice, especially The Joker having the shape and outfit of a jester, but having a Japanese look. You could put a kabuki facepaint on him and it would still work. This goes back to the authenticity this movie boasts as a Japanese crew worked on this.


More on The Joker, despite it not being Mark Hamill, Tony Hale does a nice job with being the legendary Batman villain. I can't give that much praise to Roger Craig Smith, who voiced Batman here. Another voice acting legend I missed here was Tom Kenny, most known for voicing Spongebob Squarepants, who played Penguin, which was nice despite the small amount of lines. Also the Samurai Captain, but that was an insignificant character. A voice acting veteran I'm less familiar with is Yuri Lowenthal, who voiced Robin and Red Robin. Decent job there. I had to check if the voice of the only named Japanese character, Eian, was done by an Asian man. It was, Matthew Yang King. That's good, though I thought the accent on him wasn't strong enough. Also, of course being in Japan, everyone can speak English, even the Japanese. There was a little recon scene early in the movie where Batman and Catwoman dressed as Catholic missionaries, perhaps true to the church trying to convert Japanese people to Catholicism. That would indicate the residents being taught English by missionaries.


Thinking about it more, the voices themselves were not really bad, not extraordinary, but I didn't expect much once I found out the classic TAS cast weren't involved here. I wouldn't bring that up if not for the fact that Conroy and Hamill got involved in a Batman animated movie just a few years ago, The Killing Joke. I did hear that movie isn't so great, but it showed that they could be persuaded to reprise their roles, hell they voiced their respective characters in almost all the Arkham video games. The real issue is the dialogue. It's nothing exciting. The Joker often has the best lines, and it's true here, though it's not spectacular. The laughs are great though. Roger Craig Smith does have a commanding and deep Batman voice in the vein of Conroy, but it's hindered by basic dialogue. A bit bland when it came to a monologue where Batman accepted the mantle that a group of ninjas (led by Eian) basically bestowed upon him. That was from a prophecy, because of course, how else were they so welcoming to a foreigner from the future? Batman doesn't say anything that sticks to mind, which is a shame. With him being the leader of an epic team that consisted of previous Robins, ninjas, Alfred (yeah even he is sent back in time, like Catwoman in that it's before Bruce Wayne, the batmobile also got sent back), and eventually Catwoman and Grodd (yeah he re-aligns with Batman after Joker and Harley get back in business), he as leader had to deliver badass lines. Instead, it's just stated and doesn't have a lot of weight. It's serviceable, but for a unique project like this, something more is necessary. I believe Conroy would've worked with that and thus put out a better performance. The effect of the lacking quality in dialogue would still be noticeable, but not so much with this suggestion. Other characters have similar ceilings, and nobody broke through. Well, back to sacred cow talk, Tara Strong did the best she could with Harley. At the end of the day, I remember Harley and Joker the most out of the others. Also the other villains not named Grodd don't have a lot of time here. Their character designs are great though. Grodd, being someone I don't know, isn't that special. Smart talking simian, I'm pretty sure I've seen it before. He does make light of his banana eating in a scene where Catwoman questioned why he does that since it's so cliché. Nice comeback to her, being a cat burglar, dressed in a cat suit. I'll give credit to Fred Tatasciore for being the right voice for this thinly written villain, but notice the backhanded compliment there. He also voiced Deathstroke, you'll notice most of the cast pulled at least double duty. It's a small cast, yet the Japanese one seems to be bigger, looking at IMDB. Grodd's dialogue mostly falls flat, so him being a major villain here was a letdown. Again, good character design, his actions are helped by great animation and visuals, simply put. Thankfully Joker ends up being the true big bad here.


Addressing what I sort of teased at the beginning of the review, a strongly possible explanation for the dialogue is that according to Wikipedia, the finished movie was rewritten by American writers Leo Chu and Eric Garcia. I assume the Japanese version would have a more eloquent exposition over the time travel, though still bee a bit wonky. All the other dialogue though, I can just imagine being wildly entertaining, being an anime fan and knowing big booming voices, epic monologues, cutting back-and-forth conversations that typify the best anime content. Sigh, ah well, have to live with this.


An interesting thing about the movie is how there is a good deal of huge battles. They didn't just put all their eggs in one basket. There's three big ones, spread decently throughout the film. The first is mainly a sea vessel battle between Team Batman and Team Joker, with the former really benefiting from the ninjas' strategies, namely faking out the enemy into thinking they killed them while they were mostly underwater, only to turn out to be dressed up wooden logs. It gets really explosive due to the use of cannons, and it leads to a classic anime moment where Batman gets blown to sketch, and it features Joker and Harley doing a suicidal explosion to wipe out Batman, of course that failing. This transitioned to Grodd's betrayal and him taking the reigns up until the halfway point. That's when Joker returns, takes control of Grodd's moving castle and the other villains' castles (again, they were brainwashed, and easily got turned to Joker's side). The moving castles looked so great, with different designs, but then Joker merges them all. This made me happy as this was basically a Power Rangers moment. Not to be ignorant, it is actually a Super Sentai gimmick with the castles combining to form a giant warrior. In Super Sentai and other Tokusatzu projects, it would commonly be giant mechs merging to form an even bigger mech. Power Rangers, being adapted from Super Sentai and using a lot of footage from the long running series, did the same thing. I just simplify the description as a Power Rangers gimmick. Team Batman's counter came in the form of bats and monkeys. Yeah, after Grodd got beaten down by Joker's offense, he gives Bruce a flute that summons a monkey army. This is entrusted with Robin, who is an obvious monkey lover, with his monkey companion. I had to double check if bats are prominent in Japan, because I see so little bat imagery in Japanese media. It's accurate, bats come to help Batman, not just in this scene, but the final fight. The monkeys forming its own giant mech looking warrior, with the bats becoming a shield for it, the combination oddly results in a giant Batman. That doesn't make sense, and it's the classic tights and long cape Batman from The Animated series, the 60s show, and old comics. Note that Batman rocks the armored look that's similar to Ben Affleck's Batman, which eventually gets modified to have samurai/ninja looking armor. Despite the logic gap, it makes for an awesome battle of giants, nothing but big punches and the grand effects that come from them. It becomes a debate on whether this or the epic final fight is better. I think because of the literal grand scale and the Power Rangers sentiment that comes out of it, I have to go with this.


Segue to the final battle, which comes about 20-30 minutes later. With Batman being more in tuned with the way of the ninja, he uses that to his advantage in a battle with Joker atop a burning rooftop. A big battle happened just before this, but the scene stealer was this finale. A classic samurai sword duel that transitions to Batman basically doing the classic Batman but in a ninjitsu kind of way. You know how they'd have a shot at Batman, then a shot at whoever he's talking to, then the next shot seeing Batman gone? Also in reverse with Batman not being present, then being present? That's adapted into a Japanese form here, and of course being a millennial, my exposure to these ninja tactics come from the massive anime Naruto (also more obscure and silly, Beverly Hills Ninja). It's done really well here, and they do a similar conclusion to The Dark Knight's battle pitting Joker and Batman. When the people on the two ships make their crucial decisions, and Batman and Joker do battle. The finale of that is basically replicated here. I didn't really think of that as I watched the movie, but I realized that now. I'll let it slide, even without the comparison the ending to that is predictable, knowing Batman to be incorruptible. The movie wraps up quickly and all's well that ends well. There is a mid-credits scene with Catwoman, who got what she ultimately wanted. She never sticks to one side, and they do that in this movie, but in the end she sides with Batman, which is common now that I think back to the animated show and the movies she was in. I like the little nod to that scene with Catwoman and Grodd going on about cliches. Batman has a funny part where Alfred introduces him to his new ride, which is basically steampunk in Japanese. I thought when they hit a purple and green convertible, that Joker would pop up since those are his colors, but nope.


One scene I need to address happens near the middle of the film. This was where I expected Joker and Harley to be caught out, but Batman ended up being too trusting. The scene started with and greatly involved Red Hood. Him being the Punisher for the Batman world, he was not into wasting time, and when he confronted two foreign farmers that resembled Joker and Harley, he immediately assumed they were the two clown villains. They were, and apparently there was a memory related explanation to this. It's silly in hindsight, but I bought it. Batman did too, but when things unraveled, I immediately turned back to the opinion of Batman being way too trusting. I don't remember any incarnation of Batman I've seen that was this trusting, dare I say, naive. At the same time, I don't recall plots that would call for this kind of deception and test of Batman's trust. It's a really good scene, the setting was at a farm, and the visuals there were beautiful and peaceful. The movie does have a good mix of outdoor and indoor scenes, I think mostly outdoor, and the art style is put into full display in the outside scenes. The farm scene is a shining example of that. Surprisingly, Red Hood didn't get on Batman's case about it later in the movie.


The trivia page on IMDB is pretty small. The first one listed was extremely interesting, and explains how great the fight scenes were. They were shot with live actors, and then animation was created using that footage, being similar to motion capture work in video games and modern CG filled movies. The usage of simians was something I didn't really question, but it makes sense after reading this trivia bit. Monkeys, apes, chimpanzees and gorillas are sacred and worshiped by some Japanese cultures. With Grodd, he would be regarded as a deity before the other villains. Of course his typical grand evil plan was to rule Japan, because evil person. There was basically an allusion to that, interestingly enough. Why feudal Japan? I guess because of that worship potential. In one scene, he explained inventing the time machine as just being because he can. Why the villains were sent back? They were basically treated as guinea pigs. They do their evil ruling shit, and he'd swoop in. Common evil genius stuff. Development of this movie began in 2014. The movie did look like long and hard work was put into this, the 4 year time span backs this up. They do use Japanese terms here, I assumed accurately because Japanese people made this, though it would be a risk for American writers in translating this to just be so ignorant of it. This leads into the trivia note where the villains were styled from Japanese historical characters, namely feudal lords of the named provinces in this movie. These provinces were real too. Penguin was modeled after Takeda Shingen, Ivy after Uesugi Kenshin, Deathstroke from Date Masamune, who did wear an eye patch. Two-Face was a “blend,” I assume a mix of a couple historical figures, which makes sense given who the guy is. Grodd, when he gets into his royal gear is modeled after Toyotomi Hideyoshi. While I'm on him, he does come from the comics, his debut was in 1959, I just never saw him before. Joker, last but not least, Oda Nobunaga. Wait, one more, Alfred...modeled after...Alfred. The guy dressed the same! Despite being in Japan for a while, compared to the Robins, who dressed in Japanese appropriate attire, and Catwoman when not rocking the catsuit. Alfred in anything but a butler suit is so rare, I remember the Nolan movies having more of a varied wardrobe, but still. Something I didn't catch was Penguin yelling “wind – forest – fire – bird.” Apparently that is a twist on Takeda Shingen's personal motto where the first three words are used, but “mountain” replaces “bird.” This was a reference to a Chinese text on warfare: “Be as swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, and as immovable as a mountain.” Such a deep cut despite Penguin having very little presence in this movie. When Catwoman first meets up with Batman in the feudal age, the black puppet she used to get Batman's attention resembled a black version of a “maneki-neko.” It's a traditional (white) cat statue that raises or waves their paw to bring in good fortune. Okay, bats, something I was curious about, it's elaborated here. They are seen as symbols of good fortune in China (and therefore feudal Japan and other countries with Chinese influences), due to the similarity in writing/pronunciation between words “bat” and “luck.” Interesting, and Batman was lucky to have them. Batman's ship in the battle at sea was modeled after the Korean Geobukseon (turtle ship) built in the 15th century, cool. Poison Ivy's two pet monsters both carry a Chinese character on their heads: one means “poison” and the other is the first character in a Buddhist deity's name, as used by Uesugi Kenshin on his banners. Fucking Hell! I had to read this to actually catch it, I totally missed it, and that is shameful of me. When Robin, his monkey friend and that little one's girlfriend (I assume) play Grodd's flute, the tune is the opening part of the 60s Batman theme! So easy to catch but I was too focused on my Pokemon game to catch that throwback. Ugh. That was neat though. Supposedly the monkey army bears a resemblance to DC Comics character Detective Chimp. Don't really see it, the only clear similarity is that they're all chimps.


With all bases covered, I can conclude this review. As you can see, the movie is a bit of a mixed bag. The big negatives are in the convoluted and wonky plot, as well as the dialogue just being average for the most part. The big positives are in the animation, the visuals, the action scenes, and most of the stuff involving The Joker and Harley Quinn. The person who basically got me to watch this praised the look of the movie, saying she was reminded of JoJo's Bizarre Adventures at some point. I think I could see that, but I didn't really dwell on specific anime comparisons. Power Rangers came to mind, Naruto came to mind, general anime came to mind with the blown-to-sketch scene (which I mostly related it to Dragon Ball at first), and that's it. This is definitely a Japanese art piece of moving images, with the American touches not being fully what the visuals and sounds (good music too, have to let that slip in) deserve. They deserve better basically. In a way, it's a case of not having a lot of substance, but a lot of style. I'm curious how the Japanese version differs and hopefully it has English subtitles. For now I'll just settle on this movie. I think it's worth a watch, just don't expect it to be awesome or classic in any way. Well, expect the animation and visuals, the action to be just that. Everything else, chill. Check the brain at the door, which is surprising to say with a property as deep and enthralling as Batman, but there you go. It's nowhere near the cheese of certain Batman incarnations, not as weighty as the best Batman incarnations, it's in the middle. It's certainly at its own level that is parallel to the visuals and atmosphere on the best Batman incarnations (Burton, Nolan, The Animated Series). It would be an interesting experiment on a second viewing to just take out the English dialogue, and replace it with fitting Japanese music. No subtitles needed, which is a great thing about the visuals, they really do speak. Probably more sophisticated than the dialogue. With a dream combination of Batman and Japanese culture, anime, action, ninjas and samurai, naturally one would go crazy over this being a reality. The best thing to do when approaching the movie is to not have that, treat it as a unique animated superhero movie, not something groundbreaking. Simply put, something that is enjoyable to at least some extent. To me, the movie fulfills that particular expectation. It doesn't change the fact that I wished for something better, but ah well.


7/10, but wanting to also rate the animation and visuals, and including the action, that gets a solid 10/10.


PS: since my last review post included 8 Mile, I have to make an addendum to it. Also. November 8 marks the 16 year anniversary of its release. Being active on the r/Eminem subreddit made me aware of that, and the following. I didn't know until today that De'Angelo Wilson, who played DJ Iz, passed away on November 26, 2008 at only 29 years of age. Sadly, by suicide. According to Wikipedia, his mother claimed he was depressed because he was unable to find an acting job after getting the impression that his career was falling. May he rest in peace, that's sadly another name of alumni from the movie that passed away (rapper Proof, Brittany Murphy, and director Curtis Hanson).

[jomama]

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/

[bubbs999]

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Rami Malek was superb as Freddie Mercury.
Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, & Joseph Mazzello as John Deacon both did great turns.
Gwilym Lee was more like Brian May, than Brian May !

Sure, you're never gonna please all the bands fans, no matter what you do, but I think the negative on-line reviews that have been heaped upon this film are seriously un-warranted. (some people will take any excuse to bitch online).

Any film that makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck - brings a lump to your throat, and a tear to your eye (plus, has me singing songs from it in my car on the way home) is a winner in my book.

I rate it 10/10 - awesome movie.

Go see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP0VHJYFOAU

[forfucksake]

I watched Nick Fury agent of shield last night, I never realized what truly awful actor Hasselhof actually is.

[blondifan]

Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance.
He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance. He has to learn how to navigate his way around the internal politics and turf wars that exist and find a way to make it through to see his fiance again. Imdb

Was on free to air. Sucked me in.

trailer

[Wendigo]

The 5th in the Bad Ben series of shitty found footage horror

The Crescent Moon Clown (2018)

Watching it on Amazon Prime as the first 4 films were bad and I wanted to see if this could manage to maintain that standard, no reason to worry it does

The same house on Steelmanville Road , different cast, lots of switches to cameras in different rooms, lights going on and off, doors opening and closing ....... does not even have an imdb entry yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqoFR6vmyMs

I think these images capture all the exciting parts



Oh yes, there is a ghostly clown

[MaxJoker]

This



Has no gore. Precious little violence. Only a single scare jump (That`s done superbly well mind you) and it`s tension is mostly built up by bleak visuals (Filmed in my locale , I`m not kidding) and an unsettling score. Also I`m probably nearly going to write more words here than it`s script contained.



Puppeteer Philip (Sean Harris) returns to his boyhood home. After a never explained unfortunate "Incident". Returns with only one item. An item he desperately wants rid of . Yet it seems to have a life of it`s own and refuses to be thrown away. Philip wonders if this thing is connected with a string of children disappearances in the area. Thankfully his kindly uncle Maurice (Alun Armstrong) is on hand to set him straight.



As a fan of writer / director Matthew Holness (One of the greatest comedians this country never recognised as such) I still viewed this unbiasedly.



Did the fact it really took him an age of hard graft and dogged focus to raise the miniscule budget affect my opinion ?.
No. Scant dialogue or not. Either way.
Get`s a solid