rbeetcher Reviews

Downhill (I) (2020)

Worst movie we've seen in years of Friday night dates.

[15 February 2020]

Torture watching this movie. Would have walked out but my wife liked the Austrian mountain ski scenes. Nothing else about this movie was worthwhile. It struck me as a movie where the stars agreed to do it to support a family member who was trying to get into movie production but had no experience and no skill.

At Eternity's Gate (2018)

Hand held camera filming and one, repeating, piano note soundtrack -- ugh!

[1/10 · 7 December 2018]

Normally, not a reviewer. But we were so disgusted with the shaky filming technique, repetitious, one repeating piano note, sound track, and ponderous plot movement of this movie that we felt compelled to post a warning. And that's not to mention the first 10 minutes or so being subtitled due to foreign language sound track. We would have walked out if we weren't in center of our row. It was torture and we had to look away much of the time due to shaky filming. That technique is not quaint, cute or mood setting. It is just stupid in this day and age. No complaint about the actors.

We're an elderly couple who have been going to movies every date (Friday) night for 40 years.