negotium Reviews

The Innkeepers (2011)

Pointless

[3/10 · 29 July 2023]

Well, if you're as unmotivated, unaccomplished, unintelligent, and ignorant as the two protagonists, you may like it. It has its moments, until you realize that what should be stepping stones are actually the high points. There's no actually story, which is in itself only somewhat condemnable, but there also several lines that point to a story. So, it's a bit like a book that tells you to see a footnote on another page, but there's no footnote there.

What confuses me more than a bit is why the male protagonist, in a move set in 2010-11, has built a website that looks just like websites from the late 90's, is using a 10-yr old version of Windows, and uses a 5-year old version of Firefox. If you update your software that infrequently and build home pages, as if GeoCities still exists, you deserve to be ended by scary monsters. Just sayin'.

REC (2007)

Pretty good, but also kind of annoying

[6/10 · 1 June 2023]

It's definitely scary. My only problem with it is how much of the movie involves chaotic yelling. Some characters just won't shut up, everyone yells, and they yell over each other. I get it, they are scared and confused, but it still seems way over the top.

I know the actors each only saw part of the script, just their own part. I think because of this they improvised a lot and felt a need to fill in the silence.

I suggest watching the original Spanish version with subtitles rather than the dubbed version. It makes the yelling and repetitive dialogue more bearable, unless you know Spanish, of course.