Sep 16
Movie review: Black Dahlia
Emily has been sick all week and was finally feeling better. We decided to have dinner and see a movie. It was Macaroni Grill for dinner and Black Dahlia for a movie.
Our waitress at Mac Grill was not fast enough for me…I had two refills on my tea – and they were pretty much both after I was done eating. I hate that. I got their Mama’s Trio meal, or something like that, and the lasagna portion was not even luke warm – bordering on cold. Sent it back, but it arrived just in time for us to ask for the check. Oh well, we entertained ourselves with their crayons and paper table cloth. Played some Tic-Tac-Toe and that dots/squares game. Normally Emily beats me at those…Lets just blame her cold on my successes tonight.
But now on to the main reason for this post:
DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS MOVIE!!!
Seriously. If I hadn’t paid $8 a ticket we would have walked out. It was *terrible*. I honestly don’t say that about many movies and I really try to find the good in most stuff I see…but this movie? no. nothing. nada. The scenes felt like they were chopped together and out of place – and at times, it really fealt like you were watching two different movies. We went to see the movie thinking it was a thriller from the ads- only to be confused by the director’s work. Was it a thriller? no. Was it a mystery? eh..not really (it was honestly too confusing to be a mystery). Was it a love movie? kinda..wait..no..uh..maybe?
In this day and age, you really expect more out of production companies. The plot was hard to follow – were you (as an active audience member) trying to solve the mystery of the black dahlia murder? Were you trying to figure out the lives of our two cops? Were you trying to find out who the bad guys really are? Or maybe you are trying to find out why they even included the main character’s father in the movie since it was a pretty pointless scene.
I could honestly type pages on why I hated this movie, but that would be pointless. I like artsy and wierd movies, but this movie sucked. Make that Sucked – just so it has a capitol S. Don’t waste your time. I would have rather watched Beer League or Barnyard. Maybe that will be next weekend.
–pc