Goliath

I love movies. I love cats. I love off-beat quirky weird movies. I will try almost anything once.

This film - turned it on, watched for 2 mins, flipped through the scenes & put it back in its case.

Why? Low production values: (not a killer category always) not great in this flick. Amateurish acting: ditto. Pointless POV: yes, really bad. & I have a strong stomach & like tough action movies. The stuff in this one was cheap,crappy "humor" - not funny, not original, not worth describing. Unappealing lead: oh, yeah, in every way.

Cat? not around.

Do not bother!

Comedy and drama instant mix! I enjoyed watching it late at night after Kid-Thing by the same director.

Goliath made me laugh and almost cry at the same moment, strange new feeling! Unlike other people posting here, I really loved the longer takes, and especially the satiric signing of the divorce papers!

The scene with a "spear dance" - outstanding! The sex offender with a speaker - very creative writing. Acting is superb as well.

Highly recommended to everyone who is tired on watching all of those old people from Hollywood who will never let the new talent take them over!

In other words - Good job David!!! Great film, one of my favorites in 2016 so far!

We would have given it 2 stars, but the cat was cute. Would be a great short film if they edited it down to about 30 minutes. The filmmakers are know for their short films, and this time they made a full length film by taking a good short film and dragging out the scenes forever. Like the interminable scene of watching the couple sign their divorce papers. That should have lasted about 10 seconds. Or the scene where the guy eats his microwaved TV dinner. We would have gotten the point in a matter of moments. We don't need to watch him eat the whole thing. Also, the acting was just not that great. From the Sundance synopsis, I was expecting a comedy, but it just wasn't that funny.

I saw this movie at the Sundance Film Festival with a packed audience. We all watched as a man had his life fall apart in a variety of different ways, the breaking point being the lost of his cat (hence the title). Sometimes it was extremely funny, sometimes extremely sad. The outbursts of laughter were equally matched by silent awe and quiet sadness.

It's not really about a cat, but about how people (this one man in particular) fixate on something in order to cope with what's not working around them. The divorce signing scene alone is brilliant. A challenging scene that everyone I went with talked about afterwards, a total range of emotions...

And without spoiling it, things turn from bad to worse for him and the cat. But the end has the sweetest thing I've ever seen.

I thought the filmmaker did a good job and treading a fine line between the absurdly funny, and the reality that comes w/ divorce, isolation, and lost.

ZERO out of ten.

If so-called filmmakers continue in this mind-numbingly STUPID post-millennial vein, I'm gonna abandon the medium altogether.

Since 1998 or so we've been subjected to this kind of garbage. It seems to be derived from 'Seinfeld': film devoted to recording NOTHING but images hanging from a flimsy, even non-existent 'story' lacking in effective dialogue and narrative development.

Face it, folks. Storytelling in film died in the late 1990s. All people want to see now, and all they can handle, are empty, directionless, and plainly silly contrivances like this one.

I've tried to stay contemporary, but writers, actors, and directors today in North America are simply weak and incompetent. A film like this shows how vapid both filmmaker and watcher have become. Way to go.