Goliath

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.

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.

If I could rate this with negative stars, I would.

This has got to be the hands down worst movie I have ever been subjected to. I literally was getting a headache while watching this piece of crap.

"Manos - The Hands of Fate" is an Oscar winner compared to this horrible film.

Almost half the film is the main character wandering around saying "kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty..." about a thousand times. Scenes go ON, and ON, and ON forever. I mean really...an uncut, 10 minute long scene of the main character and his ex-wife signing documents? Gaaaaaah...

That isn't art. That is pure crap.

I seriously wonder about people who actually enjoyed this horrible, horrible waste of film.

The Zellners are filmmaking brothers from Austin, TX and they don't make conventional comedies. By this, I don't mean theirs is a cinema akin to the sort where you'd find Borat or Scott Pilgrim, I mean truly unconventional. The closest mainstream archetype I'd propose would be Steven Soderbergh when he made Schizopolis. If you watch expecting a laugh-out-loud, tidy story, then of course you'll be disappointed.

Goliath is a stark, simple story of a man who loses his cat while going through an emotionally wrenching divorce. While this scenario would likely find widespread appeal in a Hollywood comedy if handled in a broad, facile manner, The Zellner brothers craft the narrative in an unsettling slow-burn that may be as disturbing to some as it is humorous to others. So if you can appreciate a comedy that has traces of Fassbinder and the Kaurismakis as well as Mel Brooks, then maybe this one is for you.

I don't know what's going on half the time, Goliath is decent in its some ways. I've had the DVD from blockbuster that someone kept and I was expecting more when I decided to watch it! It's somber, poorly filmed, and there's barely a story. I'm on the same page as others with negative reviews pretty lame movie!