Maysville

Very tough movie to watch. I'm a fan of movies set in the past but this was awful. Acting was very amateurish, hallmark channel level acting & the story was just boring & bad. No one besides the friends & family of the people who worked on it will actually enjoy it.

I lost patience with this film early on, but since the many glowing reviews with high ratings seemed to be in conflict with all the low ratings by people who didn't write reviews, I bit the bullet and watched the whole dumb thing so I could join the minority of reviewers who also were underwhelmed.

I am not even going to bother with the synopsis...but it's not nearly as interesting as it sounds.

"Maysville" is a good movie if you enjoy Hallmark or Lifetime For Women Channel movies. In other words, terrible acting, script, music, research, direction and cheap cinematography. The plot holes, the romance novel nonsense, the absolute cringiness of the bad guy. So, for a movie made for those channels, it's a good movie. But if you demand something requiring more effort, it's awful to sit through. At some point I was concerned that my eyes were going to get stuck rolled up into my head.

If you want a good, interesting, intelligent film to entertain you, this is not the one. If you want a soap opera, go for it.

Maysville is a great indie film with magnifiscent performances and wonderful music. A rewarding emotional journey from the beginning to the end. It makes you feel so many deep emotions. Director Goyette takes the story to a very high level in style and vision.

I wanted to like this movie. A local paper boasted about it being a film by a fellow Oregonian shot in Oregon. Sadly, I found it impossible. The script, directing, acting, production design, even the audio mix wandered into the realm of amateurish very early in.

We watched it all, constantly looking for something that would redeem it, but to no avail.

Low budget films face many production challenges. Good ones overcome them with a solid script, or deft direction, acting camerawork, or some combination thereof. Unfortunately "Maysville" lacks all these qualities. It was not worth watching.

The time wasted watching this "film" - you can never get it back.

I'm in my 50's and I have seen some bad films in my day, but I think this ranks as the WORST. The story line is ridiculous. The screenplay could have been written by a high-school teen. Every corny line and trope is in this film. They drop like dead flies. And talk about slow moving - I actually debated whether I should finish the "film" or go rub ground glass into my eyes. I didn't have any ground glass, so I stuck out the film. Still not sure if that was the smartest choice.

Beyond the disjointed plot elements - there are continuity problems all over the place. Like the fact that this is supposed to take place in Appalachia, but there are no hills or mountains and the local company truck the kid drives around in has Kansas plates.

Seriously, RUN AWAY! RUN!