Night Club

This film was a great video for me to watch, as to learn on what not to do to develop a film, and use of wrong methods of filming. (I am saying this with sincerity and no sarcasm) While watching this film, I learned many things such as camera placement, relevancy, use of methods, because of the horrible and wrong ways the director and cast had produced and put it together. The movie honestly was horrible! It looked as if a group of high school kids got their hands on a high quality camera and decided to make a video for you tube. In which actually there are many you tube videos that have way more value than this film, and potential. Also the amount of money used to produce this film does not reflect at all on the quality. I thought this movie used at most two thousand. Transitions were horrible, there was one scene when the roommates just met and they were in a daylight room and then all of a sudden, it goes to the outside dark. Many fillers, and just time wasting scenes. The storyline was horrible, I had no idea where the story was going. This is one of those movies that you might put on if you need something on the TV to put you to sleep. The movie needs to be more organized and professional. Great thing it is not rated, it should be rated D for Don't watch.

I was privileged to see "Night Club" last evening at a World Premiere event at the Phoenix Film Festival.

Not only was it great to see such seasoned actors in this film like Ernest Borgnine and Mickey Rooney, and others, but I thought Sally Kellerman, who played Dorothy, portrayed the Alzheimer's patient perfectly. I had a Father who had Alzheimer's Disease and I could see in the demeanor of Dorothy who my Father had become before his death. I believe this is a movie that all of us who have aging parents must see! I also think that all those that work in nursing homes, especially the administrators and owners of these care facilities should see this film, it will help to open up their eyes to possibilities of care and caring. There is more to care in a treatment facility than having our elders just sit around till their lives end and we know like in this movie many of them are doing just that. We will all find ourselves growing older in time with the possibility of having to enter a nursing home, if we begin now to improve the quality of care in these facilities we can look forward to being cared for in a manner with dignity and love as these three young students in this movie ended up doing. Before these care facilities were implemented we had families caring for our elderly, there is no reason a nursing home cannot feel like "home", after all they are called nursing "homes".

I believe this movie could make an impact on how we treat our elders, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles when they get near the end of their lives and need assistance with everyday living.

Kudos to the Director: Sam Borowski, Writers: Larry Delrose and Tom Hass, and the Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Mickey Rooney, Sally Kellerman, Madison Liddy, and all the others who were willing to put in their time and effort to produce a well scripted and well portrayed film.

NIGHT CLUB is a unique film in that it blends both humor (from one-liners to slapstick) and drama (including some very poignant moments) and does so very well. It was great also to see such a mix of young 20-something actors holding their own on the screen with legendary veterans such as Ernest Borgnine and Mickey Rooney. Some of the scenes are laugh-out-loud funny; others are gripping and almost push you to tears. The film is very well-paced and doesn't have any lulls. NIGHT CLUB tugs on the heart strings. It's very unexpected and very welcome ... especially in an age of movie-going where most films are either sequels, remakes or follow the same dumb story lines. Bravo!

"Night Club" is the most awkwardly edited and filmed movie I have ever been forced to sit through. The plot line, about three friends who work in a nursing home to turn it into a terrible night club, is ridiculous and ill-thought out. It seemed overall that there was no point or main message to carry out. The action and events moved so cripplingly slow that the audience could have easily lost interest within the first ten minutes.

Though there were different levels of acting in this movie, it could have improved if the director guided the actors better or paid more attention to the dialogue. The dialogue ruined the movie when the actors kept on overly stressing clichéd humor, and there was almost no music or sounds at all. Only when the story moves outside is there any kind of background noises or melodies at all. Plus the camera direction was amateurish and too shaky, and all mainly composed of close-ups, which made it easy to become bored with the activity going on on screen.

So in summary, this movie didn't work because the thematic elements clashed or yielded adverse, unintentional bad effects to the eyes and ears of the audience. The misguided acting, dialouge, editing, plot line, and lack of sounds were not pleasing. No wonder why the picture didn't make it to the big screen, or even why I didn't sit through it the whole way through.

Night Club is a huge thumbs down. the cinematography is horrible and the directing is less than adequate. It does nothing to appeal to the audience and the emotions of the characters almost never change. Nightclub does nothing cinematically to appeal to your eye. The shot selection never changes through scenes and the setting is poorly decorated. They may have one or two decorations in the scene to show you what the setting is. the movie comes off very bland because there is no background music. Night Club becomes a bore to watch because it is like a broken record. No matter what the situation, whether it be positive or negative, the characters always respond with the same emotions. It does nothing to grab your attention.