Looks like mud, sounds awful

Rating: 1/10 (8 January 2014)

There were lots of things they did well - the recreation of 1961 New York is great, but...
1. I'm tired of muddy looking movies. I don't care if they are supposed to be depressing movies, they don't have to be relentlessly dark and colorless/mono-tinted and low contrast visually. (See "Die Wand" for an example of what I mean.) I'd like to say let's not go back to the 70s shitty looking movies, but we've been there awhile now. Oh, how mooooooody.... (Yeah I get it -- dark screen, dark mood -- how clever.)
2. The music in this movie does NOTHING to capture the vitality of the music of the real 1960s Village folk scene. Its mostly slow and dull and boring, even if the lead does have a nice voice.
3. It could use a real story.
Other than that, it might have been OK.