The dog was good.

Rating: 1/10 (20 January 2013)

I had been looking forward to watching the Artist, I'm not sure why except for the quirky nostalgic angle that in today's world someone was willing to make a silent movie... the last tip of the hat to the silent era I remember from my youth being the Mel Brookes comedy. I dusted off the projector so I could watch on the big screen as my own little tribute to this movie as I watch most films now lazily on my 13" laptop. I sadly found the film very disappointing and struggled to watch it through to the end. (I actually fell asleep halfway through). It felt like the story was one that had been told before way back in the day that it was reflecting and I questioned the need to reproduce what was already done so well back when the silver screen really was silver. Worse than my reaction to the film though was then to remember that it had won so many awards and been so highly praised by near all critics. How on earth did this film win Oscars and Golden Globes galore? A black and white movie that all had seen with a rose coloured tint? After seeing that the film had an 8.1 rating on IMDb and 98% on Rotten Tomatoes I felt compelled to have my say in an attempt to balance out, in my opinion, this highly unjustified acclaim. Indeed after seeing it had been so loudly applauded my own rating was nudged from poor to poop!