The Oak Room

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Really looked forward to this. In the end we only got to see 50 minutes before turning it off. Personally I found it to be like a tarantino tale but the wish version. I thought the acting was a little wooden tbh and this made the characters a little unbelivable.

A story, about a story, about a story, ad nauseam. Laced with repetitive F-bombs and references to our Creator damning things. Mediocre and over the top acting with nothing in between. I counted my losses less than half way through and mercifully bailed before my memory was tainted with a other moment of this brain drain.

And I saw that with a heavy heart: " The aesthetics were decent, but the potential wasnt there." The shots of the impossible storm, the look of the cold bar, I liked that...but the movie just had no point. IT was pure nonsense. I felt like the bartender, forced to listen to the inane prattle of fools in stupors, wallowing in their own self loathing and pointless existences. A least if the movie had a horror angle, or something even remotely supernatural or profound, it would have been better. But no...this was a waste of time. Avoid. 3/10.

As myself thinking 💭 thinking 💭 and thinking 💭... one single option as answer: boring and pointless plus impossible to catch my lovely grey matter. And yes. Not a movie. Just something else. Don't know what. And I don't care.

Finally a film for those who don't go in for car chases, big explosions or any other Hollywood cliches. This is a well-written, well crafted piece of cinema. You have to pay attention, which isn't difficult as this story soon pulls you in and keeps you engaged. Ten stars for everyone's performances. The time of night, the weather, the location - everything contributes to the moody atmosphere of this story. And the ending is powerful in its understatement. Well done.

A dull and boring movie which failed to build any intensity. I would not catergorise this movie as a thriller, or a drama...a pointless mystery perhaps. It's a slow train ride to nowhere.

They round up movies like they do in this fairytail... because its a fairytail or story telling stone by stone it makes a mansion worth more than 1000 words. And the makers of this canadian cold acadian winter fable has done a great job with the storytelling the plotting and especially the visuallization of the spoken word. It drags you hitherto and withertoo and youll never know what to expect and who takes the winning ticket. Because life is a mystery and storytelling while thawing up after travelling through a snow blizzard for hours in a , for the night, closed bar with just the attendant behind the bar the stories becomes grell and gives you coldblisters on your fingers cause its a spinechilling nasty thriller youre about to see, but still it walks so slow that you start thinking of self experienced freeze out stories. And my worst freeze out story didnt happen in the winter, no it happened at the beach on the warmest day of july that year, me and my bro went freediving or snorkling for crabs wearing only speedoes, to set the dinner menu for the evening. Well with 17'c in the water its fun to play in the waves, and also set for some snorkling, but the currents west of karmøy island are strong and not to be relied on, and as the crabs stood lined up for us to grab like a golden nugget, the crab fever took overhand, till some 70 minutes out and my jaw started to twitch and that was the start of a shivering cold that i'll never forget. I took some 30 min to haul myself onto the beach and almost crushing my teeth for another 2 hours cluttering like an ak-47 in the baking hot sand and some 25'c in the air, it was just astonishing, and hasnt been repeated thereafter. If it hadnt been for the stamina and support from my bro i guess i would still be playing with the crabs. But a good solid freeze it was. So if you like icecold stories from the unexpected do watch the oak room, the acting is solid, and they keep their card to their chests till they spread the ashes. A recommend from the grumpy old man.

I have always stayed away from gravitas ventures movies as they are generally very poor in acting, story lines and often low budget visuals, only this movie The Oak Room got my interest as actor RJ Mitt was one of the roles (I also have watched every movie possible so running out of movies ) The Oak Room is a little bit of a slow burner however I think this helps building up each character in this movie, this movie also had for me nice little plot twists that kept me intrigued and compelled me to keep watching, the acting for me was great for this movie as I mentioned earlier.. I was pleasantly surprised. As a film buff I would say this is definitely worth a watch if you have nothing else in your library.

It's one of those films that makes one think "if I just hang in there long enough it will get better" but it never does. What you see is what you get.