 Okay, you probably want some context as to why I'm reviewing this a few weeks ago They were showing 30 days of night at a theater in pit meadows However, the snow slash rain again was going on and I didn't want to drive out and get killed But that got me thinking about Josh Harnett and what he is as an actor and what he's been up to also my roommate was talking about the Black Dahlia murders because that was something that we're always interested in we're always interested in criminology Sort of ideas here, and then I thought hey, maybe I should watch the Black Dahlia movie. It was a bad idea Oh That's a hot mug guys Hey guys This is my review for the Black Dahlia a Brian Del Palma film that was released back in 2006 And this movie scathe a lot of people a lot of reputations were kind of tarnished Some were able to kind of creep out of it But a lot of people kind of never got past this film Brian Del Palma in particular A lot of people would contribute snake eyes to really the decline of his career others would say femme fatale However for me, it's definitely the Black Dahlia this movie killed Brian Del Palma's career Have you seen him do anything big since this movie? He's done nothing in similar scale to this film and there's quite a few reasons why this movie apparently was torn apart in the editing Department was really gonna be three hours long, but it's just to there's a lot of missing links There's a lot of points in the film where stuff is very disjointed the character's motivations And their actions just don't make sense to the scene Aaron Eckhardt's acting in this movie is a bismal And I think it's because of the directing is just terrible his rage is anger in certain scenes It's just comically bad the whole time I'm watching the movie I just keep feeling like I'm missing an element that there's something that they just weren't able to fully do I thought wait a minute. What if this movie was black and white? So I changed the color and I actually made the movie black and white and I watched the rest of the movie Black and white didn't help for shit really in terms of helping the movie story But I got the visual aspect a little bit more There's a few scenes in the film that are straight out of films like double indemnity that just matched this aesthetic It works really well in terms of the visual aspects not for all the shots Of course some of them are very standard There are some shots in this film that are homages to films from the 40s and 50s There's a shot that's straight out of the touch of evil almost not as impressive of course It's definitely trying to emanate that there is a scene in particular That you can tell they're fully doing it, but it doesn't matter whether it's black and white It doesn't matter if it's trying to be homages. It's just a shit scene This is some fucking tripe film making the acting is so disjointed in this film The story has more disjoints and holes than that of a mangled swiss cheese It doesn't fit with what it was trying to do The film just fails on almost every single level again. It tarnished a lot of people's careers I remember reading an interview in the late 2000s where drosh harnett was talking about how he just Didn't like the whole hollywood scheme anymore. And that's why he kind of went forth more sort of Independent films and I can see this as being one of them This was definitely a giant turd fest both with how the film was put together and the final product So in the end I'm going to give the black dahlia 2 out of 7 This is probably one of the most pointless reviews I've ever done I don't really know why I reviewed it, but I really just wanted to show off that scene It's so bad. Anyways guys, that's all from me. See you guys next time