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Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne (2020)
Only part of the story
Look, let me first say I love Sabbath and I have everything Ozzy has ever done as well. I grew up to the soundtrack of their music and it is part of my life.
However this documentary lost its credibility to me instantly when I realised that it purposely left people out.
Note, hardly a word from Tony Iommi, who lets face it, was the leader of Black Sabbath. You cannot tell this story without Iommi. There would be no Sabbath without Iommi. This was done I suspect because Sharon Osborne still does not like him. Either way leaving him out was a gross error, or indeed on prupose.
BUT the worse thing that ruined it to me was the removing from history two of the people who actually WROTE Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman with Ozzy and Randy. Namely; Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake. And then were the excellent rhythm section that contributed so much to it.
At one point they show a picture of the rehearsals for the first album. A well known picture that has Daisley in it. In this documentary he was EDITED OUT. Live footage too was cropped to remove them and only show Osborne and Rhodes. What a pathetic and petty sham, especially as the great Kerslake has now died.
I detect the hand of Sharon on this who had a problem when they asked for royalties and disgracefully rerecorded the album without them to remove their claims.
So this is an OK documentary, ruined by purposefully erasing people from it for various reasons who were part of it.
An American Haunting (2005)
Boring and Scareless
I went to see this on Saturday and reading the comments here I must have gone to the wrong film! The film I saw was in the first place very very boring. The running time seemed twice as long. Boring is not a good thing for an allegedly scary movie.
The story was so stretched out that it stalled in its second act. I was praying that it would just move on, but it didn't. Just scene after scene of what is basically the same thing. That was in the fanily lounge with the family where the camera idiotically flew around as the "spirit" and a few things were knocked down (repeat x 8). Or in Betsy's room with the bedsheets being pulled down and her either being pulled about the room or in mock orgasm - repeated over and over (repeat most of the film).
Though the slapping sequence (even that was reused) did wake me up as the guys in the rows in front of me were laughing and who could blame them it was very funny......though it was meant to be scary.
I mean why did it take him 3/4 of the film to go and see the woman who he had thought had cursed him? Doesn't make sense.
Oh and the floaty camera-work that was meant to indicate the spirit was "in the room" wasn't scary, just made me feel seasick.
I don't know how many horror/ghost films the people who rated this highly have seen. I've seen a number over the years, though wouldn't suggest I'm an expert. But most of the scares were clichéd and telegraphed. One example, the swing sequence where she starts to feel something then sees the kid next to her.....you just guessed it would go into slow-mo....and yes it did! Anyway, go see it if you want a good sleep. There were a lot of people laughing and shaking their heads when the lights went up which would indicate what boring drivel it is.
Shame on you people who compared it to the brilliant Haunting. I suppose next you'll be comparing Apocalypse Now to The Green Berets.