We started to watch The Black Dahlia, but neither of us like film noir and the first 5 minutes annoyed us, so we stopped watching and deleted it from the DVR (I had recorded it from cable months ago). We moved on to another movie I had recorded, Hollywoodland.

I neither loved nor hated Hollywoodland. I found it very sad.

The complicated life and controversial suicide of George Reeves is investigated by a fictional private detective who finds that there are reasons to suspect that Reeves may not have killed himself after all…

Ben Affleck gets a lot of crap about his general acting skills, but I think he’s a better actor than people give him credit for and I thought he was actually very good in the roll of George Reeves. He must have studied old Superman episodes, because in the scenes where Reeves was shooting the show he did really well at getting the tone of Reeves voice and his line delivery.

Generally, the movie was just kind of dull even with pretty solid acting. The conspiracy theories of Reeves’ possible murder (as opposed to suicide) were interesting ideas, but I found that it didn’t matter ultimately. And the crude language grated on my ears after a while.

My ratings? The Black Dahlia gets 0 out of 5 stars. Hollywoodland gets 2.5 stars out of 5.

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