Some years ago I've watched most of Buster Keaton's shorts that turn centennial this year and I didn't like many of them that much. Surely they were the product of its time and Buster was just having fun with that new thing called "motion pictures" and was yet to find his own style but some of the movies I did like and one of those was "The goat" but I guess it didn't grow on me that much as I, having rewatched it now, couldn't find that something that made me fall in love with it on the first watch.
This is a generic story with only a few new tricks up on its sleeve like the first-person camera angle, the speeding of a train towards camera, and a scene with an elevator (where I believe special effects were used) but overall this movie is stitched together of scenes that are randomly telling one, not very cohesive or exciting story but fun to watch for sure.
Buster is down on his luck again with misfortunes closing in on him and on top of everything he gets mistaken for a criminal. It could've been more fun to watch though if the story at least wrapped up by the end of the movie but it didn't happen.
As always Buster does some incredible stunts and action never stops following the main protagonist but I wasn't empathetic towards him one bit while watching because of how incredibly lifeless his character and the whole movie truly is. It's good to revisit movies you liked once to see how they're holding up in realms of your "now" persona and "The goat" failed. Sure it won't be the last.
This is a generic story with only a few new tricks up on its sleeve like the first-person camera angle, the speeding of a train towards camera, and a scene with an elevator (where I believe special effects were used) but overall this movie is stitched together of scenes that are randomly telling one, not very cohesive or exciting story but fun to watch for sure.
Buster is down on his luck again with misfortunes closing in on him and on top of everything he gets mistaken for a criminal. It could've been more fun to watch though if the story at least wrapped up by the end of the movie but it didn't happen.
As always Buster does some incredible stunts and action never stops following the main protagonist but I wasn't empathetic towards him one bit while watching because of how incredibly lifeless his character and the whole movie truly is. It's good to revisit movies you liked once to see how they're holding up in realms of your "now" persona and "The goat" failed. Sure it won't be the last.