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This film is not an emotional roller coaster. Roller coasters take you up and down, and in loops.A roller coaster can produce a feeling of joy and excitement. This film can more symbolically be represented by a mine shaft. A mine shaft just keeps going down, and the feeling is more akin to a journey into darkness. Also, like a mine shaft, this film can feel like a lot of work. Frankly, I felt emotionally exhausted by the end of it.

Look, I'm not saying this is a bad movie; please don't misunderstand me, but it's like someone watched "The Wrestler", and thought "Wow that was good, if only it was more depressing!"

"A Heavy Heart" AKA "Herbert" AKA "The Cinematic Plunge Into One Man's Hell On Earth" isn't afraid of its subject matter (degenerative brain disease); it instead grabs you by the back of your skull and pushes your face against it saying "See, see here? This is the ugly truth. You don't like it? Well deal with it because this is just a taste of what many people have to live with."

As stated before this film shares a lot of similarities with "The Wrestler". It is a character-piece driven by an amazing performance by Peter Kurth who plays a has-been boxer.

Like "The Wrestler" this is a story about a man trying to continue his existence while grappling with his mortality.

Also, just like in the wrestler, once our protagonist learns he is dying he tries to repair the broken relationship between him and his daughter.

That's about as deep into things as I can get into the story without wandering into spoiler territory, but I would like to reiterate how amazing Peter Kurth is in this film. The man dug deep and delivered a performance I won't soon forget.

So the final verdict? I wanna give this film a higher score, but I just can't honestly do that. The last 30 minutes of the movie I found myself just waiting for it to be over already.

The performances were great, and I respect the director's commitment to style, but finishing "A Heavy Heart" began to feel like a chore towards the end.

In some ways "Tusk" succeeds as a comedy. I found myself laughing at a lot of the films jokes and there seemed to be a LOT of intentional humor there. The problem was that as the movie progressed the line between what was intentionally funny and what was not got shady.

Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe this movie had it's silver linings. This movie had two AWESOME performances in it from Michael Parks and Johnny Depp.

Parks just seems to pour his heart and soul into his role as the eccentric, psychotic Howard Howe. His stories and monologues are spoken with absolute conviction and believability. He's interesting to boot. Heck, you even believe he would be the type a guy to deform a human being into the form of a walrus.

And Johnny Depp (as he always does when Tim Burton isn't involved) knocks it out of the park with his performance. He is truly funny in my opinion and vanishes into his role as detective Guy Lapointe. The movie's weakness however is it's very premise: a man being surgically transformed into... a walrus.

The movie kind of dropped off the rails for me, and I believe the rest of the theater whenever the big walrus reveal happened. Here it was, the big moment, the reveal the movie has been thrusting with full momentum towards since the first second AND.... laughter from all around me. I mean what else can I say? It looks as ridiculous as it sounds, and it became very distracting because every time I tried getting back into the illusion the walrus would pop back up, the people behind me would start laughing, and I'd be right out of the illusion again.

The movie suffers from an identity crisis. It's marketed as a "more cuddly "Human Centipede"", but at least "Human Centipede" knew what it was. A gross-out horror film. It is not by any means a good film, but it's easy to stay focused and not get distracted. "Tusk" is just as disfigured as it's Justin-Long-Walrus-Monster...Thing. It talks like a comedy, it walks like a comedy, but something about the tone is trying desperately to be a horror film. For this reason, I think the film would have benefited from going full balls-to-the-wall comedy.

As I was saying to my fiancée last night, I am a Kevin Smith whore and I want to support everything the man does. I loved "Red State" and thought the film was a masterpiece. I mean that 100% and could argue for it all day. "Tusk", however, just kind of left me, I'll admit, a little confused about how to feel. I still love Kevin Smith and will continue to support what he puts out, but for now I have to say #WalrusNo.

I can not stand that this show was getting picked on before it even had the chance to get out the gate. It is an old concept of Jekyll and Hyde split personalities, but a classic concept can still work if the story telling is fresh,and in this case I think it is.

Having watched the pilot I have to say that I was most of all surprised by the acting range displayed by Steven Pasquale. I remember him playing one of the less intelligent fire fighters in "Rescue Me", and I didn't think I'd be able to see him playing a surgeon. He certainly leaped well beyond my expectations.

I won't give too much away, but the storyline is, I think, a fresh one (I hear it is a rip off a British show, but having not seen that show I'm going completely off what I am seeing from this episode and judging the show by itself). The protagonist(Dr. Jason Cole) is a doctor with an evil split personality that he has suppressed for years, but is now unable to. The split personality is angry and is trying to ruin his life. Jason finds creative ways to derail his split personality's attempts to sabotage him.

What I think will make this series interesting for seasons to come is that at the end of the pilot Jason makes a pact with his alter ego to stay out of his business if he will stay out of Jason's. In the meantime he will be trying to cure himself of his alter ego. I believe this will lead to two alternate story lines that will weave in and out, at least for a while, adding some complexity to the story.

Also adding complexity are some issues from the past and a woman from Jason's past who his alter ego hurt and its not all explained leaving some mystery and some room for characters and story to develop and grow.

I'm not saying that this show blew me away by any means, this will definitely not fill the void that House left in my heart, but I am saying that this show should be given more of a chance than its been getting. They are trying to make a solid show and are succeeding in a few areas. Give it a few episodes before kicking it down a pit.

OK I liked this movie, it was good for a V.S. movie. There was enough Freddy V.S. Jason time to keep me satisfied, but it's a bit one sided don't you think? I kept score at home (Im a NERDlol) and Jason PWNED when it came to kills. Freddy killed one person directly, while Jason had himself a bloodbath. I do acknowledge that Freddy indirectly killed some people and fought great for a guy in his position, but COME ON! Heres my main problem with the movie: IT Ain't A MATCH! You've got Jason a super strong killing machine, that's ALL HE DOES! Then there's Freddy, hes scrawny in comparison and doesn't kill people off the bat like Jason. Freddy likes to play with his food. You can see the obvious problem. The match I wanna see is Michael V.S. Jason. Two killing machines who don't mess around. Plus, Michael can take a punch from Jason. We're talking about two huge guys! That would be an even match up. And this is coming from a huge fan of Freddy! Freddy is just better when he can take his time to play mind games and kill horrifically! Freddy needs a new movie. Are you up to it Mr. Englund?

Here is a movie that will have you doing the "Awkward Turttle" for an hour and a half. There were a lot (maybe too many) gay jokes between John Heder and Will Ferell.

Then there were the two gross scenes where he has to lick toilet paper from the floor of the restroom to get the keys and the brother and sister kiss.

But, despite the awkwardness, it made me laugh. I laughed throughout the whole thing.

If u wanna a lot of belly laughs, see it, but be ready to be grossed out.