Tommy Battles the Silver Sea Dragon (2018) User Reviews

Ambitious but muddled vanity project

[erikwb · 4/10 · 4 May 2024]

Strong theater kid meets sundance vibes, this is an overly ambitious vanity project for its writer/director/composer/star. It's actually well shot and acted for this kind of low budget movie, but ultimately you have to be really insightful to make a movie about how dating in your twenties sucks interesting, but instead we get the lame conceit of the main character being put on trial (In his mind!!!) mixed with a lot of screams of anguish. The music doesn't quite pass muster, the story is thin like a lot of musicals but also kind of muddled, and there is nothing really interesting about the main character Tommy. My experience watching this movie-immediate laughing out loud at how silly this because it opens with a long coutroom sequence and the protagonist metaphorically? Killing his brother, giving it slight chance when it shifted to be about dating, and then gradually becoming more bored as it becomes a generic bad relationship drama. At times it also plays like a half baked concept album from 2008, Pitchfork would not approve.

Captivating and a little distribing

[glennmorten · 9/10 · 16 July 2018]

This is a creative yet somewhat Dark Musical. Could be about ten minutes shorter and then I would have rated it a 10.

All in all I recommended not missing Tommy Silver.

iamtommysilver

Eerily Fantastic.

[jacobedelson-68009 · 10/10 · 19 January 2021]

The music of this film stuck with me for days. The imagery remained surreal, calm and nostalgic.

Overall, this film had a haunting charm to it. I encourage you, dear reader, to watch and enjoy. It is a crafty little, gem made with a shoe-string budget. I sincerely hope that Luke Shirock continues in his film-making career because this was such a stylistically unique delight.