Sadly Over-hyped

Awesome Movie

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

In his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room. Doodlebug is probably one of the dumbest short films i have ever seen in my entire life. The film is thankfully only 3mins but that doesn't make up for the poor excuse that we get, basically this dude is jumping around trying to squash this bug that in reality it's himself actually and as good as that might sound to some viewers out there trust me it isn't because the movie is just horrible and the acting was even worse even for a short. (0/10)

Doodlebug (1997)*** 1/2 (out of 4)Christopher Nolan's directorial debut was this three minute B&W short. The film starts off with a man on the floor bouncing around trying to kill a bug with his shoe. He tries and tries to kill it but soon we realize something else is going on.DOODLEBUG was a highly effective short that reminded me of the early work of David Lynch. The B&W cinematography perfectly captures a rather dark and moody atmosphere and I thought it certainly helped the film and its nightmare like quality. I'm not going to spoil the twist for those who haven't seen the film but I found it to be very good. Technically speaking this is a very impressive short and especially when you consider it was the first one Nolan had made. It certainly shows that there was a talent behind the camera. Fans of his should get a kick out of this film.

This three-minute black-and-white film is famous director Cgristopher Nolan's very first work. He was in his 20s here. The lead actor resembles James McAvoy a bit, but is fairly unknown. Nolan cast him again after this one, also for a very small role in "Batman Begins". Anyway, the story seems to be about a man with some kind of disorder (why else would he destroy a phone?) who has a very strong desire to kill a bug in his apartment. There is one flaw with this movie though: There are no telephones so small that the "bug" could actually use them. The final revelation about the bug is one that fits Nolan in terms of his ideas in movie such as "Inception". Pretty forgettable short film (with over-the-top music) though and it probably would be completely unknown if it wasn't by one of the top directors these days. An okay watch at three minutes, but nothing one has to see.

An excellent recommended short film for all film and Nolan fans!Duddlebug is an unique short film that with only 3 minutes makes you think outside of the box. This is of course what Christopher Nolan is known for, his unique one-of-a-kind films that go beyond a normal imagination. Duddlebug is the beginning of Nolan and you can see where this idea of a dream within a dream (Inception), a journal within a journal (The Prestige) or a flashback within a flashback (Memento) comes from. In this short a man runs around chasing a bug trying to smash it with his shoe. In the end as he finally succeeds defeating the film's conflict, a man appears in the same position with the same shoe right above him ready to smash him. Above that man is another man in the same position ready to smash him, and so on. This scenes shows Christopher's Nolan's major idea that he has used in some of his films, for example: in Inception there's the dream within a dream , a journal within a journal (The Prestige) or a flashback within a flashback (Memento).