i like steve buscemi . i like his work very much and both a an actor and a director . you could say that i be into steve buscemi . a steve buscemi freak . i lurv steve buscemi . i remember when i first saw buscemi full length directorial debut and tree lounge . i enjoy the movie and although it wasn not as good a it could have be . it be almost there . it almost scratch that itch and the itch of want to see small movie about small people in small bar that be in small town . it be close enough to where i would say that it be a very good movie one that with a few tweak could have be great . but that ok. i like the movie and i have watch it more than once . but this review be not about tree lounge . it about lonesome jim . when i saw the description of the movie and then i saw who movie it be and i be excite at the prospect of finally see the movie that i know that tree lounge could have be . but what i actually experience be not unlike that of leave one of those smalltown bar with a belly full of cheap whiskey and an armful of cheap floozy and head back to your apartment with a mushy brain full of excite prospect that inevitably disintegrate into the reality of alcohol induce impotence and headspinning regurgitation . in other word and this movie leave me flat and unrequited and sorry that i waste the time and the money that it take me to get to that state the film equivalent of wake up next to that cheap floozy the next morning and or if you happen to be the floozy and wake up next to that stinking and farting and unshaven imbecile . the film have all of the substance of a stale white bread sandwich ( with store brand white bread and no less ) and the emotion of a cadaver . i be not sure what the point of this film be and and since it be suppose to have some sort of a point and be not an exercise in abstract surrealism that can get by without one then this lack of a point be a sin of omission . sorta like those new car that do not come with ashtray anymore although there be million of people who smoke and buy new car ( i be not one of them and but hey and i can sympathize ) . overall it be a boring film about bore people do boring thing and have none of the grit and believability that can carry and save such a film . i mean and tree lounge be about boring people do boring thing and but it be interest . i blame a lot of this on affleck . why do people keep cast these affleck turd . they suck the life out of anything that they be connect with . one affleck be in one decent film ( and wasn not even the reason why the film be decent ) and all of the sudden every butthole name affleck be stink up as many film a they possibly can . and liv tyler be no good . be the daughter of a rock star do not necessarily make an actress . she be as lifeless a affleck . these people simply do not rise from the flat page of the script . people pay to see film and they deserve to see actor and actress with a bit of charisma these two dud together do not have the spark of the old guy who hand out shopping cart at wal mart . i always think that steve buscemi be the type of guy who would rise above this type of pablum and but oh steve you let u down . this film make me want to stuff you into another wood chipper .