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  Review by Steve P ★★★

  Chronological Keaton

  "Since you've broken off our engagement, I've decided not to marry you" - opening intertitle.

  The Love Nest sees a broken hearted Keaton, try to forget his woes by sailing off in the Cupid, a small boat. Not long into his round the world journey he runs into the whaling ship Love Nest. On board the whaling ship's Captain (Joe Roberts) throws anyone overboard whom falls on his bad side. Instead of a life belt a wreath is tossed to the drowning sailor. The understated intertitle simply states "The captain is rather irritable".

  Keaton is made the Captain's steward and spends most of the short trying to avoid being thrown into the ocean himself. The comedy is mostly…

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  Review by Matt J. ★★★

  Buster, having recently been the victim of a broken heart, decides to embark on a trek around the world in order to forget his ex-sweetheart. He boards his small boat, the aptly-named "Cupid," and begins his journey.

  While out to sea, he comes upon a large whaling ship, which is helmed by a gruff short-tempered sailor. He decides to join the crew, and minor wackiness ensues. Besides contending with the always-cranky captain, the ship encounters a whale, some pirates, and even experiences a mutiny attempt. The only thing that's missing is some swashbuckling.

  This is a lesser Keaton short, to be sure, and it lacks much of the wonderful stunt work that would define Keaton's style. Still, I'm glad it didn't turn into a sappy romance story.

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  Review by 🐱Andrew Chrzanowski🐱 ★★★½ 2

  ☆"The story of a man who lost his interest in women and everything else."☆

  Oh, it's my autobiography! Predicted 60 years before I was born.

  It's Buster Keaton's final two-reeler before he moved on to his string of successful and lauded feature-length works, The Love Nest has its very funny moments and an overall arc of sweetness that makes for an enjoyable 20 minutes, but it already felt like he was saving his best gags and stunts for the upcoming bigger movies of the mid-1920s.

  Setting sail on the Cupid after his love cancelled their engagement, Buster is running away from it all. Several days later he encounters the whaling ship The Love Nest in the open ocean, led by…

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  Review by 8BeanSoup ★★★

  Keaton is rejected by his girl in The Love Nest so he decides to sail around the world. After running into difficulties, he encounters a whaling vessel helmed by a tyrannical captain. He joins the crew and is soon terrorized along with the rest of the sailors.

  The Love Nest is a strange title for this short because there is no love and no nest. It's really a short that has a lot more to do with the open sea.

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  Review by Karelle ★★½

  Je l'ai regardé principalement à cause de l'homonymie du titre avec celui du film que j'ai vu juste avant, Love Nest de Joseph Newman avec Marilyn Monroe, qui m'amusait beaucoup. Mais somme toute, c'était très sympathique comme p'tit film; Buster Keaton avait une belle mèche rebelle dans son front presque tout le long et je sais pas pourquoi, mais j'ai trouvé ça pas mal émouvant.

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  Review by Owen ★★★ 2

  Film School Drop Outs Weekly challenge: Week 2
  Genre - Comedy - Silent Comedy Icons

  Buster swears off women, takes to sea in a tiny boat and ends up on a whaler named the Love Nest. Once there he constantly earns the ire of Big Joe Roberts and resigns himself to being thrown over board.

  Rather a disconnected set of situations that aren't really satisfyingly turned into anything greater than the sum of their parts. Those parts are funny, I liked the wreaths, ladder and the rope gags, I liked Buster playing against Roberts. i even liked the stock footage but it's not one that I'm likely to return to and it doesn't ever really take that step into magic.

  The youtube stream of it that I saw might be partially responsible as it loses a fair amount of detail but I'm not really sure how they would weld this one together.

  letterboxd.com/owene73/list/watched-for-the-film-school-drop-outs-weekly/

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  Review by Krautsalat ★★★½

  Men, I am now your captain. I will raise your pay and get you an insurance policy!

  Keaton's final silent short isn't one of his masterpieces, but it has a couple of good twists.

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  Review by covkate ★★

  It's a little bit too tame to be much fun and there's a lack of good stunts. Nice enough way to pass the time but nothing special.

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  Review by Wilson ★★★

  I have to admit I didn't expect this Buster Keaton short film, called The Love Nest, to end up with Buster at sea, in boat-based shenanigans. Keaton quite often liked going to sea, and usually it worked. Here, a little bit less so, though The Love Nest remains a fun 23 minutes.

  I have now seen all of Buster Keaton's short films, as released by Masters of Cinema on bluray. A good time was had by all (i.e. me).

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  Review by troygevaras ★★★★★

  And with that I complete my Keaton short film blu-ray set, and what a great way to end it. As a whole many of these shorts were good, most were great, but all were entertaining. It’s amazing how well their creativity and humor holds up, as many of the shorts are or will soon be 100 years old. The stunt work is also incredible too. It’s also amazing how clear they were able to make some of these shorts that are of this age. As for this short, it was a great time. It had a very fun premise. Very interesting that most of the short is tinted either yellow or blue to represent the time of  day. For some odd…

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  Review by mollie ★★½

  king of physical comedy i think

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  Review by sly3 ★★★

  favorite bit: Using his tears to moisten a goodbye letter to his ex-fiancee.