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What was the deal with the ending? I dont remember my beef exactly, but I found it ambiguous (in a bad way) and frustrating. That was probably my biggest complaint with the movie. I knew about the great visuals but I thought it was better than I expected. Still only like a 2.5/5 or so though.
), and the convincing antagonist made it better than average for me...3.3/5
I think it's worth a single viewing. I am a Snyder fanboy, but I'll agree this movie has many flaws. There are at least three or four major scenes worth seeing.
Still a movie worth a viewing, but the problem with a movie like this and rating them becomes what sticks with me is the last part I was watching, and that definitely took the movie down a notch. Just the type of stock movie that the Academy drools over.'KarmaPolice said:
Completely agree.
Just watched this recently. Thought it was weird how they focused on how alcohol can ruin a life, but made cocaine out to be like this wonder hangover cure. Even to the point of portraying the coke dealer as a loveble, funny guy. Strange.Flight.Agree with most of the criticism this one has gotten but still found it very entertaining. Thought Denzel was superb and his performance warranted the acclaim it has received. Overall I think it was a swing and a miss but I respect the attempt. A few changes and this one could have been great.A continuous miscue was the selection of songs. Just one played out song after another. "Under the Bridge" for the heroin scene? Come on.5/10. Worth checking out especially for Nadine Velazquez's opening scene.
Just watched this recently. Thought it was weird how they focused on how alcohol can ruin a life, but made cocaine out to be like this wonder hangover cure. Even to the point of portraying the coke dealer as a loveble, funny guy. Strange.Flight.Agree with most of the criticism this one has gotten but still found it very entertaining. Thought Denzel was superb and his performance warranted the acclaim it has received. Overall I think it was a swing and a miss but I respect the attempt. A few changes and this one could have been great.A continuous miscue was the selection of songs. Just one played out song after another. "Under the Bridge" for the heroin scene? Come on.5/10. Worth checking out especially for Nadine Velazquez's opening scene.
Alcohol didn't ruin his life - being an alcoholic did. Cocaine isn't magic but it's a damn powerful drug.Just watched this recently. Thought it was weird how they focused on how alcohol can ruin a life, but made cocaine out to be like this wonder hangover cure. Even to the point of portraying the coke dealer as a loveble, funny guy. Strange.Flight.Agree with most of the criticism this one has gotten but still found it very entertaining. Thought Denzel was superb and his performance warranted the acclaim it has received. Overall I think it was a swing and a miss but I respect the attempt. A few changes and this one could have been great.A continuous miscue was the selection of songs. Just one played out song after another. "Under the Bridge" for the heroin scene? Come on.5/10. Worth checking out especially for Nadine Velazquez's opening scene.
Huh. Thought it was about as obvious as possible. Not sure how people could struggle with it.
Same
Refuse to watch after Aniston chickened out of the nude scene.
The movie is kinda dumb, but I must say it had some funny moments.
Does it have Jennifer Aniston's exposed boobs?
Nope. Sorry.
Then I ain't watching.
It's blurred out.
Had to have been purposeful schtick to have the people with the worst bodies be the most naked.
Noticed this on instant watch last night, and since aliens/abduction were brought up last week and it was late and it typically takes me 20-30 minutes to decide what mediocre movie to watch on there, I just dove in. I definitely was avoiding this because it looked awful, and wish I stuck with that decision. The bolded really annoyed me, and I kept hoping they would quit with it. That intro was awful, I should have turned it off right then. WTF was the deal with the owl's anyway?! Maybe I dont fear alien abduction because if aliens did arrive, I think they'd kill me instead of abduct me, but I didnt find this scary at all, more laughable. The "real" Milla in this came off as crazy and more like a leader of a cult than a psychiatrist so that didnt help the believability either, and created a further gap since those characters seemed so disparate. Seeing Milla for 90 minutes was about the only redeeming quality...0.5/5Silver lining in this though is once I finished it recommended Fire In The Sky to me. I swear I looked for this a week ago when it was mentioned and it was NOT on instant watch, but now it is, yet its only available/gets removed from instant watch March 1st. Netflix is really frustrating sometimes
thought this would be good going in but it fell short for me. Aubrey Plaza is hot though.
Cool!
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The Counselor, Gravity, Foxcatcher, Wolf of Wall Street all sound very good.The rest, not so much, even including most of the other possibilities listed at the bottom. The Coens one doesnt only sound boring it also looks boring but I'll of course see it anyway. I havent seen the 2 previous Before's though but I know theyre supposed to be good.'Good said:
Really? I think they all sound at the very least interesting, if not really good. Though I agree, the only one that doesn't intrigue me at all is the Coen's one; the trailer for that looks really dumb.
Life story of whoever wrote Mary Poppins doesnt sound interesting at all unless there's something in her life that would make it so. The Alexander Payne one will in all likelihood be good (Really like all of his that Ive seen, though havent seen Descendents) but black and white is sort of a turn off for me, and I cant picture Will Forte as the star in his movie unless its a slapstick comedy.
Couldn't disagree more. It is not the best PTA movie, but anything he puts out is better than 90% of movies out there. The acting was great, tons of fantastic shots, and just overall a beautiful looking movie. Not as focused as a couple of his other films, but it has all of his usual obsessions in his movies - father/son dynamics, sex, power, rage, etc, etc. I thought it was one of the best movies of the year and 2 days after I watched it I am still thinking about it. 8/10
It's about Scientology, right?
not really. Hoffman plays a leader starting up a Scientology-like religion. The movie is more about Phoenix's arc and has little to do with the religion itself.
That makes me more interested in seeing it then. As Daywalker mentioned, I was sort of avoiding this one because of the Scientology aspect although Im sure I wouldve watched it eventually regardless.
Very excited about Before Midnight.'Good said:
I'd probably give it a 9/10 myself, probably my 2nd favourite PTA film after Punch-Drunk Love. Though I can see why others would dislike it, as the film doesn't really go anywhere; there's no real climax or anything, just a measured pace from start to finish. And although the film isn't directly Scientology, there's enough allusions there from the script to the casting choices such that I wouldn't say it's not about Scientology. Though I agree with Daywalker in that I don't get how Amy Adams was nominated for that performance; she didn't have much of a presence, and I thought that was the entire point of the character, definitely felt miscast to me. Though I thought a lot of the supporting actor/actress nominations were undeserved this year.
Since when are films historically accurate?And I'd say the 2 minutes at the beginning put the anti-American hostility in the proper context.'Cliff Clavin said:
4/5
