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I felt the same. I still liked the film well enough, but it certainly didn't meet my expectations. Every scene filmed with the high school kids was really bad.
and i get that. here's the thing though: i *really* like "lost in translation" and "marie antoinette". i didn't much like "virgin suicides" but then i kind of cherished the book. i have not seen that flick she did with stephen dorf - why would anyone want to really? - but felt like this could have been a terrific film. it could have used something to punch it up. i think she is a very astute observer, especially of disaffection and ennui among the younger set. i was interested in her insight into how today's pop culture creates this "bling ring" because of her background. this, however, fell flat as a caper and as a satire. i wanted it to be different than it was.
she has a way with portraying the zetigeist of a particular entitled sub-set of her generation... but I still don't give a ####.
I had the opposite experience with Carruth's 2 movies, mostly due to my expectations I guess. In Primer I wasn't prepared for a plot that challenges the viewer so much, so I had a real hard time following along, though I still enjoyed the ride even though I was pretty clueless. For Upstream Color I assumed a similar challenging plot so I was way more mentally active in my viewing and I was able to make some decent sense of it, I think..
Worth watching just for the early scene where she undresses and gets into the shower. I rubbed one out to that scene
I didnt realize he directed that. Really, the only reason to watch Bronson is for Tom Hardy's performance. Like you said, it really has nothing else going on for its entirety.
I ended up really liking this one. I was sort of avoiding it I guess because of what you mentioned with target audience, but I thought the concept was intriguing and the writing was really good. Its really almost all just the 1 guy's thoughts the entire movie, yet remained interesting the whole time, for me at least. I even sort of got a Romeo & Juliet vibe from it, not sure if they were going for that or not. Maybe Im just a sucker for zombie movies, but I really liked this one.
So is that still actually happening? Based on what I saw from Cohen in Hugo, Im fairly convinced he could do great things with this role.
I had fun with it. It is definitely over the top on the 50's style and schtick but if you view it as a comic book gangster movie I think it works. Almost all of the characters from Brolin to Gosling to Mackie to Robert Patrick are over the top, and Sean Penn is so over the top its a joke, but I enjoyed Gangster Squad. You'll never confuse it with LA Confidential, but I thought it was entertaining.
I saw this recently and it was better than I expected. It wasn't confusing or boring at all.The artwork in it was excellent and it had a better cast than I knew with Hanks, Broadbent, Berry, Weaving, Sarandon, Sturgess, etc.). I do agree that the language every so often was hard to understand.
Pretty sure that's gonna be the best film ever made.
One of the most insultingly bad films ever.
Who cares if it is insulting? I enjoyed it for what it was, mindless entertainment. Not one damn thing in that movie was within the scope of reality, but sometimes that is ok. Lighten up on the snobbery a bit.
Jeez. Lighten up in general. Did you produce the movie or something?
Just find it interesting that you didn't disagree with it being insultingly stupid.
Agree 100%. Telegraphed the whole way. For me grumpy Clint in front of the camera has lost his appeal as well.jamny said:
A fair point that I didn't consider while watching the movie and might require a rewatch - I read/head somebody say, and it makes perfect sense, that the director purposely shot it like that to reflect the mood of Cooper throughout the movie. It turned into a rom/com after he started to balance out. Don't think that will help my annoyance with DeNiro and the parlay, but will watch it again with a different eye.
I saw it in theaters with my mom who is a psychiatrist and she thought Cooper and Lawrence were spot on.
Wanted to see this one - is it still in theaters?
I watched parts of it over the weekend. Absolutely terrible. I can't stand movies where the characters behave neither rationally nor interestingly, and this is one of those. Some cute girls in swimsuits for the entire movie - perhaps the only redeeming quality.
If you only watched parts, then you have absolutely no frame of reference for what is going on. It is heady, and difficult at best to grasp even if you watch the whole thing. I can't imagine trying to piece together what's happening while only seeing parts.
Fair enough. Just my impression...it never drew me in enough for me to focus on it. I even enjoyed Burt Wonderston more....and that was pretty brutal as well.
I love mindless entertainment as much as anyone (I love the fact that The Core seems to be permanently running on cable) but that doesn't mean I have to enjoy a hopelessly bad film. I tried to enjoy Battleship, I really did, but it is so horrifically awful that I can't find even one redeeming quality. One of the worst films of the last decade. Jon Carter was more entertaining.
Spring breakers. I watched the beginning bit of Upstream Color as well - it looks pretty interesting and will definitely watch the whole thing at some point.
Upstream is on Netflix streaming. I hope to watch it this week. Kinda geeked for it.
