One best things about the internet is finding films I had no idea existed. I’ve got Frankenhooker on blu ray but have yet to watch it. Tbh I was sort of hoping it might get a cinema release to due Poor Things.
Yeah, I get all that. I guess ultimately the movie isn't for me, cause that sort of plot doesn't much appeal to me overall. I mean, I can see the greatness of it, I can recognize what it's doing, and I really like it up to the final minutes - and then I'm just disappointed that it ends the way it does, while acknowledging it probably couldn't end differently.I’m glad you watched it a second time round and enjoyed it more but I agree with pretty much everything CoopersDream has said here. It’s a rare 10/10 movie for me - and a pretty perfect adaption of the book (not saying it’s a faithful adaption but a perfect adaptation from book to screen).
What you have to remember with this movie is that our protagonist is Tommy Lee Jones’ character, so the bleakness and emptiness of the situation comes from his framing of the story. He’s not saving the day and killing the bad guy. He’s retiring because he doesn’t understand the world and society he’s been a sheriff for all of this time. In fact he’s fearful of this world now and he doesn’t recognise it (that scene where he enters the motel room and he imagines Javier Bardem hiding behind a cupboard with a gun for example). The other element to consider is the lack of control from all three central characters - no one gets what they want in the end. Bardem doesn’t kill Brolin or recover the cash, Lee Jones doesn’t save Brolin, and Brolin doesn’t survive. Bardem tries to force his own warped form of order and control on the world but even he is left walking into the sunset half broken due to a car crash which happens out of the blue.
Anywho, can I recommend you read Blood Meridian next @Cheimoonit’s the same author as No Country for Old Men.
Fair dos, but don’t forget my book recommendation!Yeah, I get all that. I guess ultimately the movie isn't for me, cause that sort of plot doesn't much appeal to me overall. I mean, I can see the greatness of it, I can recognize what it's doing, and I really like it up to the final minutes - and then I'm just disappointed that it ends the way it does, while acknowledging it probably couldn't end differently.
It's like fusion (jazz-rock): I love the sound and feel, but ultimately I want my music to be bit more song-focused. I'm a simple guy that way.
I love the first and went in with low expectations due to the reviews so maybe that plays a part - but I’d say it’s at least on a par with after life.
you guys have no idea how simultaenously powerful and thin-skinned one country can get
I like Dev but this sounds like a pile of poop.
The Ghostbusters people should make the original pitch for the first film, which was supposed to be a straight, scary, story of the occult and demons arriving on earth, with a small band of occult experts tasked with stopping them. Think of a bloody, R-rated Ghostbusters. I’d see it. I have zero desire to see another version of the slapstick goofy shit VFX ghosts with new people wearing the uniforms and SHOUTING through the whole film, whether that’s an all-women team, cameos from the original team, or a bunch of shitty kid actors out in farmland.
Epitome of meh
Sounds like a better title for the film
Yeah I managed to get through it. The performances are great and it’s well shot but I expected much more given all the acclaim it got. A rather meh experience, as you say. 2 1/2 hours was way too long, too.
I’ll give it a watch as I’m alway interested in o
Yeah the hyperbole is insane. Tbf to Peel he does know this as I remember him telling fans comparing him to John Carpenter to shut up. But still I agree he is very lucky. Speaks to lack of original Hollywood film makers. Also as producer he has backed a lot of crap.
Seeing the hate for Peele in here makes me sad
His directed movies are fine imo but overly massively praised.Seeing the hate for Peele in here makes me sad
Didn't know about that last part. As for the bolded... Not exactly his fault and does it really matter?
I had no idea until I saw a tweet replying to the new Monkey Man trailer. The letter was over a year ago and then he signed a ceasefire afterwards. Just bizarre and opportunist. Still god awful politics doesn’t mean the guy is a terrible dictator. Although tbh seeing the indifference from a lot directors while not surprising is still depressing. So far away from what Jean-Luc Godard called solidarity cinema.
Definitely isn’t his fault and he knows the hype around him is over the top. In the end it doesn’t really matter as it’s just movies and if Peele wasn’t popular something else(and potentially worse) would get made instead.
God is merciful.
That's up there with No Time To Die's worldwide gross of $774,153,007.
Yeah, it's unfortunate. I agree that Get Out is a little too on the nose, but there's no way it's a bad film. And I haven't seen Us, but I thought Nope was really very good, even if I can understand why it isn't for everyone. I don't know where that classifies Peele (three films anyway isn't a large body of work), but you just can't say he's a poor film maker.Seeing the hate for Peele in here makes me sad
I enjoyed that quite a bit, but my lasting thought was mostly that I didn't know what it was that I watched. Interesting film nonetheless.
Yep same. I got a vague handle of some the themes but overall I’m going to have to dig deeper.
He dwells in the grey expanse between GOAT and poor.
At least he's not alone there.
