leftbanker-1
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Half-way through this and really enjoying it. Infinitely better than that horrible PTA movie with Leo which was a stinking pile and will probably win the Oscar. I really wanted to keep watching it but I needed to get to the gym, then I kept watching between other tasks before I could head out. I couldn't stop watching.
Sweet and absolutely joyous at times but never maudlin, one of the worst things a drama like this can be. How do you take issues that anyone who reaches a certain age is forced to deal with without making them clichés? Think about it. That's hard to do.
Carter, his daughter's psychologist? Screw that guy. He has a degree in psychology, so what. As we used to call that subject, a pud class, meaning an easy A.
The purse snatching thing was kinda dumb from a writer's perspective and could have been brilliant. He had to run way too far, the thief was an odd choice (A Dutch cyclist?), and the resolution wasn't very satisfying.
Sweet and absolutely joyous at times but never maudlin, one of the worst things a drama like this can be. How do you take issues that anyone who reaches a certain age is forced to deal with without making them clichés? Think about it. That's hard to do.
Carter, his daughter's psychologist? Screw that guy. He has a degree in psychology, so what. As we used to call that subject, a pud class, meaning an easy A.
The purse snatching thing was kinda dumb from a writer's perspective and could have been brilliant. He had to run way too far, the thief was an odd choice (A Dutch cyclist?), and the resolution wasn't very satisfying.
This would make a wonderful play.
Mesmerizing dialogue throughout, and on different intellectual levels depending on who is on the receiving end of Larry Hart's rants. It's clever as hell and if you don't agree, please direct me to a modern film that comes close to this.
I just finished reading a novel (Initmacies by Katie Katamura) in which a man's wife left him, taking the kids along with her, and she communicated horror this via an email. Brutal. At least Rodgers said his goodbye with a musical.
I wish that I'd had the opportunity to see this at the cinema. If I'm lucky, it'll make it here someday, dubbed into Spanish. Watching it at home took absolutely forever as I searched out every song on the soundtrack to refresh my memory of the lyrics, not only the Rodger & Hart & Hammerstein numbers, but those by Gershwin, Kern, Berlin, and on and on.
I couldn't help but be reminded constantly of the Monty Python skit--I think it was Scott of the Antarctic--where one of the actors had to stand in a hole in the ground to make him shorter than the other, as Ethan Hawke looked so puny in this.
Man, music really went to the dogs. In over seventy years of rock and roll, how many songs are there that some young piano student would feel motivated to learn? Probably fewer than one show by Rodgers & Hart.
Mesmerizing dialogue throughout, and on different intellectual levels depending on who is on the receiving end of Larry Hart's rants. It's clever as hell and if you don't agree, please direct me to a modern film that comes close to this.
I just finished reading a novel (Initmacies by Katie Katamura) in which a man's wife left him, taking the kids along with her, and she communicated horror this via an email. Brutal. At least Rodgers said his goodbye with a musical.
I wish that I'd had the opportunity to see this at the cinema. If I'm lucky, it'll make it here someday, dubbed into Spanish. Watching it at home took absolutely forever as I searched out every song on the soundtrack to refresh my memory of the lyrics, not only the Rodger & Hart & Hammerstein numbers, but those by Gershwin, Kern, Berlin, and on and on.
I couldn't help but be reminded constantly of the Monty Python skit--I think it was Scott of the Antarctic--where one of the actors had to stand in a hole in the ground to make him shorter than the other, as Ethan Hawke looked so puny in this.
Man, music really went to the dogs. In over seventy years of rock and roll, how many songs are there that some young piano student would feel motivated to learn? Probably fewer than one show by Rodgers & Hart.
Once again, let's start before the movie even starts. 2h 41m? The director obviously never met an edit he could tolerate, as evidenced in his work:
Licorice Pizza 2h13m There Will Be Blood 2h38m Boogie Nights 2h35m Magnolia 3h8m Yikes!
Beyond the interminable length of his films, for me, he's like The Emperor's New Clothes and everyone's afraid to say his stories don't make any sense because they're afraid people will think they are stupid. The more you think about his stories, the more your head will hurt. They are all stupid and make little sense.
Sean Penn is a WAY too old for the part, not at any part of the story. He's in his 60s and looks older, like WAY older. Too many cigarettes, Mr. Penn. Nevermind, this is the least stupid thing in this movie, but it is dumb.
French 75? Huh? Waiting for an explanation of this stupid name.
"Revolutionary violence is the only way. No more telling me to vote." Ugh, we're in this mess precisely because people DON'T vote. 59.6% of Black citizen voting-age individuals reported casting a ballot, and only 65.3 % of the U. S. citizen voting-age population voted in the 2024 presidential election.
The music is absolutely always inappropriate, too loud, annoying, incongruent, or all of those in every scene. Never have I found the music to be so off-putting in a film. Th music should put you into the movie, not take you out of it while you consider why it's distracting you.
Hugely pregnant Perfidia shooting a huge machine gun equals deaf and probably brain-dead baby.
Benicio del Toro said in an interview that he signed up immediately, not needing to even read the script. I think he needs to read the script.
Speaking of writing, the guy can't write dialogue, at least nothing that anyone could ever remember, or care to remember. I defy anyone to recite a good piece of dialogue from this incomprehensible mess.
One critic stated, "I could go on for days about how brilliantly this film is written." I'd like to hear them go one for just a minute on this, cite one bit of good, memorable dialogue. Please. I'll wait.
Why is this director so popular?
Licorice Pizza 2h13m There Will Be Blood 2h38m Boogie Nights 2h35m Magnolia 3h8m Yikes!
Beyond the interminable length of his films, for me, he's like The Emperor's New Clothes and everyone's afraid to say his stories don't make any sense because they're afraid people will think they are stupid. The more you think about his stories, the more your head will hurt. They are all stupid and make little sense.
Sean Penn is a WAY too old for the part, not at any part of the story. He's in his 60s and looks older, like WAY older. Too many cigarettes, Mr. Penn. Nevermind, this is the least stupid thing in this movie, but it is dumb.
French 75? Huh? Waiting for an explanation of this stupid name.
"Revolutionary violence is the only way. No more telling me to vote." Ugh, we're in this mess precisely because people DON'T vote. 59.6% of Black citizen voting-age individuals reported casting a ballot, and only 65.3 % of the U. S. citizen voting-age population voted in the 2024 presidential election.
The music is absolutely always inappropriate, too loud, annoying, incongruent, or all of those in every scene. Never have I found the music to be so off-putting in a film. Th music should put you into the movie, not take you out of it while you consider why it's distracting you.
Hugely pregnant Perfidia shooting a huge machine gun equals deaf and probably brain-dead baby.
Benicio del Toro said in an interview that he signed up immediately, not needing to even read the script. I think he needs to read the script.
Speaking of writing, the guy can't write dialogue, at least nothing that anyone could ever remember, or care to remember. I defy anyone to recite a good piece of dialogue from this incomprehensible mess.
One critic stated, "I could go on for days about how brilliantly this film is written." I'd like to hear them go one for just a minute on this, cite one bit of good, memorable dialogue. Please. I'll wait.
Why is this director so popular?
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