nah see that's a lil too Drunk Chelsea Queen
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
he seems too clean to be trade!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
doesn't stop him from sleeping with one of the men in HC!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
!!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
(or in real life, I've heard)
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
thread's made me read the movie title as a hello sailor joke
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
when i'm with homosexuals, i become a little homosexual, to make them feel at home, you know
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 February 2016 01:05 (eight years ago) link
ugh god that channing gif makes me feel a certain way not gonna lie
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
you ain't kiddin
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 February 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
<3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2016 05:40 (eight years ago) link
this is cool, the matte painting gag early in the movie really sold me. one of the best usages of Clancy Brown ever, and also the Coens are the first people to figure out the optimal way to deploy Fat Krumholtz
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 6 February 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Walter Chaw loves it. I'm even more pumped for this now than I was before.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Saturday, 6 February 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
Walter Chaw seems a bit over-excitable in that review., In his bubbly enthusiasm, he seems like a man who has been handed a Rorschach inkblot, in which he sees all manner of wonderous, marvelous, amazing things!
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 6 February 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
maybe i missed something, but this felt extremely slight. the padding was fun,but it was still padding, and the main narrative thrust was barely enough for a long TV episode. each subplot was given perhaps two scenes, and a couple of narrative threads were just kind of dropped.
slightness isn't actually that bad of a thing, so i might like it more a 2nd time out with diminished expectations.
there is one comic bit, between alden ehrenreich's singing cowboy star and ralph fienne's george cukor-like director, that made me laugh so hard my temples hurt.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:16 (eight years ago) link
channing tatum is great, but he basically gets two scenes, and a dozen lines at most. almost the same with scarlett johansson.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:18 (eight years ago) link
tatum has one wildly entertaining bit of graceful physical comedy in the 2nd of his major scenes. the man has quite a skill set.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:19 (eight years ago) link
"would that it were so simple"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:20 (eight years ago) link
mirthless chuckle
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 February 2016 12:31 (eight years ago) link
would that it were so simple the best scene for sure. the kid who played hobie was so great!
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 7 February 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
otm that scene was the only(?) redeemable thing? ugh this was a chore. felt v pasted together under like a day in the life of the brolin studio exec auspices
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 7 February 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
I liked this quite a bit, but it seemed severely edited - Jonah Hill and Frances McDormand each had one scene; Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, and Tilda Swinton all only had a couple. What was the matte painting gag in the beginning?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 February 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
yeah it felt a bit like a digest version of a more generous story.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2016 05:21 (eight years ago) link
yeah sorta mysteriously perfunctory in its construction; it felt especially strange when it would kind of linger & let a movie scene play out, like the mode the film was operating in wasn't really narrative, more collage. fiennes was such a delight though. it really did feel absent of the kind of investment that can be so rich in their work, like either in making vivid & real the excerpts - which happened a few times with the clooney/caesar scenes, but felt kind of generic in some others - or sort of drilling the characters into your head. brolin's muscular exec is so limp & unconcentrated next to say-the-admittedly-high-water-mark of the harried serious man protagonist.
― bloat laureate (schlump), Monday, 8 February 2016 06:34 (eight years ago) link
i really don't get the tepid critical reception, i thought this was WONDERFUL
― goole, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
you're tepid
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
my, ran out of All About Eve lines at last?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
not until the last ILX poster has stopped being a pill
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
i think the only contemporaneous Coen films are Burn After Reading, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, Raising Arizona, and Blood Simple, maybe. even Fargo takes place in the late '80s.
add their most popular movie to that list
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
deepest examination of the desires and ideas that drive people since, idk, miller's crossing
also the only movie i've ever seen where communists talk like communists
H4A otm, the dude who played hobie was terrific. and i never thought i'd see michael lambert turn up anywhere.
― goole, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
the communist plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense really; who knows what indoctrinating clooney was supposed to get them. i suppose the implication is that even with dr. marcuse advising them (lol) they haven't shaken off the ideology of the hierarchy of stardom?
― goole, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
an easy task when you're quoting Das Kapital
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, February 10, 2016 1:06 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the big lebowski takes place in 1991
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
i thought he meant No County For Old Men, which takes place in 1980
― nomar, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
True Grit was by far their most popular movie in terms of box office
strangely forgotten about now
― Number None, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
its p boring
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
'forgotten' in the sense that stoners never talk it to death?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
A Coen version of The Dog of the South coulda been a stoner classic. What might have been
― Number None, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
The Coens' True Grit was lovingly adapted from great material, had excellent casting, top notch performances, marvelous cinematography, set design, costumes - the whole package - and if it isn't a top ten western of all time (which is where I'd place it), then it is only barely outside the top ten.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
True Grit >>> Big Lebowski
ain't gonna watch it again to confirm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
this was just delightful. i can see how some of the narrative beats feel cursory or condensed, but it didn't really bother me.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
true grit was an excellent movie!
to be clear, i enjoyed "hail , caesar," it was just a little graceless by their standards, a little cobbled-together.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
Enjoyed this, but I think I might have liked it better if it was strictly about Brolin running around putting out fires without the Clooney arc to provide a 'narrative'.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
I would've enjoyed 95 mins of Tatum dancing and five minutes of sodomy b/w him and Fiennes.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
only 5 minutes?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
*mirthless chuckle*
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link
Huh, crazy, I also enjoy watching people have sex.... Anyone else?
― • (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
only if i'm one of em
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 February 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
the "reveal" of what happened off the set of on wings as eagles was such a predictable letdown! i guess that seems typical of the slight half-assedness of this film. just nothing terribly surprising.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:13 (eight years ago) link
damn
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link
I liked this, but found it a bit too busy. More than any other recent film, it reminded me of Inherent Vice, in that it gives us almost too much good stuff, to the point where the whole ends up feeling less impressive than the pieces. I wish it had found a way to mostly stick with Brolin's perspective throughout--where the chaos of the film would at least have been consistent with the character's experience--rather than to keep finding ways of shoehorning movie parodies and new characters into the narrative. I get why some were saying that it felt rushed and unfinished--a consequence, I think, of the Coens trying to fill it with so many different set pieces and cameos.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 04:55 (eight years ago) link