yeah he's gross. funnygross.
― horseshoe, Friday, 10 January 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
Cooper does ok by those guys tho. Its because his smile is v v pretty or so im informed
― lj. 'hoover' egads (darraghmac), Friday, 10 January 2014 01:32 (ten years ago) link
i could not figure what this movie's opinion was of his character... when he gets his big comeuppance i was like... oh... he was the... bad guy??
He isn't the bad guy. He's just a guy who's not that bright and in way over his head and is obviously going to end up being the loser in all of this.
I thought Cooper was great in this. Just the way he expressed his glee every time the mafia was mentioned made me laugh every time.
― silverfish, Friday, 10 January 2014 06:00 (ten years ago) link
Cooper just plays a loser ruining things for everyone. He crashes the Bale/Adams party, and the rest of the movie is an elaborate way for them to extricate themselves from his mess. It's not that complicated.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
i dunno i think i'm still confused, can you mansplain it a little more for me?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Maybe she was extricating herself from a mess in the stall.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
I read the scream as an exasperated "fuuuuuck this long con is killing me i don't think i can keep this up"
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
http://chrishannamtl.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/american-hustle-bradley-cooper.jpg%3Fw%3D960
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
*SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link
What does mansplain mean?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 January 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
Oh, wait, is it because I responded with some sort of absolutely certainty? Then OK, sorry about that, but like I said, I didn't think this movie was that complicated, and we are writing in a thread where people didn't realize a major character was pretending to be British.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 January 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
i saw this movie with my parents and learned that my dad briefly considered curling/perming his hair in the late 70's but never pulled the trigger
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
josh you nitwit it's because slock1 and i, and maybe others, thought this movie rushed through its resolution so quickly we got tonal whiplash and not enough time to satisfyingly register to the big changes going on; rather than address that you mansplained the plot to us and said it "wasn't complicated", which was never at issue
btw the "people" that "didn't realize a major character was pretending to be british" was me, and if you'd paid the slightest attention to what i wrote you'd see that i realized it perfectly well but thought amy adams executed it so perfunctorily that it was quite easy to forget she was even doing it at all, rendering the big "reveal" scene faintly ridiculous
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
and now i feel faintly ridiculous for even reacting like this
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
i did enjoy cooper in this. he's really in control of his douchey instrument. he was a great asshole in 'place beyond the pines' too.
― slam dunk, Friday, 10 January 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Don't feel ridiculous, we should all feel ridiculous for giving a movie this slight so much attention or thought.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 January 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
jennifer lawrence's hair was incredible, but that's about it
― homosexual II, Friday, 10 January 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
i noticed an occasional light dusting of britishness that alighted on what she said, as if she had emigrated as a teenager, but it was barely noticeable and mainly came across to me as one of those "mid-atlantic" accents that american movie stars affected until the 1960s, certainly nothing worthy of provoking the WTF?? moment that the movie apparently thinks it has set up
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, January 9, 2014 4:56 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha yes she sounded like cary grant
― caek, Friday, 10 January 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
Tracer Hand it did seem as if you had interpreted the accent reveal scene to be a surprise to the audience as well as Bradley initially.
― Evan, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
Agreed with a lot of criticism from this thread, but I find it very easy to ignore the many flaws, ride along and have a lot of fun. Many films disappointed me this year, I just didn't feel like fighting with this one.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
in the same way i wasnt sure why i was supposed to be happy for christian bale and amy adams to have such a triumphant happy ending considering they were pretty scummy characters
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
its not like i object to "scummy characters" but this movie all of the sudden frames them in a very traditional bad guy vs good guy way that just feels totally fraudulent
especially since she and that carpet called C-Bale have no sexual chemistry
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
but guys they loved each other
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
The movie's worst scenes undoubtedly involve Bale getting on his knees in front of Renner.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
gr80 i wanna see you in a perm, honeybunch
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
holding Bale in one arm and Renner in the other
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
watch out guys, the Doctor is loaded and he's aiming for bear
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
missed opportunity for winter gay thread title right there
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Cant wait to hear the obama line on man-on-man splaining
― lj. 'hoover' egads (darraghmac), Friday, 10 January 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
the accent thing caught me a little off-guard too, I noticed her character going in and out of the accent a lot but hadn't realized that she didn't reveal herself to Cooper yet b/c I wasn't sure why she wouldn't. I disagree that she sounded the same with and without the accent though, the distinction seemed pretty clear to me, but the plot moved so fast that I didn't really think about why she was keeping it up when it was just the 3 of them
― frogbs, Saturday, 11 January 2014 05:41 (ten years ago) link
s1ocki is highly otm in this thread
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 11 January 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
David Thomson reviews it.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 January 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Sturges comparison in the first sentence :|
― Number None, Saturday, 11 January 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
I need him like the abscam needs the Turkey.
― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 January 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
not read this thread but i saw this today and maybe i was in a shitty mood, or the film is just a bit shitty, but took me a long time to stop thinking that this just seemed far too much like several other (and better) movies. what was the point of this? everyone seemed like they were acting like the actors in those other films or had really modelled themselves on previous movie characters rather than people IRL (i.e. it never felt very believable for some reason). so while i think everyone did 'a great job' in their role, i never gave a shit. nice little twist towards the end, but i would rather have watched a film about jeremy renners character than these boring con-artists (or maybe i am just tired of films about assholes). expected this film to be more deliriously enjoyable a la goodfellas rather than a very studied version of it.
― StillAdvance, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
also the use of music was quite uninspired - cant argue that any of the songs were less than great but it seemed unimaginative to just use i feel love or bowie again. seemed like the music supervisor just knew the most famous/important songs of the period rather than the songs that someone with a deeper knowledge would have used. i feel love seemed too hip or something.
― StillAdvance, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
it's a funny case where the acclaim seems insane since there's just decades of smarter, funnier, better paced, better made films about the seventies and snookering etc etc, but its not like a movie where a bunch of decent actors get to act in a lightweight caper is the worst thing in the world. it's just so relatively negligible and slack. but then from my pov boogie nights mostly just a'ight, already too much of a "hooray for funny haircuts" 70s-hits-montage for me to get too excited, and i never liked casino.
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
its a film about several other films, so knowing about everything its doing
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 12 January 2014 10:43 (ten years ago) link
also, fake balding deniro>>>fake balding bale doing deniro
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 12 January 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
lol this was terrible.
― goole, Sunday, 12 January 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
well you've had a month of the ILE chorus singing in your ears too
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 January 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
it seems to be a pretty divided chorus, at least at first it was
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 January 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
btw i did indeed fish my phone out at one point, unlock it, open the notepad application, and write "long black road - from american hustle"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
you are a horrible person
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
hahaha.
i was like what is this unknown billy squier song i'm hearing right now??
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
or golden earring, actually, is the first band i thought it was
Golden Globes (Hollywood foreign press) like the movie anyway--
"best film comedy" plus acting awards for Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 January 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
i wouldn't call it a comedy
and i wouldn't exactly call what lawrence was doing "acting"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
you sound like statler and waldorf, in the best way. :)
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link