o'russell's ABSCAM movie AMERICAN HUSTLE

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*SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

What does mansplain mean?

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.

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

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

and now i feel faintly ridiculous for even reacting like this

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.

Don't feel ridiculous, we should all feel ridiculous for giving a movie this slight so much attention or thought.

jennifer lawrence's hair was incredible, but that's about it

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

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.

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.

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

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

but guys they loved each other

The movie's worst scenes undoubtedly involve Bale getting on his knees in front of Renner.

gr80 i wanna see you in a perm, honeybunch

holding Bale in one arm and Renner in the other

watch out guys, the Doctor is loaded and he's aiming for bear

missed opportunity for winter gay thread title right there

Cant wait to hear the obama line on man-on-man splaining

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

s1ocki is highly otm in this thread

David Thomson reviews it.

Sturges comparison in the first sentence :|

I need him like the abscam needs the Turkey.

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.

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.

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.

its a film about several other films, so knowing about everything its doing

also, fake balding deniro>>>fake balding bale doing deniro

lol this was terrible.

well you've had a month of the ILE chorus singing in your ears too

it seems to be a pretty divided chorus, at least at first it was

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"

you are a horrible person

hahaha.

i was like what is this unknown billy squier song i'm hearing right now??

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.

i wouldn't call it a comedy

and i wouldn't exactly call what lawrence was doing "acting"

you sound like statler and waldorf, in the best way. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfx3QAV64M

What's the worst way?

there is none!

they should just have S&W host the oscars.

you know what my favorite part of the oscars is?

the end!

you got to the end without telling us the punchline!!