o'russell's ABSCAM movie AMERICAN HUSTLE

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!!

http://www.country933.com/files/statler-waldorf-boo1.jpg

christ this movie was made quickly! Silver Linings Playbook was only out in late 2012. he doesn't sit about i have to give him that.

amazed at this being called 'a black comedy' by some folk. i liked it plenty though.

finally saw this last night

Feel like this boils down to everyone shouts at everyone while doing their hair. Supporting actor: HAIR CURLERS
I liked how it looked, but it was like watching a bunch of really good actors all simultaneously going for it while the camera just rolls and rolls and rolls and hey fuckit we'll just edit a story into it who cares we look good right

It was fine but if this thing sweeps the Oscars I'm done.

Classic January-February response from audiences, mostly deserved ("Uhh...this thing is loved?").

done with liking bad movies? as if! :)

xp

haha no smartypants done with awards bullshit

then again I say that every year and still get snookered

you can proceed as long as u know it's all bullshit to the core

like Obama

now see that's generous of you

lol <3

I was so bored by this I had to leave with 50 minutes to go. Only done that once before. I'm not proud but it felt right.

I felt kinda bored after 20 minutes and all I could think was "jfc I have two more hours of this?"

and yet, "it was fine" (throws up hands and puts on a Harold Lloyd film)

what did you eat that you're throwing up hands

a hand sandwich

this guy doesn't like it.

pretty sure that's a woman