o'russell's ABSCAM movie AMERICAN HUSTLE

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

this guy woman doesn't like it.

Much prefer Kevin's takedown of Argo last year...

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/01/down_with_argo_ben_affleck_s_iran_hostage_movie_is_the_worst.html

Slate column is right about the twist, and the acting, but villifying Ordinary People is getting almost as boring as doing the same to Driving Miss Daisy (as much as I might agree they should've lost).

And Wolf is the worst nominee. (pending my likely never-watch of Captain Phillips)

Argo is no good either.

that slate column is too careful about reassuring us that it IS a good movie and she DID like it

Seriously, why didn't she just tear into one of the actually terrible films in the lineup?

I have no problem as long as she wrote the movie is bullshit tho.

So I saw this tonight, was really good if not classic or whatever

Also: Elizabeth Rohm? WTF

http://news.yahoo.com/abscam-con-man-american-hustle-wrong-jennifer-lawrence-024025307--abc-news-topstories.html

Weinberg also said his mistress was not involved in the operation, unlike in the movie. But as portrayed in the movie, Weinberg did marry her, and together they raised his adopted son who is now a policeman. He says they have since divorced, and she is peeved about the movie.

"She didn't like the way she was portrayed," he said.

i'm not surprised, lawrence played her like a walking cliche

Wasn't Lawrence the wife not the mistress?

hah heh oh yeah