Jesse Eisenberg, C or D?

Probably already said this upthread but imo the most loathsome & repellent actor working today, tied with Oscar Isaac. It's funny though, the first performances I saw by both of them (Squid and the Whale, Inside Llewyn Davis) were fantastic. Maybe those roles just suited the qualities that bug me now - Eisenberg's creepy/pedantic/neurotic nerd thing, and Isaac's utter lack of charisma.

Not quite as awful as Michael Cera.

I thought everyone liked Oscar Isaac, can't make sense of the hate there.

yeah, yr bananas fb

Eisenberg is fine w/in his range, when the character isn't too annoying (eg Zuckerberg)

His New Yorker comedy bits are pretty funny, iirc.

perhaps he's a golem under construction by Woody Allen

Does flappy bird have any correct opinions

(Oscar Isaac is great)

He's good in "Night Moves"

Yes, a much better sinister slant on that thing he does than the Snyder monstrosity (I'd imagine - never gonna watch it)

I gotta check out Night Moves, I absolutely loved Certain Women and feel like I need to see everything by Kelly Reichardt now (including Meek's Cutoff, which I hated at the time).

I just feel like Eisenberg has a really limited range, and whenever he ventures out of that, he seems way out of his depth (awful movie, but American Ultra is a good example of this). He's great when he's playing envious cretins like Lipsky in the DFW movie though. I don't find him as repellent as Isaac - I just couldn't stand him in A Most Violent Year (bad Corleone cosplay) and Ex Machina (asshole asshole asshole). I keep an open mind though because I loved Llewyn Davis.

re: Oscar Isaac, maybe try Show Me a Hero if yr not too sick of David Simon?

Word, I'll check that out, haven't kept up with him post-Wire but I love David Simon...

So you didnt think he did a good enough job playing an asshole in ex machina?

Or played it so well you were convinced that he must be an asshole in real life too.

The thing I liked about him in Llewyn Davis was that he was constantly failing and being shitted on by the universe. In all these other movies, he's an asshole and in more of a position of power, even though he ends up dead in Ex Machina. every time i see him i'm just like "this prick."

now you see me is on its actually hilarious on many levels some intentional

he looks like a musketeer in this movie its quite something

and i mean ruffalo, harrelson, this is fun

certainly the best movie caine and freeman have both been in

whaaaaaat

took ye long enough

C: Zombieland
D: Playing an incel Lex Luthor

he's a big Ween fan apparently, gotta love him

took ye long enough

― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Monday, February 18, 2019 1:00 AM (seventeen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your post was like some kind of goat-ear horn blast that calls out to cinephiles within a 200-mile radius.

DUD

the really fun part is wondering whether it’s a Batman movie or a Zach Braff effort that Morbs is outraged on behalf of

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The Social Mimework

now you mi me

Army of Shaddups

Saw a trailer tonight for his first film as a director.

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

Pretty much exactly what you'd expect. I will see it and hope for the best.

Saw When You Finish Saving the World tonight. I'd been looking forward to it: one, I love Eisenberg in The Squid and the Whale and The Social Network (and thought he was pretty good in two or three other films); two, it looked like something I'd like. I was hoping for something along the lines of Jonah Hill's Mid90s.

Found Finn Wolfhard as the son intensely unlikeable right from the start (realizing he was largely meant to be). The surprise was that by about the halfway mark, I started to dislike Julianne Moore's mom almost as much. So, intentional or otherwise, just watching the two of them wasn't pleasant, even exhausting at times. It all coalesces right at the end, though, with a nice final shot and--I hadn't been thinking about it through the film--a title that, if you were to sum everything up in a sentence or two, makes perfect sense. Getting there, quite a mess. Eisenberg wrote the film, too, so I assume there's a large autobiographical component. There's enough there that I hope he gets a second chance.

(Wolfhard's live-streaming reminded me of Eighth Grade, which I saw around the same time as Mid90s; initially liked Hill's film better, but after watching both a second time they pulled about even.)