The Yards and We Own the Night are in am's category, but Two Lovers is so bizarre within the rules of casting two stars that it defies type. The Immigrant is a much broader canvas.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 February 2015 01:06 (nine years ago) link
Thought this was pretty good. The one thing I was worried about, that it would be scene after scene of people yelling at each other, that wasn't an issue--a couple of those scenes towards the end. Oddest turf war since Bill Forsyth's Comfort and Joy. I can see The Godfather comparisons (just talking about story/mood, not quality), also Prince of the City; didn't seem remotely like Dog Day Afternoon to me, beyond the setting. I liked Albert Brooks a lot--about half the time, it felt like I was looking at William Hurt. (Not the most demanding role, but I wanted him in the movie all the time.) They didn't even seem to try for any kind of period atmosphere, although maybe there was decor or cars or something that went right past me. Jessica Chastain's hair, maybe.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 February 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link
this movie sucked. horrible line readings, performances, uninteresting and cliched story, bizarro failure of an ending.
― Pentenema Karten, Friday, 6 February 2015 08:33 (nine years ago) link
just saw this, yea everything involving the driver subplot was very bad; didnt entirely mind the balance btwn bureaucratic & dramatic lite-gangsterism cuz that is essentially isaac's character, but it skirts a lot of attn to detail that bugged me
chastain really needed to be in it more somehow, too, but not only as isaacs antagonist
& the mobbed-up but genial competitor w/ the indoor tennis ct is prob my dream life if I'm honest w/ myself
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 March 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
like who is the dude he chases off from outside his house? we're told later that the oil thief is just a thug out for himself (which is also not v believable imo), so it's also just a coincidental neighborhood burgler (conveniently w/ a gun) he chases away? may have needed the pta 'magnolia' intro coincidence fable on this..
― johnny crunch, Monday, 30 March 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
this is still running at the Sunshine in NYC, no idea why; can it be a hit here and nowhere else?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
oscar isaac and chastain felt like little kids playing dress-up. like a max fischer production. also lol at the part when he falls down while chasing that guy and the roving camera stops and waits for him to get up. i felt in general that this movie really needed a more comic sensibility. because this guy is such a dud that i was only engaged by hoping to see his face pushed in shit some more. i really liked that scene where he meets up with the mob bosses and starts off by saying "Stop it." like a child and the mob bosses seem like they can't wait til he's gone so they can make fun of him. also liked the part when he falls down while chasing that guy and the roving camera stops and waits for him to get up.
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
i liked it so much that i forgot to erase the first one
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link
the good press for this thing baffled me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
yea i was kinda fantasizing changing nothing abt this movie but having isaacs character played by sil from sopranos
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
was going to see this until someone I know told me it was so boring it was one of the few movies they've ever walked out on so I passed
― akm, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 04:59 (nine years ago) link