JC Chandor's A MOST VIOLENT YEAR, a heating-company (!) gritfest w/ Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain

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

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..

this is still running at the Sunshine in NYC, no idea why; can it be a hit here and nowhere else?

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.

i liked it so much that i forgot to erase the first one

the good press for this thing baffled me.

yea i was kinda fantasizing changing nothing abt this movie but having isaacs character played by sil from sopranos

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