This was a movie that contained some fabulous acting from Oldman, Dance and a few others. There were a handful of scenes that are tremendous. That said... this wasn't a great movie. Near the beginning of the film Mank claims that audiences can handle a complicated story (I am paraphrasing) and this was clearly the belief of the makers of this movie. This movie essentially just gets bogged down and kind of drags to the finish. Seyfried's character is useless in this movie - I can't remember a more useless second billing since Kim Basinger in LA Confidential. The scenes between Oldman and Seyfried are easily the worst in the movie. If anything it seemed as though the movie was too ambitious and bit off more than it could chew. I suspect that much of the reason that this was nominated for best picture is that Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood nostalgia.
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This was a movie that contained some fabulous acting from Oldman, Dance and a few others. There were a handful of scenes that are tremendous. That said... this wasn't a great movie. Near the beginning of the film Mank claims that audiences can handle a complicated story (I am paraphrasing) and this was clearly the belief of the makers of this movie. This movie essentially just gets bogged down and kind of drags to the finish. Seyfried's character is useless in this movie - I can't remember a more useless second billing since Kim Basinger in LA Confidential. The scenes between Oldman and Seyfried are easily the worst in the movie. If anything it seemed as though the movie was too ambitious and bit off more than it could chew. I suspect that much of the reason that this was nominated for best picture is that Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood nostalgia.
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