Terry Gilliam you are a fuck lunatic, but I rather prefer the Brazil movie!
Another Gilliam brain-fart masquerading as a deep look into the human psyche...
I struggle with liking most if not all of his films so maybe I'm just not his audience. It felt like a poor man's Fifth Element to me.
Solid cast with good cameos.
5/10
You can’t have Red Dawn without Patrick Swayze. F this movie.
I really enjoyed this series, it's kooky humour and eccentric mannerisms from people trying to cope with a terrible truth as a society. In spite of it's sunshine moments, I did feel very melancholy while watching this though.
Safdies and Fielder - not exactly an incredible combo. He should of done another season of The Rehearsal or his og show. The “Nathan” we know and love isn’t plugging and playing quite the way we wanted here. Emma stone gives tho.
A quite charming oddball comedy with a little touch of splatter, but with a plot this bonkers it really should have been a whole lot more fun. It constantly throws jokes at the viewers that ranges from quite funny to plain cringy, and perhaps tries to juggle too many tones but sadly fails at it a bit more than it succeeds. I liked the eccentric lead, and the bond between him and his mother, but there are so many issues with the execution and the failed tone-juggling wasn't to my liking. Could've done better if it just committed to its darker tone.
Jennifer Connolly plays Virginia, a single-mother in the middle of America with psychologically traumatized past. Come for the sexually charged scenes with Ed Harris, as a cheating Mormon sheriff running for Mayor. Watch Connolly stun in PG rated sex scene looking as good as ever clad in full dominatrix gear taking it hard and heavy. Stay for her performance of Virginia, a broken woman played to with an intimate desecration as she arranges last minute heist to leave her son something before her failing health takes hold.
Dick Tipton (Ed Harris) is a ridiculously arrogant alpha male Sherrif without a shred of responsibility towards Virginia or her son. He's only in it for the pooyani. Film legend Yeardley Smith plays the over-concerned social worker with a convincing southern drawl that makes you yearn for more. Connolly overalls feels lost in a sacred time towards an afterlife fantasy as she attempts to make up lie after lie, raise her son quite unsuccessfully, and manipulate her life around the few sex romps she has with the Sherrif.
The film is framed through her sons eyes. The actor playing her son is forgettable which is the only loss this film suffers from. It's a pretty big loss though, considering how much screen time his part of the story has.
Scenes of him casually in the house while Connolly get's railed by Harris make up the first part of the film. The second part is a series of vignettes between the son and a local girl, possibly Harris' characters daughter, with interdispersed scenes of Connolly breaking down or getting boned by Harris in various ways. I felt the sons story with his pals had a weaker dynamic playing under such a heavy talent load on top. I would of liked to see more of Connolly on top of Harris as well. The film could of been carried by Connolly and Harris' sex scenes, like a Wild Orchid meets Mother hybrid, instead it became a sidestory against a cops and robbers meets dazed and confused tragedy. The third act, is entirely this, complete with a rebellion, a Taxi Driver type of "campaign" bombing and Virginia's poetic stand-off.
The story overall invokes a tinge of Tennessee Williams "Baby Doll" meeting notes of Brie Larson's unconditional-love-under-extreme-circumstance performance in "Room." It falls short due where the bulk of scenes are given to a young actor who simply does not serve the overall momentum. Virginia shines when Connolly is on screen and simply put, due to her single performance it could of been added to what has become "The Fallen Single Mother" canon. It fails in its vision. When you have Jennifer Connolly as a blonde southern girl you want Cassavetes not Paul Thomas Anderson. They should of focused on her under the influence of knowing her own mortality was arye and the story taking place around that. It's a better way to understand the film if you're going in fresh. I hate to do this to Sarah from Labyrinth but this is a 6.5 out 10. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:
This movie was about nothing, no one, and went nowhere. It didn't even seem to finish, as it left the storylines of two of the three main characters completely unresolved. This movie was a complete disaster. If it wasn't for the solid casting, this movie would've ranked a two out of 10.
Some original good laughs. Russian women probably will hate the American relationships but if you’re a proud native non-maga normal decent human who doesnt get off traumatizing children this is a sleeper hit. Also, Mindy Kalin and Kevin Hearts cameo roles are wound in well enough they feel like the Soviet Union collapsed and never came back. If you’re reading this I have news for you - reevaluate your whole life.
The Long Shot is completely opposite to feeling I had about The Dead Don’t Die insomuch as on paper it should not work. A romantic comedy in which the lead is yuk-yukking stoner Seth Rogen and long slim drink of rather attractive water Charlize Theron, meet back up after decades apart and ‘get it on’. Only in the world of Hollywood could this happen.
All told the two leads are the glue that holds this fairly flimsy story together. It is nothing you have not seen before even if you are a moderate filmgoer. There is a bit of cop-out because although Rogen’s character is a stoner and unlike a lot of his other characters he is actually very good at his job and very principled. So actually only a little bit stoner. Charlize Theron is a tough, politically minded politician who ambitious but in fact, has a conscious and goes with what she thinks is the right thing to do despite advice from her hard-nosed staffers. So not very politician-like then.
They get together and although unlikely it is the premise of the story so all is good with me. There is no doubt the Theron and Rogen have a chemistry that hauls the movie through the sticky ground and there is fun to be had and ultimately it is good entertainment.
For me the letting your hair down ‘drugging it up’ part of the movie did not work.
Nothing much really occurs as boy meets up with girl, gets with girl, breaks up, gets back with girl, realises his failings and lives happily ever after. That is it.
Supporting characters are hard-nosed, supportive and wimpy. Again nothing you haven’t seen before. The story has it’s grotesque baddy in a well covered-up Andy Serkis going full-on Rupert Murdoch and it whips along at fair old pace.
So all in all, nothing to wrong with The Long Shot, nothing too great with it and much like that candidate who did not quite elected within a month or so you will have forgotten all about it.
There's little reason to try and beat Bowies Tesla (Christopher Nolans "The Prestige" 2006) but Ethan Hawke doesn't even try. I expected better from him. This was either made by the hands of a depressed director or an unqualified producer -- or an AI deepfake movie making program. It feels like somewhere within the tesla coil of this film production schedule a major aspect got gutted from an original version and boiled down, like a transylvanian bat, to this tortured piece of crap. Think Welsch Rabbit in a Duck Soup.
Way too many writers trying to emulate a goofiness and sensibility of a bygone era. A giant line of famous faces and aspiring "comedy world people" scurrying to rub elbows with Mel Brooks. Or, at least the idea of Mel Brooks. Is it attempting to be transcendent and/or higher-budget satire? Is it absurdity for the sake of it? I think it's that so much is punching you squarely in your nose that there's no room for an organic laugh to find room between "Yeah, I get it" thoughts and wincing. What is the joke and where is the punchline? It's like watching "The Characters" which was like watching an hours-long cringe-worthy later-season sketch from Saturday Night Live. Then you have so much 4th wall breaking looking for like meta self-awareness? I wonder if the cast just felt dirty in between takes or obligated and trying too hard to keep the mood up.
I have been unlucky enough to watch some truly terrible TV shows, and I have to say this makes the top 5, perhaps even the top 3 worst shows ever to grace the small screen. Emma Stone…? Is this the best you got now?
This is a story about the most shallow, despicable, reprehensible, zero morals, zero ethics people who are so far beyond phony that it’s not funny in the least. You will hate everyone, and I do mean everyone, in this show. The most dislikable person is the lead actor who is also the creator, the writer and the director.
There is absolutely nothing funny about this show. Seriously, there is no comedy whatsoever, it’s about people you cannot find a single redeemable quality for and if you don’t like the players then why watch the play? For the message? The message is terrible too.
Your time is better spent vacuuming your carpet - one fiber at a time with a microscopic vacuum cleaner than it is spending even a single minute of this insanely stupid show.
The acting is on par with a play put on by three year olds.
Do yourself a favor and forget this show even exists.
Trash movie about trash people with a trash ending.
