Utter garbage. This has to be the worst movie of the year. Cant believe Gosling & Blunt would waste their talent on such crap, (unless the paycheck was VERY large) Moronic plot, mostly unintelligible dialogue, unfunny, unromantic & uninteresting. Dont know who the target audience was, apart from die-hard Gosling fans, but it certainly wasnt aimed at anyone with more than 2 functioning brain cells. Truly awful!!!
This movie is fucking awful. I enjoyed the last 10-12 minutes of it but I don't know if it was because it was almost over or because of the awesome cameos by Jason Mamoa, Lee Majors, and Heather Thomas and Blake Shelton's cover of the theme song. The rest of the movie is just garbage.
Looks like the Rotten Tomatoes critics have rocked up here as well. Trakt used to have credibility. I always depended on a rating of 75% or higher in Trakt as a good indicator that normal people liked the movie and it's worthwhile watching it. As we all know, it's a well known joke on the Internet that in the case of Rotten Tomatoes, this is usually the opposite. The career/full-time critics will rate utter garbage very highly, while the rest of us will hate the movie.
Of late, some of the movies rated >75% in Trakt have been following a similar trend to Rotten Tomatoes. Fall Guy was boring and over-acted to the point I stopped watching it half way through to start another movie. Reading some of the comments here, I realise that there was a series or an older movie that I should have watched before? Either way, giving this thing a 5 until I'm in the mood to waste 2 hours in the future to see if I like it then.
"Why do you keep looking as if there's something wrong? Everything's fine."
I’ve haven’t cried this hard at a movie since 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things'. This is one of those films that just thinking about it or thinking about a specific scene will get my eyes teary. I’m honestly blown away by how moved I was by it. One of the best movies of 2020.
Anthony Hopkins gives one of the best performance since ‘Silence of the Lambs’. You may think that you've seen everything the veteran actor has to offer, but he continues to surprise and amaze us. He broke my heart a thousand times, especially the last five minutes which was some of the most powerful pieces of acting on screen. On the other hand, he’s also incredibly charming and funny as his character that it made him so mesmerizing to watch. I usually don’t care when it comes to awards, but I genuinely hope he gets some recognition at the Oscars with at least a nomination or maybe a win, because he is truly brilliant in this movie.
Olivia Colman, who plays Anthony's daughter, Anne, was also fantastic in the movie. Her facial expressions solid every emotion that the character was feeling and Colman is an expert at it. The pain, frustration, and the overwhelming love she has for her father, as she tries to find ways of helping him. I can’t imagine a more dreadful sight than watching your loved one decay away before your eyes and there’s nothing you can do about it.
While there have been other movies in the past that tackled the topic of dementia and old age on a surface level, where it mainly focuses on how friends and family coop with a significant others condition. However, this movie makes those films look flat in comparison. What makes this movie so different and yet more effective is that it’s told from the perspective of the sufferer. So, his confusion becomes ours. Simple things like switching Olivia Colman with a different actor can have a huge and scary impact, because when this first happened I was stunned, but I quickly realise this is the devastating reality of the disease where people you once knew start to look alienating to you.
Director Florian Zeller dose an excellent job of placing you in the shoes of someone going through dementia and have a better understanding of how the disease can affect you. Any other film marker would’ve done the predictable approach, which is to go over the top with the possibilities of presenting a surreal nightmare with flashy visuals, as a way to show off crazy camera work and digital effects, but Zeller instead keeps things grounded enough while in the imaginary world inside the characters head. It’s true what they say, less is more.
The movie is purposely structured and edited in a disorganised lucid dream-like manner, where certain elements such as the mention of names and the appearance of faces are a mystery to us just like the main character. Who are these people? Why is everything so mysterious? When you try to piece things together with the collection of scattered memories of events, it then gets shuffled around. Although, the movie isn’t as complicated as it may sound, it's just not straight forward narrative wise.
It was like watching a horror movie at times with the horrific effects of dementia. Your brain, metaphorically, is like a tree branch filled with leaves, but eventually with the slow effect of the disease, you will lose your leaves.
Overall rating: A magnificent movie that helps us understand the struggle and experience of dementia that was executed with extra care. It also goes beyond that in many different ways that I have yet to unlock in my first viewing. It’s a movie that I will never forget.
The Father is gut-wrenchingly heartbreaking, and Anthony Hopkins pulls out all the stops once again. I've said it so many times that I'm practically the boy who cried wolf, but Hopkins is at his best in this role. It should also be noted that the use of editing and set design in this film was insanely smart when it came to keeping the audience just as confused as Anthony. HIGHLY recommend. This is the highest-rated film of the year for me. Deserves its Best Picture nomination.
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