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Post by JangoB on Sept 4, 2022 9:49:05 GMT
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Post by stephen on Sept 4, 2022 13:53:56 GMT
Fucking. IN.
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Post by stephen on Nov 24, 2022 0:31:08 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 24, 2022 1:01:16 GMT
can he please go back to movies. Refn fucking around with slow-mo shots for 8+ hours is unwatchable television. Even his characters talk slowly. It's life at 0.5 speed  |
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Post by JangoB on Nov 24, 2022 1:03:18 GMT
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Post by stephen on Jan 5, 2023 13:33:39 GMT
HERE WE GO.
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Post by stephen on Jan 9, 2023 14:16:49 GMT
Four episodes in. True to form for Refn, it's a slow burn, but it seems Nic learned from Too Old to Die Young and scaled back on the excess a bit, so that even though it moves at a typical deliberate pace, it at least is a much less byzantine story so it doesn't get lost in it.
It's gorgeously shot, as to be expected, and the score is haunting. And it does feel more akin to Refn's earlier works, albeit with his post-Drive neon sheen. I still don't quite know I feel about the narrative yet, because it does feel like something I should be able to judge more accurately once the whole thing ties together, but there are certainly some compelling (and definitely some distressing) moments. The subplot with the demented family obsessed with breeding (and their psychotic scion who runs afoul of our protagonist in a glorious pigpen-beatdown) is particularly chilling.
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Post by JangoB on Jan 12, 2023 21:54:23 GMT
Even though it's been a month (and one day) since I watched "Too Old to Die Young", I think I've had one Nicolas Winding Refn meal too many. "Copenhagen Cowboy" is as pretty as ever and features a total banger of a score but it just felt somewhat stale to me in a 'more of the same' kind of way. The first five episodes all seemed like build-up and after the final sixth one ended it still seemed like build-up. I'm not sure whether a second season will be happening (Refn said they wrote a treatment though) but I wouldn't be surprised if the ending was meant to be a troll move in which case... bleh.
Honestly, it feels as if Refn is more concerned with building a brand and forming his own product line here rather than creating a great piece of filmmaking. "Neon Candy by NWR".
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