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Post by jakesully on Apr 16, 2020 14:56:18 GMT
IN TRANK I TRUST
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Post by Archie on Apr 16, 2020 15:03:54 GMT
You might truly be the first human being to ever say those words.
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Post by JangoB on Apr 16, 2020 15:08:54 GMT
I'm not following the taste of a man who made Brick, The Last Jedi, and Knives Out... Agreed, if someone makes good movies it doesn't mean their taste is automatically good too!
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Apr 16, 2020 15:44:04 GMT
I'm not following the taste of a man who made Brick, The Last Jedi, and Knives Out... Agreed, if someone makes good movies it doesn't mean their taste is automatically good too! Agreed, but someone should make good movies before we deem them capable or not capable of taste that is automatically good!
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Post by stinkybritches on Apr 16, 2020 16:49:36 GMT
i thought we were rid of josh trank. fuck.
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Post by dazed on Apr 16, 2020 18:42:59 GMT
I fucked with Chronicle hard so I’m with jakesully on this one.
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Post by AKenjiB on Apr 16, 2020 21:16:58 GMT
That Adolf Hitler comparison line was bizarre. Obviously Al Capone was a bad dude, but he wasn’t anywhere near as bad as Hitler, someone responsible for millions of deaths.
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Post by Zeb31 on Apr 17, 2020 2:19:46 GMT
Just this week I remembered this existed and wondered whatever happened to it. Feels like it was announced all the way back in 2015 or something.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 24, 2020 9:46:10 GMT
Jeffrey Wells of the Hollywood Elsewhere website has posted some comments after seeing it - reviews are still on embargo - but he hints at his forthcoming one when it eventually lifts : “plotless but flavorful and quirky as fuck thanks to Tom Hardy, and with one terrific, stand-up-and-cheer scene.”
So not a rave by any means........but maybe something to hope for if you're inclined to see it for Hardy....I know, I know, Wells can be weird and quirky (so can I.......so can you) but just sayin' first reaction isn't a disaster.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 11, 2020 20:20:16 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on May 12, 2020 20:00:31 GMT
Well.......it doesn't work - ~5.5/10
First of all the story shown here is not cinematic - Al Capone was important because he was dangerous and he represented America's dangerous side- this starts far after that - this is half a script or less.
Hardy (some good choices, many awful) will be mocked here and have some defenders I guess but he has nothing to play except decline - which only makes sense in connection to the earlier story (not shown) - and he's doing all sorts of Brandoisms that are no more tied to Capone than they are to Josh Trank's Capone .........than they are to any other criminal real or fictional.
Trank writes, directs and does the editing (0 for 3) - and everything is set up like a set piece only - so there's no connecting scenes for flow or context. This is like Peter Mullan's The Fear which had its aura of violence happening in the present - he was scary and he is now becoming scary for how scary he no longer is .......this goes for that same vibe and can't get it.
All the supporting cast is negligible except Linda Cardellini who I liked in several scenes ....but this is a testament to impotence and Capone merely observing violence removed entirely from the reasons for any violence in the first place.
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Post by Lubezki on May 12, 2020 21:32:32 GMT
Well.......it doesn't work - ~5.5/10First of all the story shown here is not cinematic - Al Capone was important because he was dangerous and he represented America's dangerous side- this starts far after that - this is half a script or less. Hardy (some good choices, many awful) will be mocked here and have some defenders I guess but he has nothing to play except decline - which only makes sense in connection to the earlier story (not shown) - and he's doing all sorts of Brandoisms that are no more tied to Capone than they are to Josh Trank's Capone .........than they are to any other criminal real or fictional. Trank writes, directs and does the editing (0 for 3) - and everything is set up like a set piece only - so there's no connecting scenes for flow or context. This is like Peter Mullan's The Fear which had its aura of violence happening in the present - he was scary and he is now becoming scary for how scary he no longer is .......this goes for that same vibe and can't get it. All the supporting cast is negligible except Linda Cardellini who I liked in several scenes ....but this is a testament to impotence and Capone merely observing violence removed entirely from the reasons for any violence in the first place. So in other words, Hardy’s performance is......fascinating? Is that a good way to describe it? Eh, only so much you can do with sub-par material. Didn’t expect any wonders with Trank involved anyway.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 12, 2020 21:57:23 GMT
Well.......it doesn't work - ~5.5/10First of all the story shown here is not cinematic - Al Capone was important because he was dangerous and he represented America's dangerous side- this starts far after that - this is half a script or less. Hardy (some good choices, many awful) will be mocked here and have some defenders I guess but he has nothing to play except decline - which only makes sense in connection to the earlier story (not shown) - and he's doing all sorts of Brandoisms that are no more tied to Capone than they are to Josh Trank's Capone .........than they are to any other criminal real or fictional. Trank writes, directs and does the editing (0 for 3) - and everything is set up like a set piece only - so there's no connecting scenes for flow or context. This is like Peter Mullan's The Fear which had its aura of violence happening in the present - he was scary and he is now becoming scary for how scary he no longer is .......this goes for that same vibe and can't get it. All the supporting cast is negligible except Linda Cardellini who I liked in several scenes ....but this is a testament to impotence and Capone merely observing violence removed entirely from the reasons for any violence in the first place. So in other words, Hardy’s performance is......fascinating? Is that a good way to describe it? Eh, only so much you can do with sub-par material. Didn’t expect any wonders with Trank involved anyway. Yeah fascinating is a good way to describe it - I didn't find any of it great and some of it is just odd and falters but it is not an undisciplined performance either - it's very showy even when it's quiet and he isn't bluffing his way through it either - he's working hard. I think it might develop a cult but I'm not sure..... I'll be really curious to see what people think of it - I just can't figure out why anyone would think this part of Capone's life is the one to film at the exclusion of what he's known for - the way the St. Valentine's Massacre is treated here in particular is very strange and that's almost the vague point of the movie: History doesn't matter anyway because at the end your memories of any of it can't even be trusted ......
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Post by TerryMontana on May 16, 2020 13:34:18 GMT
Oooookkkk.... I watched it yesterday. I wish I didn't. I'll give it a 2/10 only because I've seen worse movies than that. But not many... No plot at all, no story, no interest. Just watching the life of an ill man suffering from dementia, day by day. That's all. If you guys need any more reasons as to why you need to do yourselves a favor and skip this... we just watch Capone shitting his pants, dressing up as a woman, wearing diapers, quacking like a duck and smoking carrots Boy, it haunts me how bad this film was...
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Post by theycallmemrfish on May 16, 2020 13:58:20 GMT
No. No. This cannot be! Rian Johnson said it was great, though! He's only capable of great things!
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Post by Lubezki on May 16, 2020 14:04:27 GMT
No. No. This cannot be! Rian Johnson said it was great, though! He's only capable of great things! Yeah yeah we get it man, you hate Rian Johnson.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on May 16, 2020 15:27:16 GMT
No. No. This cannot be! Rian Johnson said it was great, though! He's only capable of great things! Well he’s mostly made great movies.
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Post by TerryMontana on May 16, 2020 15:35:45 GMT
I forgot to mention that one of the subplots (the what???) was Capone following a little boy with a yellow baloon.
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Post by Pasquale on Aug 18, 2020 13:55:33 GMT
Peculiarly engrossing picture.
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