Have you seen True Detective, Season 2?
Yep, didnât enjoy it.
I wasnât convinced by either Vaughn or Farrell in the second season. The first season was always going to be difficult to beat though.
Have you seen this movie? Vaughn absolutely nailed it I reckon.
Agree with the first paragraph, and havenât seen the film, though I will on your recommendation.
I highly recommend it.
Itâs a different take on a familiar type of story.
*warning though it is brutal in its depiction of violence.
The Greatest Showman.
Second viewing for LMW and first for me. I should start by saying the audience clapped at the end of the movie, so my opinion is obviously not representative.
I should also perhaps put in the disclaimer that I love Moulin Rouge. Still.
But this movie left me absolutely cold. I was waiting for it to end.
To me it wasnât so much a movie as one thing happening after another. If you were unlucky enough to see the theatre production of Jolson, it felt a little like that.
I donât have any pc problems with the story. Itâs not a documentary. Itâs a musical, for Peteâs sake, so I find any criticisms even broadly about accuracy as very silly.
No, my problems are that the characters are ridiculously undercooked. Tom Thumb, the bearded lady, the dark-skinned trapeze artist, main-ish characters that are given the smallest amount of backstory or none at all.
What is supposed to be a big moment late in the film, about equality and not letting others tell you how to live your life and so on, came off as completely unbelievable and more than a little tacky. Itâs supposed to beâŚa great love overcoming prejudice. I felt like the guy could have left her in half an hours time without any problem at all.
And BarnumâŚvery early in the film thereâs a big deal made of how itâs all for his kids and thatâs reinforced throughout.
His wife leaves him and takes the kidsâŚand you donât even find out that sheâs taking the kids unti you see them in her parents house. And Barnum? Doesnât seem tooâŚwell, not tooâŚat all bothered by that.
The whole thing feels emotionally shallow.
Jackman in the role isâŚokay? He certainly doesnât display any of the charisma youâd think necessary for the role. Heâs justâŚnice. Driven, certainly, occasionallyâŚinsensitive, but mostly just nice.
The dance scenes are good. Particularly the barroom deal scene.
3/10.
For the chorie.
Musicals are generally â â â â â . and hollywood self wank ones the worst.
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Saw The Post last night. Thought it was really good. Hanks and Streep with on screen chemistry works a treat.
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Watched Passengers tonight.
Movie was good. The ending was a bit meh. Hard to decide if it was happy or sadâŚ
Watched it tonight. Thought it was ok. Not fantastic. But then l thought suicide squad was ok (just ok) as well.
Iâm cool with that. I think Affleck did a good job in BVS, but his character was handled so poorly in justice league( how it was written and acted) that its best for a change.
Affleck was â â â â â â â trash worst batman ever.
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Worse than Clooney?
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on Netflix. Very entertaining:
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I blame âStyle over Substanceâ directors like Ayer and Snyder for the new Batman film and that Suicide Squad abomination.
I have noticed the new Suicide Squad film has Gavin OâConnor at the helm and I expect he will do a far better job.
Afflecks one of the worst a-list actors ever. only good in gone girl when his wife headfucked him so he could stay in his natural stunned mullet facial expression for the whole movie.
and the town here he plays a dero bostoner.
Nobody is worse than Clooney as Batman,NOBODY
I see your Affleck and raise you Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman
Afflecks biggest flaw was his choice of movies.
When his star was on the rise he made some stupid choices in an attempt to gain even more fame.
Since then he has turned to directing and only starring in smaller films. Its no surprise that Batman failed because its a return for him to movies that lack substance.
The Accountant, Gone Girl, The Town, Argo, State of Play and Hollywoodland have all been good films with solid performances in my opinion.
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