shot by Mike Leigh vet Dick Pope
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 August 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
I know that I liked the novel but really can't remember anything about it now. Also remember liking that Jonathan Lethem was into music
― Dan S, Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
His 33 1/3 on Fear of Music is good.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
We've got trailer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fru8IkuDp_k
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 24 August 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
The casting of Alec Baldwin in that role is boring.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 24 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
so fucking annoyed, why even call it motherless brooklyn
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 August 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
it's a Hollywood tradition
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 August 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
I don't expect the movie to resemble the book a whole lot outside of the plot, but at best I hoping for an L.A. Confidential-style Warner throwback and, at worst, a showcase for an Oscar campaign for Norton.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 24 August 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
well it's a great book and would have made a unique movie and now it will never happen
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
ed norton acting tourettes is some kind of hell
― lag∞n, Monday, 26 August 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
lol
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 August 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
ED FONEBONE!
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
Waltr Chaw confirms my worst fears about this:
Edward Norton's twenty-year passion project, this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's modern noir loses what's affecting about the source material while amplifying, well, Edward Norton. The hero, Lionel Essrog (Norton), is afflicted with OCD and Tourette's. In the book, this means that as his interior monologue is crisp and empathetic, his exterior is kissing people and screaming out anagrams and clever atrocities. In the movie, this means Norton is angling hard for awards recognition playing Rain Man as a gumshoe. I don't mean to be unkind, merely to describe a selfish performance that does very much to attract attention to itself and very little to support a cast that frankly needn't have bothered. It's the worst first date ever--the one where the guy really wants to tell you about himself. Norton's Lionel twitches, grimaces, screams out jibes that are sometimes a little too literary and on-the-mark. He draws attention and that's half the point of it: to create a sensitive, intelligent character appalled by his inability to control his "broken" brain. Yet in an ensemble movie with a Byzantine plot, all it does is suck the air out of the room. There's a shortlist of "unfilmable" novels for any number of reasons (and a few of those, like Under the Skin, were adapted beautifully), but the reasons to leave Motherless Brooklyn free from this sort of literal go are legion.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
o jeez lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 September 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
This felt like two disparate stories awkwardly sewn together
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 November 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
I went in to this as charitable as could be. An absolute mess
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 3 August 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
in a "worth a watch" or "utterly iredeemable" sort of way?
― Neil S, Monday, 3 August 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
I didn't make it to the end
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 August 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
Terrible
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 August 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link