the long, subdued, nearly action-free "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

it owns

It owes.

lol now i'll see it

fight the power

yo when the dude is shooting heroin and "heroin" is on the soundtrack, omg, fuck this movie. also it is supposed to be in boston but they filmed it here in new orleans and there's palm trees and shit? hey let's read this terrible stagey dialogue for 15 minutes. obama!

yeah, it's a very silly movie

How much Johnny Sack is there is this movie?

he gets a good scene in the beginning

shooting it in new orleans was the only on the nose touch i didnt like

yeah i loved this

woot

ILX : Cosmopolis :: me : this movie

So much of this is so self-evidently terrible.

great jimmy gandolf scenes

this is sortof the perfect way to express this

xpost except McNairy and, yeah, Gandolfini

ben mendelsohn was awesome too.

i wanted to like the movie, and some of the performances were great, but i couldn't stand the clanging DID YOU SEE THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE? desperateness that culminated in the brad pitt speech at the end. i wish the director had just left the obama stuff out after the admittedly great opening credits sequence.

desperation, i suppose... i don't think desperateness is a word.

enjoyed the slickness of this and mcnairy and gandolfini, didn't really feel much oomph or find any of it surprising. closing speech left me cold. went home and watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy again after.

i do agree the last scene is prob the weakest & could similarly prob do w/o the financial crisis backdrop entirely

im just in love w/ the dialogue & integrity of the scenes/plot; where else anywhere in a crime/mob flick nowadays or ever? can scenes breathe & evolve like this w/o like constant "surprises", cuts, nods to the audience idk lots of fantastic performances too

also i thought mcnairy was casey affleck this entire movie. ive seen that 'in search of a midnight kiss' thing too, guess he didnt make v much of an impression on me

needs its own thread :)

OK, even I think an "F" is a little over the top for this:

http://www.pajiba.com/box_office_round-ups/the-8-films-all-time-to-receive-an-f-from-cinemascore.php

Another movie that got an A+ from CinemaScore (not mention in that blog post): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courageous_%28film%29

i lol'd when the car blew up. then i lol'd when dude had "heroin" on the soundtrack and then that nico song and then the last shooting scene when that fucking like fallout 3 music was playing, and when SPOILERS NOT REALLY ray liotta gets it the blood looks like the blood in the new judge dredd movie, which was 100000000x better

Well, Morbs, if this Armond rave (?) doesn't entice you, nothing will: http://cityarts.info/2012/12/05/pitt-beats-clooney/

Killing Them Softly earns a footnote in cultural history for being the first dramatic film to question the Obama cult.

Mainstream media reaction rejected Coppola’s summary consequences (including Michael’s repentance), eventually leading to the guilt-free Sopranos—which Obama told Oprah he loved. Bill and Hilary Clinton even emulated that show in a political campaign ad.

Given Dominik’s grandiose conceit—featuring anachronistic presidential speeches and ironic pop songs—the film is only a little less hyperbolic than a junkie’s paranoia. This outsider director sees America’s economic woes as a gangster movie purgatory. It’s debatable, but it has a much greater effect than the recession documentary No End in Sight and the drab, socially conscious thrillers Michael Clayton, Syriana, Margin Call. Dominik and Pitt go where those films wouldn’t dare. Putting Obama in the tradition of bought leaders sharpens Killing Them Softly’s pretenses.

Killing Them Softly earns a footnote in cultural history for being the first dramatic film to question the Obama cult.

IKR?!

I feel like he confused 'recession documentaries' there with "No End in Sight".

Got his liberal-baiting wires crossed there.

don't think he knows what "anachronistic" means

maybe he meant ironic presidential speeches and anachronistic pop songs

he means we know O is an asshole shit now

That's PRESIDENT asshole shit to you, son

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/4B/esq-obama-oval-office-0709-lg.JPG

Rooms seemed hotter when he was in them. Rains fell straighter. Clocks slowed. Sounds were amplified.

Killing Them Softly was pretty bad

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/20/movies/killing-them-softly.html

^p intersting re: sound fx...f/ sounds of norman mailer punching himself apparently

the director's name isnt even in the fucking thread title

i watched 'chopper' this morning - did v little for me; reminded me of 'bronson', which obv 'chopper' came 1st, but that is prob a better movie in every way i can think of

choppers better/less boring

Yeah I've always conflated Chopper and Bronson as well, but prefer the former.

does not compute in the slightest but w/e

i talked this up enough that my 62 yr old mom is curious enough to go see it (and im shocked its still playing near her)

also im ttly taking out like 4 george v higgins books from my lib over the holidays

Eddie Coyle if you haven't already

only have seen the film, which is great obv

My friend and I thought Killing Them Softly was worth watching, if a little sketchy in its construction. The constant political dialogue was definitely trying to drill in the parallel between criminal economies but it was a little overwrought in that it was mostly an extended implication without really fleshing it out.

It was great to be at a film where people were grumbling about "next time /I/ get to pick the movie, blah blah" on the way out. Hadn't heard that in a while/

political notes the most interesting thing about KMS.

(also from all the Dem whining you'd think they were pissing while the W clips were on)

Gandolfini much less interesting here than in the Chase rock movie, so yeah I'll probably never watch The Sopranos.

Scoot McNairy giving one of the performances of the year was the most interesting thing about KMS. The second-most interesting thing was the notion that you would, indeed, bend over backward to side with Armond.

but I haven't, as he claims to think it was a very good film.

certainly no Cabin in the Woods

KTS btw, KMS will be the Roberta Flack biopic