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