I think that may be Delon's best performance.Mr. Klein. This Paris-set identity mystery set on the verge of the Holocaust is perhaps an odd choice of a movie to watch for someone whose beliefs were on the losing side of the 2024 US presidential election. Told a friend that's what I am doing and his text response was "JFC dude." But ...
I actually found the movie to be pretty cathartic. Alain Delon's Mr. Klein is a cold opportunist, profiting on the artwork and possessions of Jews forced to flee Paris becuase SOMETHING is coming ...He is not himself a Nazi or a direct collaborator, but he operates and profits from his willful ignorance of the things going on around him. I found the ending to be incredibly fitting and, honestly, satisfying. Active supporters of fascists and passive enablers like Klein always believe the horrors will stop before it gets to them but this movie shrewdly spins a compelling story that builds to the question ... what if it doesn't?
Interesting to see an A24 film get such a bad rating. I generally can't imagine anything with Pete Davidson will be any good. I'm sure at some point my wife will force me to see this, as she has an obsession with A24 Studio lol. I'll report backWatched Bodies Bodies Bodies (1/10) on a flight to NY this past weekend. Was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Had a bunch of older actors (like Pete Davidson) trying to act like highschoolers which was over-the-top annoying. It had the worst acting.
As for the plot, it's yet another take on the kids partying in a remote mansion-sized cabin during a storm when they start dying and their phones and cars stop working, story. About 90% of the movie is them arguing with each other while screaming and crying. I held out for a possible good twist at the end, and it was terrible. Should have picked Twisters instead.
Please do! Would love to hear your thoughts.Interesting to see an A24 film get such a bad rating. I generally can't imagine anything with Pete Davidson will be any good. I'm sure at some point my wife will force me to see this, as she has an obsession with A24 Studio lol. I'll report back
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Brothers (2024) - Directed by Max Barbikow. (1/10)
Such a waste of time. Despite having an incredibly strong cast... (Peter Dinklage, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Marissa Tomei, Brendan Fraser) this film is one of the most basic and lame films I've seen recently. Jady Munger (Dinklage), and his twin brother Moke (Brolin), play two career twin brother criminals... Blah Blah Blah..... (What is it with Peter Dinklage's fixation with playing brothers who one of them is little and the other is average size?) The brothers and their criminal mom(Close) ..... try to pull off a job to make some "career ending money" and then it goes sideway, shockerrrrrr..... Brendan Fraser is a jail worker who tries to make some money on the deal.......Yada yada yada....
In rare form for me I'm going to go with a Kojima-esque review for this film.
"Watched Brothers today. It was a film"
I don't need to say any more. This movie sucked
Disappointing to me as well, but that's how it goes, I guess. You'd be better off never watching it lol.That's disappointing, I saw a preview for it, probably while watching football on Prime, and thought that seems like something I will say I should watch and then never watch in the end
Hugh Grant has actually picked some good roles recently.
On the less artistic front, he was a wretched and unprincipled journalist in the Gentlemen, and a surprisingly engaging antagonist of sorts in Dungeons and Dragons who stole virtually every scene he was in.
He seems to genuinely enjoy playing bad guys for a change and it shows in his performances.
Juror #2 (2024) Directed by Clint Eastwood 7A
94-year-old Clint Eastwood continues to direct movies and Juror #2 is one of his good ones, certainly better than his most recent efforts like Cry Macho and Richard Jewell. Juror #2 is an old-fashioned court room drama that is not so much a whodunnit as a thorny moral quandary. Justin (Nicolas Hoult), reluctantly picked for jury duty, begins to realize that he may have vital information in regard to what happened to the man on trial for killing his girlfriend. The problem is that the information could be misunderstood which would lead to him incriminating himself. What to do; what to do? The Prosecutor (Toni Collette) has an election to win, so her personal interests become part of the equation, too--it would be to her benefit to get a conviction, here, whatever doubts she might develop later on. Both juror and prosecutor are good, decent people. Juror #2 neatly sets up its premise and then examines all the tricky issues involved in finding justice for the murdered girl.
As usual, Eastwood's direction doesn't call attention to itself. But it is good enough to cover over some of the logical shortcomings of the script. If not the most suspenseful court room drama that I have ever seen, Juror #2 is at least a pleasingly tense one, thanks to the performances that Eastwood gets from Hoult and Collette. Although there is a fair amount of meat on the bone to chew on, I think Clint finds just the right way to end the movie in a manner that washes away a lot of the self-interested rationalizing that has gone on previously. But he is never preachy. All in all, Juror #2 is a thoughtful piece of work by the nonagenarian.
I agree about the flatness of the jurors. Only two of them were even memorable in the moment, and I certainly agree that Anatomy of a Fall was a vastly superior movie.I watched this last night and was left feeling underwhelmed.
The jurors felt very flat as characters. The script was just ok.
I enjoyed the moral dilemma and set up, but the execution was lacking for me.
Anatomy of a Fall did much better as a legal thriller / drama.