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Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:52 pm I’m not generally a (traditional) horror fan but get the sense this has a lot more to it?

Watched Eddington - I can absolutely see how people hated it, or took it for something it wasn’t, but I thought it was masterful in keying in to this culture of division and how the media has completely destroyed people’s ability to communicate effectively.

It’s long and self-indulgent at times (much like Beau is Afraid) but I really love what Ari Aster is doing now. I’ve found the criticisms of it fascinating too. So many people seem to allow their politics to be decided by how irritating the presentation/presenters of a message are, rather than the content of the message, which is a bizarre thing to even try to portray in a film.

paddy no 11 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 3:47 pm He has two modes, playing himself which works well see basketball diaries and wolf of wall street

His other is a class of weepy clutts, who uses stumbling has his main acting technique, ruins gangs of new York, romeo and Julie, the departed and one blow after another

Hard to know what top class directors see in him

paddy no 11 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:11 am Yeah, wolf of wall street works as he's basically playing Leonardo Dicaprio

Anyway, kermode says he's bankable for the studios, they are guaranteed there money back if he's in a film...........

Son of Mathonwy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 12:18 pm But a lot less annoying than Tom Cruise.

paddy no 11 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 3:47 pm He has two modes, playing himself which works well see basketball diaries and wolf of wall street

His other is a class of weepy clutts, who uses stumbling has his main acting technique, ruins gangs of new York, romeo and Julie, the departed and one blow after another

Hard to know what top class directors see in him

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:15 am

paddy no 11 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 28, 2025 3:47 pm He has two modes, playing himself which works well see basketball diaries and wolf of wall street

His other is a class of weepy clutts, who uses stumbling has his main acting technique, ruins gangs of new York, romeo and Julie, the departed and one blow after another

Hard to know what top class directors see in him

I’ve just seen OBAA and to my utter shock I quite enjoyed Dicaprio’s performance.

It makes sense now I think about - PTA is obsessive about performance (where as Scorsese seems to view a good take as an optional extra) and the role required absolutely zero subtlety. I’m not saying his flaws weren’t still there, but I really enjoyed it. His similarity to Steven Seagal at moments in this is alarming.

Sean Penn’s performance is absolutely unbelievable.

I loved the film as a whole. As is the trend with all my recent positive reviews on here it’s super long, self-indulgent and I guess antagonistic in terms of its message/politics, but it had me absolutely gripped. Again I went in with low/no expectations but really enjoyed it.

Much like Eddington it’s pretty funny to see the reactions to what this story ‘means’, but I don’t think that’s what anyone should be looking for in a film like this. It’s a mad, meandering story about a father and a daughter, but it does include some incredible depictions of the ways people will compromise their own personal values for lust, family, money, respect etc.