I had the misfortune to listen to the episode of Fresh Air where she's interviewing Cooper about this role and I found myself wanting to throw things at everyone involved except for the actual conductor she had on with him. At the end she made us listen to Cooper conducting? Why? Also if they mentioned the nose it must have been before I got in the car. I hope. Totally unnecessary and icky.
Bradley Cooper’s one of the most overrated actors ever. I remember his crocodile tears on Inside The Actors Studio. And what’s that awful movie he made with Jennifer Lawrence supposedly about mental illness? Just nerves raw, rubbed all the wrong way, drivel. Glad you’re pointing out the obvious. Peak white male mediocrity.
I stopped going to movies altogether...not even out of principle but just out of change of habit...I FULLY meant to go see Barbie, but never did...Saw Maestro on Netflix (was surprised how QUICKLY it went to streaming....remember how you use to have to wait MONTHS)
Now i don't even do paid subscription streaming. I just watch movies on youtube...But what a TREAT! been on a Powell Pressburger kick lately...check out "Canterbury Tale" and "I Know where I'm Going"
"Weirdly, West Side Story didn't even get a passing mention. "
right? Literally only ONE comment that name-dropped Stephen Sondheim as the "young up and coming librettist"...I was REALLY hoping for some rehearsal footage a la the glorious musical segments in the Coen's 'Hail Caesar'
I had the misfortune to listen to the episode of Fresh Air where she's interviewing Cooper about this role and I found myself wanting to throw things at everyone involved except for the actual conductor she had on with him. At the end she made us listen to Cooper conducting? Why? Also if they mentioned the nose it must have been before I got in the car. I hope. Totally unnecessary and icky.
Thank you for confirming my lack of desire to see this film. I liked the Boy and the Heron but it really wasn’t Miyazaki’s best work.
I thought boy and the heron was pretty great...especially compared to the last one, which was just so so.
Bradley Cooper’s one of the most overrated actors ever. I remember his crocodile tears on Inside The Actors Studio. And what’s that awful movie he made with Jennifer Lawrence supposedly about mental illness? Just nerves raw, rubbed all the wrong way, drivel. Glad you’re pointing out the obvious. Peak white male mediocrity.
Do you mean American Fiction…?
if so, I wrote about it here:
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/american-fiction-pillories-tired
I hate a lot of the films this year which are obvious Oscar bait! Holdovers, Oppenheimer, KOTFM; they all are shit.
I stopped going to movies altogether...not even out of principle but just out of change of habit...I FULLY meant to go see Barbie, but never did...Saw Maestro on Netflix (was surprised how QUICKLY it went to streaming....remember how you use to have to wait MONTHS)
Now i don't even do paid subscription streaming. I just watch movies on youtube...But what a TREAT! been on a Powell Pressburger kick lately...check out "Canterbury Tale" and "I Know where I'm Going"
hah. I haven't read the book. I kind of love the movie though. probably my second favorite film of the year after Past Lives.
I thought the film was quite thoughtful and complex, and a welcome corrective to how Hollywood handles Holocaust stories. Wrote about it here: https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the-humanity-of-evil/
"Weirdly, West Side Story didn't even get a passing mention. "
right? Literally only ONE comment that name-dropped Stephen Sondheim as the "young up and coming librettist"...I was REALLY hoping for some rehearsal footage a la the glorious musical segments in the Coen's 'Hail Caesar'
they do talk about the musicals somewhat, but not in a way that allows you to understand or see why they were important in any way.
it's simultaneously a film that's trying too hard and a film that is extremely lazy.