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In Reply to: RE: Posit: Oppenheimer vs. Flower Moon posted by Billy Wonka on December 07, 2023 at 10:55:31
Okay, Bradley, maybe, but Carey has got to get gold. This was an actors' film (and makeup, also). When you look at the producers and support you see a triple-A team.
Netflix timed it just right for release.
Who will win: 1) an eccentric genius, 2) wronged native Americans, or 3) a gay New York Jew and his long-suffering wife?
Follow Ups:
Hollywood will eat that shit up though, as it's known to do.
A scant few decent enough scenes that will guarantee nominations
for the stars, but not enough to justify anything else.
The level of pretentiousness displayed is only equaled by the level of tedium involved.
A very lackluster two hours.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
My daughter wanted us to watch it. I figured if the trailer was that boring the full film would be nap worthy.
We watched Flower Moon instead, which was mostly okay, given I have a hard time liking anything Dicaprio is in and tire of DeNiro easily.
Just once, I'd like to see Scorsese use all fresh faces.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
I would think there was much more to their relationship
(and to them) than that insipid movie portrayed.
Also felt we were watching Michael Imperioli (with REAL nose)
as Bernstein (with added snobby nasal congestion) through
about 30% of the movie. Not that that wouldn't have been
an improvement.
And, the music? Major Meh, even in minor keys.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I have some hesitation, because I have yet to see a movie dealing with a "classical music" subject which I thought was any good - and that includes "Amadeus", "Immortal Beloved", and, more recently, "Tar". I'll bet that Soviet biopic of Rimsky-Korsakov from 1953 is good (even though the only user review on IMDb gives it a 4 out of 10!) - but I haven't seen it, at least not yet. And who needs technicolor? - that film was shot in "Sovcolor"!
But I LOVED Immortal Beloved! However, that may be because I like Beethoven vs. Mozart (I find his music BORING!)... I have high hopes for Maestro, probably because I LOVED Bernstein though....
It did rock my perception of Bernstein. I never delved into his private life and was surprised by what was portrayed.
I'll probably watch Maestro as well, but it's hard to have a "willing suspension of disbelief" when the main character is someone I have seen and listened to since the Young People's Concert days. His voice and manner are very familiar. So Cooper doing an impression of Bernstein conducting the end of Mahler 2 in Ely Cathedral just takes my absorption right out of the movie while remembering the video of Bernstein **actually** conducting Mahler 2 at that location.
Movies about classical musicians usually try to jazz up what actually looks tedious (composing) or simulate by actors fake-playing instruments.
But having said that, a short film in which the tall Adam Driver is Rachmaninoff, "the seven-foot scowl," would be quite entertaining.
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