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Killing Them Softly
InTylerWeTrust:
Andrew Dominik always delivers.... and Richard Jenkins is one of the most underrated actors of our times...
Also, this Brad Pitt kid seems pretty good. I'm there.
HeywoodRFloyd:
Just watched this tonight, I have a feeling that most people are going to hate this film, it's definitely not for everyone.
But I'll just say it, I fucking loved it.
I have to watch it again though because it's obvious Dominik is using this crime story as some kind of allegory of the 2008 US financial collapse, and unfortunately I couldn't catch all the dialogue.
The microcosm of Cogan's trade reflecting the macrocosm of American capitalism. It's not really what I was expecting, but I love it.
And this movie has GREAT shots. And the music, ahh, great tracks. The scene in which it cuts to Johnny Cash's 'The Man Comes Around' is my favorite.
It's pretty funny too, sort of in the same vein as Chopper.
But a lot of people are going to hate this, I can just tell. Also I saw this on 35mm, and it fucks DCP over badly, the image is incredibly vivid and bright, the flicker film creates is unbelievably absorbing, wish all theatres had retained their superior old projection systems.
©brad:
Seems like a pretty solid review to me. Why exactly are people going to hate it? The violence?
HeywoodRFloyd:
Nah it isn't the violence, it might be because it's incredibly different, like it's really not what your expecting. It wasn't at all what I was expecting.
Don't go in there expecting Jesse James.
Anyway I really need to see it again and then I'll be able to get my thoughts aligned.
DocSportello:
Anyone else love the poster campaign on this??!! Best I've seen in a long time. I've actually noticed it with this one. Most movie advertising seems to overlook or just not care about that shit anymore but they nailed it. Where did this movie go?
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