2008 Directed by Sam Mendes
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Scott Rudin Productions BBC Films Neal Street Productions Evamere Entertainment Goldcrest Pictures DreamWorks
it's late but i don't feel like going to sleep yet, so here's some rambling about a movie i haven't seen in about 8 years.
everybody was talking about ~Leo~ because of the golden globes, and it made me think of this movie, which i actually think about a lot. i saw it once, in the theater 8ish years ago with some bozo girlfriends who i didn't feel like arguing with, and i remember hating it almost instantly. something about it got on my nerves, and i became more and more furious about this whole "sad annoying white people" narrative that i was sitting there rolling my eyes and seething. i'm fine with unlikeable characters but not if the whole…
I've got a confession to make...I hated Titanic.
Aside from the pure spectacle of it all (which even that didn't impress me much) I didn't see what the big deal was. I wasn't even all that wowed by Leo and Kate in it. I mean, they were good, but not as good as people claimed they were. When this was being hyped up as the big reunion of the Titanic stars, I wasn't exactly "thrilled" or anything. So, the first time I saw it, I went in with low, low, LOW expectations. Not only was I floored completely by their performances and the film itself, but this has grown to become a favorite of mine.
Sam Mendes once again does…
"Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know what's so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they've lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying"
If Jack and Rose shared the plank of wood and both survived the sinking of the Titanic...
This is what would've happened.
Rose: So now I'm crazy because I don't love you, right? Is that the point?
Jack: No! Wrong! You're not crazy, and you do love me. That's the point, Rose.
Rose: But I don't. I hate you. You were just some boy who drew a naked portrait of me once, and now I loathe the sight of you. In fact, if you come any closer, if you touch me or anything, I think I'll scream.
Jack: Oh, come on, stop this Rose.
[He touches her for an instant and she screams at the top of her lungs before…
In which two good actors make a mockery of themselves as they play completely unsympathetic characters who live within a world that carries absolutely no subtlety or engaging writing whatsoever, acting as if the central arguments are overall brilliant writing when in reality there have been better debates and shout-offs on The View. C
Good adaptation of Richard Yates' novel. I don't like the way this is marketed as a love story. I've read the book and clearly knew what I was getting myself into, but a lot of people might not. Wonderful shot variation, and a great ending to tie everything together. Definitely a different story than the novel because we do not get Frank's inner dialogue, but still overall I love this movie.
Kate and Leo make the film worth watching, even when it veers towards melodrama and familiar territory. 8/10
On one hand it’s super preachy, on the nose, and not directed very exceptionally. On the other hand its super honest in ways that most filmmakers refuse to be.
Add this to that list of movies that makes you want to kill yourself tbh. It’s just so pessimistic about marriage, parenthood, domestication and life in general in ways that can be true, but don’t have to be should an individual choose to view life under a different perspective. Feel like this is the type of indictment I was waiting to see onscreen for a while, and now that I have it hits too close to home and it’s just not that impressive as a work of cinema. Kinda can’t believe it exists though.
Also: Antithesis to Phantom Thread.
One of those movies that your parents would watch on their movie nights and you wouldn't stick around because it looked too "adult"
Leo is just doing his leo bit in this and it was hard not to laugh at some of the more serious scenes because of it
Michael Shannon says what we're all thinking
Fire ending
A great depiction of the often overlooked shallow nature of the American dream. This films taps into everyone's desires to be more yet also with the easy conformity of striving for little. Sam Mendes's theatrical background aids him yet again to get the most out of his actors and his extreme attention to detail is known only to a few. He knows exactly what he's doing. And don't even get me started on Master Deakins cinematography....
It’s about the small compromises in life, and a woman who could not handle said compromises. Clearly a case of a woman that should not have married, if she wanted complete freedom. Happy family has a price, as does the single life. All in all an interesting story.
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