Great Acting in a Bad Movie?
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I always felt Juliette Danielle losing her s**t when she discovers that 'Denny,' a "boy" three years her senior, has been a drug user to be such a captivating scene. Such acting bravado. Truly...
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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage
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The small moments when Al Pacino is onscreen is the only time The Son Of No One grabs your attention. Whenever the focus is completely on Channing Tatum and his coma-inducing performance, you are bored to tears like you don't know.
Even though I absolutely hated It: Chapter Two (And I already didn't care very much for the first one), Bill Hader did a good job.
The acting in Margot At The Wedding is really good. The script and the characters are absolutely TERRIBLE. One of the most ridiculous and infernally frustrating character pieces I have ever seen. There is absolutely NOTHING redeeming about Margot, and most of the other people in the film are not exactly much better. So even though Nicole Kidman clearly gave her all, I hate everything else about it with a passion so much I have to give it the lowest possible rating.
I have the same problem with Greenberg. Ben Stiller is great, but he's nothing more than an obnoxious stupid jerk, who never learns anything through the entire movie. You can make a selfish and stubborn character interesting, but it takes a little more than just wrapping the whole thing in misery porn. Solitary Man is a very good example of a character study where the main protagonist is very troubled and makes a ton of selfish decisions, but he's given a sense of humanity that makes you want to root for him to get better.
Even though I absolutely hated It: Chapter Two (And I already didn't care very much for the first one), Bill Hader did a good job.
The acting in Margot At The Wedding is really good. The script and the characters are absolutely TERRIBLE. One of the most ridiculous and infernally frustrating character pieces I have ever seen. There is absolutely NOTHING redeeming about Margot, and most of the other people in the film are not exactly much better. So even though Nicole Kidman clearly gave her all, I hate everything else about it with a passion so much I have to give it the lowest possible rating.
I have the same problem with Greenberg. Ben Stiller is great, but he's nothing more than an obnoxious stupid jerk, who never learns anything through the entire movie. You can make a selfish and stubborn character interesting, but it takes a little more than just wrapping the whole thing in misery porn. Solitary Man is a very good example of a character study where the main protagonist is very troubled and makes a ton of selfish decisions, but he's given a sense of humanity that makes you want to root for him to get better.
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