I've seen The Big Short now 3x. I tend to work late and stumble into the movie theater. Really like that cast. Christian Bale is one of the sleeper best actors out there.
I'm not a big fan of Dicapprio.
I'm not a big fan of Dicapprio.
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Me neither, but The Revenant was actually the first movie I hated him the least in.
Miggs
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Sleeper best actors? Um, nobody is sleeping on him.
How can anyone hate Leo?
How can anyone hate Leo?
You're a closet DiCaprio fan?
Miggs
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You're the only one in the closet around here.
Just saw the "Hateful 8".
Loved the first half (before the mass shooting start), but didn't care for the 2nd half at all. Would love to know how everyone else who's seen it felt about this.
I just thought the first half was full of tension and suspense, you hang on to everybody's words and wondered how the story would unfold. The 2nd half when they went back to what happened in the morning was a bit too predictable to me. You know who survived and who didn't so you just don't really about who didn't.. just didn't have the same tension.
I'd still give it a solid 8/10 though, a good effort, but just a bit disappointing and kept me wondering about what could have been a GREAT film.
Loved the first half (before the mass shooting start), but didn't care for the 2nd half at all. Would love to know how everyone else who's seen it felt about this.
I just thought the first half was full of tension and suspense, you hang on to everybody's words and wondered how the story would unfold. The 2nd half when they went back to what happened in the morning was a bit too predictable to me. You know who survived and who didn't so you just don't really about who didn't.. just didn't have the same tension.
I'd still give it a solid 8/10 though, a good effort, but just a bit disappointing and kept me wondering about what could have been a GREAT film.
spycam1
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I thought it was interesting. One of those rare movies that doesn't have a main character and makes it work somehow. I feel like it's essentially a story about stories and what role they play in our lives. Basically the whole movie is people sitting around telling stories--ones which may or may not be true (or a little bit of both). It's metafictional in this sense, especially at the half way point when there's suddenly a narrator retelling us the story we just saw.
Which is the part I started to not like... why did they need that 'guy' to narrate what was happening? They could have done that in a different way, more subtly .... let the viewer figure it out themselves.
Also I'd like your take on whether or not you felt it laborious when he went back to the events in the morning and show us what happened. Like when they revealed who the 4 are, then the rest must have already died - so there wasn't any point in trying to learn about them? Because we can safely assume Minnie & her helper & her friends are dead, who cares what they're like anyway? I thought that was really pointless.... the story didn't go anywhere after that.
spycam1
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Hmm, I'm gonna go with no. I can see why you would feel that way, though.
I think it feels like the story doesn't really go anywhere because there's not a main character. If there's not a protagonist, then whose story are you telling? If you can't answer that, then, in a way, there really isn't a "story." Not having a protagonist can have a hollowing effect, and it's probably true here. I guess I feel like the movie isn't meant to follow that traditional narrative; its focus is on the stories within the story, not the story itself.