The first I've heard of it was just a few minutes ago when I was reviewing the Golden Globe nominees. That's a title you won't likely forget.
What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?
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The first I've heard of it was just a few minutes ago when I was reviewing the Golden Globe nominees. That's a title you won't likely forget.
fallenchicken
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I don't know what about Good Time seems contrived but... it's not the movie you think it is before you see it. Don't find out anything about it. Just rent it and go in fresh. It will surprise you. At the very least, it won't be the movie you are expecting.
Yeah, it was very good.
Comparing Good Times to the Hangover and Superbad is way off.
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It's just a movie about a terrible dude who does terrible **** and has no redeeming qualities. It's unique in that it's a movie that doesnt give a **** about making you root for the lead. There is no character arc at the end that makes you feel good, hell you don't even feel sorry for the guy. I'm not sure there is any message in the movie other than "Dont be like this loser". A lot of people will probably dislike it for that.
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It's just a movie about a terrible dude who does terrible **** and has no redeeming qualities. It's unique in that it's a movie that doesnt give a **** about making you root for the lead. There is no character arc at the end that makes you feel good, hell you don't even feel sorry for the guy. I'm not sure there is any message in the movie other than "Dont be like this loser". A lot of people will probably dislike it for that.
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As far as 3 Billboards, another great movie like Good Times, but it has the character arcs. It's not predicable and doesnt follow cliches, which is cool to see.
I disliked the ending scene. I would have like some closure on what they were planning on doing.
I disliked the ending scene. I would have like some closure on what they were planning on doing.
Um, the fact that in those movies miraculous/unbelievably_stupid things/events/actions kept happening over and over in the course of a single night?
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I mean how often does a guy break his brother out of a hospital being guarded by police, and that guy happens to be the wrong guy, who happens to be a drug dealer, who happens to have stolen drugs, in all of that the guy tried to have sex with a minor and killed and pretended to be a security guard to steal back that same drugs?
Show me a single news event of all of that happening in a single night in real life. The plot is just too out of this world for me to take seriously. Seriously.
It's a ****ing movie. It's fiction. None of the events that happened are out of the realm of realism. You have the weirdest complaints about movies, half of the time which arent even valid.
If anything this movie is more realistic than most because the characters stay who they are. There is no moment of clarity, no moment where the character becomes a good guy and fixes everything wrong in his life.
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It depends what kind of movie it is. Nobody's gonna take movies like The Hangover that seriously, it's entertaining to have out of this world plot. But Good Time clearly wanted to be taken seriously - evident by the first scene with the brother & the psychiatrist, and the various messages and theme sprinkled within it. But as it went on the situations just got stranger and weirder... it became harder and harder to take it seriously and makes you wander what the Directors wanted the movie to be? A serious movie about the consequence of walking on the wrong side of the law? Or just an entertaining 1.5 hour ala The Hangover?
fallenchicken
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Responding to One Love: I think we have very different tastes and see art and fiction very differently, and that's cool. But the way you're talking about the movie is just so completely different from the way I and others who have seen it experienced it. The movie is so accomplished and interesting aesthetically and in its narrative. Its insights into its characters truly worked for me and it was really special. I really don't think it's a movie that should be spoiled either way so I don't want to talk to specifically about it but it is a thrilling journey. It is centered around a character who believes he acts out of love , and there are shades of love and compassion buried in him, but all of his choices are ultimately fueled by narcissism and impulse. The movie works on a relentless pace of action, consequence, action, consequence. its actually really great plotting. I don't agree that any of the things that happened in the movie are unbelievable... they might be wild, but I think they are plausible and have happened before. Just last year those two dudes broke out of an actual prison in a huge manhunt that lasted for like a week. Nothing in Good Time is that crazy or contrived. Talk to any cop who has done it for a while and they can probably tell you at least as crazy stories.
It's a very good character study of a type of person, living and not functioning on the margins of society, that I think a lot of people will get and recognize instantly. The characters are all very real and the decisions they make and the way they are feels 100% accurate and insightful.
It's a very good character study of a type of person, living and not functioning on the margins of society, that I think a lot of people will get and recognize instantly. The characters are all very real and the decisions they make and the way they are feels 100% accurate and insightful.
I mean, to each his own, but these are objectively garbage complaints.
I hear what you're saying. But to me after watching the whole movie I don't think I know enough about the main character as I should... nothing deep and meaningful except of how he reacts to each of the consequences of his action. A bit more background as to where he came from, where he lives, his prior relationship with the brother, etc, would have been really good but we didn't get that. Yes I get that he has love for his brother and I LOVED the first 20 minutes of it, I really do, it was pretty intense.
But the movie lost me when he went on that wild ride... when he stole his brother from the hospital - common sense tells me the police cannot be that dumb to leave the room unguarded when that was his duty, but ok I'd let that slide. Then he went to that woman's house and tried to have sex with a minor when he was supposed to be all stressed about the situation. Then he killed the security guard, and on and on.. I know it's action --> consequences but it feels like the director just wanted to keep the action going & making the movie more exciting rather than what would actually happen in real life.
I'm not saying I hate the movie, I just don't love it as much as most do, and that's all I'm saying.