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Gyllenhaal has been become one of my favorite actors and Nightcrawler is a film I've been highly anticipating since I read the script. He plays a very strange and creepy freelance crime journalist in the underbelly of L.A. While the script itself is rather straight forward, it will present a challenge for Gyllenhaal as his character is something entirely unique to his resume and I am looking forward to how well he handles it. I'm a sucker for crime/drama and as I work in television myself, I naturally found the synopsis to this film rather intriguing. Here's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6C8jsusAvA
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This looks like it will end with him shooting himself on air. 
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Jul 25, 2014 15:41
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That trailer constantly reminds me of King of Comedy and Taxi Driver but in a way that builds on the mania of those two films.
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Jul 26, 2014 07:36
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He looks like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho and sounds like Daniel Lugo from Pain & Gain.  Sold.
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Jul 26, 2014 23:19
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At first I saw this thread and thought Denis Villeneuve had made yet another movie with Jake Gyllenhaal. Then when I saw that's not what it was, I got a bit disappointed for a second. But then I saw the trailer. His facial expressions alone (especially the one at 1:14) make me want to see it. This looks like it'll be one of his most chilling performances yet.
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Jul 26, 2014 23:47
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MariusLecter posted:This looks like it will end with him shooting himself on air. if you want to win at russian roulette, first you have to buy the bullet
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Jul 27, 2014 02:35
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Young Freud posted:He looks like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho and sounds like Daniel Lugo from Pain & Gain. It's giving me a sort of Less Than Zero meets Lost Highway vibe.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:At first I saw this thread and thought Denis Villeneuve had made yet another movie with Jake Gyllenhaal. Then when I saw that's not what it was, I got a bit disappointed for a second. But then I saw the trailer. If Jake Gyllenhaal only ever accepts roles from now on from Denis Villeneuve and Denis Villeneuve types, I will die happy. EDIT: Some fun viral marketing. Lou Bloom is really getting his name out there.
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Jul 27, 2014 18:40
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That's an impressive trailer. The characters depraved desire to work and succeed seems so perfect to our current economic situation. Feels like a modern Taxi Driver to me, someone who is struggling, feeling disenfranchised and having their rage bubble over onto the surface.
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Jul 27, 2014 18:55
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xzoto1 posted:While the script itself is rather straight forward, it will present a challenge for Gyllenhaal as his character is something entirely unique to his resume and I am looking forward to how well he handles it. Goddamn this looks awesome. Although I agree that this is something new for him, I like the similarity between this and his role in Zodiac - there's obviously that obsessive-compulsive aspect of both characters, although this will be far more extreme.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:26
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Gyllenhaal was loving amazing in Prisoners as a strung-out dude, and he looks perfect for this role as well.
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We were lucky enough to catch this last friday. I've signed an NDA so no story details allowed, but I am allowed to say that it blew me away. They are trying to build Oscar buzz around Gyllenhall for this and it's much deserved. He starts as creepy, but somehow likeable, guy and just keeps slipping further and further. I'm not a thriller guy at all but this kept me hooked for every single second.
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AlexF posted:We were lucky enough to catch this last friday. I've signed an NDA so no story details allowed, but I am allowed to say that it blew me away. They are trying to build Oscar buzz around Gyllenhall for this and it's much deserved. He starts as creepy, but somehow likeable, guy and just keeps slipping further and further. I'm not a thriller guy at all but this kept me hooked for every single second. I know you can't divulge details but a guy started at my office yesterday and he looks and acts just like Jake in this. On a scale of 1 to 10 how concerned should I be?
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Marketing New Brain posted:That's an impressive trailer. The characters depraved desire to work and succeed seems so perfect to our current economic situation. Feels like a modern Taxi Driver to me, someone who is struggling, feeling disenfranchised and having their rage bubble over onto the surface. Yeah, Taxi Driver is the film that came to my mind as well - mashed up with The King of Comedy.
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Jonny Angel posted:I know you can't divulge details but a guy started at my office yesterday and he looks and acts just like Jake in this. On a scale of 1 to 10 how concerned should I be? If you keep doing what he asks you to do you'll be fine. Otherwise, well...  Edit: In the movie this is a really scary scene and the reason for these reports (very mild spoilers, but really just a logical consequence of what you see in the trailer anyway) but the freak outs that happen in the quieter moments just beneath the surface are a lot scarier. As soon as he starts thinking you can almost feel the sick things in his head. AlexF fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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Jul 31, 2014 11:12
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Gyllenhaal looked like a vampire in Prisoners and he looks like one in this. He's embracing the look.
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After Enemy I was hoping to see him in exactly this kind of role, its pretty rare that the movies I want to see actually roll off the assembly line, now I'm just afraid my hopes are too high.
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If you wanna see this movie keep yourself miles away from the new trailer. It tells the whole movie up until the last ten minutes. I understand why companies are doing it, but I hate this trend so very much.
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Still hype for this and unrelatedly John Wick. And yea, I had to literally plug my ears, close my eyes and go LALALALALALA when the new trailers started coming out.
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I can't wait to see this. Gyllenhaal is a great actor, and the vibe of the ( first ) trailer is just right. I will also stay away from watching the latest trailer, as I don't want to know too much about the film beforehand.
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I just saw it. It was great.
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I saw this at TIFF last month, and yeah I loved it. The levels of cynicism kind of blew me away, as in I never expected a wide release like this to be this dark and sickening. (minor spoilers, just covering it up because it isn't out in theatres yet) This is essentially Dan Gilroy just viciously destroying the current state of industry and employment in America. Proper labour has all but disappeared now, leaving people without the kind of career opportunities their parents had. Manufacturing and prosperity used to be constants in America until it was taken away. People have to look for another constant now, the next thing that will guarantee work. So why not turn to human suffering and crime? That's what I find so drat brilliant about this movie. It is, at its core, the American success story, just filtered through the incredibly warped form of the American dream (or just the version of capitalism we have now) that exists today. People think this is partially a commentary on the media, but I don't think that's right. Its portrayal of the news industry is the same kind of stuff we've seen all the way back to Network. It's more about the pursuit of success by any means, and how that pursuit can wipe the humanity out from someone. Gilroy uses the media as a way to make that point. And Jake Gyllenhaal, I mean, this is by far the best role he's done to date. Lou Bloom is a walking, talking version of corporate culture. He's a sponge that inhales every sort of quippy phrase, business lingo and piece of false optimism he can find, then spits all of it out at every opportunity he can get. Think Travis Bickle and Patrick Bateman. Anyway, see this movie if you can. Sometimes a great movie can elevate itself because of one terrific scene. I counted at least three of those while watching this.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is probably my favorite actor working today. He is so drat electric on the screen and after seeing Enemy a few weeks ago I am very happy to go and see Nightcrawler this weekend. Great to hear that this film is dope. Jake was in a music video called 'Time To Dance' a few years ago that should wet your whistle for this film, I know it's wettin' mine!
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Howling Man posted:Jake Gyllenhaal is probably my favorite actor working today. He is so drat electric on the screen and after seeing Enemy a few weeks ago I am very happy to go and see Nightcrawler this weekend. Great to hear that this film is dope. Jake was in a music video called 'Time To Dance' a few years ago that should wet your whistle for this film, I know it's wettin' mine! ...good god.
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El Grillo posted:...good god. 
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For the record the music video he's referring to is The Shoes - Time to Dance and Gyllenhaal is loving brilliant in it. http://youtu.be/pt9wnawn7xQ
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88h88 posted:For the record the music video he's referring to is The Shoes - Time to Dance and Gyllenhaal is loving brilliant in it. That is what we were reacting to, yes.
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Gonna be seeing this tomorrow and I'm pretty excited. Came into the thread to mention The Shoes video but I see I've been beaten to it! Guess I'll just reiterate what other people are saying and mention that Gyllenhaal plays a pretty good psycho.
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Just got out of this. Gyllenhaal is great, the movie's close to great, it has some absolutely knockout scenes, and it has the most distractingly bad soundtrack I've heard in a while.
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If this was about 10 minutes shorter it would be even better but as it stands it's my favourite movie of the year, what a knockout performance from Gyllenhaal I might even go see it again in a week or two.
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I like that Jake Gyllenhaal just played a sociopathic store manager with a taste for TV News. All of those platitudes and conversations he had with Rick were hilarious and dead on, and it's funny to think that the worst parts of the movie were when he was just kinda on his own, because flipping between his few different put-ons was awesome, you could see it like a switch in the characters head, which is tough to pull off.
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I never would've guessed ten years ago that Jake Gyllenhall would star in my two favorite films in one year.
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I don't know if it's my favorite of the year, but Jake and Rene sharing a tender moment in the edit bay as Riz Ahmed's horrified face looks down on them is definitely my favorite shot.
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Saw this movie last night and it really didn't do it for me. I liked Gyllenhaal's character and I thought he did a good job with the part (though I didn't think his acting was exceptional), but the movie failed to establish a tight narrative. The tension that was built up seemed to fluctuate in odd ways, as did the tone, and the story just kind of petered out. The satirical element also fell flat for me, but that's maybe because the whole premise of a movie in which a character goes to shocking extremes to get footage for a nightly newscast seems very outdated. All the other characters were serviceable, but nothing was really done with them - they were just there, and didn't really develop much. At the very least I was hoping for beautiful night shots of LA a la Drive, but it didn't even provide that. All in all it struck me as a squandered opportunity.
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morestuff posted:I don't know if it's my favorite of the year, but Jake and Susan sharing a tender moment in the edit bay as Riz Ahmed's horrified face looks down on them is definitely my favorite shot. As with the previous poster saying if it was a bit shorter it would have been a bit better, I thought that would have been a great point to end the film on. Either way though it almost perfectly encapsulated the movie and Lou. I have to say though, I don't think there is anyone around that does creepy/disturbing as good as Gyllenhaal.
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Favorite movie of the year so far. Good poo poo. I'd echo the King of Comedy comparisons and I'd throw in a little Ace in the Hole.
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morestuff posted:Just got out of this. Gyllenhaal is great, the movie's close to great, it has some absolutely knockout scenes, and it has the most distractingly bad soundtrack I've heard in a while. Glad I'm not the only one who had that thought about the soundtrack. That being said though I really enjoyed the movie, Gyllenhaal is really incredible. And there's a couple real standout scenes. The part where They play the Horror House story, and the camera keeps cutting between the gory footage/the news anchors being prompted to keep saying how brutal it is/Lou's smiling face was really creepy and enthralling. Also did anyone notice it seems like if someone calls him Louis, he asks them to call him Lou, and if they call him Lou, he asks to call him Louis? I'd have to watch again to be sure that's what's happening, but it wouldn't surprise me, seems like another bargaining/business kind of trick that the character would be into.
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Blisster posted:Also did anyone notice it seems like if someone calls him Louis, he asks them to call him Lou, and if they call him Lou, he asks to call him Louis? I'd have to watch again to be sure that's what's happening, but it wouldn't surprise me, seems like another bargaining/business kind of trick that the character would be into. That's what he was doing, caught that too. I'm seeing this again next week on IMAX / AVX whatever it is
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I only remembered him doing that to his assistance, as part of his weird dominance manipulation bit. The scene where he stands over him as he dies was really disturbing to me, just in how calm he was. It reminded me of that scene in Falling Down, when the guy is having a heart attack on the golf course, "Now you're going to die, wearing that stupid little hat. How does that feel?" Just in terms of looks and characters, does anyone else feel like this would go great sandwiched between Drive and Gone Girl?
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