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Just seen this, thought the structure was slightly off, but that the performances made up for it. Didn't like Bradley Cooper, but his cokehead impression was spot-on, so the hate was more to do with the fact cokeheads are ridiculously annoying arseholes. J Law in particular put in a great performance. I don't think David O Russell is an amazing filmmaker (he's not too hot on narrative control), but at times he's capable of getting phenomenal performances from the actors, and even his worse stuff can be really enjoyable. Not a five-star film anyway, but pretty excellent.
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BlindSite posted:Something I read when flicking through the imdb page referred to Bale talking to O'Russell about the improv changing the flow and story of the movie and Russell said something to the effect "I care about characters, not stories" and it kind of twigged where the movie was bugging me. Yeah, I've been thinking about this, and I came out of the cinema having really enjoyed the film, but not really connecting with anything in it, and it's exactly how you describe. His films just get lost. And re character over story, he seems concerned about a specific kind of (loser) character, it's difficult to really care about anyone in his films
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