- BeanpolePeckerwood
- May 4, 2004
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I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK
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The trunk shot reveals a tchotchke. De Niro has less than 5 minutes of screen time, and his threat miraculously evaporates.
I wish he hadn't been in the movie at all. I'm terribly sick of his mobster spiel. But I also though Louie CK was miscast, so I might be the rtard here.
I think the bigger problem here is Adams excels in roles that require more subtlety and this one was so oversaturated with over-the-top acting that she was out of place.
She was the only one that truly blew me away. Cooper basically reprised his role from Silver Linings, Lawrence did a bit too only with a touch more sadism, and Christian Bale did his Christian Bale thing.
Why Adams was great: women with bottom of the barrel self-esteem tend to have a few traits, the most important of which is that their mouths curl downwards every time their face is at rest like they're always frowning. I can't recall any actress ever doing this in film history. They also tend to want to be anybody but themselves. Part of that is written into the role, but you can hear just how much she doesn't want to be herself in the first 30 minutes of the movie and how she thinks Irv is her ticket out of that. And then when she was acting as Lady Greensleeve, half of that stuff went away because she didn't have to be herself. She had the body language down and she carried herself with dignity and had great posture to boot. When she tells Richie she isn't who she said she is, all of those old issues come back, particularly the frowning. When she tells Richie, she's looking for someone who wants her to be her, thinking that'd be Richie, and it isn't. My favorite part is even in the end of the movie, that stuff doesn't disappear. She's just a bit older and has firmer object relations.
I think the best part about Adams' performance is that, as Lady Greensleeve, the accent was atrocious, changed locales a few times, and went in and out.
God, this is all spot-on.
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- BeanpolePeckerwood
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I think my biggest problem with Russell is that I am just not on his wavelength when it comes to humor. His "comedic" scenes really just come across as awkward and painful to watch. Like, the scene where Bradley Cooper is beating the poo poo out of Louis C.K. feels like it's edited like a comedy sketch, (my audience seemed to support that assumption) and I just thought it was repulsive and unfunny. And most of his comedy seems based around people yelling "quirky" things over-top one another. Same basic thing happened in Silver Linings when the cast gets together in one room and yells at each other for 3 minutes straight to clumsily come up with the stakes for the climax.
Oh and that scene where Amy Adams reveals that she's not who she is, and Bradley Cooper starts sexually assaulting her, creeped me the gently caress out and that felt like it was trying to be funny as well.
But it didn't have the offensive undertones (Look how funny and quirky mental unstable people are!) that were in Silver Linings Playbook, so I guess I would tepidly call American Hustle an improvement.
Those aren't the funny parts, so you're probably correct to think that you aren't on his wavelength. No offense, hopefully.
Also, it's hilarious to me that people are calling I Heart Huckabees 'boring and pretentious' when it's basically a satire of people and schools of thought that are 'boring and pretentious'. Boy did you miss the boat on that one.
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