Just watched pic related and loved it what are your guys thoughts?

I watch it yesterday and I love it. Very sad and realistic. Affleck's acting was superb.

>>78916871
Great acting, great characters, great movie. Not sure whether this or Moonlight wins best movie, both really great movies.

i like the subtlety of it, especially the kind-of-happy ending

it was good.

a little melodramatic at times.

the whole banter formula became a meme after a while. the script did it like ten times, and it was annoying.

>>78917736
Was it happy though i mean lou is basically forever in a downward spiral of loneliness and alcoholism

>>78916871

It was great except for Matthew "It was an accident" Broderick.

>>78917584

I 100% agree with this but neither has a shot against the Hollywank musical.

>>78917916
Yeah that was a really distracting casting choice but i guess he was in one of the directors other movies

>>78916871
Cried at scene related. Casey solidified himself as the Alphaffleck. I love the North Shore and seeing this makes me so excited to be moving back.

>>78917955
Never doubt the power of a historical movie starring black females

>>78916871
Much better than Hacksaw Meme, acting was also incredible across the board.

A bit overly long and unfocused at times though.

>>78918001
He really is the superior actor i am really looking forward to that lewis and clark mini series on hbo

>>78916871
Loved it when I saw it and it continues to grow on me

>>78917907
he wants an apartment with 2 rooms

he found connection with his nephew

it is a small step towards recovery

>>78916871
Also just got back from watching it, there were two groups of women on our row that were talking, thankfully one group left and we took their seats to get some quiet. Regardless, I really enjoyed it.

The scene with Casey and Michelle Williams late in the film was really heartbreaking, I haven't felt so emotional about one scene in a long time.

>>78918099
I'm kind of hopin for a Batffleck flick set in Boston with Casey as Robin, Matt Damon as Joker, and Markie Mark as Comm Gordon.

>>78918567
>The scene with Casey and Michelle Williams late in the film was really heartbreaking, I haven't felt so emotional about one scene in a long time.
That scene was fucking perfect, I mean it. It felt so natural and on point, the awkward buildup and how it just bursted all out. Hit me really hard and immediate. It's the kind of scene that just gets you and that you remember for a long time.

I enjoyed the film, but I went in knowing nothing and found it somewhat hard to follow at the beginning. The flashbacks and flashfowards, plus the lack of introduction to characters to establish who or what relations where. Maybe I wasn't paying attention or missed small lines, I thought it was the father who died in the beginning, and thought George was the brother at first. Thought Patrick on the boat was supposed to be a third son who was just real young compared to his brothers, not Joe's son and Lee's nephew, which I didn't correct until later on at Joe's place.

I accept that I may just be bad at following cues, though.

Can't believe I share a board with you plebs

>>78919676
I liked how it was nonlinear. I was laughing pretty hard when he was dealing with the tenants early in the film, had they opened with the burning kids that wouldn't have worked. Some of the stuff was confusing, I thought his father died too and I thought the guy from the boat was his brother at first, but it paid off when the story started unraveling.

>>78920396
Oh, I had no issue with the non-linearity of the film, and the tenants were definitely funny, I just wish the flashbacks/forwards perhaps had a better visual or way of denoting they were in the past. He goes from talking about Dr. Bethany to Dr. Bethany being in the scene and talking to Joe, who we previously hadn't seen the face of, with Lee being in the corner and only his back visible.

I'm glad I was the only one who made those same two mistakes, since I thought the father died and George's reaction was meant to juxtapose against Lee's completely muted emotions, which it was, but with slightly different relationships.

Loved it bet felt the ending was abrupt. So far my favorite best picture nom. But got a few more to watch.

I think all the acting and not just Afflecks was top notch except for the sons little panic attack scene. His performance was still good but that scene felt a little off.
I liked the first half way more than the second half. The second half was definitely dragging and the conclusion was extremely underwhelming. There were times when the music could have been scaled back a little bit but thats a minor complaint.
Overall a really good movie that kinda fails to deliver on the emotion its built up.
I would be shocked if Casey Affleck doesnt win best actor, and frankly he deserves it far more than anyone else nominated. Only way he could lose is if the white guilt takes hold of all the voters

>>78916871
>There was a man like this where I live
>Nobody trusts him, parents warned me to stay away from him
>out shopping with mom one day
>one day see a scene just like this where he's talking to a woman and they are both crying
>never really saw that guy around again

That was all years ago but I was strongly reminded of that. I hadn't thought about it in years.

>>78919022
I thought that scene and the scene at the police station were absolutely brilliant. So much emotional impact without typical oscar bait IM ACTINGGGGG moments

>>78916871
I cannot imagine anyone but Casey Affleck winning best Actor, and he was an actor I used to hate.

>>78917978
>not understanding that broderick had a connection to the main character of this movie

come on now you guys have no eye

>>78919676
yeah you're just dumb

The only bad thing about this film is that stock "GASP" soundbyte they used in both bar fight scenes.

Why did they even put that shit in the movie?

>>78916871
the kid was a dick

>>78921023
to trigger your autism

>>78921023
I assume same reason you get the wilhelm scream in films.

I agree with you though—that sound effect was distracting and made me think the bar fight scenes were to be comedic. I was expecting upbeat, old-timey music to start playing.

Maybe they were meant to be comedic scenes?

>>78916871
Brilliant. Best american release in years.

>>78917801
>a little melodramatic at times.

fair. but I think it did it well with it, it seemed pretty natural with the context of the movie

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They both definitely deserve the Oscar

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>>78921039
and his gf was ugly

>>78921023
kek

Saw it today. Was a little underwhelmed. Mostly because I don't understand the son's reaction to his father passing. It's almost as if he didn't care. He cares about his dad being frozen, yet he didn't care that he was dead to begin with.

I felt the movie falls off topic too often so we can see more petty arguments between Lee and his nephew.

I would say the movie was as entertaining as Birdman. Not what I was hoping for and a disappointment.

>>78917955
>>78920796
I'm seeing Denzel, Viola, and Mahershala taking the acting Oscars, Barry Jenkins getting best director, and then the Academy not feeling so guilty for crowning La La.

>>78925630
Patrick and Lee knew this was coming for a few years, and I think Patrick took cues from his uncle's stoicism in his reaction to his father's death. It did slip out from time to time like with the nail-on-head frozen chicken scene, but I think they expressed their pain through sarcasm and ball-busting comments between the two of them. It's only when Patrick realizes that Lee is taking a step back from being a part of his life that he can truly mourn all that he has lost.

>>78917801
This movie didn't have much banter. Hell or High Water was the banter film of last year.

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>>78917907
>lou

>>78916871
It was pretty good, could've been longer though.

>>78925630
> It's almost as if he didn't care
No, the point is that he was trying too hard to make it seem like he didn't care. Like a teenage dudebro. "Lol. Whatever" kind of attitude when deep down he was shaken.

>>78925630
Due to his father's condition, he had been anticipating his father's passing for quite some time. The implication is that he had already spent the majority of his childhood coming to terms with it.

"There's nothing there..."
;_;

no depth at all. generic slice of life mild tragedy drama trash. this years boyhood nominee.

patricks Star Trek fan friends should have approached casey affleck and said "time is the fire in which we burn" then he could have freaked out and assaulted them and we would think lmao wtf? then learn later why.

>>78926681
wat

>>78916871
oscar bait

>>78926733
have you ever seen star trek generations?

>>78926915
I just started watching it today actually

>>78926766
Nah, that would be Hidden Figures.

>>78917916
I thought it was appropriate since both the character and the actor are unsettling people

>>78926915
>I can't believe we're talking about Star Trek right now.
Shut your teenage cum-trap. Soon as she ruined that conversation my wife leaned over and said "Fuck her, she sucks."

>>78916871
I just saw it, and two women leaving the theater said "It was sad but I didn't like the ending"
10/10 LITERALLY "women will never understand" core kino

>>78926945
the movie called star trek generations not the tv show.

.explaining my joke now. spoilers but who cares. in ST:G picard is informed his brother and nephews have died in a fire. later in the film malcolm mcdowell who somehow knows this information says the line time is the fire in which we burn to picard to seriously fuck with him.

>>78927065

As someone who loves this movie I would say the ending is one of its weakest aspects. Still good but Lonergan's weakest ending by far.

>>78927038
Kara's character reminded Lee of Elise while Baryshnikov reminded him of Randi, that's why he assented to their relationship

>>78922380
>hover-3-fingers

what did he mean by this

>>78927089

The Manchester scene is a Freud reference you uneducated geek

>>78927065
at my theater as the ending faded to black a man in the theater said aloud "you have to be kidding me" to which there was much agreement from the rest of the audience. I have no idea what the plebs were expecting...

>>78927103
>I'm sorry, Patty, I can't beat it
that's a good ending, not every thing is a fucking fairy tale

>>78927214

How is that the ending scene in your tiny mind?

I am talking about the literal ending moment in the film which is good but not amazing.

>>78927128
please help me understand the (((Freud))) reference.

>>78927279
>they fish at the beginning
>they fish at the end
it's pure poetry, what's wrong with that?

>>78927300

There is a dream described in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in which a father hears his daughters tell him that they are burning. A direct reference.

>>78916871
I think he should have put the screen on.

>>78927324

Do you know how to read? I have repeatedly said it's good. It is however too schematic and blatant for Lonergan.

>>78927358
thank you but i never referenced that scene. go back through the reply chain.

the only Freud i have read is civilization and its discontents anyway could not give a fuck less about his dream interpretations. but props to you.

>>78927475

I meant the Star Trek thing is just coincidental bro

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mfw I saw a place they filmed this on the way home from the theatah

The police station scene was some of the best acting I've seen in a long time. Affleck better win the Oscar, desu.

>>78927543
i know it is i am making a shit joke only trek autists like me would get.

>>78927627

After tonight it seems likely that he will lose

>>78927638

Nerd

>>78927125
Trying not to get another sexual harassment charge

>>78927640
what happened

>>78927640
He's got the Critics Choice, the Golden Globe, and will most likely win the BAFTA, seeing as how Denzel isn't nominated. Add to that the probability that Denzel's win at SAG was probably a consolation prize for never having won one, and I'd still put my money on Casey winning.

>>78927694
He lost the SAG award to Denzel.

>>78927695

SAG is more important than all 3 especially given Denzel isn't even nommed at the BAFTAS. The sexual charges in Affleck's past also hurt. It'll be a race but I think Denzel has the edge

Melodramatic garbage that tried way too hard to be depressing to give off the impression that it was a meaningful film.

Also the conversation misunderstanding shtick throughout the film was annoying

overall the pleb (who doesn't think they're pleb)'s best picture pick

>>78927905
I agree. What is your oscar best picture pick?

>>78928254
Arrival.

>>78928254
arrival

>>78928270
>>78928285
lmfao

the short story is so much better the movie should not exist

The only 10/10 rating I gave last year and thus best of imo.

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>>78927565

>tfw your city gets the best kino

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>>78929499
>Boston
>Wahlberg
>implying I'm some dumb Southie Irish thug instead of an intelligent New Englander from the North Showah

Margaret is better because of the way it habdles different sides of main character. this was.just hitting one note

lost my shit when he gets home and it's up in flames
lost my shit even more when he takes the police officers gun and tries to shoot himself
;_;

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>classic music being played over average boring scenes

This movie was slightly pretentious and tried to romanticized a snownigger hick town. Nothing romantic about a boring dead frozen town, no wonder casey wanted to leave the fuck outta inbredistand and move back to bahston.

>>78927695
I hope you are right anon, Casey deserves that Oscar.

>>78927695
SAG are more important

people who vote for critics and globes don't get to vote for oscars

SAG is made up of people who vote for oscars

>>78927759
>He lost the SAG award to Denzel.

Given how surprised Denzel looked wouldn't surprise me if it was a female revenge vote

Given how Casey Affleck is playing the same role he has played for more than a decade I wouldn't give him Oscar for it.

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>>78931363
Hey baby how ya doin?

Plasma fires are healthy.

no no no...no.

>bad things keep happening to the good guy for no reason
>bad supporting actors
it was ok, wouldnt watch it again

>>78932371
>good guy.
umm

who?

>when Lee quietly mutters "there's nothing there" in the discussion with his ex.
that was some fucking scene

i mean that alone is fucking Oscar tier moment

can't believing people are shilling this movie so hard.

>>78932371
How was Lee a "good guy"? He was an irresponsible alcoholic who killed all of his children. Just because he's the main focus of the film, doesn't mean he's a "good guy".

>>78935282
>yfw he even remembers, head full of coke and alcohol, that he forgot to put the shield and decides to go on to shop anyway.

>>78935425
That's what booze does to you.

>>78926470
This

Casey Affleck is a rapist. Ruins the film.

>>78936839
Everything is rape today.

>>78916871
Patrick looks like martha plimpton. Good movie overall, though.

>>78932371
this

>>78927038
>babby's first sci fi
That teenage cum trap has patrician tastes.

i was reading some of the posts over at the IMDB message boards and it seemed everybody hated affleck's performance. i couldn't believe it. just because he wasn't chewing the scenery it doesn't mean his performance wasn't incredible. i have a feeling a lot of them were feminist cunts though who are triggered by the sexual harassment accusations.

>>78936839
Anon is a rapist. Ruins the comment.

too real for me. loved it though. casey looks like a lot like forsen (twitch streamer) in this movie

>>78940340
you sound like a faggot

>>78940377
nah but keep looking, man. you'll find the right guy for you someday

>>78932371
>>bad supporting actors
All the supporting actors were great, apart from the Irish murdering Kike out of nowhere.

>>78929499
too bad its a shithole city dominated by subpar Ben Affleck movies

>>78938941
Dont even bother reading it. Most of the criticism is: BOOORINGGG, overhyped, overrated. No actual critique or opinion provided.

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>>78941080
>Most of the criticism is: BOOORINGGG, overhyped, overrated. No actual critique or opinion provided.
Almost every /tv/ thread about this movie short of this one said the same thing.

>>78940989

who the fuck is the irish murdering kike? do i need to speak /pol/tard to understand who you're referring to?

>>78928254
La La Land
>>78928270
>>78928285
>>>>R/Movies

>>78941144
Nope, most /tv/ criticism of this film haven't called it boring, /tv/ has called it forced drama.

I had to correct the record.

>>78941804
Ferris Bueller.

>>78941144
That's because both IMDB and /tv/ are Plen shitholes for people who enjoy superhero movies.

>>78941874
>/tv/ has called it forced drama
I don't get how this is even a valid argument. Every single movie is scripted, they're all forced drama.

Also the main character actively tried to avoid any drama other than when he had a particular shitty and started a bar fight.

>>78941939
The idea is that a guy who burns down his house and kills his children, gets divorced, has a dying brother suffering from one of the rarest heart diseases on the planet and whose job means he has to clean a woman's shit out of a toilet and on top of everything have to adopt another kid made some people feel like such circumstances are too unbelievable and go beyond even Lifetime melodrama, going into forced drama territory.

dishonest, boring piece of garbage

>>78942065
His house burned down because he was druggie/alcoholic, which isn't rare.

The heart disease is rare, but for the cinematic storytelling, fine enough device.

>>78942065
This, fucking hell this movie tried insanely hard to be depressing so that people would think it has any depth.

>main character literally kills THREE children in a fire
why couldn't he just have had one kid? why the fuck did they need to have him accidentally kill all of his children, the three of them? because the film wanted to be as depressing as possible. melodrama tier.

>>78942285
>People can't have three kids and their father can't be alcoholic.
lol