This was infuriating to watch; James Caan should've been up for Best Actor. Then, no one in 1975 stood a chance against Art Carney, in what would butterfly effect into Pacino not winning an Oscar until the '90s, and Denzel Washington having at least one less Best Actor title than he should (no hate to Art Carney, by the way, I actually liked Harry and Tonto).
Great job performance- and script-wise character setting-up to set the scene, paint a picture,…
I was really into this for the first hour or so. Soderbergh-esque fast-talking (and casting) meets a very specific type of early-mid-2000s stylization (whether appealing or deterring) made for an unmistakable carnival ride of a film about a '60s game show creator turned '70s game show host who claimed in the '80s to be an assassin for the CIA (!), before less than a year later recanting (?).
The cast listing for this movie is excellent but unfortunately often underutilized.…
What, were they filming between takes of The Godfather Part II and Young Frankenstein? Casting directly from the pool? Threw in a couple American Graffiti alumnus for good measure?
The party scene we were supposedly getting in Sacha Baron-Cohen's Bohemian Rhapsody, by the way.
There are some great scenes here, and some great scene-performances. Scene-to-scene I was having a good time, but with it's runtime (though, I honestly (and surprisingly) didn't think this was as much of an issue with quantity of characters and storylines running simultaneously) couldn't help but feel things were starting to buckle and get disjointed narratively; into hour two, I was solidly at about a…
Love the part where Tommy Lee Jones looks dead into the camera and says "What are we, some kind of no country for old men?"
Jessica rated Godzilla Minus One
