StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
I'm staying the fukk out of this thread until I see the movie.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Jake Gyllenhaal -"Nightcrawler" ..:whew:
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Mortal1
Superstar
Same here me and my and friends are gonna get blown and watch this late night.
Jake better get an oscar nom for this.
He KILLED that performance.
My big complaint is that they showed way too fukking much in the trailers. The best part of the movie by far is Jake's performance, but the action scenes, which there are not a lot of, would have hit that much harder if we didn't know they were coming.
Cinematography was dope as well. You can see a lot of it from the trailers but the night shots with the purple hues are
I absolutely LOVED this movie.........until the last 10 minutes, which I don't think I could've possibly hated more. I mean HATE. Everything after the final chase scene.
The cops, Nina's turn......fukking all of it. Awful. Ruined a GREAT movie.
7/10 because the first 100 minutes were so fukking good.
The cops, Nina's turn......fukking all of it. Awful. Ruined a GREAT movie.
7/10 because the first 100 minutes were so fukking good.
He got one with this 
Roaden Polynice
Superstar
This movie was fukking amazing. fukking amazing. Funny, in your face satirical, well acted, amazing writing, paced wonderfully. This was sort of the whole package
Ended a tad bit abruptly/oddly, but fukk it. What came before it was worth it alone.
Ended a tad bit abruptly/oddly, but fukk it. What came before it was worth it alone.
Gotta wait until monday to see this piff 
going to see this tomorrow after work
hope i didn't read spoilers hereFrom the opening frames, 'Nightcrawler' invokes classic LA movies like 'Collateral' and 'Heat', an LA far away from the Hollywood strip, a grim, urban wasteland, whose inhabitants fight to hopelessly survive as late night security guards, copper thieves, car thieves, where the lights protect few, and the sun spares no one, as it washes out another day.
Gyllenhalls' performance is fantastic, he's done similar roles before, but this is the cumulative result, frenetic, disciplined, disturbed, tightly wound urban everyday psycho, spewing corporate psycho babble, from the the authors in the motivational speaking and improve your business section. I loved the early scenes of him, and how he meticulously approached the business of 'Nightcrawling', which itself if a bleak metaphor for the ugliest side of humanity. People compete, wake up at ungodly hours, to sell the misery of others to the highest bidder, so the corporations can drive their ratings up, Joe Citizen can feel informed, and bland, emotionless, hollow anchormen and women can earn their salary. This is peoples lives.
So, it's only fitting that a just slightly more deprived individual would rise to the top of the particular cesspool. His 'partner' was great, providing comic relief and humanity, a good straight man to the careening out of control Lou Bloom, who doesn't stop at murder, sabotage, sexual blackmail to 'make the most of his opportunities'. The 'Horror House' scenes and the rising action are the best in the film, tense, ugly, realistic, human nature at it's blackest. Again, I thought very similar to Michael Mann's work, and some of David Ayer, in it's depiction of that side of LA. As soon as I saw a few details, I knew the 'secret' behind the horror house. The scenes in the diner were amazing.
The scenes with the police, in the aftermath, and with Nina weren't handled well, I thought they were obvious and heavy handed, over the top, though I got the message, and liked it, it felt like a hammer hitting the audience in the head. Who, perhaps, as avid watchers of news, needed it. There was also a great subtext and undercurrent of the kind of philosophy Lou Bloom embraces, an indictment of the kind of corporate thinking and 'business world motivation' that I loved, as Bloom uses it to justify increasingly depraved acts,
A very strong film, that looses some steps in the final act, or the conclusion. I thought either a more realistic, or darker ending would have been stronger. I don't think I needed the message I thought the ending sent.
Gyllenhalls' performance is fantastic, he's done similar roles before, but this is the cumulative result, frenetic, disciplined, disturbed, tightly wound urban everyday psycho, spewing corporate psycho babble, from the the authors in the motivational speaking and improve your business section. I loved the early scenes of him, and how he meticulously approached the business of 'Nightcrawling', which itself if a bleak metaphor for the ugliest side of humanity. People compete, wake up at ungodly hours, to sell the misery of others to the highest bidder, so the corporations can drive their ratings up, Joe Citizen can feel informed, and bland, emotionless, hollow anchormen and women can earn their salary. This is peoples lives.
So, it's only fitting that a just slightly more deprived individual would rise to the top of the particular cesspool. His 'partner' was great, providing comic relief and humanity, a good straight man to the careening out of control Lou Bloom, who doesn't stop at murder, sabotage, sexual blackmail to 'make the most of his opportunities'. The 'Horror House' scenes and the rising action are the best in the film, tense, ugly, realistic, human nature at it's blackest. Again, I thought very similar to Michael Mann's work, and some of David Ayer, in it's depiction of that side of LA. As soon as I saw a few details, I knew the 'secret' behind the horror house. The scenes in the diner were amazing.
The scenes with the police, in the aftermath, and with Nina weren't handled well, I thought they were obvious and heavy handed, over the top, though I got the message, and liked it, it felt like a hammer hitting the audience in the head. Who, perhaps, as avid watchers of news, needed it. There was also a great subtext and undercurrent of the kind of philosophy Lou Bloom embraces, an indictment of the kind of corporate thinking and 'business world motivation' that I loved, as Bloom uses it to justify increasingly depraved acts,
A very strong film, that looses some steps in the final act, or the conclusion. I thought either a more realistic, or darker ending would have been stronger. I don't think I needed the message I thought the ending sent.
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Mortal1
Superstar
Definitely a career defining performance from Jake in this he controlled the movie the minute he appeared on screen easily a front-runner for the Oscars.
Pedro Negro
Reefer & Sneakers
Great movie.
JG killed every aspect of his performance and really channeled his inner Travis Bickle with this flick. His characters eccentric tics were equally parts funny/amusing and downright creepy.
Rene Russo could get it at 60.
JG killed every aspect of his performance and really channeled his inner Travis Bickle with this flick. His characters eccentric tics were equally parts funny/amusing and downright creepy.
Rene Russo could get it at 60.
showing at 3:20pm brehs, an hour and twenty minutes. killing time.
See since it just dropped i might wait. Im off early and wanna go to the movies. Either Fury or Wick...I'll wait another week for this
Silver Surfer
Veteran
going at 4:15...leaving work early because I have "kids"
