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Hard agree. This came out when I was 20. Watching it again years later I couldn't believe how cheesy and OTT it was. It was like an R rated made for tv movie.
I haven't seen Orient Express. I enjoy other movies like The Usual Suspects, The Prestige and Unbreakable where you pick up on a lot of hidden hints on a second watch. I don't see those being there for Saltburn.
Definitely the artist's choice but to my mind he could have thrown just about anything in the montage of deceipt. Maybe I would have appreciated it more if it was leaner with more left to the imagination, like just the pin in the bike tyre.
This film didn't earn it's ending. We flashback to a whole bunch of things happening off camera that were never really strongly hinted at through the course of the movie. I mean I'm surprised they didn't go back and have Oliver in the delivery room when Felix was born.
A good version of this movie finds a way to hint at Oliver's deception while making you hope you're wrong about him.
I agree. I preferred The Irishman as a film, but I found the pacing of this one much better. It may have helped seeing this one in theatre vs streaming at home for The Irishman.
While his defining trait is meant to be his positivity and seeing the best in everyone it comes across as simplistic self delusion. The message I took out of this is he wanted to avoid the responsibility of having a child for a decade and then self delude himself into not seeing the negative impact of abandoning her. This film had a very hollow message.
I was coming here to post something similar - this movie really missed the mark in having a bigger message than how isolating it is to be that massive.
The biggest problem I had was with Charlie. From the promo stuff I heard his defining trait was he saw the best in everyone. By the third time he's going through a monologue about how amazing his daughter is after she's performed a cruel or nasty act you realise how superficial his commentary is. Perhaps the point is about how self delusional Charlie is, but then he recognised he was dying which contradicts that message. Anybody could always see the best in others if their standard response to any news is "you're amazing".
I just came here to see if anyone mentioned this. Bizarre that he was directed to do that, equally bizarre they chose that take.
This thread is dead anyway man.
Just the running motion and agility of a 90-year old. Definitely the face of a 17 or 18-year old.
One of my earliest memories is going to this as a 5-year old in New Zealand. Loved it - glad it didn't have an age limit here. I remember the projector momentarily breaking down and the screen turning red when Batman was fighting the swordsman. Me and my brother were joking that must be all the blood.
The scenes where she runs away are great. She actually gains ground despite moving with the speed and agility of a tank.
Does he have anything better to do?
Usually under heavy makeup you can still make out some mannerisms of the actor. I haven't seen a huge amount of films with Farrell but I thought he did a brilliant job of not letting his mannerisms show through.
One reason to go for a name and not a mid50s unknown is that he's going to be in a spinoff tv series. You need a name star for that these days.
The whole timeline is whack. When we saw Cal in high school it was pretty clearly the early 90s. When we saw Fezco as a kid it looked like the 70s. The birth date is one date you could take literally though, I'm guessing the mishmash of other eras is down to "unreliable storytelling".
Agree 100%. Even as a single episode plot this would be weak, and they're dragging it out all season.
It's really low hanging fruit stuff. Sad as the in episode stories have been decent.
It could have been enough for suspension of disbelief though.
Yup this is true. You have to assume amphibian man shares 99.999999% of his genetic code with a human to make it somewhat legit, which the movie doesn't cover.
Great soundtrack though.
It's in keeping with the first Matrix though. I remember the only promotion we saw for that were teasers pointing us to whatisthematrix.com. The best marketing for a film I can remember in my teens. I'd guess they're trying to recapture that mixture of mystery and hype.
The problem in NZ is a chronic under investment in infrastructure and wellbeing. There's no capital gains tax here so the older generation have just been absolutely creaming the country for all it's worth while putting little back into it. A high percentage of skilled young people head overseas at the first opportunity as the won't be rewarded for their skill here when wealth is so heavily concentrated in capital assets.
The hospitals here are already overflowing and very poorly resourced. Any mass outbreak would overwhelm them.