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Before the Devil Knows Your Dead

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jul 20, 2008.

  1. CentralIllinoisan

    CentralIllinoisan Active Member

    The movie was a so-so heist film, but Hoffman was fantastic.

    And Tomei is drop-dead gorgeous.
     
  2. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

  3. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Your Dead What?
     
  4. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    I think I understand why people thought it was so-so, but I guess I just like Sidney Lumet's filmmaking.
     
  5. ArnoldBabar

    ArnoldBabar Active Member

    I thought it was good filmmaking, but jeebus, what an absolutely punishingly depressing movie. It's just bad things happening followed by worse and worse things happening, with no redemption in the end.
     
  6. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    I felt the same way about Leaving Las Vegas. Absolutely no payoff -- just depressed the fuck out of me an hour into it, then depressed me again ... then again ... and again.

    I'm glad I watched it once ... but never again.
     
  7. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    It was depressing as hell for sure, but I think we all have wondered what makes people like profound alcoholics and downtrodden hookers tick, and Nic Cage and Liz Shue did that very well, in much the way Theron gave a window into the mind of a mass murderer. The movie was really more about the hooker trying to find her humanity. Not entertaining, but engrossing.
     
  8. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Oh, not saying it wasn't engrossing or intriguing. It was both of those.

    But it was also depressing to the point of masochism. Wouldn't watch it again if you paid me.
     
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