[Taltarzac725]

Nocturnal Animals (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes

Really did not like much of this.

Anyone else see it?

[Debfrommaine]

Saw it, agree, no good.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Debfrommaine

Saw it, agree, no good.

The very beginning had me wanting to stop watching it. And that had 400 lb women dancing mostly naked and posed on tables. Maybe some kind of statement on the standards of feminine beauty. I suppose the Venus of Willendorf was beautiful in her time. Venus of Willendorf - Wikipedia Probably because most of the women at that time were quite thin as they would have been searching for food and tending children during muck of their short lives.

[Bellaboy]

I walked out about 10 minutes in

[John_W]

I must of watched a different movie. A story within a story, actually the story within is the majority of the film. I found it, pretty interesting. Jake playing a sort of coward type character was a bit unusal. The cop played by Michael Shannon is one scary dude. However, I'm probably a little bias since Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal are two of my favorite actors and I had just seen Arrival and gave that a 10, that is one of the best sci-fi movies I've seen in a long time. I gave Nocturnal Animals an 8 out of 10.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by John_W

I must of watched a different movie. A story within a story, actually the story within is the majority of the film. I found it, pretty interesting. Jake playing a sort of coward type character was a bit unusal. The cop played by Michael Shannon is one scary dude. However, I'm probably a little bias since Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal are two of my favorite actors and I had just seen Arrival and gave that a 10, that is one of the best sci-fi movies I've seen in a long time. I gave Nocturnal Animals an 8 out of 10.

I enjoyed Arrival quite a bit and Amy Adams is one of my favorite actresses. Amy Adams - Rotten Tomatoes

[Chi-Town]

I like Amy Adams, but I needed GPS to follow Arrival.

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[John_W]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

I like Amy Adams, but I needed GPS to follow Arrival.

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Watch it again, I've seen it in the theater and on DVD, I'll grant you that the film is a little complicated. Think about Amy's character and how she kept getting flashes of the future. Without giving away the story, the aliens came here for one reason, to warn us.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

I like Amy Adams, but I needed GPS to follow Arrival.

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That's funny. I do need a flow chart to understand some really complicated movies or TV shows. Game of Thrones for instance. And the books seem hundreds of times more complicated than the cable shows.

[paulat585]

Just watched it last night & both of us loved it. Granted, it was no Citizen Kane, but kept our interest to the end. But then, Jake is one of my favorites.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by paulat585

Just watched it last night & both of us loved it. Granted, it was no Citizen Kane, but kept our interest to the end. But then, Jake is one of my favorites.

It just seemed so cynical and dark to me. I am not much of a fan of Citizen Kane. There are many movies I enjoyed a great deal more.

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[John_W]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

It just seemed so cynical and dark to me. I am not much of a fan of Citizen Kane. There are many movies I enjoyed a great deal more.

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Tal, you missed the point. In movie circles, 'Citizen Kane' was picked as the greatest film of the first half of the 20th Century. That included Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and so many other great films. It's not that you have to like Citizen Kane, but it's the yard stick that every other film is judged against. So when someone said, 'it's no Citizen Kane', it's like saying a baseball player is no Babe Ruth, whether you liked him or not, his numbers speak for themself.

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by John_W

....It's not that you have to like Citizen Kane, but it's the yard stick that every other film is judged against. So when someone said, 'it's no Citizen Kane', it's like saying a baseball player is no Babe Ruth, whether you liked him or not, his numbers speak for themself.

I agree to a certain extent with you. But Babe's numbers are irrefutable. Judgment of any movie...including Citizen Kane, which I like very much...is largely subjective.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Polar Bear

I agree to a certain extent with you. But Babe's numbers are irrefutable. Judgment of any movie...including Citizen Kane, which I like very much...is largely subjective.

There have been some Best Pictures over the years that I thought were just OK. Saving Private Ryan vs. Shakespeare in Love for instance. There was a very upset Villager's daughter when the movie she had worked on as an assistant casting director-- Saving Private Ryan lost the Best Picture to Shakespeare in Love.

Birdman is another one that I thought was just OK. Birdman (film - Wikipedia)

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

...Birdman is another one that I thought was just OK...

I agree with you about Birdman. I even like Michael Keaton. But I thought that movie was a flagrant example of Hollywood and the Academy Awards taking themselves much too seriously.