"The Goldfinch" tries hard to be a masterwork like the painting that shares its title but ends up feeling more like a forgery.
The cast for this is insane
Guess we are all seeing Hustlers this week
"The Goldfinch" tries hard to be a masterwork like the painting that shares its title but ends up feeling more like a forgery.
I remember seeing the trailer for this in the theater and thinking the entire time that it was trying really hard to be Academy Award Winning Film.
Baby Driver was pretty kickass.Jeez, poor Ansel Elgort. Looks like his career peaked with The Fault in our Stars.
Baby Driver was pretty kickass.
He is in the Spielberg directed remake of West Side Story
I am still Day 1 on Cats.Hmm, well musicals tend to do pretty well nowadays so he might go okay, unless Cats sinks that genre with how fucking creepy it looks...
Warner Bros is still looking pretty good as far as their Oscars bench is concerned. Joker will probably get a best actor nom, Just Mercy seems right up the academys alley and Motherless Brooklyn will probably get something.
I always end up looking at the book at stores but I've never bought it. I've honestly not heard that much about it.
I read the synopsis for the book and it sounds like the most indulgent high on it's own farts bullshit I seen in a long time
I read the synopsis for the book and it sounds like the most indulgent high on it's own farts bullshit I seen in a long time
Oh cool. Maybe I'll get around to it after I finally read The Overstory. I can probably only read one winner at a time.Shame, the book is tremendous. Oh well, people should just read the book then.
It actually won the Pulitzer
I read the synopsis for the book and it sounds like the most indulgent high on it's own farts bullshit I seen in a long time
For me, it's always lovely to see a movie that is so blatantly engineered to be an Oscar bait to fail spectacularly.
For me, it's always lovely to see a movie that is so blatantly engineered to be an Oscar bait to fail spectacularly.
Uh, that's untrue. This seems to be a miss, however. Shame - the book was a good read.
I enjoyed the book but never understood how anyone would find it an entertaining plot to base a movie off of
I'm in the same camp. It might have worked as a slow tv series, but as a movie? This is expected, unfortunately.I enjoyed the book but never understood how anyone would find it an entertaining plot to base a movie off of