Eddington

[the shadow]

Pedro again

 

[Nitefly]

Soooo excited for this… Ari Astar is a genius.

But yeah, more Pedro?!?

Edit: at the moment he’s like fennel.

You’re like, yum, tasty salad… And then… fennel?!

 

[Ayahuasca]

It's all about Joaquin Phoenix

 

[Glanza]

 

[rids57]

Now that looks worth some popcorn

 

[Feek]

Assumed this was going to be a docudrama about Paul.

 

[Glanza]

 

[Scam]

Excited for this. Love a neo-Western.

 

[Glanza]

 

[imtoooldforthis]

You know this film is going to cause culture war mayhem when the user review scores are like this before its even come out !

 

[Darujhistan]

Narcos seems like a 1,000 years ago, now Captain Beta Soy is in everything.

 

[imtoooldforthis]

This was good but right wing America will hate it and not understand the message and think it’s one massive criticism of them, which it’s not.

 

[Shamikebab]

It was fairly good. It's pretty much written just to make people mad but it's definitely not 'anti Republican' It critiques and parodies all kinds of extremism. It's a bit too long and it felt like they thought the end would have more emotional impact than it does.

 

[SimonRigga]

I thought this was a mess of a film, seems to parody both sides to me.. started off quite well.. but then just went completely off the rails..

Spoiler: Spoiler

The Sherrif snipering the mayor, just seems to have almost no build up, i mean an argument and a slap.. seriously!?!?! and then to turn into rambo without rambo's consideration for what he's shooting at .. it's almost comic, but isn't quite..

 

[Nitefly]

My thoughts on this from the daily film thread.

Eddington (at the cinema)

A small town in New Mexico becomes divided in a mayoral election.

I had very high expectations, being an Ari Astar (director) fan and did find it disappointing, in truth. Combo breaker. But there’s bemusement and intrigue to be found… if you’re prepared to wait…

It’s never as outright silly and in your face as 2001’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ but that’s the broad territory that Eddington is in, with ridicule at hypocrisy of modern politics and conspiracy theories.

Ultimately, it was nowhere near as funny or profound as ‘Beau is Afraid’, and the various skews on political beliefs and themes, especially with the curve ball ‘outro / epilogue’, just made it feel like a cacophony by the end.

There were at least a few chuckles. My favourite storyline was probably:

Spoiler

… the kid falling over himself to extreme ‘woke’ beliefs in order to impress a girl.

It was also impossible to see where it was going, classic Astar, which I always appreciate.

7/10 - sometimes clever, sometimes funny, but not the pinnacle of either.

Edit- updated score.

 

[Scam]

I thought this was a mess of a film, seems to parody both sides to me.. started off quite well.. but then just went completely off the rails..

Spoiler: Spoiler

The Sherrif snipering the mayor, just seems to have almost no build up, i mean an argument and a slap.. seriously!?!?! and then to turn into rambo without rambo's consideration for what he's shooting at .. it's almost comic, but isn't quite..

I don’t agree that it was a mess, it’s pretty entertaining and worth a watch but I totally agree about what’s in your spoiler tag. Felt like I missed something!

 

[Nitefly]

I don’t agree that it was a mess, it’s pretty entertaining and worth a watch but I totally agree about what’s in your spoiler tag. Felt like I missed something!

Spoiler

My take was he was projecting rage from his own powerlessness, especially humiliation of his failing marriage.

The snapping point was the hobo in the bar, showing him that he was clearly ‘wrong’ (hobo WAS a menace and a danger… and observably probably having COVID) despite him trying to do what he thought was right.

So he thrashed out and shot him.

*****

In hindsight, I think I will ‘upgrade’ my score to 7/10.

Astar’s films linger on my mind like a rich, smokey whisky does on my tongue… sometimes it feels as though you can still taste them the next day. I like that they have that effect on me.