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DarkImbecile wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 6:08 pm J.C Chandor’s long-gestating Triple Frontier, coming in March

Watched it this morning. Quite a bit of it felt like much-trodden territory but overall still worth it for the performances and Chandor's style, which I've been a fan of from his first movie.

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:27 pm

DarkImbecile wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 6:08 pm J.C Chandor’s long-gestating Triple Frontier, coming in March

Watched it this morning. Quite a bit of it felt like much-trodden territory but overall still worth it for the performances and Chandor's style, which I've been a fan of from his first movie.

I feel like the script aims for moral complexity but fails because it has absolutely zero subtlety or nuance to how it is written. It wants to be Wages of Fear/Sorceror/Treasure of Sierra Madre in a modern context but Boals fails to really execute that in a way that doesn't feel just blunt and obvious.

I do agree that J.C. Chandor elevates the material a little bit. And Oscar Isaac is quite good. The rest of the actors are just okay and Hunnam continutes to amaze in the sense that I don't know how he gets all the high-profile roles that he gets.

Ben Affleck is very good in this, too. I noticed this when I saw The Accountant, that he's at the stage where he can rise above any boring or stock material and make it compelling. Comparatively this isn't as rote but it does feature him in a role which plays off the strengths he has now as he's getting older

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:07 pm Ben Affleck is very good in this, too. I noticed this when I saw The Accountant, that he's at the stage where he can rise above any boring or stock material and make it compelling. Comparatively this isn't as rote but it does feature him in a role which plays off the strengths he has now as he's getting older

Yeah... but I had to laugh at the beginning of the film because so much of Affleck's dialogue is him repeatedly reiterating how tired he is and how much responsibility he has now (P.S. this is such a dad movie).

Also, that "I'm sorry, kid" moment in the village was pretty awful but I don't think I can blame Affleck because it's almost like they used the wrong take or something.