Paul very famously gets the best performances out of his actors for his whole career when the f*** else was Wahlberg interesting or Cruise that crazy Sandler that deep etc etc etc nobody crafts roles for actors like this except for maybe Mike Leigh who has his own unique process for it.

Punch drunk love is goated by filmmakers and film lovers and regular folks

Sandler called PTA to ask about the Safdies before uncut gems too

What I mean is nepotism and relationships got them those roles not their acting abilities. He gave them the scripts with their names on it before they even knew it existed. I’m confident anyone else could’ve gave those same performances and people would still praise PTA for “getting such a performance out of them” when in reality it’s not like they’re playing some sort of Pacino or DDL esque role where the script is pretty much an afterthought to their abilities, anyone could’ve read for this and it would’ve made sense due to the mundane nature of the movie but he wrote this specifically for them, it’s not a shock that he would work so hard to help them out if he’s the one casting.

Now I ask, do you think he would put that time into writing this if he didn’t think they could pull it off? This is just a self-indulgent passion project that Hollywood is gonna blindly fund and people think they have to like due to the person behind it.

And that’s exactly what I mean, these people have his d*** so far down their throats that they fail to realize they’re just proving my point. They see me criticizing the poor screenwriting and how boring/self-indulgent this movie is and just change topic to say but man look at how he got them to act. Well no s***, he’s a good director but this isn’t a good movie.

His last 3 movies all suffer from the same issues and if his last 3 movies were some new directors first 3 movies they would be received extremely differently is all I’m saying.

y’all get too pressed about fiction bro

hot take: i thought licorice pizza was a good movie

not every movie should go from A to B, it’s dope we get something different

good movie. hope he makes more.

this. just bad timing. i still laughed and I’m Asian. I made sure to laugh a little louder than normal tho to make white ppl uncomfortable

oh damn u just put me onto mike leigh gonna have to peep some of his s***

Finally saw it, 6.5/10 for me

John C. Reilly cameo

Whats was the point of the stalker "12" guy at the end of the movie? Maybe I'm missing something

Safdie was a communist ?

Some shots had me

Mums visiting and she fell asleep to Brazil and Dune but made it all the way through this

stalker guy was tryna get dirt on Safdie’s character to ruin his chances at an election

People care way too much about plot imo.

Mike Leigh is legit one of the greatest British directors of all time, and possible the best currently living.

I think every film he’s ever made has gotten 4 stars from Ebert.

lol did @elric block me for being associated w @twitch

why he never reply to me anymore

Nice

I prefer The Archers, David Lean, and Laurence Olivier the best from the Isle of Britannia. Plus Hitchcock too.

More studios need to start using Vimeo, Reeves shared every Batman trailer there and they look crisp as hell

Lmao that lame claim he blocked me yet still talks about me. He cap 🧢

S*** like a month old and he still in here crying cus I called him out for sounding sus. Get over it.

no wonder you didn’t like it that much, you didn’t even understand all of the movie