Strickland33
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Nightcrawler. Holy shit. mdmh might be right about Jake Gyllenhaal.
On a different note, I just saw Nightcrawler and it was great. A+, a top 5 film of the year for me, if not the best. Gyllenhaal is magnetic in the lead role, and it's the best of his career. The pace of the film picks up fairly quickly and never really slows down. A lot of people are comparing it to Taxi Driver, and I agree with that comparison to a point, though I honestly think that Jake Gyllenhaal is more effective in his portraying a pure sociopath. DeNiro as Travis Bickle showed some shreds of humanity for the audience to sympathize with, where Gyllenhaal is an unrelenting void. I felt like I needed a shower after the film.
Oh jeez the mdmhhottakes just keep getting hotter.
So you've seen Nightcrawler, and don't agree that Gyllenhaal was "more effective in portraying a pure sociopath" than DeNiro from Taxi Driver? That's fine. My opinion is that there have probably been a few films where sociopathic tendencies were more accurately portrayed than in Taxi Driver. That doesn't take away from Taxi Driver being a great film, or from DeNiro's acclaim for his role in it.
"Is Current Cinema as Good as the Romanticized 1970s Golden Age?"
http://filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/current-cinema-good-romanticized-1970s-golden-age.php
Your strange and arbitrary criteria aside it's absurd to compare the two performances and put Gyllenhaal on top. DeNiro's performance in Taxi Driver is widely considered one of the greatest in cinema history.
Have y'all seen Nightcrawler? Even though I'm pretty sure I won't agree with mdmh, I'll wait until I've seen the performance in question before telling him he's wrong.
It's very good. Not in my favorite three or four movies this year. Gyllenhaal is great.
Nightcrawler. Holy shit. mdmh might be right about Jake Gyllenhaal.
Ebert is a millennial too then. Just a lazy fly by for someone who likes film as much as Moon.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/her-2013
I just realized that in the two biggest man-as-pathetic-bitch roles in the last decade, Phoenix in Her and Gordon-Levitt in 500 Days of Summer, both characters are commercial copy writers.
Watched The Place Beyond the Pines. I feel like the trailer really misled what it was about but it was a pretty great use of my time.
Currently recording Her.