>Depp is actually super menacing throughout this film b. The
>scenes of intimidation are more cold than the scenes of
>violence. He might be getting a Best Actor nom b.

he gets a nom for putting on all that makeup and that accent. But, he'll lose to an actor who has a role with WAY more depth (Michael Fassbender in Macbeth and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant STOMP all over Depp's performance just by name ALONE though....)

>
>But, my nigga Joel Edgerton will mos def be getting that Best
>Supporting Actor nom. He put his foot into his role as Agent
>Connolly b.

Joel was the *BEST* thing about the movie.

>
>Jessie Plemmons aka Landry does great work here. As does Corey
>Stoll, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard do incredible work
>in very minor roles. Benedict Cumberbatch's Boston accent was
>a bit cartoony but he did well with his small role as well.

Agreed on all this. Julianne Nicholson was pretty good as well in her brief ass role as Joel's wife Marianne...
>
>Scott Cooper and his DP made this movie pop throughout and
>visually, it was always interesting. As a matter of fact this
>is Cooper's best film and it probably has to do with the fact
>that he didn't write it.
>
>But yea will see how Awards Season goes as this could be a
>major player or a minor player depending on how strong the
>rest of the films are.
>

Scott Cooper is a hack ass writer/director: That shitty ass rewrite he did of Brad Ingelsby's The Low Dweller which turned into Out of the Furnace.

Like I don't give naaan a shit that they shot it in shitty ass Braddock, PA the movie was trash....

But Scott might be best directing OTHER people's screenplays because his writing is horrible.