Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86672 posts
Sat Oct-14-17 01:32 PM
"The Meyerowitz Stories (Baumbach, 2017). On Netflix now."
Baumbach's best non-Gerwig film. Sandler's best performance ever. Stiller's best performance in over 15 years. Hoffman's best performance in 20 years.
You may think I'm overhyping the performances. Maybe I am. If it gets you to bump this flick to the immediate top of your queue, I'm good with it. Movie is hilarious/heartfelt/great. Check it out.
2. "Love the way it was told with little character chapters/intro thing" In response to Reply # 0
The ending was odd to me but I should've expected it the way they ended other scenes so abruptly. Really loved it, I miss these types of movies being in theatres ----------
4. "wonderful movie.....I only had minor gripes" In response to Reply # 0 Sun Oct-15-17 11:13 PM by rorschach
The acting was uniformly wonderful in this film. I really wouldn't mind it if Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman received nominations for this film this award season. Adam Sandler gave such a natural performance that feels more organic than his role in Punch-Drunk Love. I felt like that film's character more or less relied on your idea of Adam Sandler as an actor whereas this film doesn't really do that. Dustin Hoffman was so quietly imposing as Harold. He was low-key being an impossible tyrant without coming off as truly terrible....Harold's a terrible dad sure but he's not an intentionally horrible person.
I'm willing to bet that a lot of people will compare this to The Royal Tenenbaums due to this film's plot and structure. The films almost have a similar feel......except for the fact that Wes Anderson films sometimes feel like they're in some alternate, preciously twee universe.
The women in this film kinda have their one-note. Jean is not nearly as fleshed-out a character as Matthew or Danny and I don't fully know why. Harold's wife was interesting but she's stuck in the background since the story is mostly about how Meyerowitz sibling relate to their father and each other. Eliza, to me, felt more like Baumbach's commentary on that type of youth.
I still don't know how I feel about that ending. I just know that it was abrupt. ---------------------------------------
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