So he ran around solely killing Black people, people of color and women.
Let the tech bro who actually ordered the hit on him live.
Honestly I wanted to turn it off after he shot the taxi driver.
If this is supposed to be dark humor, tongue-in-cheek and clever, they can have it.
white supremacist incels will love this because it is exactly that supposed cleverness they'll miss and just see a white man live out his revenge fantasy.
11. "It's really good and really smart" In response to Reply # 0
It's very much Fincher's Point Blank (also an examination/indictment of corporate culture) only instead of his Porter/Parker character being hyper competent he's mostly a fuck-up and the corporate culture "he's up against" is now not just one outfit on the upswing but ubiquitous, amorphous, and infectious. Unlike Marvin's Porter, Fassbender's character yearns to be part of this world, unlike Porter his whole ethos is bullshit and he's unable to even remotely stick to it.
There's an amount of intention and attention in the film that's easy to miss and even on first watch, I felt it was slight and just minor Fincher but it needled around in my brain all weekend and on rewatch there's a lot here and a lot that's missed. People will revisit this film in a few years and it'll get its due in time.
This would also pair really well with Jarmusch's woefully underseen The Limits of Control. They're in some ways very similar and many ways the the inverse of each other and also great distillations of how they view the world, their storytelling choices and their filmmaking styles.
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A lot of you players ain't okay.
We would have been better off with an okaycivics board instead of an okayactivist board
13. "smooth Fincher entertainment." In response to Reply # 0
like others said, I couldn't really find something to hang onto here, but it was well-shot and worked for what it was. maybe there is something deeper there on a rewatch.
did I miss why there was so much of The Smiths in the first half?
14. "Whenever I re-up my Netflix account, I'm sure I'll like it more" In response to Reply # 0 Mon Dec-04-23 08:22 AM by Nodima
Even looking back at my night-of Letterboxd blabber, seeing it topped by a 3/5 rating feels like I was trying to be clever, but I justified it like this, which certifies I was trying to be clever
Unless of course I was right, right?
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I’m a heartless bastard swollen by empathy so I hate to say it but this might easily be the dullest movie I’ve ever convinced myself had merit.
The tone of Fassbender’s narration reminds me of Alan Wake 2. I love it. The things he says reminds me of the Fight Club fan fiction I wrote in middle school. As in, its constant self-satisfaction is hard to appreciate because I’ve got no idea why this movie’s so confident it can bully me into enjoying it.
As a Fincher nut, this one kinda hurt. At least my darling Tilda turns in a supernova cameo.
Though I did wear headphones for whatever reason and this charmless nuisance does sound, at all times, real neat.
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