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<blockquote>Doyle's death was stupid (and perhaps even unnecessary as it didn't really affect the plot)</blockquote>
The movie does that a lot, killing off characters just to get them out of the way of the plot. Doyle, Romily, Brand Sr, hell, even Murphy eventually (I have my kids here, you can just leave, Dad, I am of no use to you or the story anymore).
Not only that he left his daughter, but absolutely nobody cared about him. Some random intern’s reverence, yes, but other than that, his entire family (his grandsons and granddaughters) didn’t care about him at all and showed no interest in connecting with him. As if the only person in the room was Murphy, his daughter. The movie does this a lot. The hand waving away at the unconfortable plot points that actually matter.
The entire ending is so difficult to watch, showing him not having a place in the new world (why?) and needing him to leave to be with ‘his own kind’ on an empty planet, without having any motivation (like love or attraction) for Anne Hathaway.
So sum up, he goes halfway across the universe, all he does is miss his daughter all the time and regret leaving, he comes back, he sees her for 5 minutes and he’s just ok to leave. His transformation is absurd. He comes back after probably a few years in space (to him) and he suddenly acts like a retired pensioner.
Maybe even Reindeer Games (2000).
It’s so unexpected to read replies from the future, considering probably 80% of this board is stuck in the past (in the form of comments from 9+ years ago in the imdb forum days).
I was reading this thread naturally feeling like I’m in a museum as usual, and you suddenly mention The Northman and rip me out of the past. It was like being abruptly awakened from a dream.
It was real, but there was one quick shot where it did seem like it was CGI (when it looks at Shane in the barn at the end of that sequence).
I’m sitting here, nine years into the future, laughing my ass off at this exchange. Pure gold.
“Near the height of his fame as a VJ, a few mainstream columnists, including the Village Voice’s Michael Musto, discovered some porn videos Simon Rex had made for easy cash as an 18-year-old living with his girlfriend and her child. Later distributed as “Young, Hard, and Solo” among other titles (they were solo masturbation scenes, if you want to get technical), they all stemmed from just “two video sessions for gay-porn impresario Brad Posey” Rex had made. At the time, he was a handsome guy with a big dick who needed money, and porn videos were things you found in the backrooms of video stores, not images anyone could pull up on a device in their pocket with a few key strokes. Why wouldn’t he? Of course, that didn’t stop rags from referring to him as “ex-gay porn star Simon Rex” for years to come.”
From: https://uproxx.com/movies/simon-rex-interview-red-rocket-porn/
Well, turns out you were right. It’s been nominated for Best Picture today.
Edit: And many others (directing + all the actors).
Remember, it’s not a PHD thesis, it’s supposed to be a fun popcorn movie. You can either ignore issues to have fun watching, or have fun finding flaws in the movie. So the real question here is if you’re having fun doing this deep dive into the problems.
If you are, then also drop by my other recent post and share a theory for the ending, if you have one.
Damn I was hoping I was onto something.
I got a Fargo vibe in the first quarter, but a rather watered down, not-very-successful Fargo vibe at that. I <i> guess</i> I hope to see more from the directors – but hopefully better work, because I’m really not convinced yet that there’s actual potential there.
Like others said, it’s rather annoying.
To answer your question: sometimes they sing together, sometimes alone.
It’s got a good thing going with the setting and the <spoiler>idea of the town’s dark past of using working girls as lower class humans to protect the girls that actually ‘mattered’</spoiler> but it really wasn’t that interesting otherwise. Didn’t really feel like a story, more like a static scene that is slowly revealed. The singing added nothing but padding. Characters weren’t that interesting. Everything was slow.
Yeah, that was growth, it was his character arc.
in general, try not to speak for everybody else if you don’t want to be surprised at how wrong you can be.
But he sure didn’t seem like he was resting in that bed in the end. Seemed to me that he still felt the call to action, as if regular life couldn’t satisfy him anymore after what he saw and took part in.
They called it Business in the front, party in the back.
Yeah I don’t know what that guy is on about. Sounds like cognitive dissonance to me. He likes the movie but the movie isn’t respectable (by his standards) so therefore that must be intentional, and what’s more, it must be a comedy, in order to make it even more of a subversive genius work of art.
The movie is really good regardless of any inconsistencies. Things don’t have to be perfect to be perfect. Guy should really take responsibility for his own tastes in movies, instead of bending reality to make himself feel sophisticated.
<blockquote>- the good feeling of browsing</blockquote>
Man, remember that time when we didn’t know so much? Hell I’m seven years ahead of you in the future so it’s even worse than when you wrote this initially. But damn, just remembering the feeling of just browsing movie covers without knowing everything already and having that feeling of discovery and slowly uncovering something bigger than yourself… such a mood right there.
I read it again, the clues were there lol.