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I’d love a review so thanks for making the thread.  Big fan of the original (mainly Michael Lonsdale) so have to weigh that against the fact I absolutely hate Eddie Redmayne as a screen presence (I’m sure he’s a swell person off-screen).  

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27 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

I’d love a review so thanks for making the thread.  Big fan of the original (mainly Michael Lonsdale) so have to weigh that against the fact I absolutely hate Eddie Redmayne as a screen presence (I’m sure he’s a swell person off-screen).  

what made you not like him? i loved him in chicago 7 and only saw the hawking movie once.

just curious. he's good in this but i already like him.

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10 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

what made you not like him? i loved him in chicago 7 and only saw the hawking movie once.

just curious. he's good in this but i already like him.

I hated his character in The Good Shepherd so completely I can’t see him as anything other than a sniveling runt.  The Oscar campaign for The Theory of Everything didn’t help, either, as snippets of the film taken out of context made him look like he was doing a bad impression. 

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1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

I hated his character in The Good Shepherd so completely I can’t see him as anything other than a sniveling runt.  The Oscar campaign for The Theory of Everything didn’t help, either, as snippets of the film taken out of context made him look like he was doing a bad impression. 

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6 hours ago, LCHorn said:

I hated his character in The Good Shepherd so completely I can’t see him as anything other than a sniveling runt.  The Oscar campaign for The Theory of Everything didn’t help, either, as snippets of the film taken out of context made him look like he was doing a bad impression. 

fair enough. i don't even remember him in tgs, as i saw it once in the theater with high hopes and was disappointed. is it worth a rewatch?

did you see chicago 7? i really liked him in it (though sbc stole the show), but i like most anyone who can handle sorkin dialogue. or jackal dances.

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26 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

did you see chicago 7?

No, I’m not kidding about my Redmayne dislike.  Even that All-Star team of performers can’t get me to overlook his casting, even paired with the added fun to play Sorkinism drinking games.

I doubt The Good Shepherd is worth a re-watch.  It’s kind of a frustrating movie* but I thought Matt Damon was terrific trying to subdue a lot of what makes him fun to watch and play everything internally.  There was a review I recall from back in 2006 that described Angelina Jolie as wildly miscast and I agreed with that-the reviewer described her acting style and look as indefatigably contemporary and that it just doesn’t fit in a period piece that’s trying so hard to be authentic of its setting.  
 

I think I was mostly eager for some more of Syriana, which I loved (and fat Clooney is the best).  
 

*Now that I think of it, it’s kind of two movies (it’s long enough for that).  The first half is great as Damon learns about spy craft and begins working for the government.  It pairs well with Charlie Wilson’s War as you can see the genesis for a lot of the bullshit elitism that Gust Avrakotos complained about.  The second half gets Redmayned.

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1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

fair enough. i don't even remember him in tgs, as i saw it once in the theater with high hopes and was disappointed. is it worth a rewatch?

did you see chicago 7? i really liked him in it (though sbc stole the show), but i like most anyone who can handle sorkin dialogue. or jackal dances.

Yeah, probably.  It's not as dense as Tinker, Tailor, but there's probably some subtle stuff you may have missed.

There's a valid point about serpenthead, but Redmayne's character is a product of their union (loveless marriage between a disengaged father and narcissist mother) and thus a sniveling runt.

It's not a perfect film, by any stretch, but the origin story of the OSS/CIA is fascinating and undermined material, imo.

I find it somewhat fascinating that an Ivy-light Catholic like Donovan sought to populate the OSS and CIA with Ivy League Epsicopacy.  

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I think the show cleverly disguises Redmayne’s weaknesses. Sincerity and dialogue. He portrays a cold blooded assassin that is tall, thin, handsome, and might have autism. He’s fine in the action sequences. About 5 episodes in and I like it. 
 

I was hoping for something more charismatic like Bruce Willis’ Jackal. But Redmayne is a very weird guy that couldn’t play genuine with thousands of hours of acting classes. He’s so goddamn unsettlingly in Cabaret that I just can’t unsee it. 
 

Maybe it’ll be an anthology and we’ll get a different Jackal in the next go around. 

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On 11/21/2024 at 10:24 PM, Firemans4Horn said:
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His Northern Irish gunsmith has the circle closing in on him and the Jackal just decides to keep on going forward because of… money? Come on give us any kind of motive at this point. 

 

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this is his "one last big score and then i'm out" job. it's $100m, and he's already taken the down-payment. i'm just assuming this is the reason. when he got stiffed for $3.75m, he went full fuck-it to prove a point, so it wasn't just about the money on that one.

there are plenty little plotholes and leaps, however. it seems like mi6 is doing a pretty badass job tracking him in what would seem like impossible regions of europe. when he killed those 2 dudes at the house, they knew right away. how? two brothers in a remote house in hungary would take weeks to be discovered one would think. the cops knew instantly. maybe i missed something.

then the local cops were immediately up his ass once he was back at the apartment because of a "robbery upstairs". and the woman cop was pretty slick with the phone call trick. seems like euro-cops are way better than what we've got here.

 

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I don’t like Redmayne either, he was a big turnoff in Pillars of the Earth and that Harry Potter movie. But he’s fine in this and I’m digging it, it has a bit of a Bond vibe with the Euro setting and the title music. His house in Spain is dope. 

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The music slams. And then goes hard. 

Don't really love the simplicity of the cat and mouse game basically boiling down to, "Hey, an old asset of mine randomly has a BIL who is the greatest gun maker slash CAD engineer in the world. Wow, turns out he's about the closest thing to a friend and confidant that the world-class assassin has. Are those his sleepover clothes? Oh, there he is!"

But the production level is high enough to ignore some plot silliness/conveniences.

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16 hours ago, aggie08 said:

The music slams. And then goes hard. 

Don't really love the simplicity of the cat and mouse game basically boiling down to, "Hey, an old asset of mine randomly has a BIL who is the greatest gun maker slash CAD engineer in the world. Wow, turns out he's about the closest thing to a friend and confidant that the world-class assassin has. Are those his sleepover clothes? Oh, there he is!"

But the production level is high enough to ignore some plot silliness/conveniences.

That's fair, but every show where someone is searching for a needle in a haystack is going to have something like that. At least they gave some explanation about how she linked the Jackal to the gun manufacturer. 

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On 11/19/2024 at 2:09 PM, henrygandorf said:

fair enough. i don't even remember him in tgs, as i saw it once in the theater with high hopes and was disappointed. is it worth a rewatch?

did you see chicago 7? i really liked him in it (though sbc stole the show), but i like most anyone who can handle sorkin dialogue. or jackal dances.

 

On 11/19/2024 at 3:53 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, probably.  It's not as dense as Tinker, Tailor, but there's probably some subtle stuff you may have missed.

There's a valid point about serpenthead, but Redmayne's character is a product of their union (loveless marriage between a disengaged father and narcissist mother) and thus a sniveling runt.

It's not a perfect film, by any stretch, but the origin story of the OSS/CIA is fascinating and undermined material, imo.

I find it somewhat fascinating that an Ivy-light Catholic like Donovan sought to populate the OSS and CIA with Ivy League Epsicopacy.  

Chicago 7 was fantastic.

I'd forgotten Redmayne was in The Good Shepherd. I only saw it once and remember expecting much more.

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The music slams. And then goes hard. 

Indeed. 

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Don't really love the simplicity of the cat and mouse game basically boiling down to, "Hey, an old asset of mine randomly has a BIL who is the greatest gun maker slash CAD engineer in the world. Wow, turns out he's about the closest thing to a friend and confidant that the world-class assassin has. Are those his sleepover clothes? Oh, there he is!"

I do think they've done a good job of adapting the original story to a more current timeline, but the story line with the MI6 agent's husband seems completely unnecessary.  I'm only through episode 5 so far, but enjoying the ride.

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6 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

That episode was intense! I’d watch another season of his time in the service.

that was definitely a banger.  i thought the Budapest diversion lost the plot a little bit.  but the last 2 episodes put it back on track.

i wonder what the Jackal has in store for his shady brother in law.

they've already inked a season 2, so it'll be interesting to see how they end this season.  does the Jackal get his man?

https://deadline.com/2024/11/the-day-of-the-jackal-season-2-at-peacock-sky-1236185056/

 

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In case you haven't seen, the last two episodes dropped yesterday. Fantastic end to the season and I'm looking forward to the next one. Although,

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The kill shot on UDC was pretty dumb. I'm willing to suspend a lot of belief, but c'mon.

 

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The steady-cam rig he used was pretty cool though.  I was glad he got him as he annoyed me tremendously.

 

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Because Bianca a great big fat person and the least charismatic protagonist maybe in the history of television. Still a well above average show. 

 

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I like the twist.

 

I don’t even think she was supposed to be the protagonist. 

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so her one and only lead that got her to spain was somehow finding the article about the sniper precision on the cuban gangster that was written about 3 hours after the incident? ok.

i can’t find articles online when i know most of the title. 

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6 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

so her one and only lead that got her to spain was somehow finding the article about the sniper precision on the cuban gangster that was written about 3 hours after the incident? ok.

i can’t find articles online when i know most of the title. 

Maybe she had a Google alert on?

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Four episodes in...

What are some other shows of similar type?

My jam seems to be international Spy / Agent, Assassin, Gangster (the come up),  Drug Dealer (but not the dude in New Mexico that people seemed to love...)

With some pace and not 7 episodes of pure character development.

 

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5 hours ago, Slacks said:

Four episodes in...

What are some other shows of similar type?

My jam seems to be international Spy / Agent, Assassin, Gangster (the come up),  Drug Dealer (but not the dude in New Mexico that people seemed to love...)

With some pace and not 7 episodes of pure character development.

 

 

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Four episodes in...
What are some other shows of similar type?
My jam seems to be international Spy / Agent, Assassin, Gangster (the come up),  Drug Dealer (but not the dude in New Mexico that people seemed to love...)
With some pace and not 7 episodes of pure character development.
 

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