I pit Star Wars....

[Ravenman]

@MovieMogul

You really didn’t miss much. Trumbo is history via finger paints–perhaps enlightening if you know absolutely nothing about the Red Scare or the Blacklist, but incredibly reductive, self-congratulatory and predictable in the standard biopic beats. Cranston is fine but many of the supporting characters are too broad to put any of the excellent actors through any sort of real challenge. The best bits are with Diane Lane as his wife, with the home scenes being the strongest, but as drama, it’s a bit inert. An important story and personality, but not a very good movie. You won’t miss much by seeing it on video.

You didn’t mention that there aren’t any flying elephants. :mad:

And we’re supposed to trust your review when you bury the lede like that?

[John_Mace]

@Hamlet

I am sick and tired of the Star Wars franchise … have been for years. I’m sure the newest movie is great, and I’ll more than likely see it. But they sheer amount of marketing that has accompanied the release and the sheer amount of fanboy hype, is so fucking annoying. Gotta hand it to Disney though, they took a franchise that fell into a vast pool of suckitude and, thanks to a massive marketing campaign and nostalgia of the middle aged, will make tons of money.

Really? I was just thinking the other day how LITTLE marketing there has been. They don’t need to. It’s the fanboy hype that’s over the top, and takes the place of advertising. I’ve seen few ads on TV, but nothing like some other movies. I stay away from shopping malls, so if there’s over the top franchising in your face at every store, then I wouldn’t have seen it.

[Chefguy]

@Larry_Borgia

What a pretentious jackhole.

Long-winded pretentious jackhole, at that.

[Voyager]

@Ravenman

Don’t waste your money. There’s not one single fucking flying elephant in the whole movie.

I never saw a Communist fly!

I feel his pain. It won’t be the same without the 3D or IMAX.

[bucketybuck]

@Smapti

I pit the younglings.

They’re already dead.

[VinylTurnip]

@Chefguy

Long-winded pretentious jackhole, at that.

The junior Internet tough-critics grousing the loudest about Star Wars are the same ones who should be on their knees praising Abrams and Lucas and all the saints in Disney heaven. It gives them a subject, an audience and a perfect delivery system for their turgid contrarian dickery. Without it, they’d be hacking out rants about the Arby’s drive-through or substandard floor mats or some other flaccid topic of no interest to anyone.

Disclaimer: I saw Ep VII a couple of days ago, agree with a lot of the criticisms, but liked it anyway, so nyahhhhh.

[Justin_Bailey]

@Kropotkin

For driving Trumbo out of my local theatre before I got a chance to watch it.

Trumbo opened seven weeks ago. At it’s peak, it was only in 660 theaters (a fraction of Star Wars’s 4,000+). It would have been gone from theaters by now even if Star Wars had never existed.

[Qin_Shi_Huangdi]

@MovieMogul

You really didn’t miss much. Trumbo is history via finger paints–perhaps enlightening if you know absolutely nothing about the Red Scare or the Blacklist, but incredibly reductive, self-congratulatory and predictable in the standard biopic beats. Cranston is fine but many of the supporting characters are too broad to put any of the excellent actors through any sort of real challenge. The best bits are with Diane Lane as his wife, with the home scenes being the strongest, but as drama, it’s a bit inert. An important story and personality, but not a very good movie. You won’t miss much by seeing it on video. I’m not the biggest fan of SW7:TFA, but it’s better than Trumbo.

While I think Trumbo is well worth seeing (having seen it with my Cold War Culture class), much of the assessment happens to be correct. To a large extent I felt the movie didn’t really create a late Forties/Fifties ambiance rather then people in 2015 trying to imitate the late Forties/Fifties. Otoh it does have Elle Fanning in it so I suppose I can’t complain too much…

Also @ the OP, aren’t there other theatres closer by?

[kaylasdad99]

@Voyager

I never saw a Communist fly!

I dunno. Honeybees are kinda like flies, and they’re at least socialists.