I think he will be fine. He's never going to be a A lister and he knows it. So he is sticking to stuff like this and Twisters. Apparently Denzel is his mentor.
mate, you're saying the most generic shit about it that has no relation to the movie because you saw >Netflix
netflix didn't even produce this movie. They only bought distribution rights. You can make a movie, it can be whatever, but once netflix buys it, it magically transforms into soulless corporate slop. All it takes is that >tu-dum
sound at the beginning. You're a fricking npc moron
He needs to do action. Simple as. He hasn't done a single leading action movie and he has the looks for it. This indie shit not a living soul watches is a dumb move.
he's kind of making it right now really, he seems pretty popular.
probably not Brad Pitt or Leo levels of making it, but I'm not sure any actor will ever hit those levels again. the industry is changing/dying
Glen Powell was surprisingly good. The female 'lead' can't act, but she was kind of hot.
7/10 movie. Pretty fun overall, could have been more kino and was a bit too long.
Pretty weird movie, is Linklater making a statement about siding with reprehensible people because they're hot? It feels morally bankrupt otherwise, and it didn't need to about actual killers
What are your thoughts on it? I don't know much about Linklater as a person or how he thinks, so even though there's a lot of heavy handed psychological themes I feel like it could swing either way.
Genuinely pissed me off,. Perfectly set up a film noir style twist, only to go with a “happy ending” that is unsatisfying, unearned and morally bankrupt.
That's probably the point though, since he dresses up as Patrick Bateman in one scene and eventually adopts his psycho personality as the better one. Is this supposed to be a kick in the balls to the guy they based it on though?
The girlfriend was definitely unhinged, she had drugs at her place despite coming up with that as the MO for why her husband was a dirtbag. The whole rationale for why the sleazy cop was an butthole that deserved to die was also very intentionally vague, and they dumped a load of politically charged words towards him throughout the movie like "metoo'd, misogynist, sexist".
>Perfectly set up a film noir style twist
Like what? I liked that it didn't devolve into the cliched story where some goons mistook Gary for an actual hitman and he ended up on a Kevin Hart journey of having to pretend to be a hitman in the field without the support of the cops backing him up.
In what way would that be a great twist?
The entire point of the film is that it's an inverse of the typical assassin with a heart of gold trope.
Normally you get a hitman who only kills bad people and then they hesitate when they discover their target isn't bad. So the agency turns on them and they have to go on adventure together.
Here, a guy pretending to be a hitman helps the cops put away criminals, and then hesitates when he discovers the target isn't bad.
Her actually being bad would just undermine the entire point and turn it into a dumb twist for the sake of a twist.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
did you see the movie?
she did end up being bad and killing her ex and the cop
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
She killed her ex because Gary told her that he had tried to hire a hitman to kill her and said he'd do it himself
She drugged the cop. Gary killed the cop because he was a piece of shit and blackmailing them
Both situations were arguably justified
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
No one in this movie died that wasn’t a piece of shit.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
gary may have helped get rid of the body but as viewers we have to assume the cop overdosed on whatever she drugged him with
i dont have access to the movie to check the order of events before her ex's death but it doesnt mater
i dont know why he didnt just entrap him in the diner
No one in this movie died that wasn’t a piece of shit.
except the woman got off scott free
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Gary puts a bag over his head.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
yeah except it has to be air tight or its not gonna fricking work. thats a plot hole but for casuals it seems real
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Do you really think no one has ever died to a plastic bag before?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>he was a piece of shit
Was he though? All that ever happens is that people tell you he was a piece of shit, you never actually learn what he did, except that he beat up some teenagers which you don't even know what they were up to. He was blackmailing and presenting a threat, but at that point she was already a murderer, so he was blackmailing a murderer and an accessory to murder, is that really scummy enough to warrant his end?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
No Chud, see, he was referred to as a misogynist and a racist thus he deserved to be murdered with no exception
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I think it can be both.
He probably was an butthole (chud), but he didn't do anything that served as justification for him to be heckin murdered.
Found it weird how Gary was like "the force probably wants him gone, too" as if that makes any fricking sense for him to die. >Cop gets found in his car, supposed suicide. Police Force didn't investigate further because he was le meanie.
The movie just wanted to clean up its sloppy plot by handwaving the murder lmao
It's pretty good.
It's believable in the way he falls for her. It's a very different take on the assassin genre. I was expecting something like a more deliberate Man from Toronto. But it's not.
I can't think of a film it's like off the top of my head.
it says some interesting and thought provoking things ngl, although not in a very subtle way. Good movie anyway, entertaining as hell and the chick is cute
Movie was extremely mediocre. The sex scenes are less than 2 minutes combined, you see nothing, she can't act, and she isn't in half the movie. So don't see it for her.
The only good part of the movie comes in the third act when there are actual stakes, but it rushes to a lame conclusion. And then it tries to justify murder because the victim was not a nice person and the culprits were attractive, despite the first half of the movie demonizing average joes for doing the same thing.
It's a mess.
I really hope this movie wasn't trying to convey any sort of moral arguments.
Didn't pay much attention to the 'morals' of the movie initially, and just watched it as a kind of cheesy entertainment flick (which I thought it did relatively well as).
It would be hilarious if the movie was like "poor ugly people who attempt to hire a hitman in a moment of hysteria are evil but when 2 hot people literally kill someone it's justified lol".
Well the movie ends on them forming a "happy family" and you're meant to feel good for them despite the fact they murdered two people, which is strangely juxtaposed against the first half of the movie where the average joe is seen as the devil for daring to hire a hitman (and not actually COMMITTING murder).
I get that, but I don't think the intention was "murder is fine if you're attractive" (hopefully).
I think the rationale was more "These are the arbitrarily defined good guys because they are the main characters, and we want them to have a happy ending, the murder itself is supposed to be glossed over".
Maybe I'm not giving the film enough credit, but I also think it's not supposed to be analyzed as a 'muh society' kind of thing.
It was funny how all the people hiring hitmen were just poor white trash with silly Southern accents, so maybe it was also just another case of elite Hollywood liberals belittling rural White Americans.
>we want them to have a happy ending, the murder itself is supposed to be glossed over
I don't think that was it, because the character does a 180 from what he was saying at the beginning about the people he was entrapping, when later he's teaching his students that "targeted killings" might actually be a social good. I think Linklater intentionally made Jasper vague and just used some politically triggering words to see if he could get people to froth over him despite knowing nothing about him. It's all just an aesthetic suggestion that you're allowed to hate this guy and it's okay that he died, but it has no moral foundation, and he wants to weed out the people who will make that decision with so little information.
To me this all feels like a trap, and based on the reviews it worked.
this guys not gonna make it as an actor I dont think, he will be gone in a few years
I think he will be fine. He's never going to be a A lister and he knows it. So he is sticking to stuff like this and Twisters. Apparently Denzel is his mentor.
>He's never going to be a A lister and he knows it.
he already is
you haven't seen it
I have very much seen it
mate, you're saying the most generic shit about it that has no relation to the movie because you saw
>Netflix
netflix didn't even produce this movie. They only bought distribution rights. You can make a movie, it can be whatever, but once netflix buys it, it magically transforms into soulless corporate slop. All it takes is that
>tu-dum
sound at the beginning. You're a fricking npc moron
reddit is that way buds
>someone mocks you for being npc
>reply with an automated, generic response
HOLY FRICKING KEK
>Denzel is his mentor
I find this hard to believe.
You have a woman's mentality where you seethe at the pretty girl who doesn't know you exist.
lol
all he needs is a good comic book movie to be an A lister
>comic book movie
>2k24
sorry grandpa, capeshit is deader than disco.
He's playing Gambit in X-Men
He needs to do action. Simple as. He hasn't done a single leading action movie and he has the looks for it. This indie shit not a living soul watches is a dumb move.
he's kind of making it right now really, he seems pretty popular.
probably not Brad Pitt or Leo levels of making it, but I'm not sure any actor will ever hit those levels again. the industry is changing/dying
Just watch porn if all you care about is the broad.
You wouldn't get it
Nta but I don’t get it either.
I watch movies for a story or to escape, if I want to lust after Latins or whatever, I’d watch pron.
Is this the bad videogame adaptation of the hitman series? Why is the hitman non-black?
>directed by linklater
wtf
sexy in the most sterile way possible if that makes any sense. it has that soulless corporate feel to it. it's a netflix joint after all
>chud sees "Netflix" and his brain shuts off
>it's a netflix joint after all
netflix bought it after it was made
hit onions
Glen Powell was surprisingly good. The female 'lead' can't act, but she was kind of hot.
7/10 movie. Pretty fun overall, could have been more kino and was a bit too long.
She was fantastic, reminds me of Halle Berry.
Pretty weird movie, is Linklater making a statement about siding with reprehensible people because they're hot? It feels morally bankrupt otherwise, and it didn't need to about actual killers
stick to capeshit
What are your thoughts on it? I don't know much about Linklater as a person or how he thinks, so even though there's a lot of heavy handed psychological themes I feel like it could swing either way.
Softcore trash for women
Genuinely pissed me off,. Perfectly set up a film noir style twist, only to go with a “happy ending” that is unsatisfying, unearned and morally bankrupt.
That's probably the point though, since he dresses up as Patrick Bateman in one scene and eventually adopts his psycho personality as the better one. Is this supposed to be a kick in the balls to the guy they based it on though?
If the point is his moral degradation, that really needed to be signposted more. Nice house, pretty wife and happy kids doesn’t scream bleakness.
The girlfriend was definitely unhinged, she had drugs at her place despite coming up with that as the MO for why her husband was a dirtbag. The whole rationale for why the sleazy cop was an butthole that deserved to die was also very intentionally vague, and they dumped a load of politically charged words towards him throughout the movie like "metoo'd, misogynist, sexist".
>Perfectly set up a film noir style twist
Like what? I liked that it didn't devolve into the cliched story where some goons mistook Gary for an actual hitman and he ended up on a Kevin Hart journey of having to pretend to be a hitman in the field without the support of the cops backing him up.
>Like what
Like Madison was playing him from the beginning, and either tries to kill him, skips town with the money or frames him for the murder.
it obviously wasn't that kind of movie
…which would make it a great twist. Besides they clearly set it up with her grilling him about how to kill people.
she was grilling him to figure out how to kill the husband
In what way would that be a great twist?
The entire point of the film is that it's an inverse of the typical assassin with a heart of gold trope.
Normally you get a hitman who only kills bad people and then they hesitate when they discover their target isn't bad. So the agency turns on them and they have to go on adventure together.
Here, a guy pretending to be a hitman helps the cops put away criminals, and then hesitates when he discovers the target isn't bad.
Her actually being bad would just undermine the entire point and turn it into a dumb twist for the sake of a twist.
did you see the movie?
she did end up being bad and killing her ex and the cop
She killed her ex because Gary told her that he had tried to hire a hitman to kill her and said he'd do it himself
She drugged the cop. Gary killed the cop because he was a piece of shit and blackmailing them
Both situations were arguably justified
No one in this movie died that wasn’t a piece of shit.
gary may have helped get rid of the body but as viewers we have to assume the cop overdosed on whatever she drugged him with
i dont have access to the movie to check the order of events before her ex's death but it doesnt mater
i dont know why he didnt just entrap him in the diner
except the woman got off scott free
Gary puts a bag over his head.
yeah except it has to be air tight or its not gonna fricking work. thats a plot hole but for casuals it seems real
Do you really think no one has ever died to a plastic bag before?
>he was a piece of shit
Was he though? All that ever happens is that people tell you he was a piece of shit, you never actually learn what he did, except that he beat up some teenagers which you don't even know what they were up to. He was blackmailing and presenting a threat, but at that point she was already a murderer, so he was blackmailing a murderer and an accessory to murder, is that really scummy enough to warrant his end?
No Chud, see, he was referred to as a misogynist and a racist thus he deserved to be murdered with no exception
I think it can be both.
He probably was an butthole (chud), but he didn't do anything that served as justification for him to be heckin murdered.
Found it weird how Gary was like "the force probably wants him gone, too" as if that makes any fricking sense for him to die.
>Cop gets found in his car, supposed suicide. Police Force didn't investigate further because he was le meanie.
The movie just wanted to clean up its sloppy plot by handwaving the murder lmao
It's pretty good.
It's believable in the way he falls for her. It's a very different take on the assassin genre. I was expecting something like a more deliberate Man from Toronto. But it's not.
I can't think of a film it's like off the top of my head.
This is like Gross Pointe Blank for NPCs
Yeah, if you've literally never seen it and confuse completely different films just because they're both quasi comedies supposedly about hitmen.
I hated how they just made Ron the object of everyone's affection and yet he is just Gary wearing form fitting clothes and losing the glasses.
It's like saying She's all that is a study in psyche of introverted girls and extroverted girls when in fact they only remove her glasses.
saw that a couple nights ago
was actually surprised by the ending
thought the b***h was gonna find away to pin it on him and get away with it
I clapped at the Tilda Swinton cameo
it says some interesting and thought provoking things ngl, although not in a very subtle way. Good movie anyway, entertaining as hell and the chick is cute
whole movie i was thinking
>where the frick did i see this girl before?
and it turns out she played the mermaid in Monsterland. Kino show
heavily underseen show
uh. absolutely. She's mighty fine if you ask me. Latina Connoisseur myself.
6/10 watch if you're bored
haven't seen it yet
but i'm planning on it,
this is not from hit man
amazing
damn nice digits dude
This man is so boring why can't Hollywood find someone who can act?
the whole token 50% people of color requirements really make these stories unbelievable
Movie was extremely mediocre. The sex scenes are less than 2 minutes combined, you see nothing, she can't act, and she isn't in half the movie. So don't see it for her.
The only good part of the movie comes in the third act when there are actual stakes, but it rushes to a lame conclusion. And then it tries to justify murder because the victim was not a nice person and the culprits were attractive, despite the first half of the movie demonizing average joes for doing the same thing.
It's a mess.
I really hope this movie wasn't trying to convey any sort of moral arguments.
Didn't pay much attention to the 'morals' of the movie initially, and just watched it as a kind of cheesy entertainment flick (which I thought it did relatively well as).
It would be hilarious if the movie was like "poor ugly people who attempt to hire a hitman in a moment of hysteria are evil but when 2 hot people literally kill someone it's justified lol".
Well the movie ends on them forming a "happy family" and you're meant to feel good for them despite the fact they murdered two people, which is strangely juxtaposed against the first half of the movie where the average joe is seen as the devil for daring to hire a hitman (and not actually COMMITTING murder).
I get that, but I don't think the intention was "murder is fine if you're attractive" (hopefully).
I think the rationale was more "These are the arbitrarily defined good guys because they are the main characters, and we want them to have a happy ending, the murder itself is supposed to be glossed over".
Maybe I'm not giving the film enough credit, but I also think it's not supposed to be analyzed as a 'muh society' kind of thing.
It was funny how all the people hiring hitmen were just poor white trash with silly Southern accents, so maybe it was also just another case of elite Hollywood liberals belittling rural White Americans.
>we want them to have a happy ending, the murder itself is supposed to be glossed over
I don't think that was it, because the character does a 180 from what he was saying at the beginning about the people he was entrapping, when later he's teaching his students that "targeted killings" might actually be a social good. I think Linklater intentionally made Jasper vague and just used some politically triggering words to see if he could get people to froth over him despite knowing nothing about him. It's all just an aesthetic suggestion that you're allowed to hate this guy and it's okay that he died, but it has no moral foundation, and he wants to weed out the people who will make that decision with so little information.
To me this all feels like a trap, and based on the reviews it worked.