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Yes, I know, hardly new but like a lot of movies I hadn't seen it. Knew it by reputation.
So, younger - unrecognizable almost Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver (Heard about her, still no real clue as to who she is), and Matt Damon, because he was pretty popular in a lot of other movies I never saw.
Anyways, good, not great, and certainly in no ways deserving all the heavy-handed praise. Just good.
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I don't know how I've never heard of this.
Absolutely bloody brilliant, 1965 Black & White Polish movie about...
Well, I don't want to spoil it, but it's an Arabian Nights of sorts, and as I'm going to briefly describe it (Spoilers below - don't do the read more unless you've first watched it...)
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This was good. A pretty accurate cast of customers and staff in a high-end restaurant. With an end that every staff member has at one time or another fantasized about.
More and more films on this as of late, genre films like "Triangle of Sadness" and "Parasite" that talk about the overthrow of the clueless patrons and elite who quite literally feed upon the misery of their servants.
Ralph Fiennes plays an excellent chef, the power dynamic is spot on, it's clear they Paid a Writer. This is pretty rare these days, you have to applaud them.
I mean, I worked here, not even a year ago...
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Good News! There won't be one...
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a42383449/1899-season-2/?utm_source=digg
But I'm still puzzled how they made a season 1.
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Now this, off to an amazing start - and then, somewhere about 2/3 of the way through, falls apart.
To be sure, the first hour is worth the price of admission alone. The trailer does not lie, it's an orgy of every conceivable decadence, a tour-de-force of camera shots, choreography, it's got it all. And then as the character development kicks in it slows down. A lot. And then more so.
Margot Robbie is amazing. Brad Pitt is good. Diego Calvo is great as Manny Torres, but - his role suffers development. Jovan Adepo keeps the music going and provides a glimpse of depth and integrity.
And the end - the end, it's a Hollywood wank-fest to all the joy that the movies have brought people - really, truly, unnecessary.
So - a great film - to a point, but an hour - or more - should have been left on the cutting room floor. What it wanted in this is a good bit of editing.