Live By Night | Christmas Day limited release, wide release on 01/13/17 | Ben Affleck/Warner Bros. New trailer on page 8

[dudalb]

Affleck,as director, is taking a lot of heat for so blatently imitating Marty Scorsese's gangster films..particularly with the non stop narratation. Not a good move,IMHO. Only Martin Scorsese can make a Scorsese film.

[Jake Gittes]

21 hours ago, antovolk said:

If anyone enjoyed Legend they'll definitely like this.

7.5/10

 

I thought that was one of the worst movies of 2015 so oof.

Edited January 6, 2017 by Jake Gittes

[forg]

It failed as an awards bait, they should made this fall release for box office purpose or held to 2017

[AniNate]

It would've failed anytime. Audiences only go for gangster movies when they're good.

[redfirebird2008]

This is a pretty ugly bust for Warner and Affleck.

[filmlover]

Just now, redfirebird2008 said:

This is a pretty ugly bust for Warner and Affleck.

Affleck has survived far greater embarrassments than this (Bennifer/Gigli, yikes), so he'll be fine. Good news is that it's looking to come and go with no one caring (every theater that's announced their showtimes this weekend is trimming it down to 2 shows a day, so it's gonna be quickly disappearing once those contracts are up).

 

WB ended a really good 2016 for them at the box office on a horrible note with two starry busts (Collateral Beauty and this), though.

[redfirebird2008]

50 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Affleck has survived far greater embarrassments than this (Bennifer/Gigli, yikes), so he'll be fine. Good news is that it's looking to come and go with no one caring (every theater that's announced their showtimes this weekend is trimming it down to 2 shows a day, so it's gonna be quickly disappearing once those contracts are up).

 

WB ended a really good 2016 for them at the box office on a horrible note with two starry busts (Collateral Beauty and this), though.

 

He didn't direct those movies. I don't think WB is going to smack him around for this, but if it becomes a pattern in the future on other projects...they will be forced to cut back on his budgets and creative control. 

Edited January 18, 2017 by redfirebird2008

[dudalb]

19 hours ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

He didn't direct those movies. I don't think WB is going to smack him around for this, but if it becomes a pattern in the future on other projects...they will be forced to cut back on his budgets and creative control. 

They won't sever relatations with him, but will certainly be much more conservative in funding his films in the future.

Agreed that this film being Affleck's baby all the way done (producing, writing, directing as well as starring in) will hurt him in a way that Gigli and Daredevil did not...he could always plead he was just the hired help on those films and had little creative control. But with "Live By Night" Affleck was calling all the shots, and had to take the blame for it not being very good.

[The Futurist]

This was ok, not bad but not great either, a bit slow, great production values.

 

And Elle Fanning proves again she can effortlessly do anything, her only rival from her generation is Saoirse Ronan.

 

It s the prohibition companion to The Town , about a gangster in love trying to have a moral compass in a violent world, through(out?) the women he meets along the way.

Edited January 18, 2017 by The Futurist

[CJohn]

I thought this was a fine movie. Very well directed but with a few narrative problems. The pacing was too slow. 

[The Futurist]

I just cannot with Batfleck physical appearance though, he looks so buff, I thought he was going to break Saldana's & Miller s bones when he embraces them.

 

 

[CJohn]

11 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

I just cannot with Batfleck physical appearance though, he looks so buff, I thought he was going to break Saldana's & Miller s bones when he embraces them.

 

 

He did look huge.

[Blankments]

Final predicts:

 

DOM: 13M

WW: 31M

[James]

 

[dudalb]

On ‎1‎/‎18‎/‎2017 at 0:03 PM, The Futurist said:

This was ok, not bad but not great either, a bit slow, great production values.

 

And Elle Fanning proves again she can effortlessly do anything, her only rival from her generation is Saoirse Ronan.

 

It s the prohibition companion to The Town , about a gangster in love trying to have a moral compass in a violent world, through(out?) the women he meets along the way.

A couple  of people have said you have the basis of a good movie, but that Affleck hurts it by his imitation of Scorsese's style.

[NickDisney13]

Warner Bros. Pictures is Looking at a $75 Million Loss on Live By Night

[TalismanRing]

8 minutes ago, NickDisney13 said:

Warner Bros. Pictures is Looking at a $75 Million Loss on Live By Night

 

WB's breathing down Ben's neck for that Batman script (hopefully with a co-writer)  intensifies

 

[redfirebird2008]

7 hours ago, NickDisney13 said:

Warner Bros. Pictures is Looking at a $75 Million Loss on Live By Night

 

Hello darkness my old friend...

[WeneedtotalkaboutKevin]

30 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

Hello darkness my old friend...

People involved with DCEU are really having a bad time. Zack Snyder, David Ayer and Ben Affleck are all pretty much cursed. 

[Alli]

He's gonna be fine. The accountant was a HIT.