Hail, Caesar! | Feb 5 2016 | Coen Bros comedy. Clooney, Brolin, Fiennes, Swinton, Scarlett, Tatum and Hill.

[RichWS]

On 2/7/2016 at 0:24 PM, Telemachos said:

Yeah, I didn't care that much for BURN, though of course it has its moments. 

 

Same here. Great cast and individual moments, but the film itself left me kinda cold. 

[Goffe]

36 minutes ago, RichWS said:

 

Same here. Great cast and individual moments, but the film itself left me kinda cold. 

So, it is like every Coen film except 2 or 3 exceptions

 

got it.

[RichWS]

27 minutes ago, Goffe said:

So, it is like every Coen film except 2 or 3 exceptions

 

got it.

 

ZING. Also, what the hell are you talking about?

[Blankments]

Final predicts:

 

DOM: 38M

[Biph Shmata]

9 minutes ago, Blankments said:

Final predicts:

 

DOM: 38M

I'm interested in how it does overseas, the smaller Coen films have tended to do 60-40 or higher OS vs DOM business.

[department store basement]

Just saw this. Am I the only one who thinks the movie should have ended with Tatum going down in the submarine? I didn't like Clooney's "CAPITALISM IS EVIL!!" speech at all. It felt so shoehorned in.

[Plain Old Tele]

3 minutes ago, department store basement said:

Just saw this. Am I the only one who thinks the movie should have ended with Tatum going down in the submarine? I didn't like Clooney's "CAPITALISM IS EVIL!!" speech at all. It felt so shoehorned in.

 

I don't think that was really the point. He was a credulous boob.

[Ethan Hunt]

Wrong the thread

Edited February 12, 2016 by Ethan Hunt

[department store basement]

29 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

I don't think that was really the point. He was a credulous boob.

 

I don't know what the writers really meant by the speech but I saw The Future as more morally right and less cult-ish than a lot of people seem to, including you. 

Edited February 12, 2016 by department store basement

[Plain Old Tele]

Just now, department store basement said:

 

I don't know what the writers really meant by the speech but I saw The Future as more morally right and less cult-ish than a lot of people seem to. 

 

Technically, it's not two weeks, yet, and I'm not sure how spoilery this is, but:

They weren't cultish, they were just a collection of communist writers. Ones without a particularly good plan, really. I suppose the question of being morally right comes down to how much you agree with communism (at least in its true, intellectual form -- as opposed to the significantly more totalitarian approach in reality). The movie was poking fun at them, sure, but it was poking fun at everyone. I mean, when a studio exec is a metaphor for Jesus (!) you know the whole thing is a crackup. The one theme that the movie takes seriously, I suppose, is that art (even crappy commercial art) is a worthy endeavor, and that the images presented -- no matter how false -- have a sort of Truth to them. Mannix struggles with this all the way to the end: what's the "right thing to do", the harder thing that you feel is right, or the easy way that isn't bad? The sympathetic characters -- Hobie and Mannix -- all choose the harder path, and the others take the easy route, whether it's the writers trying to make some quick cash to donate to the Motherland or Baird just going with whatever is easiest at any given point.