Life Itself | September 21, 2018 | Amazon | Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde

[rjones1325]

 

 

 

This romantic drama features some of the worst dialogue I’ve witnessed this year. None of these characters interact like real people. They speak in one of two functions: short responses or long tangents that go nowhere as they aim for humor but come across as shock value, or in order to start smart and complex discussions that come across as pretentious. Dan Fogelman thinks he’s Aaron Sorkin with his dialogue when he’s really more of an Akiva Goldsman.

 

FULL REVIEW: http://www.rendyreviews.com/movies/life-itself-review

 

 

 

Edited September 18, 2018 by rjones1325

[filmlover]

I'm getting the sense that this could open outside the top 10, depending on the theater count. FWIW it has sold nothing for Friday night and tickets have been on sale for a few weeks.

Edited September 18, 2018 by filmlover

[Rebeccas]

Read the script a while back. Oscar Isaac needs to fire whoever told him to do this movie.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Rebeccas said:

Read the script a while back. Oscar Isaac needs to fire whoever told him to do this movie.

It's kinda been downhill for him ever since he officially went "mainstream." His upcoming projects don't sound likely to get him close to an Academy Award any time in the near future either.

[Rebeccas]

Just now, filmlover said:

It's kinda been downhill for him ever since he officially went "mainstream." His upcoming projects don't sound likely to get him close to an Academy Award any time in the near future either.

At least he got a small part in Annihilation but yeah, his flops have been very floppy lately. I think he's going too far in the conventional leading man direction which isn't really his thing honestly. I think like Fassbender, he'll figure that out sooner or later.

[Morieris]

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/dan-fogelman-life-itself-reviews-white-male-critics-1202005493/

 

This ain't it.

[Barnack]

Seem to be a consensus:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/life_itself_2018/reviews/?page=3&sort=

 

Not just among white male.

[Nova]

5 minutes ago, Morieris said:

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/dan-fogelman-life-itself-reviews-white-male-critics-1202005493/

 

This ain't it.

I see black male critics, white female critics, black female critics etc all giving the movie a rotten score. I wonder what the reason could be 🤔

[TalismanRing]

On 9/18/2018 at 11:52 AM, filmlover said:

It's kinda been downhill for him ever since he officially went "mainstream." His upcoming projects don't sound likely to get him close to an Academy Award any time in the near future either.

He did great making something out of a nothing role in Force Awakens but yeah everything after that has been 

[Eric Duncan]

Maybe being a white male invalidates what I have to say, but as somebody who has seen this film, and heard such brilliant lines like "I always wanted my son to marry a girl with dead parents," and "I love it when you talk to me in Spanish. I feel just like Kelly Ripa," I...I don't think I'm the problem here.

[Nova]

4 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Maybe being a white male invalidates what I have to say, but as somebody who has seen this film, and heard such brilliant lines like "I always wanted my son to marry a girl with dead parents," and "I love it when you talk to me in Spanish. I feel just like Kelly Ripa," I...I don't think I'm the problem here.

Nah man. Clearly those lines were supposed to make you emotional and well since you're a white male, you don't know how to emote. So anything that has like any emotion in it clearly isn't up your alley. I mean doesn't it make you sad when someone says they always wanted their son to marry a girl with dead parents? Or is that like too emotional for you 

[Ezen Baklattan]

If all goes well....a huge rant is coming to the RTM thread tomorrow.

[CoolioD1]

dan fogelman's interviews are an excellent Razzie campaign.

Edited September 21, 2018 by CoolioD1

[Ezen Baklattan]

23 hours ago, Spagheditary said:

If all goes well....a huge rant is coming to the RTM thread tomorrow.

So....I had some....thoughts on this movie.

 

 

[MovieGuyKyle17]

These reviews make me kind of want to watch it.

[dxmatrixdt]

I read some of the outlines plot, it sounds kind of like Babel.  

This "life itself" story in particular seems to be a story that is very implausible but could collide.  

Manchester by the Sea is another one.  

It is like it was written to be a YA fiction novel

[dxmatrixdt]

Hope this movie turns out okay despite flopping and that it does not hurt Amazon too much

[Ezen Baklattan]

5 hours ago, dXairdryZid said:

Hope this movie turns out okay despite flopping and that it does not hurt Amazon too much

Jeff Bezos makes as much as this movie’s inevitable domestic total in the time it took to write this post. Pretty sure Amazon is fine.

[Napoleon]

The article takes what he said out of context. He didn't mean only white critics don't like his movie. He said the critics, as a group, a group made primarily by white guys, are very cynical these days and I agree.

 

Collateral Beauty had its flaws but it was not as horrible as reviews made it out to be. It was effectively touching. I'm sure the same happens with this one.

 

There's a review on Rotten Tomatoes that says: "I've seen Life Itself twice already, and I may even watch it a third time someday, not because it's perfect-it isn't-but because just as with my own life, I like to revisit the high points."

 

And that sums up everything. A flawed film can also have qualities and I miss the days where film criticism was about reviewing movies seriously and objectively, balancing out the qualities and the flaws, not just making fun of the movie in order to get page views and attention on social media.

[CoolioD1]

the "critics don't like it cos they're cynics who are afraid to feel emotion" argument kinda sinks when fucking paddington is the best reviewed movie of the year.