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I can’t see Brad Pitt’s new movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford yet because it isn’t playing anywhere near me at this time. However, I’d love to hear some reactions. Have any of you awesome readers gone to see it yet if it was released in your area? Please feel free to share what you thought of it! As with most movies, it’s been getting a mix of reviews.
Monsters And Critics gave it a pretty good review:
Unlike previous treatments of legend Jesse James, this story keeps the focus on the relationship between James and his eventual killer, cousin Bob Ford. Refusing to be a western, the film is a psychological study of the mutual disintegration of the two men. James eventually self-destructs amidst a legion of imaginary devils born of his murderous quest for revenge in the wake of the Civil War. Ford degenerates into a parasite with no life other than the pieces of Jesse James his cousin doles out to him, complete with the psychotic self-hatred and random violence that made up the last days of his life.
Brad Pitt has large shoes to fill, playing a man who has become much bigger in death than he was in life. In the smartest move of the film Dominik devotes zero screen time to the Buffalo Bill antics of the popular version of the American gun-slinger and keeps the focus on his spiraling psychological breakdown. Pitt depicts James not as a fearless Robin Hood supported by the ill-treated Union masses in the wake of the war, but as a traumatized veteran cast adrift in peacetime without closure and with no alternative means to violence in making a living.
Okay, your turn!
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winnie the pooh, did you go and watch the movie or not? it seems that you did not watch the movie… you already made up your own bias opinion against this couple without even watching the movie which is the topic of this thread…
angie ruin his career?? please….with angie, he became more famous and it’s not always about the box office….it’s about how long he will be in the limelight…he’s not young anymore to compete with other young actors but still can command the respect of the people in the industry….can you name someone the same age as brad whose popularity eclipse his…not only in the us but international??? nada….so rest your silly bias against this couple…
wowwwwwwww , everybody is talking about the greatest performance of his career and is doing really good for a limited release.
Also they are talking a lot for Angelina AMH performance oscar nod , it´s been release in Europe and the critics loved it .
They are in the spotlight because they can´t help it , he´s the number one target for the media and together boommm .
And both are really clear about one thing , family is first .
Well my opinion isn’t as much about the, moreso what lead to the box office demise. I saw it, it was very long, and Affleck was quite riveting in his character. However, I just think that Brad and Angelina milked it way too much for this movie. Sometimes less is more. All along trying to prove the solidarity of their family. We gotit, we get it, we know it, and enough is enough.
The pictures were way too much. Unless Brad gets back to promoting his movies and not his decision to be with Angelina, his days in hollywood is numbered. If he is to have a chance with the Benjamin movie, stay out of the spotlight, stop Angelina from giving these interviews that has absolutely nothing to do with anything, except self promotion. I was very disappointed in the two of them during this promotion. They need to cut it out. Promote the movie and the movie alone, because they were more interesting when we had to guess. he is ruining his career.