Just saw it a couple days ago, and I think I agree with the consensus: it was a very good movie, but not sure about best of the year. I thought Christian Bale and Amy Adams did great. I thought Jennifer Lawrence was good, but I was surprised at her win last night. But... this is coming from someone who saw only American Hustle and not any of the other movies nominated for the major awards, so I have nothing to compare that film against.
Jennifer Lawrence is just the Hollywood "it" girl right now. I thought she did great, but Amy Adams had the more compelling role in my opinion. Christian Bale needs a damn Oscar, but I think the Dallas Buyer's Club has both of those locked in this year (deservedly so).
Leo is a great actor, but he doesn't take gambles all that much and/or he doesn't transform for the role... not like Daniel Day-Lewis, Bale or others. I think he could win the Oscar for Wolf of Wall Street, but I don't think he should. I think both Bale and McConnaughey deserve it over him. Bale needs a leading role Oscar... I don't know of anyone other than Daniel Day-Lewis who transforms himself for roles more. He should have gotten one for Rescue Dawn and he wasn't even nominated.
Went to see it with the Missus. Was not disappointed because I expected it to be the way it was. I was quite impressed with the technical aspects of the film, Adams' acting, but not the story or Batman. Yeap. My predictions were right. Also, Amy Adams will win lots of accolades/OSCAR for this. Still one of my favorite actresses and played her role superbly. Vampire Batman shouldn't win. He was never good and constantly looking uncomfortable in un-matching 70's wardrobe. I will give it a :grin: in the SwoLy rating scale.
You should not be in this thread after the movie has been out for over a month unless you have seen it.
Just watched it. I suspected the plot twist, though I was expecting more involvement of one group. It's a nicely constructed movie, but it fits in the backpocket of other 70's era movies like Goodfellas or Casino. Definitely all about character performances, but the characters themselves? Might be too much 70's realism, but outside of the eye candy, I wasn't too much attached to any of them outside of Renner (obviously sympathetic) and sometimes Bale's character (his sympathy ratcheted up by deviations of his established con-man "everyone's a mark" character). Louis CK seemed out of place to me in the star studded cast. It wasn't that his acting was too bad either.
