Movie: Southpaw

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Real Steel or gtfo

Don't take a tone with me today, whippersnipper.

i'll hit you with my door

[epilogue]

i'll probably get hate for this one, but rosamund pike really gets on my nerves

Doubt it. She's pretty terrible.

[hlniv]

So, I heard this was pretty good, and that Gyllenhaal is great.

[LoathedVermin72]

Oh, didn't realize we had a thread for this. Saw it last night. I liked it a lot. Was surprised by the exciting way it used defamiliarization to accentuate what was going on in the narrative; not sure I've ever seen it used in quite the same way before. I think a lot of people are going to find it cliched/formulaic since its innovations are very subtle and, in broad strokes, its story is rather archetypal.

I also teared up multiple times; all of the emotional stuff completely worked for me. Fuqua really nailed those scenes when they needed to be.

Spoiler: show

McAdams's death is fucking gut-wrenching. Disturbing. Devastating.

And, yes, Gyllenhaal continues his powerhouse streak here. He's getting better and better. I think he's the new Tom Hardy (which is weird, since he was big before Tom Hardy).

[epilogue]

Do you guys think Eminem would have been good in this had he stayed with the part?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Do you guys think Eminem would have been good in this had he stayed with the part?

Better than Gyllenhaal, probably.

[epilogue]

Do you guys think Eminem would have been good in this had he stayed with the part?

Better than Gyllenhaal, probably.

[Bob Loblaw]

So wanna see this.

[LoathedVermin72]

This was even better the second time. I think this movie is really something special.