Red Mosquito

Ensign9 wrote:I’m starting to think this movie is an intentional comedy.

i'm not getting that. can you explain?

Im watching it tonight

what does the clown movie have to do with this one?

tree_ wrote:

Ensign9 wrote:I’m starting to think this movie is an intentional comedy.

i'm not getting that. can you explain?

the heavy smiths listening was funny

I can see it. There's a lot of funny stuff. The nail gun timing is funny, the German tourist stuff, there's a lot of moments where the confident narration of the Killer is immediately contradicted by his incompetence(?), and those moments are played with a certain lightness and deadpan style that could be read as humor.

spike wrote:

tree_ wrote:

Ensign9 wrote:I’m starting to think this movie is an intentional comedy.

i'm not getting that. can you explain?

the heavy smiths listening was funny

The Smiths. Fassbender being comically bad at his job. Gig economy jokez.

^^ what Argo said

i thought he was very good at his job.. just had to improvise some because of circumstances. I mean, he succeeded, so, ...

Dem tiddies making him miss the first shot.

tree_ wrote:i thought he was very good at his job.. just had to improvise some because of circumstances. I mean, he succeeded, so, ...

He literally said that he can’t improvise for his job.

tree_ wrote:i thought he was very good at his job.. just had to improvise some because of circumstances

“Don’t improvise. Anticipa—“*gets tackled by a giant man*

I mean he walked right by the clearly occupied bathroom despite the very audible chime that anyone inside would’ve heard when he opened the outside door to get in and the subsequent sound of a shower faucet being turned off. “Let me walk right past that and into the bedroom. Maybe I can catch a glimpse of some tiddies.”

None of this is a criticism, by the way. I just think it’s clear this is a guy chasing one mistake with another because of the type of emotional reaction (to his wife/SO getting beat up) he has a rule against.

And I think he botched the hit because he didn’t wait for his pulse to get below 60 (which, by the way, was elevated because he saw some dominatrix bazongas coming his way). He’s a fuckup.

I dunno, he had an ethos, some ideal guidelines to abide, but perfection is difficult. In the end, he won because he was close enough. He was by no means "bad" at his job

He was definitely good enough to overcome his mistakes. No doubt.

I agree with this movie looking completely derivative and generic. There are some competent moments and shots, Its David Fincher anyway, but it feels like a very minor entry in his great career, something closer to Panic Room maybe.

VinylGuy wrote:I agree with this movie looking completely derivative and generic. There are some competent moments and shots, Its David Fincher anyway, but it feels like a very minor entry in his great career, something closer to Panic Room maybe.

This will grow with you in time

You can't just throw that out every time someone doesn't like a movie as much as you, Tree.

yeah i dont think this will grow on me.

Give tree's "grow with you in time" response a chance. I think you'll come around on it eventually.