I love Mitch but damn that is tough to watch.
The Assessment
8/10
Im reading the NYT review of this this was the kicker was that the movie doesnât explain enough of its world.
Consequently, âThe Assessmentâ â much like a brutally honest centenarian (an awesome Minnie Driver) whom Virginia invites to dinner â is much easier to respect than to love.
I feel like itâs kind of true but its great strength. For most of the movie anyone whoâs had young kids will instantly recognize the stress, guilt, shame, and constant judgement going on and the finale peeling away one layer of the onion, while letting you realize the rest of whatâs going on worked for me. A lot of show, not tell.
But I do have to agree that, by not explaining a lot, it makes it much more of an artistic film, rather than a film you can easily recommend.
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Haha yeah I watched it a few years ago and had a similar reactionâŚ
From what I remember the characters are hard to relate to / hard to pin down, and then the plot (and what the movie is going for) isnât super clear either
Great actress performances though (Shelley Duvall especiallyâŚspacek was also good as a cipher. I forgot everything about the 3rd woman if there is oneâŚ)âŚI should try to rewatch it in a few years.
If youâre going for Altman you should really watch McCabe&Mrs MillerâŚ
I loved this movie. Iâm glad someone else watched it. I have been recommending it to people who like intense movies.
Alicia Vikander is such an intense actress. Like she showed up to this movie with her game face on to act. And Olsen has always been good. They make scenes that would seem silly if you described them be super intense
Like I said the NYT article faults it for not enough world building but I felt like it was a conscious choice to focus the story on the idea of maternal desire being so strong that youâre willing to go into a nuclear hell scape for the chance to have a kid or discovering in the coda that, having lost a child, the hope of having another one would make you crush so many other peopleâs hope just to have the chance. It didnât need a whole world building set up and explanation to get it. It was visceral.
Thatâs my take on it anyways
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Itâs very much on the short list. I made this list recently where I picked a biggest blind spot from each movie year, and this one is my 1971 choice (Paper Moon and 3 Women were occupying spots until the past couple of days). More generally, McCabe & Mrs. Miller has been a priority for me even above most of these. âBiggest Blind Spot Each Year, 1920 to Present, a list of films by WSULKJ ⢠Letterboxd
Rewatching The Long Goodbye had really geared up my mood for Altman, so Iâm happy to keep delving in. Think itâs going to be tough for anything to topple Nashville for me, but Iâd love it if something did.
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It contains several songs from Leonard Cohen (my favourite musician of all time). The use of his music is credited as part of why itâs considered a masterpiece.
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Really donât see how The Long Walk would even translate into a movie at all, but these reviews are strong.
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Itâs a cinematic story, just like a slow version of Fury Road but with a dark ending
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Spoiler alert!
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Only posting because a Carl Sagan voice over can make a trailer
Heading in to a advance screening of The Long Walk now. Will report back with a non spoiler review in a few hours.
Also, note for T-Mobile subscribers, one of the T-Mobile Tuesday deals next week is a $5 ticket for the movie.
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Like Tom at the end of the white mouse cartoon, âDonât youuu believeeee ittttâ.
Itâs literally a bunch of teens walking.
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Thereâs more than that
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Rebecca Ferguson, Iâm sold
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The Long Walk (No Spoilers)
My first caveat is that I havenât read the book, so I canât comment on how well it adapts the original material. Standing on itâs own, I think the movie is successful and very good.
The pacing makes you FEEL how grinding and relentless the journey is, but without being so uncomfortable that I wanted to stop watching.
The cast/acting was pretty good imo. The movie rises and falls on the relationships between the characters and whether the audience believes in them. In a two hour movie itâs hard to flesh out everyone, but I do think they did a good job of giving the main characters distinct personalities and motivations.
The main critique I could see folks having with the movie is that perhaps it treats some of the class/political/racial dynamics a bit too broadly and superficially, but I wasnât surprised by that given that it is trying to be a mass market film.
Initial grade is 4/5. Glad I saw it, but probably wonât achieve rewatchable status for me.
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