Comment on Confirmed: Paul Thomas Anderson helped rewrite ‘Napoleon'
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Between this, Joker II bombing, and him pulling out of another picture at the last minute recently — I think Phoenix’s career might be on ice for a while.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Joker didn’t do poorly by any fault of his though, he was great in it.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
My thoughts exactly. Tbh, I think a fanedit could do well by cutting a bunch of the straight musical scenes. It’s probably decent as a 90 minute film (theatrical runtime is 2+ hours).
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I mean I’m in the minority in that I liked the film, musical scenes and all.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I got the point of the musical scenes – I just didn’t think they added much of anything to the film. I felt like they were extremely distracting given the tone, as well. I may have felt differently without Lady Gaga. I don’t think she pulled off the kind of freneticism that would have made the music work better.