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Post by moviemouth on Sept 29, 2018 12:39:53 GMT
I haven't seen it, but I know it is hated by both critics and audiences.
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 30, 2018 9:26:19 GMT
Based on my impression from trailer I doubt it's better than... Gotti (1996) (6/10)
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 30, 2018 9:28:59 GMT
0% on rotten tomatoes. Its audience score is still higher then The Last Jedi.
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Post by ravi02 on Oct 1, 2018 1:11:55 GMT
I'll say it's very bad and deserves its 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating. Still, it is a film so misguided in its execution that I couldn't help but watch all the way to the end. It's a perfect lesson for aspiring filmmakers on how not to make a film.
Some of my thoughts:
- The opening credits are some of the longest I've ever seen. This movie must have had like 50 producers!
- Travolta wasn't a bad choice to play Gotti (he's got the presence and looks), but his performance mostly consists of looking constipated and waving his finger a lot. We never feel like this a guy to be feared and respected. I broke out laughing during the scene where all the other mobsters get up in respect.
- The film is so badly-edited and paced. We cut from scenes to a cancer-stricken Gotti in 2002, then randomly flashback to his glory years of the 70's and 80's with no coherent transition. The story drags as a result.
- Pitbull (yes, Pitbull the Latin rapper) did the soundtrack and his songs play in scenes that take place in the 80's! It's just weird to have a rapper do the soundtrack in a film about a mobster who was openly racist and liberally tossed around the word "n****r" and other epithets towards minorities.
- Much of the film consists of Gotti and other indistinguishable goons sitting in darkly-lit rooms talking about who they want to kill, who they don't want to kill and what it takes to make it in life. I guess you can say other mob movies also feature scenes like this, but at least in the first two Godfathers and Goodfellas, they made the mob interactions and meetings entertaining!
- They portray Gotti as a loving husband, father and respected man who provided for his neighborhood. Sure, he might have killed people and ruined lives, but he was still a great man who was unfairly persecuted by the government. Uh huh.
It's awful how the end of the film glorifies him and shows his supporters celebrating him. It kinda reminded me of Trump and his followers!
So yeah, a major cinematic trainwreck.
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Post by Vits on Nov 28, 2018 21:00:35 GMT
5/10 0% on rotten tomatoes. Its audience score is still higher then The Last Jedi. |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Nov 28, 2018 21:02:40 GMT
It's Gotti be pretty bad
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Post by James on Nov 28, 2018 22:08:55 GMT
0% on rotten tomatoes. Its audience score is still higher then The Last Jedi. How the hell does that add up? |
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Post by James on Nov 28, 2018 22:13:57 GMT
I never saw the movie, but judging from the trailer, yeah it explains for itself. Even the trailer itself is horribly edited.
Also, when a movie has an actor whom hasn’t done anything for a while, you know it’s gonna be shit.
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Post by ck100 on Nov 28, 2018 22:17:04 GMT
I've seen some people say it's crap while others say it's not so bad. A lot of people say though that it's heavy on mob movie cliches.
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Post by ravi02 on Nov 29, 2018 4:48:37 GMT
while others say it's not so bad. I seriously wonder what's going on with those people saying "it's not so bad". A bad film is a bad film.
Like I said earlier, Gotti is so bad, it's a textbook lesson on how now to make a film.
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Post by ck100 on Nov 29, 2018 6:12:37 GMT
while others say it's not so bad. I seriously wonder what's going on with those people saying "it's not so bad". A bad film is a bad film.
But you know that "bad" is entirely subjective. |
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Post by Vits on Nov 29, 2018 10:44:28 GMT
while others say it's not so bad. I seriously wonder what's going on with those people saying "it's not so bad". A bad film is a bad film. It's not black and white. There are different shades of good and bad... and that doesn't just apply to movies. |
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Post by politicidal on Nov 29, 2018 16:43:20 GMT
They bragged about its bad reviews in the trailers so who knows?
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