was gonna watch tonight but i might hold off until i can watch CK again then

thanks

Yeah to me it’s a disrespectful exaggeration to say he has more talent in his pinky than 99% of current directors. There’s plenty of movies from recent years that I enjoy more than Citizens Kane.

Enjoyable. The old timey camera, fonts and the audio's theatrical mix was a nice touch though it did make the aspect ratio oddly stick out

Yeah they should of went all the way and did 4:3

didn’t need a movie on this but it’s fincher so let’s see

im not talking about the 40s/50s in general

simply talking about Welles

i think the 10s were a p good decade but the last 2 years have definitely been dreadful

Fam what happen to your avy? And 2019 had some of the best films as of lately. 2019 was a great year for films.

Parasite
Portrait of a lady on fire
Uncut gems
Honey boy
The lighthouse
The Irishman
Last black man in San fran
Marriage story
Once upon a time in Hollywood
Peanut butter falcon
Pain and glory
The farewell
Little women
Midsommar
Birds of passage
The Nightingale

2019 goated man. And then we still had enjoyable movies like Us, Ad astra, Waves, Booksmart, Endgame, 1917, Dolemite is My Name and many others I still have to watch. 2019 probably one the best year of films in the 10s

Watch Klaus if you haven't yet.

I did with my girl

Nice. Great movie for Christmas

I don't think I've ever watched so many movies in one year (2019)

1- Avengers: Endgame
2- Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
3- Parasite
4- Joker
5- The Irishman
6- The Lighthouse
7- Knives Out
8- Midsommar
9- Jojo Rabbit
10- 1917

Marriage Story, Portrait Of a Lady On Fire, Pain and Glory, Little Women, Ford V Ferrari, John Wick 3, Toy Story 4, Klaus, Uncut Gems, Midway, A Rainy Day In NY, Far From Home, Captain Marvel, Shazam, Booksmart, Ready Or Not, The Farewell, The Gentlemen, Richard Jewell, Bombshell, Detective Pikachu, Alita, Us, Long Shot, Hustlers, Good Boys, Aladdin, The Lion King, Frozen 2.

Yeah I’ll probably watch it again here soon for the holidays. But yeah man 2019 had a great list of films anyone who denies that clearly didn’t check out the majority of what came out

Seen someone compare this to citizen Kane and hype kind of deflated. Last time I watched CK I fell asleep

I compare this to Roma. It looks nice, but it's boring.

Thought this was brilliant. Dense and really well structured. Reznor and Ross killed it too as expected. Hope Fincher can get back to regularly making films now, too good for hiatuses and funding issues.

And since when did a film have to be wholly accurate to the true events in order to be compelling? Zodiac too took plenty of creative license and adapted a novel that is widely inaccurate and sensationalist, but yet its still a masterpiece of a film. Nobody is bound to tell a story in one set way.

Tried to rewatch this but stopped mid-way to watch Sopranos. I feel like I’m forcing myself to like this film

EXTREMELY DOPE

amanda seyfried was really good in this movie and well cast

best movie of the year too f***ing good tbh

not as great as it wants to be but still a worth while watch

fincher's worst in years

Damn this was kinda wild in a technical kinda way
The score thoooo

The movie is technically fantastic, but the whole thing feels soulless in a certain way. Nothing in the film really holds your attention, especially the first half, which has very little relevance to the larger story and mostly functions as an "homage to old hollywood" that I detest in any movie where they try it.

I just find the whole thing weird, because what was this really about? The battle between Welles and Mank only really takes up about 10 minutes of screentime... the main focus of the movie seems to actually be a political campaign and how Mank felt about it, but Mank is just a passive observer. So the plot is: Mank sees issues in the world -> writes Citizen Kane. But what's the point in that when it's pretty clear what real world problems Citizen Kane is reacting against?

I wouldn't say Mank merely a passive observer, he does attempt to persuade people, he also speaks his socialist inclined mind in the company of Hearst, which is something. This was more than I'd probably expect from someone in that circle. He could have done more but as you see during the first chunk of the film, he's no hero, he's a jackass; the day drinking which he can't handle, the flippant belittling of his wife to others, the gambling addiction. I saw it as this, a stylish look at a flawed man who had enough of a moral compass to know what was wrong and although didn't bend the world to fix it, done more than others that were around him at the time.

just watched it

i learned a lot and it makes me wanna learn more about old hollywood

i loved the way they made the audio sound like an actual 40s film, and all the other technical aspects were great too

story was interesting for the most part but it got boring at some points too

3.5/5