⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ MARTY SUPREME ⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎

WHaaaT

Jan 3

1 reply

Jonboi

5mo

It's refreshing to know that both annoying conservatives and annoying progressives fall into the trap of thinking that a movie showing problematic characters is an endorsement of said characters

Red Rocket exposed a lot of people as dumbasses saying s*** like “this endorses pedos” as if the movie didn’t go out of its way to show how big a piece of s*** Mikey Saber was at every opportunity

gothangelsinner

Jan 3

finally sitting down to watch this

Oscar Winner

Jan 3

1 reply

WHaaaT

5mo

Red rocket od was on the stance of “this guy is a piece of s***” and he gets beat up and robbed in the end. He doesn’t win. They don’t romanticize it like umm…another movie

WHaaaT

Jan 3

Oscar Winner

5mo

Red rocket od was on the stance of “this guy is a piece of s***” and he gets beat up and robbed in the end. He doesn’t win. They don’t romanticize it like umm…another movie

Licorice Pizza shots?

I actually like that movie a lot I don’t think it presents the relationship between the two characters as a healthy thing

VIRGILSINTHAGROUND

Jan 3

Jonboi

5mo

!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdfdilTPaeo

I was hoping no one posted this here

demo

Jan 3

needle drop at the end was insanely good

backshot basquiat

Jan 3

huey p rxcan

5mo

this is a level up from uncut gems soundtrack and that one cd was phenomenal….. how can you hear holocaust honey and think this is b sides material

get a f***ing grip

i’m not saying it’s b side “material” i’m saying it sounds like uncut gems spiritual sequel instead of being its own thing

underachiever

Jan 3

carlos slim

Jan 3

1 reply

kusa

6mo

i liked it overall, but in terms of narrative structure it felt too similar to uncut gems and good time. this might honestly be my favourite Timothee performance to date, but it also feels like Joshua Safdie unintentionally boxed him out of a real best actor push. there just werent enough true wow moments for Timothee to fully break through, even though the performance itself is really strong.

ive always felt this way about uncut gems and good time, but the weakest part of those movies is the pacing, and Marty Supreme suffers from the same issue. theres nearly an hour where no ping pong is played at all, and instead its just marty running around the city doing whatever it takes to get the money. that part is enjoyable at first, but it eventually starts to feel like a chore to sit through, the issue just becomes that repetition dulls the tension rather than building it imo.

the climax was underwhelming. the endo vs marty match at the end did not feel satisfying as a viewer, he goes through all of this and it just ends with him hugging endo and thats it. i thought the ping pong scenes, which i thought were supposed to be the primary force of the story, were underwhelming as well. i really wish the cinematography during those sequences had been more dynamic or just more cinematic. this felt like the perfect place for safdie to really shine as a director, and instead it came across as restrained.

the ending confused me as well. maybe I missed something, but is it supposed to show that Marty seeing his kid is going to make him retire? Not really sure what was implied here tbh

not saying i did not enjoy the movie, i thought it was good, but outside the first like 30-45 minutes and TImothees performance, it doesn't feel like the movie excelled at anything else. it's like Safdie got sort of scared after the 45th minute when writing the script and went back to what he knew best.

im surprised u didn’t like the ping-pong scenes, I thought they were well-shot and easy to follow. s*** had me on the edge of my seat.

I think the ending is really just a “this is life” kind of moment. The real-life guy this was based on didn’t retire when he had a kid, so I don’t think that’s what they were going for. I think it’s more like Marty has just gone through the most insane s*** ever to get that win against Endo and he’s been so caught up in the rush of everything that he’s kind of forgotten about the “why”. then seeing his son, he comes face to face with the sublime, and it’s like in an instant the suffering and pain is reframed as part of the beautiful tapestry of life. or i guess beautiful isn’t the right word because it’s not necessarily a positive emotion, more like just raw emotion, but i hope you get what I mean anyway.

kusa

Jan 3

carlos slim

5mo

im surprised u didn’t like the ping-pong scenes, I thought they were well-shot and easy to follow. s*** had me on the edge of my seat.

i actually just rewatched the movie and I found myself liking it a bit more. (still think it suffers from pacing though)

regarding the ping pong scenes I wasn't saying they weren't good just wish there were more of it and it was a bit more cinematic. my favourite match was when he played endo for the first time and he goes down 0-5 and you start cringing every time he misses, but then it jumps to the end of the 2nd match, and then to the end of the 3rd match. I get it's to speed it up for the second act, but even at the climax when he finally plays Endo again, it really was just too fast for me, I get this was a directors choice but it didn't really fully work for me.

regarding the ending I did end up liking it more, and I think you got it right. it definitely is a moment of of him finally "waking up" and realizing all the s\*\*\* he just did and went through to get what he wanted. he was definitely overwhelmed with emotions in that single moment and like you said it was just raw emotion being shown on the screen.

Puma

Jan 3

2 replies

This was a pretty good vampire movie

Surprisingly a bunch of animals in this movie, it was like a field trip to a zoo

The honey scene ??? was weird and I might’ve missed something but how did Marty get the royal suite

Enjoyed this movie overall, seems like Ben should stick to acting

Oscar Winner

Jan 3

Puma

5mo

This was a pretty good vampire movie

Surprisingly a bunch of animals in this movie, it was like a field trip to a zoo

The honey scene ??? was weird and I might’ve missed something but how did Marty get the royal suite

Enjoyed this movie overall, seems like Ben should stick to acting

Great question how did he get the suite Puma?

huey p rxcan

Jan 3

1 reply

Puma

5mo

This was a pretty good vampire movie

Surprisingly a bunch of animals in this movie, it was like a field trip to a zoo

The honey scene ??? was weird and I might’ve missed something but how did Marty get the royal suite

Enjoyed this movie overall, seems like Ben should stick to acting

@twitch

great screenwriting moment. i’m pretty sure they cut to it after the convo with the international TT committee guy

marty bombards him with questions and accusations but he doesn’t go into it thinking he will get a seat the ritz. he just wants to know what hotel they are staying at so he can check in to that hotel under the committees name

hence why it’s the committee that bills him and not the ritz itself later on.

you can assume marty pushed around some gullible hotel concierge into believing he was a star player that was being sponsored by the commitee

Oscar Winner

Jan 3

1 reply

huey p rxcan

5mo

@twitch

great screenwriting moment. i’m pretty sure they cut to it after the convo with the international TT committee guy

hence why it’s the committee that bills him and not the ritz itself later on.

you can assume marty pushed around some gullible hotel concierge into believing he was a star player that was being sponsored by the commitee

Damn I gotta rewatch cus there’s parts that I’m forgetting.

1. I thought the $1500 fee was cus of him lashing out at the tournament and destroying s***?

2. As I’m typing this didn’t Tyler mention “ritz” when he was going through his mail?

So was it the commissioner billed him stating it was cus of his stay at Ritz?

huey p rxcan

Jan 3

1 reply

Oscar Winner

5mo

Damn I gotta rewatch cus there’s parts that I’m forgetting.

1. I thought the $1500 fee was cus of him lashing out at the tournament and destroying s***?

2. As I’m typing this didn’t Tyler mention “ritz” when he was going through his mail?

So was it the commissioner billed him stating it was cus of his stay at Ritz?

commissioner billed him because of his stay at the ritz

tylers line referenced the ritz but the bill comes from the commission itself. the movie never does a close up but it can be deduced it’s an itemized bill of damages including cost of the room, room service, and his blow up at the tournament

Oscar Winner

Jan 3

huey p rxcan

5mo

commissioner billed him because of his stay at the ritz

Damnnn so combo of everything