Lawless (formerly entitled "The Wettest County")

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Starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce; directed by John Hillcoat. Also stars Shia LaBeouf in his first role since leaving the Transformers franchise.


 
John Hillcoat's a badass, and Nick Cave is a great writer. Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowsa, Jessica Chastain? Hell yes. Shia LaBeouf? ...hope he does better in this than, y'know... any of his other movies...

The accent is kinda annoying, but if this film's as good as the trailer, I'll forgive that. <grin>
 
Am I the only one who thinks the color grade on that trailer looks awful? Makes it feel like a video-camera a lot of the time...not an Alexa. I think half of the trailer looks ok but the stuff that looks wrong looks REALLY wrong to me.

Other then that I like how the movie looks as a movie...time will tell.
 
KyleProhaska said:
Am I the only one who thinks the color grade on that trailer looks awful? Makes it feel like a video-camera a lot of the time...not an Alexa. I think half of the trailer looks ok but the stuff that looks wrong looks REALLY wrong to me.

Other then that I like how the movie looks as a movie...time will tell.
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I felt the same way, but I'm hoping it'll be different in the movie.
 
I worked on the film, and without saying things i'm not allowed to say, I can assure you guys that it definitely all comes together. Fantastic script from Nick Cave. Also, heads up, expect Shia to surprise a lot of people :)
 
One of the few movies I've seen in the last decade that I immediately wanted to watch again.

This deserved so much more buzz than it got.
 
I really enjoyed this more the second time around. After the Proposition I expect SO MUCH from Hillcoat. Very good movie, and will likely watch it for a third time....despite my hatred for Shia LeBeef.
 
LeBurf showed some real acting chops here. Plus, Hardy was outstanding, as always. (Though you could see he was just off playing Bane.)
 
I thought the story was quite muddled up. In the beginning, which I was really enjoying, we had the Hardy character set up as a very strong protagonist, a real 'man against the world' type, which he was playing with near-perfect, understated presumptive-invincibility. Then...he fails and fades away, to be replaced by much weaker protagonist LaBoeuf, who had been pretty much established as ineffectual, from which his character never quite recovers. In a nutshell, this was the main problem (among others) for me. A promising story with a compelling hero, very well acted, was derailed in favor of a weaker character with a relatively wishy-washy arc, serviceably acted, but limited by nature of the character itself. I kept wondering if the film's worst enemy was that it's based on a true story; if following the historical narrative too closely led to a fatally flawed screen-story arc...

My pair-o-Copper Lincolns...
 
I can see that. It didn't bother me as much because I think Jack was established as the POV character early. I certainly won't argue that more of Forrest would have been welcome.
 
David Jimerson said:
LeBurf showed some real acting chops here. Plus, Hardy was outstanding, as always. (Though you could see he was just off playing Bane.)
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This was actually filmed just before The Dark Knight Rises was, though you could argue he was definitely getting into the Bane mindset during filming this because he was training every day to get big enough for Bane.
 
the only thing I can fault in Lawless is the predictable plot turns
like when guy pierce's character murders meek and mild kid named Cricket

but the dialog within the plot points was engaging, the actors were great and the props, set and directing were top notch.

edit: plus I'm a nick cave fan, right back to the bad seeds days
 
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