AN AFTERNOON SPENT AT THE MOVIES
So, went to see “Killers of the Flower Moon” with a friend.
Executive summary: It’s fucking AMAZING.
I liked everything about the movie. They totally recreated the period. It’s just incredible the kind of big crowd scene can be done now, with digital cameras. The way the story is told. Unlike the book, which focused on Tom White, the white cop who solved the case, the story is told through the marriage of Ernest and Molly Burkhart, so it tells the story of the Osage.DiCaprio is great as Ernest. I haven’t seen DeNiro this good in a long time. Everybody in it has worked together for so long they totally trust each other.
Three and a half hours and there wasn’t a minute I’d have cut. I didn’t even think of time while watching it. Totally engrossed.
I would rank this up with Taxi Driver, Good Fellas and Casino as a Scorsese crime story.
See it on the big screen if you can.
Also saw trailers for Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” and Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.” I will be in line for both. Big screen epics.
“Ferrari” is the story of how Ferrari became Ferrari by winning the Mille Miglia in 1952. Lots of classic road racers and no CGI in sight. The racing footage in the trailer was old-fashioned amazing.
“Napoleon” is a Ridley Scott epic up there with Gladiator. Real old school grand epic.
I really love it when I can go to a movie and come out just knocked out. It happens so seldom. But “Killers of the Flower Moon” has it all.
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This is welcome news Tom after living in a movie wasteland for quite awhile.
I'll say this: I lived in Las Vegas during what Casino depicts. The real-life mobster on whom DeNiro's character is based personally fired my father from his job. I worked at a newspaper whose publisher helped him skim money. I have trouble watching because I know all that (and that the film rogers Harry Reid, who is not the politician they depicted). The point of which is to say, with all that, I know it's brilliant film-making. Scorsese is an authentic genius.