#hail caeser

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Hail Caeser

Battle of the Trebia

Result: inconclusive both armies had to retire the field before victory was called. However, Rome was picking up the advantage in the centre.

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Still stuck on the fact juleus Caesar had a comb-over…

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My ★★★★½ review of Hail, Caesar! on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/2JZCiF

A ★★★★½ review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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There's a scene in this where Communist Channing Tatum drops a briefcase full of money into the ocean in order to catch a little dog. And then he doesn't even get angry at the little dog because he knows deep down that the little dog just wanted to come to Russia with him. We should all try to be a bit more like Communist Channing Tatum.

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My 60 Favorite Films of 2016, So Far (As of 10/01/16):

47. Hail Caeser!, dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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Hail, Caesar!

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Movie Review: 'Hail, Caesar!' (2nd Opinion)

Movie Review: ‘Hail, Caesar!’ (2nd Opinion)

Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum Plot: Eddie Mannix is a fixer for a prominent Hollywood studio in the 1950s, spending his time preventing the studio and its stars from becoming scandals. During the short time the film takes place he must contend with a major star being kidnapped by Communists, a…

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Here’s my thoughts on Hail Caeser

Okay, so I watched the movie and I really do think that it was not a great film. It was a fun film but by no account was it on the level of any other Coen work. At best, it could very well be seen as a tremendous tribute to Golden Hollywood, when men were men, women were women and white people were white. Okay, I’m not going to be so callous to simply pick on this movie because it didn’t meet the proper levels of diversity, but I am not going to pretend that it didn’t kind of bug me. Besides, the real issue with the movie is simply the lack of anything coming out of it. 

I’ve said before that there is something about the Coens’ style that puts me off from truly liking them at times. And it pretty much is their carefully vague approach to symbolism and having this sort of pointlessness that lingers tonally through their films. This film really just embodied that. The characters didn’t really rub me in any particular way, they just sort of came and went. There was some interesting ideas placed into the film but ultimately the whole situation built up to nothing more than an anticlimax. One which I don’t think the film was intentionally trying to do, otherwise it wouldn’t have tried so hard to dazzle the audience with the spectacle of reviving the Golden Hollywood era. Or if it was the intent to fuck with the emotions of the audience, it was done pretty badly. 

While I liked seeing Josh Brolin do his thing as Eddie Mannix, I really could not make myself care for his whole part in the story. For that matter, I was not all that invested in George Clooney, Scarlet Johansson or Channing Tatum’s character and motivations. I found myself far more interested in Alden Ehrenreich as Hobie Doyle and his arc and Carmen Miranda esque girlfriend and the people who kidnap Clooney’s character. But they’re barely given enough time to get their full potential. It focused itself more on creating these interesting scenes and set-pieces than developing a raison d’etre. 

The humor was quite dry and very sparse. I think the funniest thing of the whole film was seeing Wayne Knight and the submarine scene. The rest either just didn’t have that much punch to it or banked on the Golden Hollywood era. There was a great deal of potential thrown away and it just felt like it was just throwing ideas here and there just to give off the illusion there was something more to it. I swear, this movie really annoyed me with the amount of crosses it threw my way and how it just teases the whole Communist slant. 

I would say that perhaps what would make me enjoy the film more would be to have been so absorbed in knowledge of the Golden Hollywood era that the cultural elements would captivate me further, but I don’t think it really would. Partly because there are movies set in that era that don’t require a niche audience to love it and use the era to it’s greater potential to make a point. That and I know enough about the era to say that this felt more as just a stitching of the concepts rather than actually doing anything fruitful with it. 

It’s a very lovely looking work, but that’s about it.