'The Drop' is everything this film tried to be.
'The Drop' showed how it should be done.
The only good thing about KTS is the acting, everything else falls short.
I don't know if i agree with you on your initial point. I love both movies but they're totally different in terms of theme, setting, plot, etc. The only shared traits are two idiots wearing weird masks that rob the mob at some point and both have James Gandalfini playing a mobster past his prime.
I do, however, agree that The Drop is a better film. It's got more emotional impact and it's a bit more subtle with its intentions and is nowhere near as cynical as Killing Them Softly. Though there's no doubt about it, the acting in both movies is outta sight. I watch both movies often and think more people should watch them. I love 'em!
jeez i loved both films... i found the drop to be more FRIENDLY, and KTS to be more Comic realism than actual gangster *beep* but upon research THE DROP is more innacurate and plays out like a love letter... KTS is what criminals experience. desperate actions for desperate gain... also the accents, (im an Aussie) are realistic and more to the point a BOGAN like Ben Mendelson played the role to a T... were as i found TOM HARDY very hesitant to act as an englishmen, propably because the studio didnt want an accent.... but every time i hear englishmen or Australians doing American accents, i just wish the casting director could have told the studio were the actor was from and in tern, flip the script just enough so the character can act his or her best..... to me Killing them Softly has a larger impact... and Tom Hardy is my favourite actor ATM
shareI agree with Mark. They're trying to be very different movies, even though they're similar in quite a few ways. KTS is a very cynical take and uses crime as an allegory about modern American finances. Everyone is lazy, or incompetent, or disloyal. Whereas The Drop is more of a straight character study.
They're both fairly small movies, with good acting, that focus on how some small time crooks messing up a fairly simple scam and the results.
I enjoyed The Drop more, I felt it was more cohesive, I felt like it hit all it's buttons. To me KTS was uneven in the sense that at least in the cut we got, it can't decide if it's a movie about crime or it's a commentary. It's both, but the way they split the focus it did both of them only sorta okay. It came off as muddled.
I think it would've been a lot better had it either just gone for it in either direction. That either the whole movie should have been the last scene, where the subtext was text, or that it should've almost entirely cut the C-Span stuff and just been a slick crime thriller. Still it's a really well done movie, that's less than the sum of its parts, but still okay.
I much prefer this to the Drop. The dialogue in KTS particularly delivered by Gandolfini and the scenes with Jenkins and Pitt is outstanding.
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