Am I The Only One?

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This film was terrible. It was boring, it went nowhere. It got interesting in the last moments. The same scene was repeated over and over and over, and people say this was a brilliant script? How many times did he go back to the Renee Russo character and say something like, "hey, I'm a real good guy at my job and if you want to get ahead you will give me what I want..." This happened for most of the movie, repeatedly. Then he lets his partner get killed, omg! couldn't see that coming! Jeez...we get it already, he is disturbed. Social satire? A terrible one. Seriously, do we not understand that the media sensationalized destruction? All this film showed was that happening in a very boring, obvious way. It didn't give into any depth, all that happened was a sick person was able to succeed at the business because the business is sick. This was a very shallow movie. The acting was good but I could not wait for the movie to end. I can't believe people think this was something profound. At best it was a patient observation equivalent to maybe a short opinion piece in a newspaper.

I liked Nightcrawler but I had issues with it. The reason to stay was Jake Gyllenhall's performance: Lou Bloom may not have been likeable in any way but he was a fascinating creep and I couldn't get enough of watching him. As a character study in what happens when total ambition runs into a complete lack of empathy or morals, Nightcrawler was a lot of fun.

My problem was that so much of it was utterly not credible. I did not for one second believe that a studio would pay serious $$$ for that level of graphic accident footage, much less videos that were clearly taken illegally. So because the central premise was faulty to me, all of the movie's tsk tsking and pretending to have something to say about the state of the news media etc. was to me just complete bull.

It actually reminded me of Gone Girl a lot because in both cases I turned to my wife and said "Well that was entertaining crap." Both movies seemed to me to be trashy film noir dressed up like a film with a Serious Thing to Say.

Anyway, Nightcrawler entertained me the whole way through but I never once thought I was watching anything other than a fabricated movie universe. Which is fine, but it was pure noir / fantasy and most certainly not effective satire of the media.

6.5 / 10 from me.

I gave this movie an 8 in here because I understand that it is very well made.

But it's also a movie I won't be rewatching any time soon, it made me hate the world and myself. Which says a lot giving that I don't have much empathy to speak of.

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I was disappointed and thought it was overrated as well...

I assume most of my disappointment stems from the fact that it wasn't about the xman bearing this name

IDK. I totally get what you're saying. I thought this was a good film. The story and the acting were both quite special. But the movie left me in more anger than awe. I was literally ranting when I got to the ending and he got a happy ending (for a psychopath like Lou Bloom, that IS happy). I actually like the non-cliche movies, and I was actually very impressed with the Skeleton Key a few years back, but this movie really managed to piss me off. They never meant to make Lou likable, but he was still celebrated and successful in the movie, which is very disturbing.

And I agree with many people that though it's not the cliche Hollywood movie, it was also very unrealistic. The money, the TV station, and the police... it's all very unconvincing. Granted, Russo was a pretty sick person as well, but it's hard to believe that she had that much authority in the station. And as for the police, Lou made lots of mistakes. It's pretty easy to discredit him.

I'm still going to acknowledge it as a good movie, and a very smart one, but I get what you're saying.

Ignore the people who suggest that you should go watch Transformers or Hunger Games. People use that reply too much and I think it's very ignorant. The world isn't divided into people who listen to Justin Bieber and people who listen to Mozart. It's just plain ignorant to suggest everyone who's not crazy about Mozart to go drool over Justin Bieber.

And I do sort of agree that it's a bit overrated. I think it's overall 7+, but not near the 8. I'd think something like 7.4 is more like it. But I guess a 0.5 point difference isn't much to rant about.