Allstar wrote:"Martin Scorsese has his Goodfellas. David O. Russell answers with his Mediocre-fellas."

Clearly not everyone's cup of tea. I'll be catching up with Wolf, Her, and Inside Llewyn Davis this week, but for now American Hustle sits firmly as my favorite of 2013.

So I'm curious what everyone made of this moment:

yeah so talli was a fucking extra in this movie and didn't even tell us I think he did lol. I remember him saying he watched Leo snort coke off a woman's asshole, which was the scene at the beginning ah, well in any case i literally put my hand over my mouth when i saw him lmao Haha, how clearly do...

Bale's the lead and is deservingly the best, but it's film where in any other movie every lead performance would have easily outshone the rest, but since everyone's so great, it's nonstop top tier acting. Even Adams, who's performance has been misunderstood. -Vader In what ways do you think her per...

Bale was the absolute standout for me. Cooper probably landed second. I can understand the praise for Lawrence, but I think she succeeds far more on the basis of the underlying dialog and the charisma she's able to bring to the role. The performance itself felt a bit messy and somewhat lacking in co...

davids wrote:He's done it with M Modine, R Hauer, T Berenger, W Bentley etc. Who else would you like to see back in the big-time but who has fallen away over the years?

Wes Bentley... I'm guessing you didn't see The Hunger Games.

For me the trailer/film has four problems. 1. Too much exposition and focus on plot in the trailer. 2. A terribly generic score in the second half. I really hope they came up with something more than that for the actual film. 3. Very disappointing aesthetically - not even in my wildest nightmare wo...

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni56570247/ Best Foreign Film competitors. Note the lack of Blue is the Warmest Color, perhaps the most successful foreign film of the year. I guess it's not exactly Academy material, but come on... Blue is the Warmest Color isn't eligible this year. The foreign nominations...

Dragon_316ca wrote:Argo writer to BvS

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/b ... ite-666735

There's hope...

Heading out to the theater to see this in about an hour. My hopes aren't particularly high for the film as a whole, but I am excited for some of these performances.