The Little Things (2021)

The poster gives me 90s John Grisham movie adaptation vibes, too.

Did Leto get 3rd billing because Washington and Malek won for Best Actor and Leto won for Best Supporting Actor?

R2, Malek starred in Bohemian Rhapsody, which made a zillion dollars. Billing him above Leto makes perfect sense. And Denzel has been a money-making star for decades. Oscars have nothing to do with it.

You bitches are so late with the threads.

Fresher Thread

Well, which thread do you cunts want us to post in?

Hard to see D lookin so old n fat.....wont see this one.

R6 This one. It was first.

I still have to watch this. Planning to tonight.

I’m disappointed with the scores.

48% Rotten Tomatoes

53% Metacritic

Denzy looks like shit, and Rami with his overbite smirk intact.

Predictable thriller.....meh. it was OK, too many long minutes of nuthin happenin.

Jared Leto was frickin awesome as ever .

Rami is (home) box office poison

It could havve been cut by a half hour easy....3 hrs is too much.

Bozo ending....geesh....dammit!

(it only seemed like 3 hrs.....

Rami Malek is completely miscast. Not believable in the slightest. If this is his post Oscar career direction, he’s in big trouble. His bug eyes and weird intensity don’t work for “family man.” He’s a very particular character actor, and needs better guidance and casting.

The movie is a dull throwback to the much better Seven and Silence of the Lambs, with all the attendant issues with women who are either dead or endangered wives. The movie was written in the early nineties and suffocatingly feels like it. It’s barely updated. This would have been a theatrical January release and would have flopped. Hard.

All those movies WB is releasing straight to HBO MAX - duds. They knew this. Every good movie is being held back for theatrical release. Don’t be fooled.

Streaming is still the new Direct to Video.

Jared Leto always overacts. A bit hammy.

I thought Leto more or less made the movie. He was creepy af. Too bad he wasn't playing a serial rapist, that would have been even better.

Rami was miscast.

[QUOTE] Too bad he wasn't playing a serial rapist, that would have been even better.

What do you mean by this, R20?

Yea, jared the only fun part, tho i do find rami hot....them big sexy bug eyes.

You would think those three big stars could have found a more interesting movie to make....dull. total crap ending.

I s a w it and ....It ended badly for all concerned.....

There was not a single actor in this movie who was convincing in his role. Good actors can rise above mediocre writing. None of these three leads gave a shit about this movie and it showed.

jared was a hot hoot....fun creep role.

Hell no

Slow. So, so slow.

shoulda been an episode of a crime tv show....flimsy.

R28 That bad, huh?

[QUOTE] Some scenes are red herrings and ultimately don't fit into the rest of the movie.

***SPOILER*** About 40 or so minutes into the movie (whenever Rami’s wife was introduced), I was convinced that Rami was the killer. His wife looked exactly like the woman who was killed in her apartment. I thought that Rami was using Denzel to find out what he knew about his past murders that Denzel had been obsessed with.

I also thought he was going to be someone who secretly hated his wife so he murdered women who looked like her.

I was surprised when he wasn’t, to be honest. It would have made the movie much better.

Boring AF

Rami looks uncomfortable in this movie, and like he doesn’t know which camera to look at.

Yup. Boring.

I'm gonna save y'all a bunch of money and tell you not to rent it til it's available for 4 bucks. It's not worth the cost to rent, now.

what if rami sat on jared's face.....would that make it an ok movie???

Rent? Henny, I’ve got HBO Max.

Cant someone of Denzy's fame get better scripts? Yikes..

Watching this tonight.

Bump

I enjoyed it.

I saw it at the theater (there were two of us in the theater) and enjoyed it. The directing and editing is very good so it never gets boring. I liked that it took place 30 years ago, so you get to see phone booths 'n stuff.

Leto chooses his roles carefully, so I know he did this one because he felt compassion for his character.

I enjoyed it as a potboiler. The script definitely needed some work, particularly in the hour, but it's nowhere near the failure the critics say. Leto is just sensational. Oscar worthy. Washington is wonderful: naturalistic acting at its best, flowing like a river. Malek is miscast. I don't buy him as a L.A. cop. But that could be subjective. I can understand why he was cast, to bring a darker conflicted element into the mix, but his performance here comes off as mannered, apart from a couple of scenes. I kept thinking what a younger Brad Pitt would have done with the role, as in Se7en. That said, he got better for me as the movie progressed. The huge pluses for the movie are the moody cinematography -- poison greens and nacreous yellows by night, and bleached out day shots -- just wonderful, and a fabulous soundscape score.

Malek is supposed to be wrong for the job he took. He's too mixed-up. He keeps pleading for Denzel's assistance.

He and Denzel are like the Priests in The Exorcist (Malek as Fr. Damian).

Can't deal with Denzel knowing what a homophobe he is.

I wouldn’t say Leto was sensational by any stretch, but I can see why in a weak year he’d be getting attention.

This movie was so bleak but I didn't hate it and I appreciated that it took it's time to build. I thought it was going to be a good throwback noir as well, due to the trailer, so that's why I gave it a chance.

Rami was hot as hell in this.

I posted this on the other thread (by the way, is anybody else sick of the assholes who elected themselves message board monitors and go around telling us that there's "already a thread on this topic" like there's some grave importance to having only one thread on a subject; these boards are for passing the time and amusing ourselves, there's no national importance or great significance to them). Anyway, I'm watching the movie and, for people who've seen it, didn't you feel that what the girl in the first scene does is among the stupidest things you've ever seen; stupid beyond believability? I did. I already hate the movie because of it.