The Little Things (2021)

I enjoyed it. Denzel is officially old and fat. Leto is in his natural habitat playing creepy and uncomfortable. I can’t get past Malek’s alien face but fine pandemic watch. It ain’t winning any awards.

Dumped to HBOMax.

tired of denzy.....how many of these pix has the old girl done????

Already a thread for this, thank you.

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

I didn't recognize Jared Leto at first. Why must "creepy friendless blue-collar guy" always have brown eyes?

Saw this, enjoyed it. I love denzel but malik was terrible in it.

Denzel at 66 already has the rheumy eyes of a 90 year old

R1 is right. It won't win any awards.

Slow. Excruciatingly slow at some points. Some scenes are red herrings and ultimately don't fit into the rest of the movie. Leto's character could've been great but ultimately comes across as a refrigerator repairman with Asperger's. Denzel plays the same role that Denzel always plays.

very poorly cast, was disappointed in it.

Denzy looks ill,,

Not a single male nurse scene. Rami was wasted in this.

Roger Ebert review. Not good.

Movies like “The Little Things” feel like a vanishing breed. In the wake of the success of “The Silence of the Lambs,” there seemed to be a dark, brooding thriller adaptation every week with titles like “Kiss the Girls” and “The Bone Collector,” and it felt like half of them starred Denzel Washington. In recent years, this genre has largely become the product of television, as shows like “True Detective” and “Mindhunter” have taken on stories of men haunted by the crimes they investigate. That’s part of what makes “The Little Things” feel dated, although the way it recalls better films with similar themes, particularly David Fincher’s “Seven,” does it no favors too. It’s a movie that's constantly on the verge of developing into something as intense and haunting as writer/director John Lee Hancock wants it to be, but it never achieves its goals, especially in its final half-hour. Some of the major stuff here works, including a performance from Washington that’s better than the movie around it (yet again), some striking L.A. cinematography, and an effective score, but one could say that it’s the little things that hold it back. A few big things too.

Joe Deacon (Washington) is a disgraced former L.A. cop who now works in Bakersfield, living alone on the edge of society. Our story unfolds in 1990 for little reason other than proximity to The Night Stalker case, which still hangs in the air when a new serial killer emerges in the City of Angels (and "The Little Things" was reportedly initially written a quarter-century ago, which could explain why it feels so much like the potboilers of that era). It’s revealed that ‘Deke’ lost his marriage, had a heart attack, and had to leave town because of a particularly brutal case that he couldn't solve. He’s haunted and unwanted by his former colleagues, including Captain Carl Farris (Terry Kinney) and Detective Sal Rizoli (Chris Bauer), but Deke gets sucked back into that which nearly destroyed him when he ends up helping his replacement, Jim Baxter (Rami Malek) with the serial killer case that’s terrifying the city. It’s not long before they discover that a loner named Albert Sparma (Jared Leto) is their likely suspect, and “The Little Things” becomes a cat and mouse game between the two detectives and the creepiest guy in L.A., a disturbing character who appears to get off on playing games with the cops.

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So was Sparma the killer or not? I fell asleep when he had Malek in his car headed out of town.

This movie was a snoozefest. My sister hated it too.

My mom liked it. But then again, she liked WW84.

[QUOTE] Some of the major stuff here works, including a performance from Washington that’s better than the movie around it (yet again), some striking L.A. cinematography, and an effective score, but one could say that it’s the little things that hold it back. A few big things too.

Denzel churning out a good performance alone makes movies watchable for a lot of folks. Many people love seeing Denzel work.

Malek is really bad in this.

He does this thing with his mouth that is comically distracting.

Was Cicada Bug doing a Willem Dafoe vocal impression on purpose?

What's that about?

Yes, Malik was miscast, and overall not a good movie. Was this actually supposed to end up in a movie theater?

Needs more Gwyneth's head in a box.

[quote] with the delicious little Rami Malek,

Mary!

I'm watching the movie RIGHT NOW and the first scene makes me furious. The girl at the beginning of the movie does something so F***ING STUPID that it makes me hate the movie. I'll try to finish it, but it's already starting in a deep deep hole.

Why call her stupid? She’s just trying to survive. You would have done the same thing.

R24, I would NOT have done the same thing. She's driving on the highway being followed by another car and her response is to pull over to an abandoned diner, get out of her car, leave the keys in the car, bang on the diner window repeatedly, in fact, long after it is obvious no one is inside she continues to bang on the window, then she runs out into the desert to try to hide. Why didn't she stay in her car and drive to, oh, I don't know, say, a crowded town or city? Yeah, what she did was STUPID.

R25 ok, she made the mistake of pulling over and leaving the car running while trying to get in the diner. What would you do after that if you had made those choices?

R26, I wouldn't have made those choices. That's my point.