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LMCane
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just saw a preview yesterday.

at first I was like "is that Brendan Fraser?!!?"

I am guessing he is using a fat suit, but if that is really him he should get an Oscar for putting on 200 pounds.

powerbelly
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He did use a fat suit, but he also has gained weight.
Brian Earl Spilner
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I say just give him the Oscar now.
gigemJTH12
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anyone seen it?
uujm
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To me it was forgettable. And I was distracted by a giant watermark in the middle of the screen the whole time. Fraser was good but Colin Farrell is going to win the oscar.
Brian Earl Spilner
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Maybe don't watch pirated copies of screeners?
Brian Earl Spilner
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Also it does feel like momentum has shifted away from Fraser, but I think Butler may gather steam and get the Oscar.
Sex Panther
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uujm said:

To me it was forgettable. And I was distracted by a giant watermark in the middle of the screen the whole time.

I know, such an odd directorial choice by Aronofsky
PlanoAggie
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I disagree, I was unimpressed with his character and the movie on the whole. My vote would go to Austin Butler
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powerbelly said:

He did use a fat suit, but he also has gained weight.
username checks out!
uujm
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

Maybe don't watch pirated copies of screeners?
I don't. It was on the A24 Awards app but the slapped my access code across the middle of the screen.
Brian Earl Spilner
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Well don't I look dumb. Didn't realize you were the industry, I don't recognize your handle.

Were you steadicam?
uujm
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I was. I forgot my password and didn't have access to my old tamu email address to reset it.
Brian Earl Spilner
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So I can certainly see how this movie won't be for everyone, but I was blown away. The whole cast was great, but Brendan Fraser's tour de force performance is the real story here.

Having seen all three movies now, I think I would personally like to see Brendan Fraser take the Oscar over Austin Butler or Colin Farrell, but Butler is just a hair behind him. Both actors just knocked it out of the park.

Farrell is the one I'd be a little disappointed if he wins, not because he wasn't good, but he just isn't nearly on the level of what those two guys had to do in their movies.
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Just saw it, and don't know what to think. It was just depressing, and not in a good way. Fraser did play the part well, but Butler was better.
Know Your Enemy
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Finally watched this. Wow what an amazing performance from Brendan Fraser. Such an incredible film.
Rudyjax
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Is it available for streaming anywhere?
Know Your Enemy
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I watched it on the Showtime app. Didn't realize it was available until I stumbled across it this morning.
Rudyjax
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Know Your Enemy said:

I watched it on the Showtime app. Didn't realize it was available until I stumbled across it this morning.
I have almost every services except for that.
BG Knocc Out
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This movie didn't seem like something I would normally like, and I have no desire to watch it again any time soon, but the wife and I balled our asses off towards the end, and it stuck with me for several days after, on an emotional level.

I think as a girl dad of a 2 year old who is my entire world, it just really hammered me. I found it haunting.
TexAg2001
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I watched this on a plane a few months ago and also was balling my eyes out towards the end of the movie. I'm sure the guy sitting next to me was like "WTF's wrong with this guy"?

Great performance by Fraser
JDUB08AG
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I also watched this on a plane a couple weeks ago, but honestly don't know how to feel. It was depressing as hell, but it didn't generate the same emotional response from me as it did for some of you, and I also have a young daughter. I struggled on the empathy front. Maybe that makes me callous, but that's just straight up honestly on my part. I think in part they went to extremes on both sides of the emotional spectrum.

Fraser and the cast did a great job, but I just can't quite explain why it didn't hit me.
BG Knocc Out
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JDUB08AG said:

I also watched this on a plane a couple weeks ago, but honestly don't know how to feel. It was depressing as hell, but it didn't generate the same emotional response from me as it did for some of you, and I also have a young daughter. I struggled on the empathy front. Maybe that makes me callous, but that's just straight up honestly on my part. I think in part they went to extremes on both sides of the emotional spectrum.

Fraser and the cast did a great job, but I just can't quite explain why it didn't hit me.
I think viewing him as basically a severe addict (that's essentially what food bingers like him are) who is committing long form suicide and is filled with debilitating shame and regret was just incredibly sad and depressing to me. And trying to make a desperate last ditch hail mary attempt to spark any sort of relationship with his highly damaged daughter, who he thought he was protecting from himself by not being around, but who probably could have used a loving, involved father, gay or not, just hit me like a freight train. It's just incredibly sad, and something about him made me very emotional. I can't imagine desperately wanting to feel a shred of love from my calloused daughter. I am not sure many actors could have brought me to tears like he did. He was perfectly selected for this role imo.
DannyDuberstein
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Finally saw it. Just didn't do anything for me. Maybe I've seen too many sad sacks on Dr Now. The 64% RT seems about right to me
chick79
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It was a great acting job by Fraser but it ended there. Just a miserably depressing movie.
aTmAg
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Is it just me, or is the daughter pretty much a beotch from one end to the other? I didn't find her redeeming in any way. She wasn't trying to help that religious dude, she was just trying to expose him.
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