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He was good in Hacksaw Ridge but so far he has had a pretty medicore career. Hopefully after this flim he will have much better roles.
”So far he has had a pretty mediocre career.” Seriously? At 38 he’s already won a BAFTA TV Award and one Tony Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two SAG Awards, three BAFTA FILM Awards, an Olivier, two Tonys and two Golden Globes. But yes, I’m hopeful that in the future, he’ll get more interesting and challenging roles.
ReplyCopy URL”So far he has had a pretty mediocre career.” Seriously? At 38 he’s already won a BAFTA TV Award and one Tony Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two SAG Awards, three BAFTA FILM Awards, an Olivier, two Tonys and two Golden Globes. But yes, I’m hopeful that in the future, he’ll get more interesting and challenging roles.
Hahaha. His performance in Tick Tick Boom is exceptional and probably the best thing I’ve seen him do on screen. I’d say he has a chance to win the Oscar at this point.
ReplyCopy URLAll I’ll say is, I feel super bad for Garfield. All he wants to do is promote his new musical and everyone just keeps asking him about Spider-Man. And it’s probably made worse by how Tobey Maguire doesn’t have to shoulder any of the burden because he hasn’t had a major role in over five years.
But yeah, looks like a good time. Now if only it could come to Broadway…
ReplyCopy URLGarfield was awesome. It’s a super duper authentic performance, he’s very good and the film isn’t as good as he is but it’s good enough—and he deserves the recognition.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Banshees of Inisherin
Women Talking
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Joyland
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AftersunI watched it earlier today. For his feature directorial debut, Lin-Manuel Miranda does a terrific job. He along with screenwriter Steven Levenson have very wisely chosen to have the story set around this framing device where Jonathan Larson is performing his rock monologue in front of an audience at New York Theatre Workshop with his friends Roger (Joshua Henry) and Karessa (Vanessa Hudgens). Which is a pretty clever nod to the origins of this musical. Editors Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum brilliantly cut back and forth between the performance and the actual events Jonathan Larson tells in his story. The musical numbers Miranda visualizes with cinematographer Alice Brooks are stunning.
Not only does Andrew Garfield hold his own alongside the more experienced musical theatre performers in the cast, but his acting on display here is quite extraordinary. He gets to play with a variety of different emotions that range from energetic to anxious to relatable. He also shares some very moving moments with Alexandra Shipp and Robin De Jesús at different points in the film. Not to mention that Bradley Whitford’s performance as Stephen Sondheim is perfect. He doesn’t impersonate the legendary musical theatre songwriter, but he does capture the essence of him in terms of both how he looks and how he talks.
If you are a musical theatre fan like me, you’re definitely gonna get a whole lot out of this movie not just because of the subject, but also because a bunch of Broadway performers make small appearances throughout (especially in the ‘Sunday’ sequence). Though if you’re not as much into musical theatre, you should still find Tick, Tick…BOOM! to be a fascinating look at what it’s like to be a struggling artist.
ReplyCopy URLGarfield was good but the mediocre film has no business being anyway near the Oscars race, which seems to be how it will turn out.
The biggest threat to TTB best picture nod is West Side Story. So far this flim has a high 80s rating on RT by critics and a metacritic score in the 70s (btw only 33 so far compared to RTs 87 critics so I see its score going up) if WSS gets less than that then TTB is a safe bet for a best picture nod. Given the amount of musicals released this year one will surely get a best picture nod.
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