Film: Mystic River

[RareForm]

FILM: Mystic River

I watched this movie just yesterday...I rented off of NetFlix and waited a while until I watched it, it was actually really good, I don't think I've ever seen a movie like that before...it has Tim Robbins(Dave), Sean Penn(Jimmy), Kevin Bacon(Sean), and Laura Linney(Sean's wife), it's definitely a must-see, I would reccomend that you watch it..

 

[alasdairm]

weird. i only just saw this yesterday also and i meant to start a thread. then i got distracted...

i was really disappointed with this movie. i felt the script was lazy and predictable. i felt the performances were mostly phoned in and i felt the direction was commonplace.

did sean and tim deserve their oscars? sean sure and tim maybe.

but bill murray deserved his more

alasdair

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

I have it right now and am probably watching it tonight. My mom said it was sort of disturbing..that some of the characters were "gross"...

 

[RareForm]

They're not gross...the movie overall is good...maybe the acting is a little shaky, but I still liked it..

 

[L2R]

This movie uses emotional logic really well. I enjoyed being bummed by this.

 

[onetwothreefour]

^^^ good call.

yeah, i really enjoyed this film a lot too. it came out at the same time as 21 grams, and i think it was certainly the better of the two. perhaps 21... had a little more style to it, but this beat it, imo, in substance.

some really awesome performances also. alasdair, which performances didn't you enjoy? (i only ask because i felt that the mains were unquestionably good - 'specially penn and robbins - and the supporting cast pretty consistent too ).

 

[alasdairm]

i thought tim robbins performance was not his best work by a long shot. i generally like marcia gay harden and she disappointed. really, the only actor i enjoyed was sean penn and, even there, i felt that he was just doing sean penn again...

my disappointment may be as much a function of my expectations as the actual performances. perhaps i'll eatch it again.

alasdair

 

[onetwothreefour]

^^^ i think i can see where you're coming from, at the least; penn *was* just his usual self (which i still love, but it wasn't a hugely challenging role for him), and whilst i thought robbins was fantastic, he wasn't really playing against type either. i definitely disagree on harden though, i thought she was great

 

[SlayerFairy]

good twist, good acting but dragged out a little too much

 

[randycaver]

hmm. now i'm not even sure if i really want to rent this!


Why would it get so much recognition if it wasn't that great?

 

[Chaos Butterfly]

^^

rent it and find out. I found it to be an amazing film. Fantastic performances from all the leads especially Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. I found it to be quite powerful personally, and I definitely recommend it to anyone

 

[randycaver]

it's on my netflix list.

I am watching it regardless. I was just surprised to see such a negative reaction from so many people on here!!

I am looking forward to it

 

[RareForm]

^it's definitely worth watching, trust me..

 

[Silver7]

I liked this movie a lot. I actually play baseball every week right on the Mystic River and you can see one of my friend's old house in one of the fly over seens. I pointed to the screen and said I puked in that street haha

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

i thought tim robbins performance was not his best work by a long shot. i generally like marcia gay harden and she disappointed. really, the only actor i enjoyed was sean penn and, even there, i felt that he was just doing sean penn again...

my disappointment may be as much a function of my expectations as the actual performances. perhaps i'll eatch it again.

alasdair

Weird how opinions can differ so. I thought this was by far the best I have ever seen Tim Robbins. He seemed so different from a lot of the other characters I had seen him play. There were times during the movie I had to sort of remind myself it was even him because he seemed like someone else. *maybe it's just me*

Sean Penn was amazing as usual. He is one of my favorite actors anyway.
He did a great job and definately deserved his oscar, IMO.

The movie just really draws you in..I was enthralled from start to finish. Definately powerful. I watched it 4 times, 4 days in a row.

this movie.

 

[DemonsFall]

I thought it was worth it just for Sean Penn's performance. Generally speaking, all the actors turned in some fine work I think.

 

[fairnymph]

If anything watch it because Sean Penn is HOT. :D

I didn't think it was amazing, and it started off a bit slow and confusing....but I enjoyed it overall, especially the twist at the end. I actually don't think I've ever seen Sean Penn in anything else and I thought he was great. It's definitely NOT a cheerful movie however.

 

[Benefit]

21 Grams beat this movie by a long shot. Better acting, better script, better everything. The plot in Mystic River was so unbelievably predictable, the "twist" at the end is really a joke; if you just do a little logical analysis of the plot you will see it's pretty obvious who the killer is. Robbins was great, and I consider him the saving grace of this movie.

While it was certainly a good movie, and Sean Penn played his character well, I just don't understand how he won an Oscar for this performance and not for his work in 21 Grams, which was a much more profound and thought-provoking movie, not to mention his character in 21 Grams was so much more complex.

 

[Dittohead]

Watched this and 21 Grams around the same time when they came out on pay-per-view, and was really pretty disappointed in both of them. They were really hyped for independant films and then winning the oscars made me want to see them even more. I actually fell asleep the first time through 21 grams.

 

[onetwothreefour]

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