Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 14, 2023 8:22:48 GMT -8
Catch Me If You Can
Probably all you need to know about this movie is in this honest review. I won't duplicate it.
I'm about two-thirds into the movie. And it is obviously a dishonest movie. To me, the pathology of liberals is on display. To my mind, liberals are intrinsically con men. So here we have them sanitizing a guy who was a fraud and a thief.
You can tell in the opening credits that this is going to be baloney. I don't think it said "based on a true story." I think it said something like "inspired by real events."
This is the type of movie that I think, if you enjoy it, you have bad taste. Sure, it's star-studded. But all the acting is phony. Probably DiCaprio's mother (played by Nathalie Baye) is the only person in this giving a genuine performance. The rest of them (perhaps knowing they are involved in a fraud story about a fraud) just can't give their all. And the plot and writing is average, at best. Another reviewer captures the essence of it:
This same reviewer says that Christopher Walken does a fine job. But like all others in this movie, his character is so discombobulated from any coherent whole that it matters little how well he acts. The character is so thin with so many unknowns, we don't really care.
Hollywood mega-liberal, Martin Sheen, is the phoniest of them all. And the executive producer is another mega-liberal: Steven Spielberg. Sheen's performance is literally cringe-worthy. What a condescending ass.
The reason I watched this movie is that my brother and I were watching an episode of To Tell the Truth at lunch and the first segment featured Frank Abagnale. Neither of us picked him. I won't tell you more so you can play at home.
Probably all you need to know about this movie is in this honest review. I won't duplicate it.
I'm about two-thirds into the movie. And it is obviously a dishonest movie. To me, the pathology of liberals is on display. To my mind, liberals are intrinsically con men. So here we have them sanitizing a guy who was a fraud and a thief.
You can tell in the opening credits that this is going to be baloney. I don't think it said "based on a true story." I think it said something like "inspired by real events."
This is the type of movie that I think, if you enjoy it, you have bad taste. Sure, it's star-studded. But all the acting is phony. Probably DiCaprio's mother (played by Nathalie Baye) is the only person in this giving a genuine performance. The rest of them (perhaps knowing they are involved in a fraud story about a fraud) just can't give their all. And the plot and writing is average, at best. Another reviewer captures the essence of it:
The biggest problem I have with this film is the same one I had with Coppolla's `Dracula': this film is a hodgepodge of vignettes, less a continuous stream than a series of carefully crafted scenes. Normally the editing process of a film patches the scenes together into a unified whole, so that the resulting film flows, but in this film nearly every scene opens and closes like its own little film, leaving little room for character development. I have no idea what motivates Frank Abagnale, for example.
This same reviewer says that Christopher Walken does a fine job. But like all others in this movie, his character is so discombobulated from any coherent whole that it matters little how well he acts. The character is so thin with so many unknowns, we don't really care.
Hollywood mega-liberal, Martin Sheen, is the phoniest of them all. And the executive producer is another mega-liberal: Steven Spielberg. Sheen's performance is literally cringe-worthy. What a condescending ass.
The reason I watched this movie is that my brother and I were watching an episode of To Tell the Truth at lunch and the first segment featured Frank Abagnale. Neither of us picked him. I won't tell you more so you can play at home.
