Suburbicon

Suburbicon tries to mix a crime story with a social commentary and winds up butchering both, creating a fascinating mess. It's a boring watch but an interesting study--the type of movie nobody should watch but everybody should read up on. Where did it all go wrong? Who knows. But it has too much talent in front of and behind the camera to be this big of a disaster. Ultimately, it fails to do anything but put its audience to sleep and provide a version of history that is CliffsNotes depth.

It feels a lot like a film student trying desperately to make a Coen bros film. It's message is little too on the nose for me, but lol at that little cuck Stewball's review of the movie.

A slow burn to an satirical finish. Very little comedy. Despite being cast with notable actors, nothing was particularly satisfying or engaging. Some of the psychology was moderately interesting, especially with the son. The racial aspects was a strange and unnecessary addition. The main plot reads like a bad dream, and was about as satisfying.

Clooney's racial panic subplot is exactly as bizarre as you've heard it is. It doesn't work on its own, makes zero sense in context with the rest of the story, and just generally takes all of the momentum out of the "dumb criminal" side of the story. Not that that side is any good, or ever comes close to being more than a very pale Coen brothers imitation. They may have written it, but there's absolutely none of the intelligence or humor.

It is a slow burn at the beginning and that takes away from the final product. It really excels when Oscar Isaac finally graces the screen and it never slows down from there. Matt Damon also tends to grow a more layered character as the tension mounts. One of the weirder flicks of 2017 but definitely one of the films I came out wanting to talk about. Definitely going to be one of the memorable experiences from 2017. Not quite sure what all the hate is about.

While not bad I didn't really understand why the bits with the black family were included. If you take them out, the audience gets a very keenly stylized suspenseful crime movie. The pacing in the middle was a bit slow for my taste. It either needed to be sped up or injected with more plot. All around good acting helped (as expected by Damon, Moore, and Isaac), but the kid was surprisingly good. I don't know if it was how the part was written, or restraint by the actor, but he seemed realistic.

Ultimately nothing but a cheap shot at Whites who are portrayed as evil except for a very few who are just goofy, or too young to have been indoctrinated to hate yet. It's an exaggeration of the 50s, and an ambush to boot because the previews had no indication of where this was going.

It didn't work for me as the dark comedy they were going for, but it did work as an intense crime drama with solid performances. Especially child actor, Noah Jupe.

Watch: Feel free to Netflix this one | The trailers make this seem much more silly than it actually is, but that doesn't detract from this film. A dark romp through the ideal white neighborhood with some social commentary sprinkled on top. An easy to watch movie worth watching, but not required.

Clearly written at a time when the dystopia idea was still fresh and not at all pounded into the dirt. At times delightfully absurd, and at other times, a little too insistent on the quality of its commentary (which, I have no qualms about what it's trying to say or how it's trying to say it - just to say that it isn't a perfect delivery), it winds up being an uneven experience for me. I wasn't bored and I didn't dislike it. But I can't say that I loved it, by any stretch. Great cast, though.

The characters weren't believable, the two plots were tangentially related at best and very little changed with respect to the black family's situation. Wish they had done one plot or the other because neither got the development it needed.

Not even as good as Bridge of Spies. You can def tell which parts the bros wrote. But still not as bad as others are letting on.

The entire "joke" of Suburbicon is the juxtaposition of racial harassment stemming from bias and paranoia against more heinous crimes committed in the house across the street. The entire film is a drab affair that thinks it's more clever than it is, which is now becoming a signature of Clooney's. The film holds no mystery nor thrill, and every scene holds by-the-number performances from the cast barring Oscar Isaac. Disappointing and a bit pointless.

It may not be an example of genre defining perfection, and its certainly nothing terribly original (playing out like a condensed season of "Fargo"), but "Suburbicon is a film that works, a well-oiled affair that chugs along at a reasonable pace and works wonders with a concept that's decidedly old hat. Its a darkly comic glimpse into the lives of a town oblivious to the real evil at its very heart, while ironically banding together over the trivial. I couldn't have asked for anything more.

It's more of a mess than it has any right to be. Thematically especially, Suburbicon tries so hard to do so much and in the end does so little. Instead of feeling like a multi-faceted film, it operates like three different films cut together -- which wouldn't be such a travesty if the Coens weren't involved. Really, it's just the definition of a pure misfire.

Apparently smashing two unrelated, long un-produced scripts together is not a recipe for success, especially when neither of them appear to have any kind of nuance or depth. Part bleak domestic thriller (key word BLEAK, as this movie is quietly one of the darkest, ugliest mainstream films I've seen in years) and part tepid social commentary (neutered by its black characters barely having any traits whatsoever), this is altogether one of the worst wastes of talent I can remember.

Forget it, Jake; it's Levittown.

Oh, how I love it when a marketing team has no idea how to sell a movie. That usually means it's something delightfully off-center like SUBURBICON, which points an accusatory finger at "respectable" Americans for facilitating their society's moral rot. Yes, it's a silly satire wrapped up in implausible melodrama. But while it's easy to accuse the movie of being heavy-handed, it's harder to criticize its convictions. People will, however, because most of us can't stand the implication.

If we move past the tremendous disappointment that the movie is, it could actually make a nice documentary - "A serial killer: Childhood".

Pick your own plot-con has too many plot lines to pick from but not enough focus. Now and again a scene blossoms with standard Coen peculiarities but generally those scenes are too disconnected from one another, while gaps are just filled with pleasant pieces of fluff. The tension is utterly artificial, yet what it lacks most - is a single strong character to create proper moral contrast and carry this movie somewhere. This does not happen and so suburbicon lingers in the limbo of inadequacy.

Wow, this is hopelessly amateur. Like, almost MST3K worthy.

It's got the same quirkiness as a Coen Brothers film but the major problem for me was the fact that this had a lot of themes but none of it seemed to be integrated all that well. As a result, it feels a little mismatched and messy. Another problem is that there aren't any empathetic characters and in a film like this, you want someone you can cheer for. The performances were pretty good and the film itself looked fine, but ultimately it's not enough.

A badly judged misfire, especially given the cast, writer and director pedigree -- arguably the Damon/Moore stuff comes closest to working, especially once a supercharged Isaac enters the fray, but the scenario and characters are so ugly and gruesome that it's hard to get a grip or handle on what Clooney is trying to say; worse is the opposing story of racial vilification which goes absolutely nowhere and winds up beating itself to death. Not unintersting, but a strange, unsatisfying mess.

42.50

Like studie299 I didn't know why the black family was a part of this... until the end where it wrapped up in a way that was fairly vague. Perhaps I'm reaching, but I think that they used the black family and baseball to comment on racism being America's past time. It works for me so I'm going with it. I think it's a pretty clever movie, unpredictable, weird, good music, directed well. Militant satire, dark, sometimes silly.

O contexto social é interessante, sendo na verdade a história principal um pano de fundo para o pano de fundo ser protagonista. Retrata-se uma família negra num bairro racista, em sintonia com o xenofobismo atual. Dispositivos futuristas, como controles remotos a laser e propagandas animadas, contrastam com vestimenta e carros da década de 50, simbolizando um futuro tecnológico, porém socialmente retrocedido. A cerca que isola a família negra simboliza o muro trumpiano contra os mexicanos

Quite solid. Everything involving the black family felt shoehorned in, but it's minimal enough to not really detract from the fun small time crooks business in the main plot.

The whole thing is a mess. Just painful to watch.

Tonally two different movies that mix the usual Coen brothers style with a horrifying act of racial hatred. Which doesn't always work unfortunately.

Unfun.

ger; [suburbicon]; der einzug einer schwarzen familie rüttelt an den grundfesten einer exemplarischen vorstadt - hinter der idylle lauert der wahnsinn.; (ein lustiger eskalierender vorgang der am beispiel der rassendiskriminierung zeigen soll dass früher nicht alles gold war);

Typical Cohen Brothers movie, written by the Cohen Brothers. Not bad, not great either.

Two stories that have almost nothing to do with each other. Main story is all right but film fails to deliver, it is missing something although you can feel Coen's touch.

Passes the time.

Don't understand the hate for this, it's fine. Sure it won't win any awards but it's generally entertaining most of the time, has some good characters/performances and overall a nice vibe.

This film has a lot of talented actors and they are fine here but the script is problematic. Apparently they merged 2 scripts into one and it shows. There are a number of things that don't really fit and this causes issues. Overall this film is disappointing.

5. Boğaziçi Film Festivali Açılışı.

If the Coens weren't involved themselves I would describe this as an unsuccessful copy of a Coen film. But since they are, I guess it's just an unsuccessful Coen film.

worth a watch

A mash-up of two films and neither storyline benefits from the other. Seems like a hasty re-write of the Coen Bros. script to try and make it relevant to the 2016 US Elections/Trumpism, and it just fails terribly. Clooney doesn't capture any of the dark humor that the Coens likely intended either.

Forcibly superficial.

not a normal movie. directed by George Clooney and it shows. Does not have a predicable ending. This is a dark movie but mostly because it shows a perfect society and the troubles under the surface.

It's okay but everything is so mixed and whites so bad. I hate white people.

A fascinating train wreck.

You almost have to admire how hateful it is.

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Perhaps the single best example of awful tone management.