@BilgeEbiri I saw SILENCE twice today. First time, I was absorbed, impressed, moved. Second time, I was in tears. One of Scorsese's greatest films. Also what is it about Andrew Garfield that makes directors say, "Let's send that kid to Japan so he can suffer for the Lord"? (He's great, btw.) The novel of SILENCE is the only book I've ever read that made me want to believe in God. Film's effect is different, but still v. powerful. Second screening revealed it to be one of Scorsese's most beautifully structured & composed films. And made me appreciate Neeson a lot more.
@joshrothkopf SILENCE is absolutely staggering. Deserves to be compared to the masterworks of Ingmar Bergman. A serious film about faith under fire. Have seen twice now, including today's finished cut. Martin Scorsese’s most challenging and deeply spiritual film. Keep expectations high.
@DrewMcWeeny SILENCE is beautiful and heartfelt. All Good Friday, as with most Scorsese. Very little Easter Sunday. I thought it was bracing and absorbing. I also love KUNDUN and LAST TEMPTATION. Temper expectations accordingly. Very few filmmakers ever find a way to compellingly grapple with spirituality and faith on film. Scorsese has done so consistently. Also, SILENCE may have the most engrossingly weird bad guy since Hans Landa in INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. The Inquisitor is something else. Lastly, Scorsese finally scratched what I'm guessing was a pretty profound Kurosawa itch. Big time.
@jenyamato Ok, real talk: Scorsese's SILENCE is frustrating
@certified_ed Since everyone is confessing, after only one viewing, this former Catholic schoolboy is agnostic toward SILENCE.
>Did you ever see what a .44 Magnum pistol can do to a woman's face? I mean it'll fuckin' destroy it. Just blow her right apart. That's what it can do to her face. Now, did you ever see what it can do to a woman's pussy? That you should see. You should see what a .44 Magnum's gonna do to a woman's pussy you should see.
jesus Scorsese, that's the Pope for god's sake!
Thomas Foster
I'll take Cerebral Marty over Tough Guy Fetish Marty anyday, my hopes are very high for this
Tyler Rivera
>@jenyamato >Ok, real talk: Scorsese's SILENCE is frustrating The one who disliked is a gook unsurprisingly
Camden Hughes
>andrew garfield SCORSESE WHY?
Adam Young
Adam Driver is also in it
Brody Martinez
Wtf did they recast Luke Skywalker with Andrew fucking Garfield???
Michael Lewis
Hes actually good.
Xavier Jackson
Op here david ehrlich @davidehrlich 2m2 minutes ago
SILENCE is a tortured & fascinating examination of faith in all its forms. a valuable counterpoint to Shinoda's film. being Jewish is chill. @certified_ed I will say this for SILENCE, Andrew Garfield is extraordinary in his articulation of not wanting to lose one's faith.
@studiesincrap i found SILENCE urgent, moving, and momentous even as I kept wishing the padres would just go back home and call the proselytizing off
Gavin Miller
I was moved to tears when I saw Arrival last week. Was on a healthy dose of LSD, and it spoke to me. Gonna be on LSD for Silence as well, but I have to wait a couple of weeks (tolerance). Is hope there isn't a lot of suffering, but I want to feel the emotions, and the reality. Looking forward to it.
Jason Morris
i know youre memeing but srsly tho kys
David Young
I'm rly not. Movies on psychs are breathtaking. Watched Doctor strange after arrival and it was really fun too
Jayden Moore
I hope you don't accidentally kill yourself
Austin Sanders
The jesuits are to japan as ISIS is to us. They deserved everything.
Ian Johnson
That's the weirdest looking jesuit i have ever seen.
Robert Morales
This would be a very bad movie to watch on acid.
Charles Myers
By walking to the theatre? That'd be tough to do.
Caleb Myers
I see...thanks for the heads up.
Adam Lopez
Why is Andrew Garfield playing super Christians in two Oscar calibre kinos this year?
Isn't he a jew?
Brody Parker
>implying @-folk voices matters I want to some real critic post something
Jaxon Bell
kys druggie
Ryan Turner
@jenyamato
>I expect to be the lonely one here siding with the Japanese against the Jesuits and yet another white male journey of discovery
FUCKING WHITE MALE
Camden Williams
look up the history of their colonial expedition you mouthbreather.
Jeremiah Robinson
who's a real critic? all of them are members of the LAFC, NYFCA. Probably you are one of these normies that love Mark Kermode.
Carson James
>dismissing twitter users as not "real" anything its the current year, get over it. everyone has a twitter
David Jenkins
even print media dinosaurs like Jonathan Rosenbaum and Richard Brody have twitters lol
Hunter Gonzalez
base Marty bringing catholickino back again
Henry Roberts
He's a talented actor? Why does he put Leo "I have no talent" decaprio in all his movies ?
Julian Walker
0/10
Carter Cooper
She gave Ghostbusters a positive review and complains about white males in every review
Carson Bailey
I'm not kidding Garfield has more natural talent than Leo, who has basically two emotions for every movie
Grayson Williams
name me a movie where leo gives a solid performance on par with any of his contemporaries.
He's outperformed in every movie he's in and has the screen presence of a fly.
Admittetly, he was good in Wolf of Wall Street, but yet again he was outperformed by most of the cast there.
Nolan Wood
What's Eating Gilbert Grape Revolutionary Road Wolf of Wall Street J. Edgar The Aviator
you have shit taste.
Asher Allen
Garfield is unironically a better talented actor than DiCaprio
Parker Turner
I don't agree I think he's Hayden Christianson level bad/boring/blah. Plus he's a fucking asshole. How can you forgive him for giving Emma stone herpes and walking off on that Make-A-Wish kid?
The Aviator has some of the worst overacting ever from Leo and Blanchette. I have no idea what people see in it
Easton Jones
I remember people seeing BvS early and saying it was the greatest superhero film ever made.
Carter Peterson
Blanchette is playing a real person and is modelled on her 1940s acting style.
Leo is playing an eccentric autist.
How can you possibly "under"-act that premise?
Justin Flores
>character says something direct and vagualy antagonistic to the protagonist >protagonist sighs and quietly starts an anecdote about his personal experience/an allegory for what he wants to do >gets louder until he makes his point as bluntly as the first guy did This is the screenwriting trope I'm most sick of
Owen Powell
But these reactions are from critics, dumbass.
Julian Green
that's literally every exchange in House of Cards.
I love it.
David Reed
Blanchette is practically doing an SNL parody of Katherine Hepburn. It's all her most obvious traits playing at 10
Leo sticks to his 2 fallbacks when he needs to act. >project himself as the most confident person in the room by talking fast and loud and smiling a lot, feign charisma where it should be natural >grit his teeth and widen his eyes, yell, snarl; be emotional in the broadest sense It's one or the other in nearly every film of his until WoWS, where he finally unhinges a bit and makes his inherently fake and slimy "charisma" work on both levels.
Hudson Cooper
>The novel of SILENCE is the only book I've ever read that made me want to believe in God
Wow how far up the ass do these reviewers get?
Kevin Sullivan
it's a good book
Tyler Williams
just found out the guy from zatoichi is in this film as a translator I might actually watch this now
David Hall
Millennials between the ages of 18-29 give it its highest rating at 8.3 because they like to dick ride directors they studied in film course
older viewers between the ages of 30-44 give it a mediocre score of 6.7 because they can more objectively see his body of work since Bringing Out the Dead for what it has become, mediocre .
Andrew Garfield is a fag. Emma was his beard and she probably got heroes from another sleazeball she was fucking on the side.
Anthony Cook
Only ever seen him in The Force Awakens, but I really wasn't impressed once the mask came off. Maybe he's been good in other stuff, but he wasn't there.
Also, the man's got a really strange face and ears.
Matthew Smith
>the masterworks of Ingmar Bergman
Daniel Jones
gaijin go home ! ~
white devils stick to what do best,, be fat !~
coward mockery of Japan
Ayden Martinez
He wants to join the true faith of God
Kayden Foster
>jenyamato's reaction.
Liam Miller
Seems like the liberal journalist just don't understand it, and therefore have pushed it as kino.
I'm betting it's no better than any other foreign POW film, and kneecapped by shit dialogue
Jonathan Garcia
Can someone explain how Jen Yamato got a gig as a critic. She tweets about DJ Khaled and shit.
Xavier Gutierrez
>SILENCE is absolutely staggering. Deserves to be compared to the masterworks of Ingmar Bergman This shot alone is how I know this statement is absolute fucking bullshit. How dare this chucklefuck spit on Bergman's legacy like that.
