Just finished watching this. Great film...

Just finished watching this. Great film, truly crafty and the makers seem to realize the key pillar of filmmaking - less is more. Loved everything: the setting, atmosphere, acting, pacing, story... Extremely well directed, calm, disciplined and collected. One thing I didn't fully understand, though, why did Tanner not escape with Toby? Was suicide mission his intention all along?

This is legit the first film I've seen from 2016, I don't watch capeshit and all the blockbusters did nothing to draw me in. Any other recommedations?

i thought he did it to save his brother. he diverted the cops' attention and helped him escape.

It's not a great film, it's pretty solid though.

And you're right, most of the movie does go for the ol' "less is more" except for Ben Foster's laughably over-the-top performance which is so cartoonish and ridiculous. He is a major slouch compared to Chris Pine, which I never thought I would say.

Well, it certainly came off that way, but was it his intention all along or did he decide it only when he saw police cars coming from the opposite direction? Minor thing really, I just like to discuss.

i can't point to any specific scene or bit of dialogue, but i get the feeling he didn't want to go back to jail and they were done anyway. it was the end for him. he finished what he had set out to do and got to leave with a bang.

>except for Ben Foster's laughably over-the-top performance which is so cartoonish and ridiculous

I think he nailed his character down to a T.

When I finished watching, I sat there thinking that nothing had really changed between the characters.

Toby, and True Grit walked away having not developed. That was the point yeah? They didn't grow as people, and will stagnant like everything else in the place that they live?

Nah, it's possibly his absolute worst performance.

And I actually rather like him in general.

>less is more
DUDE BANKS ARE BAD LMAO
DUDE ALL TEXANS CARRY LMAO
DUDE NO WONDER MY KIDS DONT WANNA DO THIS SHIT LMAO
DUDE OIL LMAO
DUDE RANCHES LMAO
DUDE INJUNS WERE HERE FIRST LMAO

DUDE AMERICANA LMAO

Why do americans think their backwater shitholes are interesting?

American South has always been fascinating and "true America" to me, not those yank scum from the north. I can relate to Texans. The road through Route 66 is the best experience I've ever had. Meanwhile New York City made me hate life and human race.

t. European

It really shows the quagmire of capitalism. Two guys start robbing banks to pay off the mortgage on a house their mother left them so they can put pump jacks on it and elevate themselves into the same socio-economic class they were fighting against.

The movie lacked bonding scenes between the brothers. Perhaps a single flashback, or maybe replacing the pointless casino scene, with them talking about their lives. Like this, we know nothing about their connections to their families, and at the end of the day, I didn't give a fuck if Tanner died, since the movie didn't convey that Toby actually cared for him.

A case where adding 20 minutes to the movie would've made it better

>Meanwhile New York City made me hate life and human race.

Only the worst kind of degenerates are impressed by New York City.

How do you spot a Californian on an NYC subway car?

Look for the person who's smiling.

Na..the movie portrayed the brotherly love relationship just fine. Too much talking about their lives would've meant exposition, sappiness, and just fakeness. The playfighting scene showed that they had a good relationship.

user I feel like you didn't get the movie at all. Their mom got screwed by the banks into basically handing over the only thing of value she owned because she was old and sick. The lawyer explains all that when they ask why he's helping them.
On top of that, he wasn't doing it for himself. He was doing it so his kids, and their kids, wouldn't be tied to the same destructive lifestyle he had.
He lived in a shitty apartment by the highway. All the money they stole went to getting the land back, and then he made it so that it went directly into a trust in his kid's name.

>injun dies right after giving MUH LAND talk

who T-bone here?

>not being /comanche/

i'd recomend Nocturnal Animals, but then again i didnt enjoy Hell or High Water all that much.

I think he also realized Toby was a good man and he wasn't. I think Jeff Bridges' character even pointed out that the brother would have kept going and fucked up eventually without Toby there as the brains.

Tanner was in it for the thrill. He knew life on the outside wasn't for him and that he'd likely screw up his brother's shot at happiness too. So in this way he goes out saving his brother and saving himself from having to life in normal society.

I think it did it right. There are a few key scenes that show the intrinsic brotherly love. Even something as simple as Tanner roughing up the prost who was trying to take advantage of Toby or Toby going HAM on the guy pointing the gun at Tanner.