JF Hart, I'm pretty lefty myself and I loved Barry. I was actually a little surprised it passed Hollywood's pretentious filters given how very damning it was of Hollywood. The Daniel Day Lewis, Mark Wahlberg bit was hilarious. I thought the ending was perfect and took a lot of nerve to pull it off.
JF Hart, I'm pretty lefty myself and I loved Barry. I was actually a little surprised it passed Hollywood's pretentious filters given how very damning it was of Hollywood. The Daniel Day Lewis, Mark Wahlberg bit was hilarious. I thought the ending was perfect and took a lot of nerve to pull it off.
I watched Succession and this last season was agony. It was like "eat your veggies" homework where the Kids' snarky, empty biz speak that was pretty funny at first but was used like a cudgel. We get it! Finance bros are empty, craven dicks. And water is wet. I thought it was a nice maneuver to off Logan when they did, but turns out they had nothing really left to say after that.
I watched the first ten minutes of Succession a few months ago and thought "this show may be great, but I am going to really hate it by the end but I wont be able to stop watching." So I abandoned ship on Succession.
Barry though was brilliant through and through. The humor, acting, direction, writing, and action sequences were individually brilliant. And I thought Barry had something really insightful to say. When child-Barry says "the bad guy fights everybody except himself", I was like that's a hell of a thesis statement, and relevant to all of us, even if we aren't narcissistic actors or serial murderers.
Also the bit about Mark Wahlberg being afraid of forests and Gene just being like "ah yes of course" had me in stitches.
JF Hart, I'm pretty lefty myself and I loved Barry. I was actually a little surprised it passed Hollywood's pretentious filters given how very damning it was of Hollywood. The Daniel Day Lewis, Mark Wahlberg bit was hilarious. I thought the ending was perfect and took a lot of nerve to pull it off.
I watched Succession and this last season was agony. It was like "eat your veggies" homework where the Kids' snarky, empty biz speak that was pretty funny at first but was used like a cudgel. We get it! Finance bros are empty, craven dicks. And water is wet. I thought it was a nice maneuver to off Logan when they did, but turns out they had nothing really left to say after that.
I watched the first ten minutes of Succession a few months ago and thought "this show may be great, but I am going to really hate it by the end but I wont be able to stop watching." So I abandoned ship on Succession.
Barry though was brilliant through and through. The humor, acting, direction, writing, and action sequences were individually brilliant. And I thought Barry had something really insightful to say. When child-Barry says "the bad guy fights everybody except himself", I was like that's a hell of a thesis statement, and relevant to all of us, even if we aren't narcissistic actors or serial murderers.
Also the bit about Mark Wahlberg being afraid of forests and Gene just being like "ah yes of course" had me in stitches.