Major, Influential Critic Meh on Gucci But Loved Gaga (write up on Ridley)

[LilyLark 10,108]

The above is a screenshot of the Gaga part...here is a link to the rest:

https://slate.com/culture/2021/12/best-movies-2021-house-of-gucci-last-duel-ridley-scott.html

[RAMROD 109,837]

Isn't that also most of us #same

[HausOfAntonio 8,021]

I agree 1000% on Gaga but I really don’t understand the hype around Jared. He was the weakest link by far in the movie for me. 

[Shipper 13,088]

4 minutes ago, HausOfAntonio said:

I agree 1000% on Gaga but I really don’t understand the hype around Jared. He was the weakest link by far in the movie for me. 

I feel that he offered the only comic relief that made the horrible pacing of the movie bearable. 

[Ziggy 11,931]

Ok no one come for me but I don’t get the hype for literally any part of this movie lmao no one was in sync with one another’s acting (and none of it was blow me away stunning, though none was bad), the storytelling lacked character development and depth (it felt like a greatest hits of the Gucci downfall), and overall it didn’t feel like it had much direction. I think Ridley sat on it for too long imo

[HausOfAntonio 8,021]

33 minutes ago, Shipper said:

I feel that he offered the only comic relief that made the horrible pacing of the movie bearable. 

I didn’t find him comic though 

[Shipper 13,088]

1 hour ago, HausOfAntonio said:

I didn’t find him comic though 

Comic and comic relief is different. Comic relief means the main purpose is to breakup serious elements and tensions in a scene, in which he did. 

[Meat 18,962]

4 hours ago, Ziggy said:

Ok no one come for me but I don’t get the hype for literally any part of this movie

Now that’s just delusion. Even the harshest of the critics agree that Gaga gave one of the best performances in a long time. She literally won best actress at America’s oldest and most snobbiest critics circle last month. 

[HausOfAntonio 8,021]

38 minutes ago, Shipper said:

Comic and comic relief is different. Comic relief means the main purpose is to breakup serious elements and tensions in a scene, in which he did. 

The script provided comic relief which I don’t think he excelled at delivering 

[Chromatography 10,186]

3 hours ago, HausOfAntonio said:

I agree 1000% on Gaga but I really don’t understand the hype around Jared. He was the weakest link by far in the movie for me. 

Agreed. His presence was jarring . His performance was satirical borderline insulting

[Phantomhive 2,030]

Do they have a sway on oscar voters or smthn

[Ziggy 11,931]

2 hours ago, Meat said:

Now that’s just delusion. Even the harshest of the critics agree that Gaga gave one of the best performances in a long time. She literally won best actress at America’s oldest and most snobbiest critics circle last month. 

I think she gave one of the best in the movie, for sure. But the rest I feel like is me being told that she was SO AMAZING by a marketing and PR storm rather than the role speaking for itself. She was definitely great in the role! Not denying that, I just don't think it was this ultra memorable movie or role. Her performance, sadly, has little to do with it because I felt the character was written a bit choppily since they never gave audiences a chance to really sit with and watch a character develop. They just changed scene to scene.

Like, if I'm reflecting on AMAZINGLY memorable roles of the last few years, I wouldn't say that the way any character in House of Gucci was written would qualify tbh. Like, this wasn't her Black Swan moment or Olivia Colman in The Favorite or Mathew McCaugnahey (not even trying to spell this lmao) in Interstellar. Those are roles where people remember them years after. I think ASIB does that better for Gaga than HoG does imo It feels a little too much like the awards circuit is telling audiences how amazing everything about this movie is despite audiences not having quite as universal a view. Idk I liked the movie, but nothing about it was transcendentally memorable.

[Meat 18,962]

2 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

I think she gave one of the best in the movie, for sure. But the rest I feel like is me being told that she was SO AMAZING by a marketing and PR storm rather than the role speaking for itself.

Trust me, no amount of marketing or promo can win you a NYFCC best actress award. Take one look at their past winners and you’ll see what I mean. 

[Ziggy 11,931]

2 minutes ago, Meat said:

Trust me, no amount of marketing or promo can win you a NYFCC best actress award. Take one look at their past winners and you’ll see what I mean. 

I know, I just meaan it feels like a disconnect between audiences and critics. like critics are RAVING and audiences have kind of already forgotten and moved on. No one was lauding her THIS MUCH for the role, you know? It feels a little like with La La Land which had the same effect with Emma Stone where everyone said SHES AMAZING. BEST MOVIE but audiences feel...differently.

Both were great in the roles they had, but the roles themselves were really not quite as impressive as critics made them out to be imo.

[Meat 18,962]

6 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

audiences have kind of already forgotten and moved on.

I would once again will have to disagree. Despite being in its 6th week and with its screens reduced 75%, House of Gucci is holding extremely well on the box office, making almost $300k on weekdays. This is happening because the movie has a good word of mouth—quite the opposite of “forgotten” and “moved on”