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nmahoney416 says...

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5 years ago

A good movie about a bad man. A little on the nose and over the top but that's kinda the point. Christian Bale is fantastic and so is Amy Adams and Steve Carell. The editing is a little too much at times but great for the most part.

[spoiler]I loved the mid credit fake out.[/spoiler]

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chippyr says...

5 years ago

It's hard to believe that a movie with this cast based on a figure hated this deeply could somehow result in a miss, but this movie is an absolute mess. The movie struggles tremendously to pick a tone, often seesawing between parody, sarcasm, and deep drama. It comes across as a parody of itself. With a figure like Cheney it's amazing that you can mess it up.

On top of this, the film is more fiction than fact, and it actively works to create screen time of someone's fever dream rather than historical events. It is an insult to the audience.

Other than having a talented cast this film offends the senses, even for the larger of Cheney haters. A complete disaster of cinema.

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4 years ago

@chippyr i totally agree. And i liked The Big Short a LOT. I thought besides its criticism on wall street, The Big Short showed people struggeling with this complicated system. But in Vice are so many lies and i feel Adam McKay's bitterness in this picture so often. I think he made a huge mistake.

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stakahashi says...

5 years ago

I don't mind the bias perspective so much, but I do mind the giddiness that is displayed at spending the whole movie one-sidedly bashing Cheney. I guess that was the whole point, but it sure removed the feeling of any kind of fair representation. Which is fine, I guess, as as long as they're not trying to get me to accept their point of view. Well made, but with all those resources and actors, that should be expected.

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zais says...

5 years ago

I'd prefer first ending :)

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AdamMorgan says...

5 years ago

First and foremost I loved the way that the story was told. In a way it was as if The Wolf of Wall Street and JFK had a demon child - while the film was very political I really get a kick out of when a film like this breaks down the fourth wall to tell a story (I, Tonya is another great example). The acting (imitations?) is good but it is really the makeup people that steal the show. While the film is fairly light at first it really takes a dark turn later on as the film drives home its message. Is this a film about the legacy of Chaney? No, it's a film about today as the same awful people will always be around.

Side note - there is an interlude halfway through the movie that made me laugh hard.

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mogwaylaven says...

5 years ago

Probably the most funny thing about vice is the extra scene in the end credits, other than that another boring politics movie. The actors try to do well but the story is boring and jumps all over the place. It's hard to follow sometimes and if you're not American (like me) you probably don't care at all.

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passy says...

5 years ago

I admire Adam McKay but this one didn't land for me. Because of the long timespan this movie covers and the time jumps this requires, the movie never gets into a coherent rhythm. This might very well be McKay's intention as he tries to show us how fucked up and incomprehensible our current world is, but as a watcher I found it too frustrating to appreciate it. This combined with the constantly changing editing styles, tabletop split screens, overlaid typography and allegorical dinner scenes, I never quite understood what the movie wanted to be and, more importantly, who the movie wanted to be for.

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echelon_four says...

5 years ago

A pretty middling to bad movie.
Christan Bale is amazing in it, and he thought it was good enough to ruin his body for. But it didn't really hook me.

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