Affleck/Costner - The Company Men

Richard Dower

Anyone seen it yet? ...opinions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPohmhNFwi4

krudler

Looks good, hell of a cast as well. Affleck has been good lately, brilliant in The Town

paulosham

Just watched it, rubbish. Chris Cooper was good but everyone else was just acting by numbers. I didn't care about the characters or their plight. It was just a boring film.

Cantona's Collars

Was going to watch it due to the decent cast-won't bother now,even the premise seemed a bit boring.

MisterAnarchy

zerks wrote: »

Was going to watch it due to the decent cast-won't bother now,even the premise seemed a bit boring.

You'd be missing out on a fine film.
I thoroughly enjoyed it .
Its a bit slow moving ,but its a thoughtful ,well written insight into modern corporate America and the putting of profit before people.
The acting is top notch,its well shot and the score is excellent.
Writer/director John Wells (his film debut) was a long time scribe on The West Wing and did a good job here .
I'm surprised it didnt get more Oscar buzz,its far better than alot of the films supposedly in the mix.

temply

Loved it.

JP Liz V1

It is from John Wells (ER).

Anyways I enjoyed Affleck and Cooper's performances immensely. I am surprised at the lack of attention the film is getting considering the actors involved.

alastair

I thought it was good. Topical and contemplative without the cheese. Even Kevin Costner is tolerable.

Faith+1

I liked it. Some scenes kinda reminiscent to the job situation here. I do feel that some of the actors were wasted abit .i.e Kevin Costner only had about 15 mins screen time.

Peyton Manning

Nice little movie, and Chris Cooper definitely steals the show imo.

Dermighty

I enjoyed it.

Chad ghostal

I also enjoyed this, thought the acting and writing were strong throughout.

I wouldn't say it was a problem, but something that did erk me a little..the story of people who live in big mansions, driving porches and getting flown on private jets having to do some hard labour for a few months didn't get the greatest amount of sympathy from me.

I thought it would have been a bit more relatable if Chris Coopers character (a bit more of 'normal'/middle class character) had had more screen time. I couldn't see why Tommy Lee Jones character had that much screen time, to look apathetic about his riches and possition,

get bored shagging his new gf and decide to start a company

. Obviously I'm over simplifying his story/character a bit, but (hopefully) you get the idea.

Hank_Jones

Watched this recently.

Has a great cast with some terrific acting performances.

Also has a very well worked visual style with a lot of well worked camera movement.

Thoroughly enjoyed it, would definitely recommend (for those interested in films, not hollywood tosh).

Skinfull

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

You'd be missing out on a fine film.
I thoroughly enjoyed it .
Its a bit slow moving ,but its a thoughtful ,well written insight into modern corporate America and the putting of profit before people.
The acting is top notch,its well shot and the score is excellent.
Writer/director John Wells (his film debut) was a long time scribe on The West Wing and did a good job here .
I'm surprised it didnt get more Oscar buzz,its far better than alot of the films supposedly in the mix.

Agreed! Really enjoyed this movie and the slow pace I think was crucial to it.
I think that a big cast can detract from the actual movie, but this was pretty low key and everyone performed really well.

Exar Khun

I thought it looked great.

But then again looking great isnt everything,