Live by Night

conorhal

Ben Afleck's latest directorial effort 'Live by Night', a prohibition era gangster drama has just released a trailer.

I have to say this looks all kinds of good in the way that Michael Mann's 'Public Enemies' didn't. Afleck has been a sure hand at crime thrillers as demonstrated by The Town and Gone Baby, Gone so I'm highly anticipating it's release. It also has a stellar cast.

Looper007

Well I'm in as I loved Ben's first three films, especially Gone Baby Gone. Produced by Leo Di Capiro too. Love anything prohibition era so can't wait. Good to see Brendan Gleeson in it too. Guess it's going to be based around Irish gangsters.

JP Liz V1

It is based on Dennis Lehane's book, I'm sold

Agent Coulson

Afleck is fast becoming the man in Hollywood.

Trailer

maximoose

Got to see this lastnight in Cineworld, rather unimpressed.

Mess of a story that felt like the film was completely unsure what it wanted to be.

Was Scott Eastwood cut from the film? Don't recall seeing him at all and it was only when looking at the film on IMDB after leaving the cinema that I saw him listed in the credits.

MfMan

Trailer looks flashy and superficial anyway, plenty of mindless explosions thrown in...

Josey Wales

MfMan wrote: »

Trailer looks flashy and superficial anyway, plenty of mindless explosions thrown in...

Hardly fair to label the explosions as mindless unless you have seen the movie. These moments might very well be in service of the story. You won't know until you see it .

JP Liz V1

What is Sienna Miller's Irish accent like?

term

I actually enjoyed this movie. It's more a reflection on choices than a straight-out gangster movie. The action sequences weren't terrific, so if that was what you were looking for then you will be disappointed. All the female leads are very good, The three male leads around Affleck are good, which leaves Ben himself. To be quite honest, whilst he is chewing over his choices in life, his facial expression never changes from "hmm, tea or coffee?" Not sure if this is deliberate or he doesn't have the skills, but felt he was the weakest link.

maximoose

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

What is Sienna Miller's Irish accent like?

I thought it was pretty shocking at times

GavRedKing

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

What is Sienna Miller's Irish accent like?

maximoose wrote: »

I thought it was pretty shocking at times

I think, when she was on Graham Norton, that she was trying to base it on a West Cork dialect.

Leading to Norton comparing her accent to the O'Donovan brothers that were on weeks before hand.

Que trailer, her accent is nothing like a West Cork accent, IMO.

I've not seen the film other than the piece Norton showed and her accent was rather poor in that so I wouldnt have hopes of her pulling it off for the length of the film.

pumpkin4life

Not as bad as its made out to be (it's on 30% on Rotten Tomatoes), but fairly poor all the same.

Basically, you get actors who can make shìte movies kind of watchable (Assassins Creed) and actors who can make watchable movies kind of shìte.

Ben Affleck is an example of the latter. Fùcking hell, a cat with a stroke has more of a facial expression range than he does.

A good main actor and good director could have made this something good, cause the story is definitely there. Miller's West Cork accent is a joke. Affleck doesn't fùcking even bother with an accent or and Messina is great and far more interesting and one of the best things if not the best about the movie. The production and settings are far too clean, and the movie goes down this preachy "racism is bad" road far too often.

Also there's a bit of "spot your favorite crime movie trope" stuff going on in it.

A mess basically.

Nervous Wreck

I quite liked this! Easily the weakest of Affleck's directorial pictures but a pretty good film overall. It rambles a bit and is probably a bit too long but enjoyable all the same.

Crazyteacher

It was ok. Eh Miller's Cork accent sounded more Dublin than anything. Thankfully we didn't have to endure it for it long. Chris Messina was brilliant. Anyone else think that the brother in law of the chief of police looked like Woody Harrelson ? I was convinced he was wearing prostethics like Messina but I looked up imb and it's a completely different actor.

AMKC

Went and seen this today. Must say I thought it was very good and really enjoyed it. Excellent acting from Gleeson and Zoe Saldana as well as from Ben Afflick and Siena Miller. Lots of action but also a very good story too, a really good car chase and some sad bits as well. It gets a solid 7 out of 10 from me.

MilesMorales1

Sienna Miller has what might be the worst Irish accent I can recall in recent memory in a film. Just awful.

The Black Oil

The Shawshank Tampa Redemption, with Bawstan Inflection

In Kermode-speak it's perfectly fine. Well made, but the word that comes to mind overall is adequate. I thought Miller's accent was mostly passable enough, didn't feel like fingernails against a blackboard as some efforts can do. That said, there were a few words like 'warm' that became 'waarhmm'. Anyway.

fin12

Saw this last night, didn't think it was great, quite boring actually. Won't be watching it again and what the f*ck has Ben Affleck done to his face? Plastic surgery. He looks so strange.

denismc

I saw this as I was late for another film, thought it was pretty good.
With the exception of Affleck, the acting was pretty good.

Didn't know it was Sienna Miller until the credits, I think she must have watched Imelda May interviews when she was working on her accent.

The movie has a big budget and it shows, some of the sets were pretty well done. All the old cars and trains looked great.
Looks like the movie is going to be a flop, partly as a result of poor publicity I think, I only went because everything else was full.

AMKC

denismc wrote: »

I saw this as I was late for another film, thought it was pretty good.
With the exception of Affleck, the acting was pretty good.

Didn't know it was Sienna Miller until the credits, I think she must have watched Imelda May interviews when she was working on her accent.

The movie has a big budget and it shows, some of the sets were pretty well done. All the old cars and trains looked great.
Looks like the movie is going to be a flop, partly as a result of poor publicity I think, I only went because everything else was full.

Unfortunately it does look like tat. Its does not deserve to be a flop. January just not a good mont for releasing films.
Film deserved to do well.

Royale with Cheese

I didn't think it was as bad as it's reputation suggests. 6/10 for me.

Miller's Irish accent wasn't the worst I've ever heard but it was some kind of inner city dublin/classic Irish Brogue mix, with the odd word here and there that was just neither. Was it supposed to be west cork?