re: Marriage Story (Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson) premiered on Netflix today

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Aren't the Netflix and Prime originals essentially cockblocked from the big 6 awards at the Academy Awards? I'll be surprised if Driver wins anything.

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Not at all. There's plenty of examples of Netflix and Amazon movies being nominated for and winning Oscars.

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Think I’d rather hit myself in the forehead with a hammer than watch that shite.

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I made it about 15 mins in.

I feel like damaged people or deadbeats would lean more towards Adam Driver’s side. The guy was a deadbeat. The MacArthur grant thing was a plot device to show how he could commute from New York to Los Angeles so easy. And hire high-priced lawyers

I would lean more towards being on Scarlett’s side. She could afford to give their son a way better life than Driver could. And she got cheated on. Really the only knock against her is that she owed her career to him

Going to go against the grain of this thread. Fantastic movie full of great acting. Driver, Scarlett, Dern, Liotta, and Alda all give it their best shot and deliver. Small gripes. Charlie's affair feels like something that was added on maybe a second or third draft to even the playing field. An affair would nearly always be the primary reason for a divorce, but through Scarlett's interactions with Charlie and her lawyer I got the sense that it was on the back end, behind other reasons....that aren't really fleshed out? I guess it all came down to her wanting to live in LA to pursue acting, but even then she didn't seem too passionate about acting and really just wanted to be on the west coast. Even when the affair is thrown in I still found myself rooting for Charlie. I felt for him every time he wrote a check.

The hardest hitting moment of the film was in the final scenes with Charlie shows up in LA and we're introduced to the new boyfriend. The film established a strong relationship between Charlie and the Scarlett's mom, yet in this scene she is very distant toward Charlie. Gone are the long embraces and affectionate nicknames, replaced with cordial greetings and hurried exits. This was foreshadowed earlier in the film when Charlie's second lawyer told him he would lose relationships with her family.

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Firstly, let me say that I very much enjoyed this movie. It’ll probably go down as one of my favorites of the year. But I don’t really fall into the category of thinking that it’s sad or depressing. Maybe I’m not the type of person who it’s aimed at. I come from a very happy home, my parents are incredibly happily married after all these years, my siblings have very happy marriages. So I took it more as a character study. The only part that was kind of emotional to me, I guess was the dude reading the letter at the end

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I feel the shame. I was never emotional. The biggest reason might be that the kid was never emotional. He just kind of went with the flow and took everything in stride. He handled it better than both of the parents.

100% agree on the singing scene. It was cringeworthy and didn’t fit. Other than that loved it

The fact they were together didn’t bother me at all. Scar Jo looked like a man so I can see it

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No way a guy in real life who looks like Driver gets someone with ScarJo’s looks.

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They did a distractingly amazing job of making Scarlett look plain to homely.

I found the closeups of her soliloquies to be annoying, and both musical numbers toward the end completely unnecessary.

Still enjoyed the movie though, and Adam Driver was phenomenal.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I did not like this movie. It's a big pile of unrealistic, unbelievable, try-hard meh. Not enjoyable. Did not arouse any emotions for me.

I still don't understand why people think Adam Driver's a good actor. I really don't. People claiming he might get an Oscar for this? WTF.

And the child-acting? Woof. Bad.

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I still don't understand why people think Adam Driver's a good actor.

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I am torn on this one. I was in the same boat for a long time but then I have seen him in several things and he does a really good job with conveying emotions without having to say much which is a talent in itself. he does a really good job of his tone setting his emotional state also.

Watching the new Star Wars movies, he really seemed to shine more with very little script help. I found myself really liking his character in a movie called This is Where I Leave You and Lucky Logan. I haven't seen him in a lot of other stuff but I really like him in the stuff that I've seen him in. I kind of look at him like Keanu Reeves, seems like a down to earth type of guy that I want to root for.