re: Marty Supreme Watch Tonight. Thoughts.

Safdie's make hollow films. They have phenomenal casting, set design, art design, production, score, etc... Basically all other aspects of their films are tip notch. Often feel like a trailer park Tarantino picture, but the central figures are amoral, shite-heel, scumbags, with virtually no redeeming and no remorse for any other actions that of the result in deaths of others.

These qualities leave you, the audience, and the film, feeling hollow and thats why there is almost always that sense that something in the film is "off."

Josh particularly also always tries to turn every film into an anxiety filled chase, instead of a straightforward story, and that is a big flaw. The entire fricking dog sequence should have been cut from Marty Supreme. It's not needed at all and the film has no business being 2.5 hrs.

Chalamet is fine, but he reminds me way too much of young Shia Lebouf. They have the same energy and cadence.

Overall, the music choices are A+. Essentially every central figures is not.