but they seem stalled, maybe regressed.
Watched as much of 'Marty Supreme' as I could take then swapped to the movie upstairs. It is worse than the premise. Worse than 'Uncut Gems'. Poorly shot. Painfully immature.
It was set in the NYC of the late 1940s which would have been enough for me to sit through it but most of what I saw was a dark shoe shop and ping pong tables in a big dark room. I thought maybe with 7 more years of adulthood since 'Uncut Gems' Josh and Benny Safdie would grow up a little but this movie is like something a 13YO boy would write.
About 15 minutes in the ping pong guy has sex with 53YO Gwyneth Paltrow. Spends money he doesn't have and seduces her right under her husband's nose. It makes no sense at all except maybe to show us the character is a dare devil? It felt randomly ripped off from 'Titanic'.
20 minutes in, Kevin "Shark Tank" O'Leary shows up as business man who wants to invest in ping pong. In any other film his presence, let alone his performance, would have been a joke. Disrespectful to force serious actors to to do scenes with non-actors.
It was like an SNL sketch, a parody of sports movies. Everything has been done, even Jamaican bobsledders, so...ping pong. But it wasn't funny. It had the tone and emotional sensibilities of a Scooby Doo cartoon minus all the Scooby and Shaggy bits. "Rut Row."
I tapped out after 30 minutes. The art house theater let me swap and watch "Carol" (2015) with Cate Blanchett instead.
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