Comments on: Terrence Malick Thought It Was Too Slow: 10 Things Learned From The Revival Screening Of ‘The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford’

By: JJBuffalo

JJBuffalo — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

For anyone living in the Buffalo, NY area, there is going to be a screening on January 9th. Details and tickets can be found at Tugg (dot) com.

By: lookfar

lookfar — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

He really is a great director.

By: bohmer

bohmer — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

I will always take time to write how much of a masterpiece this film is (even tough its not the director's vision). I would pay big dollars to see one of those cuts!

By: CB

CB — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

Andrew Dominik is one of my heroes. A pure filmmaker. Wish more directors had Dominik's sensibilities.

By: 3423

3423 — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

That Malick thought it was too slow came out years ago in a Dominik interview. That bit of info probably dates back to when the movie initially came out in 2007

By: spassky

spassky — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

Sounds like a pompous, chauvinistic bro who has zero respect for his audience.

'Assassination…" is merely his attempt at subtlety, which is so unsubtly subtle it boggles the feaux-cineaste fanboys into deference. Whenever you talk to people who want to defend this film it's all "elegiac" this and "aesthetic precision" that blablabla. Don't get me wrong, the movie has some of the best performances of the past decade, and some beautiful photography but Dominik doesn't seem to have any clue what it's about. He makes movies for himself, and he seems like an awful egotistical bore.

Besides chopper, his films are turds outside of the performances and cinematography. Guy sounds merely like a psychopath-with-a-decent-eye for hire.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

Isn't there supposed to be a much longer version of Killing Them Softly? Was/is Dominik approving of the cut that was released in theaters?

By: KT

KT — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

So, in short – the studio edited the shit out of his films and he hates them.

Okay, then.

By: Michael Dunbridge

Michael Dunbridge — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

Whatever Dominik or anyone else says about it, this is one helluva film, based upon a fine novel about Jesse James (written by Ron Hansen). All the studio machinations, the struggles, the rifts and bs aside (which, by the way, are depressing and would discourage anyone from trying to make a film in Hollywood), I'd go see this movie on the big screen anytime it comes back around. Flawed, yes; a bit long, yes; but the cinematography, the acting, the music, is some of the best to have come out of that particular year. As for Dominik's demeanor, who really cares, unless you're working with/for him. If you haven't seen this film nor viewed it in a theater, it's definitely worth your time.

By: yes

yes — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

I would love to see Andrew Dominik\’s cut of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I loved every image and every line out of this film. It reminds me of laying in my bed and getting a story read to me by my mother.

By: Adam Scott Thompson

Adam Scott Thompson — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

Wow… the candor. lol

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

I think Killing Them Softly is every bit the masterpiece that Robert Ford is. I may be the only person in the world who thinks that, but… Whatever.

By: CharlieT

CharlieT — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

Just because a filmmaker makes a slow burning, dreary and predictable film doesn't make it a masterpiece.

Lets just say, he's had his shot and ever since Chopper, it's been a downward slide.

Its time to move over and expose the new up and coming directors from the land downunder. In Australia, there are more fresh, raw, edgy and inventive filmmakers that should be popping soon.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

I'll preface by saying that I absolute love TAOJJBTCRF, and i was at the screening Saturday. My wife( seeing it for the first time) was also in awe of the film, but the director came off really out of touch. Which is fine, I'm sure both he and I don't need any more friends. I'll still watch his movies, but he's definitively in the douche category in my mind.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

"Assassination" was my favorite movie of the year it came out, and I still adore it. I didn't find it to be slow at all. I was very involved with all of the characters the whole time, loved the ensemble, and thought it was incredibly moving.

By: Xian

Xian — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

Sometimes a movie comes out that defies the expectations of the studio, the marketing dept., the creative group behind it… even the director. Both of Dominik's recent films seem to have gotten out to the public this way, and yet both are excellent (TAOJJBTCRF's look at extreme American celebrity fixations and KMS's skewed look at America as a land of capitalism and opportunity). It happens… masterpieces are discovered by audiences over time, not necessarily because they were meant to be so by the financiers or the filmmakers, but sometimes despite that.

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

you sound like a really unbright person Jordan

By: guest

guest — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:29:03 +0000

So much death in this movie it's horrific. Jesse's always looking for it because he's been resolved to die for some time.

Then it passes to Charlie Ford like some disease.

Then that crazy bastard loads up a double barrel with steel shavings and corks it and just walks in and blows off Robert Ford's head.

They should do a sequel. Start it off with Robert's head blowing up, and then go back to bloody Kansas and Quantril. They could do Archie Clement, and end with Northfield. That would sell a lot of tickets.

Maybe not. It's unhealthy to have many people dwell on this.