Just Watched KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON!! Instant Reaction & Review
citizens of the reject Nation we just got out of watching killers of the flower moon on IMAX I want to thank IMAX for inviting us I want to thank Gabriella especially for inviting us because she is letting us shoot here right now when everything is cleared out and we want to make this short Port patience she is being so kind to let us shoot this like obnoxious teenagers wanting to make a little Vlog video for you guys so with that in mind IMAX is the best thing in the world the second we were invited was
one that we said yes to right away reason why Martin scorsi especially on my end between the two of us is my all-time favorite director so the idea of seeing one of his movies on my favorite screen and I’m not just saying that it is my favorite screen yeah I have to see killers of the flower Moon so undoubtedly a very bias I’m going to be like yeah it’s the best way to watch this movie IM Max it all the way but with that in mind like I said we got to keep it short we
didn’t know anything about this movie before watching it we never did a trailer reaction action for it all I knew was scorsi dairo DiCaprio the two greatest
authentic it never ever Del into a Hollywood even when you think it’s going to go like a Hollywood Trope it never goes to the Hollywood Trope you think it’s going to go to this is not a Christopher Nolan period piece no no there’s nothing that feels Fantastical about it you know no you’re it very much feels like a fly on the wall it has almost like a documentary type quality if you’ve ever seen like a Ken Burns you know American history it has that kind of Aura and to the point of how authentic it feels
um I got to tell you guys what this movie is about something again we did not know about which felt like a big educational experience I must say makes you want to read so in the 1920s uh in Oklahoma the O they discovered oil which brought them a lot of wealth and then with having wealth you know sometimes white people step in and they go hey let me actually let me explain please please take it away what did you guys do well you know we saw the opportunity and we’re like how can we iate ourselves
to what is clearly something we are owed by just being here at home clearly how do you plant your destiny baby plant your seed and then manage to take away the fortune and maybe that involves murdering some people so that way you can speed up the process of inheritance I don’t know nothing Greg I don’t know nothing it explores that main topic a largely forgotten part of History it also was I I believe one of the earliest cases if not the first major case of the FBI like the way they talk about it at least
in this movie yeah certainly it feels like it’s a fresh occurrence you there’s already all this you know Federal suspicion anyway so now to have you know investigators coming out from there yeah it is a cold film it is a taut film it is one that definitely requires um a lot of patience I will say that like the first hour to an hour and a half like it it does have it’s like it is a slow movie the last half of this movie is where you really start to get a lot more of like that
payoff for your patience where a lot of the intensity does start to really unfold because a lot of it’s so like it’s it’s consistently interesting but then that’s when it starts getting like oh wow there the corruption is getting really intense at this point but let’s talk about the performances really quick now obviously DiCaprio the star of this movie uh he plays a guy named Ernest who meets up with his uncle played by Bob dairo Bobby D Bobby D who is the villain of this movie he he’s someone who likes to you know pose as
righteous and a man for the people and I’m I’m not one of these other white people I’m one of the ones who’s good good with good ones I speak your language I know your customs and I’m here for you he knows how to take advantage of everyone and it’s one of Dao’s best performances uh in years probably since the Irish and him and DiCaprio do play off each other really well it’s a really twisted type of because it’s his uncle but it’s more of a father Sun Dynamic yeah absolutely and it’s something that grows and
Es and flows throughout so it’s something that’s going to really give you the weight of that Clash that you want between these two heavyweights and then you got Leonardo Caprio playing um I think his third Southern drunk bumbling idiot you’re a miserable drunk yes yes this time the biggest idiot ever honestly it’s a it’s a really great performance it’s very believable like he just he’s like a rotting pumpkin in this movie you know he really is yeah and he’s such a sad sack Mushmouth kind of guy and if he had any kind of like you
you spend the movie wishing he would grow a spine but that’s part of what’s interesting about the character in general is how he is completely manipulated and pushed around by every circumstance around him except for one you know which is uh the the third you know kind of biggest performance of the movie I would say which is Lily Gladstone which everyone’s highlighting certainly for good reason yeah Lily Gladstone plays DiCaprio’s wife she is one the one of the wealthy OS people who uh you know DiCaprio marries in this movie it’s tough to get into it
without really spoiling anything like that but dairo wants DiCaprio to marry her for to inherit the wealth and the thing is DiCaprio part of the complexity with this character that makes him actually interesting is no he actually loves his wife truly yeah but her performance wow I cannot imagine the torture she went through truly it is a very it’s a restrained performance very when I heard people praising her yeah that’s when I heard people praising her work I thought it was going to be something where oh she’s going to get a bunch of big scenes
of of just monologues of tears and stuff but it’s the actually the opposite of that while there’s anguish in a lot of scenes it it’s a surprisingly restrained but really she does command the screen whenever she’s there you know she really does she has a great presence and so much of the painful heart of the movie is told through her eyes basically very very strong there’s a great like cast all around what I loved about the casting in in general is I didn’t recognize 90% of them I feel like indigenous people who were cast the
Native American people who were cast they they felt like they just real people that they cast and I would even say the same thing for the white people who were casting this movie this is full of of great casting acoss feel authentic and yeah a bunch of character actors who look like they were just plucked out of the time yeah yeah like you eventually get some of your more famous people who do show up but it’s often so late into the movie it has that quality of the movie being so imbued by its time and
place and the casting like this is a movie that’s very composed and everything from the production designs to the cast that fills those sets and those spaces it all really feels again researched and lived in that’s one of the best things I could say about it is you could tell just like the analytical details about this capturing this period piece to the point where you do feel like you’re kind of plucked in time in one of the harshest ways you can imagine because there’s nothing like flowery about the way its emotionality is expressed like a
lot of times never melodramatic the camera just lingers on scenes you know a lot of times like oh man we haven’t cut away from this one guy just talking for a very long time there’s a lot of great seamwork a lot of Great Performances very performance Reliant and I think the one thing with the experience of it is the movie did kind of weirdly out of three and a half hours kind of keep me at a distance it does yeah because it is so cold that I never really got emotionally like I appreciate everything the
movie’s doing and I love what the the top I don’t love what it it’s about but I I love that the movies do in this story you know yeah however I never quite got emotionally hooked into someone’s Journey you know to the point where I’m on the journey with them kind of the thing you’d want out of a 3 and a half hour film yeah and nor is it like a good Fellas for example which is which is kind of funny to me because there were ear marks of this that are like oh even though
it’s completely different from the things SC says he’s become famous for a lot of it’s actually a little bit of a mob movie no it is certainly or like a crime family crime family yeah just just Circ of the old west but yeah a lot of that like yeah crime organization made man stuff you know yeah yeah it’s the way how he did Irishman which was a mob movie that felt very meditative this is kind of like that with a more of a periop slant and kind of a dark dramatic Western flare to it yeah
yeah that neow Western sort of Noir kind of thing yeah as it has that like percolating drum bass beat throughout yeah I really like the music in this I thought it was nicely kind of a blend of things that would come after but things that are also very rooted in Native music yes it shines a great light on the horrible atrocities that went down and it is an important story to tell you can feel how important this story is you can feel the fervor behind the film making and the writing behind it as well and
while the dialogue does feel very true at the same time I could definitely feel the movie’s runtime and while I think the last half is way more engaging than the first half I still was never quite as emotionally pulled in in a way that was beyond an observation piece yeah it’s there’s certain Fascination to be had and and certainly things to ruminate on when you’re watching so many of the purveyors of these atrocities both through greed and mination and also through dim wittedness and and the kind of painful mess that all of that represents and
the thing for me was I really really liked so much of the work that was on display throughout the movie beautifully shot lots of great compositions lots of great acting like you said the Molly character Lily Gladstone’s character is the closest the movie brings you to having like an emotionally sympathetic eyeline but even with her it kind of keeps you at an arms length so yeah I wish it was a little bit more from her perspective I do too yeah cuz I I I feel like after a while I can imagine certain viewers sort of
feeling like maybe we are dipping into tragedy suffering porn a little bit you the kind of thing ciles look sure sitting for three and a half hours I you know while it is an important story it’s also you know there are arguments to be had about how not to just just make it a slog through trauma Town basically not to say that those things aren’t legitimate but yeah there is a coldness that I could see certain people maybe not being able to latch on to I’m still really glad that I watched it because I I
truly felt like it’s rare I watch a movie where I’m really I really feel like I learned something from this movie yeah and I want to unpack it and I want to like I want to learn more I want to read about this it’s one of those movies clearly so much about its message I actually want to learn more about the message yeah totally that’s a good that’s a good way to describe it I think and that’s not just me being kind and it was the feeling that I had like I had to look it
up after cuz I’m like man was this DiCaprio guy just such a dumbass in real life after it does sort of remind it reminded me of like of the master in that kind of way where you have this protagonist who you’re like is this guy going on an arc or a journey or is he just kind of bumbling his way and and just being direct is he just a true Pawn in this horrible horrible game that you know yeah has so many different touchstones in American history from a technical film making standpoint I would give
it like a like a nine out of 10 from just a movie goinging experience I would probably honestly just give it like a seven out of 10 yeah we’re probably in in agreement like there’s so much to appreciate but if you’re really going to be swept up in the movie that’s kind of that’ll vary yeah that definitely varies I heard some people walking out who really loved it and I heard some others who were like eh and and I’m more like no I got like two feelings about it and those are my two feelings guys
leave your thoughts down below of what your favorite scorsi film is thank you to IMX again again we got to get out of here uh pull us out with you guys for listening to us talk
