Movie Details
| Title: | Caught Stealing | |
| Director: | Darren Aronofsky | |
| Year: | 2025 | |
| Genre: | Crime | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.19.25 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (5)
- Black Swan
- The Fountain
- Noah
- The Whale
- The Wrestler
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 12.19.25 | Internet | Austin Butler finds himself in the middle of some nonsense because he lives next to Matt Smith. It takes place in 1998 but Matt Smith is a punk from the 80s and other than the cars and a few shots of the old world trade center towers it felt more vaguely period than any specific time. Maybe New Yorkers got the references. I mean, I saw him walk past Kim's Video, and there were no LCD billboards or smartphones. Uh, on paper I should've loved this. There's a ton of 90s songs on the soundtrack and the rest of it was performed by Idles along with a handful of songs and Darren Aronofsky can make a good movie and there's lots of fun characters but there's also a propulsive plot keeping things moving. But I didn't love it. I don't know if it was script things or what but I didn't love it. I did see the trailer for this and it made it seem like a kind of fun ride like kinda goofy and stylish but while there was some style it didn't come with any goof. Instead it's a pretty serious thing. I hesitate to call it a thriller or gangster movie but it's also not a drama or comedy. It's just a kind of bad luck story with constant escalation. I'm trying to pin down what I didn't like about it and I think it has to do with the amount of people who die. Again, maybe it was a case of incorrect expectations. I was expecting Get Shorty and got Running Scared. Also, special shout out to netflix. Because of the low key lighting and muted color palette this movie looked like dogshit on netflix. The compression was ROUGH. I kept having to squint to see if it was playing in 480 or what and wound up having to get a different copy to watch after ten minutes because I couldn't take it anymore. Guess my particular variant of ad-free HD but not 4k billing tier doesn't entitle me to watch a movie in 1080p on a friday night with a gigabit fiber connection at a decent bitrate. Fuck me, right? |
