Unpopular opinion: I would've preferred Italian actors over this all-star cast to provide a genuine sense of authenticity. I also thought the storyline should've incorporated more details of the inner workings of the business side of Gucci. I left the theatre pretty confused as to how the family had failed and who was to blame. Lastly, I watched some interviews with the real Paolo Gucci and let me tell you something.... the family should be outraged with how his character was written as well as Jared Leto's performance. It's so offensive smh. The man may have been eccentric at times and was terrible with money but he was no clown.
@@briansergeant well this is a Hollywood movie, obviously Scott needed A list actors in Hollywood to sell this movie's box office. These are all A list actors in the cast, bigger name than the actors you mentioned. Let's be real, if Gaga wasn't Patricia, I doubt people will see this movie. Many people see this movie only for Lady Gaga, not the story
What bothers me more is why did Leto decide to use this accent and voice pitch when the real Pauolo Gucci ( in his interviews at least) did not sound anything like that. That's what you do when you try to mock a person rather than portray that individual in a movie.
Totally agree about Leto he singlehandidly changed the entire vibe of any scene he was in, it felt like going from murder drama opera, to the mario comedy show
Jared Leto was simultaneously the worst part of the movie, and the most entertaining part. I got a really good laugh every time he was on screen, even though I was laughing at him and not with him.
That’s why I think he nailed it- he was tacky, garish, dumb, and more. Made my skin crawl to look at him at points. He didn’t pick out the prosthetics and the costume. But I still “got” him, I’ve known people like him, and I think he nailed it.
Well the director was ok with it and maybe wanted him to be the comic relief. If I see a personage being so forced to the point is funny I asume the director never told “hey Leto tone it down you sound like Mario”. The director is Ridley Scott I can’t imagine him letting a performance that touches bad parody in his movie unless it was actually what he was going for. So if it wasn’t the case it’s mainly the director fault who didn’t his job of directing someone to make it right. But I feel poor Paolo was the comic relief here given that there is so much drama someone must be for entertaining purposes. Because I don’t get good performances from everyone and then we have Leto’s Paolo as if it was directed by a different person. So should I take Leto’s portrayal of Paolo seriously and cringe every time I hear Mario and ask myself how did it happen in Ridley Scott movie or just laugh at the scene like I guess I’m supposed to? Then again I feel bad for his familiars who had to watch someone making a parody of their father or grandfather.
there’s a subtle line of over acting to make it look good outward. Too focus on the vocals of the character. Jared is good when he focus inwards like in Dallas Buyers..
Jared's performance is 100 percent stereotypical of how Americans perceive Italians, and an insult to all true Italians. But at the same time, he was kind of the comic relief in the whole movie.
Let's Not Forget that Some of the Most horrific, Ruthless, Corrupted, filthy Criminals in the World that also became Very Famous for their Crimes, it wasn't just the Gucci family, but the Italian Mafia, and the Most Bloody Gangsters and Mobs like Al Capone, and in NYC John Gotti. I, personally dated an Italian in NYC and his Father an Italian-born was a disgusting Prejudice individual.
Real italians, especially central and northern ones( the ones that people don't know cause they emigrated way less than southern ones), are never portrayed in american movies or they are portrayed in an extreme wrong and not realistic way.
Well, I have heard that Paolo Gucci actually was a really over the top character in real life and seemed to be a real life caricature. I don't know if that's true, but just some food for thought.
Honestly, i'm italian and i don't feel insulted at all, he played like a legend and its a movie...what do you expect!? it needs to be great and 'explosive' otherwise it would be boring. Ps don't speak for other people when you haven't heard their opinion on it.
@@frodezz4454 I'm italian, and if I knew that Jared Leto was gonna act *that* way and offer a semi-minstrel show-like performance with not even the correct accent, I would've personally went to one of the locations they where they were filming at in Rome and spit in both his eyes. Piantala di leccare il culo agli americani lmao
This movie would have been better as a HBO or Netflix mini series. There was too much going on to follow and the story would have benefited from extra time to flesh out
they were angling for oscars . this should have been a HBO for sure a la succession for sure. i ain't finna watch at the theatres . I'll keep my ass indoors and wait for on demand.
One of my biggest pet peeves in movies is foreigners / immigrants speaking with an (dreadful, more often than not) accent amongst themselves. If your little movie is too Hollywood to cast natives, just speak English. I think putting on forced accents is much worse than people speaking in their own accents (or a "standardised" received pronunciation). We accept aliens speak English, we sure can accept Italians do too.
This has always bothered me in movies. If you're trying to imply someone would be speaking another language, please just have them speak that language and subtitle it, if not English is fine, we get it. Hearing a forced accent from someone that doesn't have one is 99% of the time painful to hear.
@@jmebabs I'm from the south, was a little disappointed when I lived in Boston and the surrounding area for a few years. Though it did take me awhile to find out where Woosta was. I'd been there, but that sure isn't how I would of said it 🤣Once you get outside of Boston into some of the smaller places, everyone did staht the cah in the mornings though, but definitely not as heavily accented as most shows/movies make it out to be, same with the southern accent stereotypes though.
I think this needed Italian actors and maybe even made in Italian with English subtitles. It would have been more authentic considering this is a story about a brand that is focused on its Italian identity and heritage. Just like how Narcos was made in Spanish. Hated reading the subtitles at first but it made the series so much more authentic.
As an Italian born and raised in Italy, for as much as I love Jared Leto his performance is straight up offensive. Not only for the way it represents Italian with that stereotypical and really bad accent (it sounds like a typical American imitating an Italian) but also in the way Paolo Gucci is represented. Pure mockery.
Girl u don't have to be Italian to understand that shit was pure SATIRE LIKE he like was giving "mama mia I wanta meatballa" 🙄🙄 why couldn't he have been played by an Italian American atleast like alpacino n lady gagas characters were
@@314rowan well it's still bad and offensive satire. Satire can be done tastefully and in a smart way. His Paolo is just someone acting demented and it's not even funny. The fact that everyone else is dead serious acting realistically and he is there with his over the top stereotypical performance is a bad choice on everyone who let that happen
Don’t worry, Adam Driver probably won’t win an Oscar this year or next, year but in like 10 years they’ll give him one for some so-so role just for all the times he’ll have lost by then.
Kind of happy to see Dan drag Leto so much. He's a weirdo high on his own ego and if more people took him down a peg, he probably wouldn't have the audacity to act like this.
Leto here is so frustrating to me as someone who worked in the industry for a decade. There are so many actors who could have nailed this role, there were enough stars to have an unknown in that role and what a career and financial boost this role would have been to someone but it’s taken by a star who spent 4 hours in the make up chair every day to achieve a look that hundreds of great but less known actors have naturally. Such an unfair business sometimes 😄
You can’t just blame Leto though. You have to blame the director and everyone else who okayed that performance. They clearly wanted it. I was okay it. It was ridiculous but I think that was the point.
@@yeskev; It was Exactly what I Said!!! Why are they throwing Stones to the actor himself, when the Director of the movie himself and the other actors were OK with it?? I mean the Director of this movie is Very Famous and has been Making Movies for ever, Why did he allow Jared Leto's performance??
House Of Gucci knows exactly what it is: a campy funny melodrama. The problem is that the marketing team didn’t quite get the message and made it seem like a serious crime epic. I thought it was a ton of fun.
as an Italian, I can only say that you have to thank that over the years we have learned to overlook these miseries, and the fact of being represented once again as a sort of combo between the godfather and super mario, says little about us, but a lot about ' intellect of those who do it
agreed on jared leto. as an italian that performance made me so furious it was laughably bad and at my screening people were so confused by him. i can‘t believe that ridley scott allowed this
Dan said exactly what I was thinking about this movie. I was so impressed by Lady Gaga throughout this film, Adam Driver was much more subtle but just as powerful. The accents were a little all over, but Jared Leto 🤦♀️🤦♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️ terrible. I felt like I was on my Nintendo 64 back in high school playing Mario Golf pushing the directional buttons that voiced various Mario phrases (it's-a Ma-ri-o). I just kept thinking, "why did the director think this was good? He's supposed come off as a dummy not a racist cartoon"
Thank you!! You put my feelings about Leto’s performance in House of Gucci into the perfect words. After I watched the film, I was so appalled by his presence that I went online with the expectation of reading reviews roasting him - and found a decent chunk of people doing the opposite. I experienced this weird sense of secondhand embarrassment for the actors in any given scene with him, and cringed every moment he was onscreen. If he’s nominated for anything in relation to House of Gucci, any sliver of remaining respect I had for the Oscars will be invariably destroyed. Adam Driver and Lady Gaga were phenomenal, though, as well as the rest of the cast, so I’d still recommend it…maybe just issue a Jared Leto warning beforehand, haha.
Bruh, Jared’s accent was waaay more accurate than Lady Gaga’s, I was so confused with her accent . It even sounded Russian at one point. People need to hop off this Jared Leto hate train, it’s really getting old. Adam Driver was probably the best part of the movie, but Jared Leto made it extra entertaining.
Jared Leto took me all the way out of the film whenever he appeared. Straight clownish 🤡 As Dan said, did not fit the tone of the film. Not enough people are giving Adam shine for Maurizio. So understated but really built a strong character. I came to really like him and root for him. I’m glad Dan gave him a shout out. Gaga did a great job, I feel like they didn’t give her enough to do once she was married into the Gucci family.
Am I the only one who thought that this film was terribly written, directed, shot and edited? And the score, GOD FORGIVE ME, the SCORE?! I first noticed it when during the wedding scene George Micheal's Faith comes on and while people are getting married you hear "well, I gotta have faith-a-faith-a-faith-ahhh" over people saying their "I do's". It made no sense whatsoever. Every popsong that is prominently featured (at least 5) are over scenes that make no sense with that song. Actors are in dialogues that seem improvised (badly) all the time. When I start noticing continuity errors without even looking for them, I'm thinking: some people who worked on this film really didn't do their job. I still wanted to know how the story would end, but I looked at my watch every 15 minutes to see how long I had to stay in the theater.
Lady Gaga was phenomenal in this…she took her acting to another level. She must of really study Patrizia and Adam Driver had all the mannerisms of Mauricio….Amazing amazing I’ll see it again for sure
I would say Scott never knew what kind of movie he was making. The entire thing was overly slow and serious. He was trying to make awards bate and it should have been a glam camp show
Totally agree on your stance on Leto. I was in shock when I heard his accent, his performance was the worst thing I have ever seen and I can't understand how Ridley Scott didn't tell him to stop. It felt like a joke in a kid's show from the 70's or something, utterly ridiculous, (it is therefore baffling to hear that some people liked it? In what world!?)
I feel like this film, much like several other Ridley Scott films like Kingdom of Heaven and Blade Runner, will be vastly improved with a directors cut. For a 2 hour 30+ minute movie, it felt like big character development was missing, the editing seemed studio forced. Adam Driver was fantastic in his role and did all he could but I felt like his transformation and Gaga’s downfall was really glossed over and the film suffered for it. Another 30 minutes could give the epic story more room to breathe and flesh out the characters beyond well acted caricatures (excluding Driver and Gaga) but even their characters would be better off in a directors cut.
As an Italian, I felt embarrassed and offended by Jared Leto's performance. And I've never felt like that before. His "SuperMario-face" was insulting to me, and I'm baffled by the fact that many people are OK with his racist farce. Second, I'm not sure it was the right choice for English-speaking actresses and actors to perform in English with a (bad or mediocre) Italian accent. Could you imagine an Italian production working on a movie about, idk, Tony Blair, with all Italian performers speaking Italian with a brit accent with some "bloody hell" here and there?
I had to listen to legitimate interviews with Paolo to see if Leto just did as close to the man's actual voice or not... and no. No he did not. It wasn't anywhere NEAR that sort of sound. Why the hell would he do that?
Thanks Dan!! Great review as always! For me, I don't understand why the accents were even needed. We know that these people are supposed to be Italian and I assume that they are speaking Italian among each other in real life, but making them speak normal English in the movie for me would have been better than having these distracting horrible accents, representing them speaking Italian. I could barely watch the trailer because of the accents.
More or less everyone in Italy would agree. We are mocking the movie since the first trailer for exactly that reason. The accents are also... not that good, let's say.
The folks that made Chernobyl mini series understood the assignment. Everyone knows Chernobyl disaster happened in Ukraine so instead of doing "accents", the whole cast of Chernobyl is made of British actors with normal British accents. And surprise surprise, it turned out to be one of the best show made in recent memory.
YES!!! Thank you! Those are my thoughts exactly! I’m not Italian, but to me the accents sound like awful caricatures, and I don’t get why they were necessary. If you can’t make the audience understand that this movie is taking place in Italy without making them sound like Super Mario, then maybe don’t make that movie. I love Adam Driver, but I might have to skip this one because of those accents
My thoughts exactly. I speak both Italian and English as foreign languages, so English with such deliberate Italian accent from American actors who portray Italians sounds quite ridiculous. I can imagine how it sounds to native Italians))
Agree about Leto’s performance. In fact agree with all your thoughts here. Appreciate the review as it helps clarify my thoughts on this too. Thank you!
I really love these reviews. Dan gives great insights and always explains why someone may enjoy/hate a movie he has a differing opinion from. Best reviews out there.
I’ve really avoided Lego’s work of late…I just have gone completely off him since his Joker interpretation & his off screen antics! I am usually pretty good at separating the art from the artist…however, with him I struggle. I’ll see this for Driver, Gaga & Pacino then probably try to enjoy the Mario cringes Leto brings! Great content as always Dan
Yeah I was somewhat interested in this until I heard Leto was in it. Same as when I was somewhat interested in The Last Duel until I saw it was written by and starting Affleck and Damon.
@@toddhollen completely get you! I saw The Last Duel and thought it was brilliant, but I totally understand that it’s certainly not going to be a movie for everyone…particularly given the subject & writers at this moment in time! Matt Damon certainly has gone from edging back toward my good books with The Martian, to making me wait and see how any movie he is in gets received and wether I’ll see it or not. I try and take an objective or wait and see approach towards any movie/actor/director that I may not like or feel is a bit tone deaf.
So, here I am at 1:13am, Sunday, February 6, 2022, about 1:16:00 into the movie, and I'm mesmerized by this actor but have not really paid attention to whom it might be, and now, all of the sudden, there's a close shot of his face and eyes, and I'm thinking: "Wait a minute, is that really _____?" OMG, what a performance by this actor who is Completely Unrecognizable.
i think that Letto perfomancewas a little bit over the top ...BUT.. rewatching the film yesterday i think if he just lowered down a little bit.. it would have been perfect , all in all i enjoyed his perfomance...
I saw the movie and I enjoyed it. Jared Leto was portraying a real life goof ball and without his comic relief, the movie would have felt too flat. It needed his energy.
I am not a Jared Leto fan, nor a detractor, however before I condemn his performance I'd want to know, did Pauolo Gucci act and sound that way? I honestly don't know. As always, thank you so very much for your video.
Good question. His daughter panned the project but I wonder about her underlying motives and wonder if she decided to speak up before even seeing it. In some interview, Leto said he was moved to visit Paolo's grave (he died the same year as Maurizio). So I've wondered what the real Paolo was like. It seems to me a number of the actors tried to be at least partly accurate in their portrayals (e.g., Gaga sounds like her character). Don't know, tho.
I haaaaaaaate the accents. I don’t know what they were thinking when they decided to do this. I love Adam Driver, but I think I’ll miss this one, because the way they talk is so cringy to me.
I haven’t seen it yet and likely won’t until it’s on some streaming channel. However, it’s so sad to hear that (in Dan’s opinion) it doesn’t quite work. When you get that much talent together in one film I feel it’s tragic when that’s not enough to create something wonderful. I’ve seen plenty of mediocre plots be raised simply because of the talent involved. Here was a compelling story, great actors (except for Leto, whom I also don’t care for), awesome direction and cinematography and costumes-it is so promising…
Its full of struggling wannabes & aging classical actors,with an oscar /academy air of baiting & pandering to power hungry elites .this movie is ass ,for those who love eating fancy shit.
I saw the movie and it does not live up to the trailers. Story is wonky and the accents/ acting were campy or bad. Lady Gaga was the best part of the movie and the movie centers around her character but overall the characters were poorly written. Nice start but the plot went flat. Jared Leto was over the top camp. Rest of the actors didn’t really try.
This movie delivers. It’s a great movie, it’s a fun movie, but not one that will be loved by critics. In fact, critics will hate it for many reasons. Audiences, will love it. And I’m sure it’ll become a cult classic that will live in infamy the way something like Big Lebowski or Uncut Gems has.
From what I've heard and read from critics who loved Jared Leto's performance? It's based on an ironic love. That his performance is "so bad it's good." Not that he actually deserves an Oscar award. A performance to be laughed at, not with.
I had absolutely no interest in this movie and still don't, but if it just happens to be on somewhere I'll watch it now just to laugh at that ridiculous accent. Dan nailed it with even the parody of that isn't as bad as that was. So I guess that takes some talent to pull off? 🤣
thank you for calling out Jared Leto in this. He's like a cartoon, a clown in a serious drama and not in a comic relief kind of way. He's distracting and I kept thinking isn't there an actor that would not have needed all the prosthetics and terrible accent for this part?
Geez. And I thought I hated Jared Leto performances. My favorite burn: You know how bad your performance has to be for me to look you and Al Pacino in a scene and say “Wow! Jared Leto is really hamming it up.” 😂
the tones and pacing were my problems too. really great scenes just end mid sentence; mauricio is telling off his dad cut to he's homeless and proposing, or Irons learns he has a granddaughter and before he sits down he's in his casket. i've never been a leto defender but he couldve been way worse. if he turned it down one paulo wouldve been as sympathetic a character i see him. jared was enjoyable enough for the laugh.
there is also a miracle in this movie; when Patrizia gets a tour through Rodolfo's house her pleblean mentality is shown by her confusing a portrait by Gustav Klimt for one of Picasso. it is Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I hanging on the wall, which, at the time this scene is set, was on display at Galery Belvedere in Vienna as Frau im Gold from 1941 till 2006. It was subject in the legal case as shown in Woman in Gold directed by in 2015. tough reseach, mr Scott, very tough reseach. Can we expect a prequel: "How the Woman in Gold ended up in the House of Cucci"? you perfectly desribe what nagged me about the Paolo figure in the movie, I get the impression Jared Leto is more in love with the makeup then the character he plays. In Suicide Squad he also got a lot of attention for the Joker due to extreme make-up while the performance was mediocre. On thing I loved in House of Cucci was the excelent use of music.
Dan's Jared Leto reaction reminds me of how I felt when everyone tried to trick me into thinking Jaquin Phoenix's performance in The Master was genius when he was unconvincing in the role of a human.
House of Gucci definitely wasn't for me. Great performances all around the board, and I agree the first half was really fun, but as soon as the tone shift the story fell flat for me. There was no bite or intense moments for me, it just seemed to be sequences of things that are happening, like I was watching a history presentation. But I can totally see why people like this movie.
I’m laughing at what you said about Jared Leto’s accent, but I have to tell you that I actually have family members who speak exactly like he does in this movie. They are all from Italy, but are American Citizens. I honestly think that he did a good job, and if you heard my family speak, I think you would agree. You mentioned about the fluctuation of Paulo’s voice, going high and low. Up high and down, which my family also does, but, I think he does that on purpose here in this movie because, he is portraying the “black sheep”. The one who is never taken seriously. I do believe that his portrayal is that of a gentle spirit, maybe a bit, or a lot insecure from his family putting him down so often, his incredibly sensitive nature, all of that may be the reason JL portrays him in this manner. But, I have to honestly say, I have heard my relatives sound just like that over the years. A few of them have lost a touch of the accent, but it’s definitely still there. Some, are just as strong as when we first met, 40 years ago. Many with differences also, with dialect and tone of voice as well.
I didnt know in the film until after researching the story.. they had been broken up for 10 years prior to his death. They made it seem more recent in the movie
The Jared Leto thing is weird. I love him as a performer. If his performance in this film was a true reflection of what Paolo Gucci was like in real life then I guess it could be excused. However from what I have read, he was nothing like how Leto portrayed him in the movie. It was a flawed performance for sure. The accent was a bit off. He seemed very flamboyant. More than someone like that should have been. It's like the were going for some sort of stereotypical Italian with the accent. Perhaps Ridley Scott thought that the film could do with some comic relief at certain points. It's obviously a very serious film and I hate myself for enjoying the time Leto was on screen. For me, he was funny. He made me feel sorry for him at certain points so I suppose he did his job when it mattered. I do agree that someone should have said to him "Hey, wtf are you doing bro?" and steered his performance in a different direction. Especially if he was acting nothing like the real dude. But at the same time I cannot help think that maybe that's what the film makers wanted. Were they just letting it slide because it was Leto? Did they ask him to do it like that? Would it have mattered if someone else played the part? All these questions will probably go unanswered. We can rest easy knowing the answer to the real question though. Aliens did help ancient humans build the pyramids.
I love your reviews and honest thoughts Dan. Would love to see some more reviews to older movies as well! Maybe some of your favourite holiday movies as we enter December?
Thing is, though, there's literally no way that Leto was doing this without Ridley Scott's instruction or approval. So... yeah. Whatever that says about Ridley Scott and his vision for this movie...
I laughed at the JL acting so much I couldn't finish the movie, I was stoned and even when he was off screen he would come back into my head and I would laugh out loud and missing key points.
I felt the same for Leto's perfomance! He felt like Roger from American Dad, like the tone was just a mess going back and forth from serious to some weird comedy-- it was like an awkward snl skit
Very fair review! I've already watched it and he described it perfectly ! The first half was sooo good and the second half drags on forever. Lady Gaga was absolutely amazing. I didn't know she was in the film and kept wondering the whole time "is that her? it can't be"
A huge mistake with this movie (in my opinion) is the choice of making everyone not only talk in English but with a ridiculous "Italian" accent which is as comical as 99% of the American movies portraying Russian accent wrongly. So why a story about this Italian family which involves majority Italians in Italy interacting with each other has to be in English I kind of understand - accessibility for wider audiences but it would seem way more organic if they removed the accent bit.
Agreed, Leto's performance was borderline comical and insulting. The whole film though was like eating your friends under seasoned food. You still eat it and say it's good when it taste like shit. Ridley Scott should know better.
In the trailers, Jared seems passable but geez, I see what you mean from the clip you showed. Seems a pretty intriguing movie. The divide between two halves could be the point but let's see.
Have to disagree on Lady Gaga's performance. Her acting to me felt awkward and amateurish, like she didn't know where to look when she was in the frame, and the timing of her reactions was always just a little off. Professionally trained and experienced actors are able to show complex emotions, because they achieve mastery of even the tiny movements of their muscles, and Lady Gaga's face looks quite static most of the time, unless it's a scene with "big" emotions where there's less need for nuance. In my opinion she and Jared Leto kind of complement each other in a weird way. They were both comical and unnatural, but each in their own way. Salma Hayek was great, though.
Saw the movie just today and I do agree with your review. Lady Gaga and Adam Driver kept it pretty interesting but the Paolo Gucci character by Jared Leto was so annoying. I thought it’s only me who got that feeling. The movie could have been a little shorter too. But overall I loved the movie as I felt as if I did go on an Italian trip! It was really really Italian!
Such a strange movie. It’s like every actor made an insane decision on how they were going to play their character and never once consulted with anyone and they all just showed up and filmed it. This movie is also too long yet doesn’t explore enough of the story to be fully compelling.
I mean Jared Leto was like the most talk about performance of the year for all the wrong reasons. He's like in a different movie, everyone is like in a different movie, only Pacino who seemed to be commited in one tone of the movie
The negative reviews this film has generated have been reassuring. It's a sign that we still have standards and demand substance from the films we watch. I hope Adam Driver goes back to doing quality work after this mess.
To be honest I saw the documentary about this family a year ago and I think this was a phenomenal movie and this is the best I’ve seen in Lady Gaga as an actress and Adam Driver got the mannerisms of Mauricio down according from what I saw in the documentary about the Gucci Family
Sorry but I think Ridley Scott is intelligent enough to have Jared play it differently if he didn't like it agree with the way he played the role. JARED was supposed to be an oaf, a goof, a disappointment. I think he succeeded.
I totally agree - Most here will find this ridiculous but I loved Jared's performance, it was comical in an otherwise dark movie. I've watched his scenes several times.
As an Italian I felt the depiction of Italians was offensive almost constantly through the movie, the forced accent was just weird and ridiculous, zero understanding of Italian culture, farcical. It just felt embarrassing the whole time
Jesus, that ACCENT on Jared Leto. Thank you for making my mind up on whether or not I should look for an English screening in my town. Damn, the one Adam and Gaga put on felt almost like an actual Italian accent.
I didn’t like the movie but thought Lady Gaga was easily the best part. I like the look of the movie, too bad the rest of the cast and story was bland. Jared Leto was also the worst part for me. He reminds me of when Johnny Depp went off the rails with campy performances that went beyond parody that turned audiences off. I think Leto is trying to mimic Depp’s acting choices but that didn’t go well for him and now Leto. My god he was so bad. Leto can over do it or under perform which makes me super skeptical of Morbius.
I liked him as Paulo, I think you're a bit hard on Mr. Leto. Paulo was done so wrong in the movie. Really the only talented person besides his father and uncle.
Unpopular opinion: I would've preferred Italian actors over this all-star cast to provide a genuine sense of authenticity. I also thought the storyline should've incorporated more details of the inner workings of the business side of Gucci. I left the theatre pretty confused as to how the family had failed and who was to blame. Lastly, I watched some interviews with the real Paolo Gucci and let me tell you something.... the family should be outraged with how his character was written as well as Jared Leto's performance. It's so offensive smh. The man may have been eccentric at times and was terrible with money but he was no clown.
Good point. What’s Monica Bellucci and Roberto Benigni doing these days?!! Couldn’t Ridley have hired them for authenticity?!
I hope that isn’t an unpopular opinion. It seems like a reasonable ask.
Popular opinion
That’s Hollywood
@@briansergeant well this is a Hollywood movie, obviously Scott needed A list actors in Hollywood to sell this movie's box office. These are all A list actors in the cast, bigger name than the actors you mentioned. Let's be real, if Gaga wasn't Patricia, I doubt people will see this movie. Many people see this movie only for Lady Gaga, not the story
What bothers me more is why did Leto decide to use this accent and voice pitch when the real Pauolo Gucci ( in his interviews at least) did not sound anything like that. That's what you do when you try to mock a person rather than portray that individual in a movie.
well. said.
Thank you I said the same thing.
I'm from Italy and I cringed a lot...
I saw an interview. He sounds almost the same tbh lol
@@leonardocabrini6656 I'm not Italian but it made me cringe as well. I thought Jared Leto was doing too much & was annoying.
Totally agree about Leto he singlehandidly changed the entire vibe of any scene he was in, it felt like going from murder drama opera, to the mario comedy show
Jared Leto was simultaneously the worst part of the movie, and the most entertaining part. I got a really good laugh every time he was on screen, even though I was laughing at him and not with him.
He was simultaneously awful and brilliant. Completely over the top, yet still deserving of empathy.
That’s why I think he nailed it- he was tacky, garish, dumb, and more. Made my skin crawl to look at him at points. He didn’t pick out the prosthetics and the costume. But I still “got” him, I’ve known people like him, and I think he nailed it.
I agree. I was thinking it’s so ridiculous that there’s no way it’s a mistake. It worked for me in the end.
Well the director was ok with it and maybe wanted him to be the comic relief. If I see a personage being so forced to the point is funny I asume the director never told “hey Leto tone it down you sound like Mario”.
The director is Ridley Scott I can’t imagine him letting a performance that touches bad parody in his movie unless it was actually what he was going for. So if it wasn’t the case it’s mainly the director fault who didn’t his job of directing someone to make it right.
But I feel poor Paolo was the comic relief here given that there is so much drama someone must be for entertaining purposes. Because I don’t get good performances from everyone and then we have Leto’s Paolo as if it was directed by a different person.
So should I take Leto’s portrayal of Paolo seriously and cringe every time I hear Mario and ask myself how did it happen in Ridley Scott movie or just laugh at the scene like I guess I’m supposed to? Then again I feel bad for his familiars who had to watch someone making a parody of their father or grandfather.
there’s a subtle line of over acting to make it look good outward. Too focus on the vocals of the character. Jared is good when he focus inwards like in Dallas Buyers..
Jared's performance is 100 percent stereotypical of how Americans perceive Italians, and an insult to all true Italians. But at the same time, he was kind of the comic relief in the whole movie.
Let's Not Forget that Some of the Most horrific, Ruthless, Corrupted, filthy Criminals in the World that also became Very Famous for their Crimes, it wasn't just the Gucci family, but the Italian Mafia, and the Most Bloody Gangsters and Mobs like Al Capone, and in NYC John Gotti. I, personally dated an Italian in NYC and his Father an Italian-born was a disgusting Prejudice individual.
Real italians, especially central and northern ones( the ones that people don't know cause they emigrated way less than southern ones), are never portrayed in american movies or they are portrayed in an extreme wrong and not realistic way.
Well, I have heard that Paolo Gucci actually was a really over the top character in real life and seemed to be a real life caricature. I don't know if that's true, but just some food for thought.
Honestly, i'm italian and i don't feel insulted at all, he played like a legend and its a movie...what do you expect!? it needs to be great and 'explosive' otherwise it would be boring.
Ps don't speak for other people when you haven't heard their opinion on it.
@@frodezz4454 I'm italian, and if I knew that Jared Leto was gonna act *that* way and offer a semi-minstrel show-like performance with not even the correct accent, I would've personally went to one of the locations they where they were filming at in Rome and spit in both his eyes.
Piantala di leccare il culo agli americani lmao
This movie would have been better as a HBO or Netflix mini series. There was too much going on to follow and the story would have benefited from extra time to flesh out
they were angling for oscars . this should have been a HBO for sure a la succession for sure. i ain't finna watch at the theatres . I'll keep my ass indoors and wait for on demand.
IT WAS SO BORING I FELL ASLEEP AFTER THE FIRST HOUR. I JUST WANTED IT TO BE OVER ALREADY. DESPITE ALL THE GOOD ACTORS, THE SCRIPT WAS GOD AWFUL.
Agreeeeeed
Or considerably less
Unfortunately, the director's attention span is too short for a mini series, probably because he's on his cellphone all the time.
Dan doesn't need a numerical rating system, the thumbnail system works just fine to summarize his thoughts.
…best comment! But…once he learns…
😂😂😂 so true 😂😂😂
Preach. 👍
This also used to be possible with Brad "Cinema Snob" Jones when he had cartoons of himself and his friends on his thumbnails.
One of my biggest pet peeves in movies is foreigners / immigrants speaking with an (dreadful, more often than not) accent amongst themselves. If your little movie is too Hollywood to cast natives, just speak English. I think putting on forced accents is much worse than people speaking in their own accents (or a "standardised" received pronunciation). We accept aliens speak English, we sure can accept Italians do too.
This has always bothered me in movies. If you're trying to imply someone would be speaking another language, please just have them speak that language and subtitle it, if not English is fine, we get it. Hearing a forced accent from someone that doesn't have one is 99% of the time painful to hear.
Had the same thoughts some time ago with that Jennifer Lawrence movie "Red Sparrow", where she has a horrible Russian accent.
This is how I feel as someone from Massachusetts. Majority of people in Boston don’t have that “Boston” accent movies keep doing 🤦🏼♀️
@@jmebabs I'm from the south, was a little disappointed when I lived in Boston and the surrounding area for a few years. Though it did take me awhile to find out where Woosta was. I'd been there, but that sure isn't how I would of said it 🤣Once you get outside of Boston into some of the smaller places, everyone did staht the cah in the mornings though, but definitely not as heavily accented as most shows/movies make it out to be, same with the southern accent stereotypes though.
Yes. Just like Chernobyl on HBO did. That was an excellent show.
I think this needed Italian actors and maybe even made in Italian with English subtitles. It would have been more authentic considering this is a story about a brand that is focused on its Italian identity and heritage. Just like how Narcos was made in Spanish. Hated reading the subtitles at first but it made the series so much more authentic.
"A Mario brother from hell" is the most perfect way to describe Paulo's character in this movie haha
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@@giulia1968 Ssshhh 😅
As an Italian born and raised in Italy, for as much as I love Jared Leto his performance is straight up offensive. Not only for the way it represents Italian with that stereotypical and really bad accent (it sounds like a typical American imitating an Italian) but also in the way Paolo Gucci is represented. Pure mockery.
You're right, I took it as it is, an offensive and bad movie.
This movie is EMBARRASSING. So many big names for a bad job.
Pura presa su per il deretano
Girl u don't have to be Italian to understand that shit was pure SATIRE LIKE he like was giving "mama mia I wanta meatballa" 🙄🙄 why couldn't he have been played by an Italian American atleast like alpacino n lady gagas characters were
@@314rowan well it's still bad and offensive satire. Satire can be done tastefully and in a smart way. His Paolo is just someone acting demented and it's not even funny. The fact that everyone else is dead serious acting realistically and he is there with his over the top stereotypical performance is a bad choice on everyone who let that happen
Ridley scott: we are going to tell an authentic story of a family in crisis at a crossroads
Jerod Leto: ITSA ME, MARIO!
😅😅😅
Don’t worry, Adam Driver probably won’t win an Oscar this year or next, year but in like 10 years they’ll give him one for some so-so role just for all the times he’ll have lost by then.
... like they did with Al Pacino in scent of a Woman.
HOO-HAAAAAH!
His accent was terrible in this film. He definitely does not deserve an oscar for this anyways.
@@SeanGHOB I'm a grey ghost too
That's how best actor work just like Joaquin Phoenix got for Joker instead of Her
@@Candela115 nor for Annette, the glowing reviews that hilarity is getting from some areas is a joke
Kind of happy to see Dan drag Leto so much. He's a weirdo high on his own ego and if more people took him down a peg, he probably wouldn't have the audacity to act like this.
I think that Oscar win went completely to Leto's head.
Leto here is so frustrating to me as someone who worked in the industry for a decade. There are so many actors who could have nailed this role, there were enough stars to have an unknown in that role and what a career and financial boost this role would have been to someone but it’s taken by a star who spent 4 hours in the make up chair every day to achieve a look that hundreds of great but less known actors have naturally. Such an unfair business sometimes 😄
You can’t just blame Leto though. You have to blame the director and everyone else who okayed that performance. They clearly wanted it. I was okay it. It was ridiculous but I think that was the point.
exactly how i feel!!
@@yeskev; It was Exactly what I Said!!! Why are they throwing Stones to the actor himself, when the Director of the movie himself and the other actors were OK with it?? I mean the Director of this movie is Very Famous and has been Making Movies for ever, Why did he allow Jared Leto's performance??
House Of Gucci knows exactly what it is: a campy funny melodrama. The problem is that the marketing team didn’t quite get the message and made it seem like a serious crime epic. I thought it was a ton of fun.
There's a bit of a crime just towards the end of the movie.
Un film americano per americani
as an Italian, I can only say that you have to thank that over the years we have learned to overlook these miseries, and the fact of being represented once again as a sort of combo between the godfather and super mario, says little about us, but a lot about ' intellect of those who do it
I love a good stereotype
ANy other ones represented like this trash and it would be a complete uproar and racism yelling, but for Italians? It's ok
It’s a commentary, let’s face it business and family mixing does not work, and many ( not all) Italians bring nepotism to an art form.
@@caa.4496 Bullshit. The World(and Italy) is plenty of successfull family businesses.
Dan should be nominated for the oscar for that Italian accent
It sounds just like letos in the movie lol 😂
Leto already was
I agree Lady Gaga and Al Pacino were excellent in The House Of Gucci.
agreed on jared leto. as an italian that performance made me so furious it was laughably bad and at my screening people were so confused by him. i can‘t believe that ridley scott allowed this
Only saw Gaga and heard that horrible Russian accent. Where were Rockey and Bullwinkle?
Everything makes Italians furious. Y'all need to chill.
@@BT-kc3ee Try to get bombarded by stereotypes about your country for 50 years straight
Dan is the reviewer who you actually want to hear thoughts from not just some quick alphabet or number rating.
Grace gives good reviews too. I generally have a polar opposite opinion to hers, but I like her perspective and she qualifies her opinions.
@@Ineddiblehulk Honestly, I have to disagree. I find Dan to be a place of quiet sanity, Grace Randolph not so much.
@@heyokaikaggen6288 An obvious mention but Adum from YourMovieSucks is worth a mention imho
Dan said exactly what I was thinking about this movie. I was so impressed by Lady Gaga throughout this film, Adam Driver was much more subtle but just as powerful.
The accents were a little all over, but Jared Leto 🤦♀️🤦♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️ terrible. I felt like I was on my Nintendo 64 back in high school playing Mario Golf pushing the directional buttons that voiced various Mario phrases (it's-a Ma-ri-o). I just kept thinking, "why did the director think this was good? He's supposed come off as a dummy not a racist cartoon"
Honestly, that impression of Jared Leto's performance in this movie is crazy accurate.
Clearly you don’t get it because you’re a millennial and always on your phone Dan.
I get your reference, friend. Haha I also enjoyed yesterday’s live stream 💗
Good reference. Had seen a lot of ads for this but did not know it was ridley Scott until yesterday.
Dan gets everything
Something something avocado toast something something.
Oof.
Thank you!! You put my feelings about Leto’s performance in House of Gucci into the perfect words. After I watched the film, I was so appalled by his presence that I went online with the expectation of reading reviews roasting him - and found a decent chunk of people doing the opposite. I experienced this weird sense of secondhand embarrassment for the actors in any given scene with him, and cringed every moment he was onscreen. If he’s nominated for anything in relation to House of Gucci, any sliver of remaining respect I had for the Oscars will be invariably destroyed. Adam Driver and Lady Gaga were phenomenal, though, as well as the rest of the cast, so I’d still recommend it…maybe just issue a Jared Leto warning beforehand, haha.
Check Tom Ford's review!
Bruh, Jared’s accent was waaay more accurate than Lady Gaga’s, I was so confused with her accent . It even sounded Russian at one point. People need to hop off this Jared Leto hate train, it’s really getting old.
Adam Driver was probably the best part of the movie, but Jared Leto made it extra entertaining.
@@thatgermandude6076 It’s not a hate train. Leto was the worst part of the film by far. Such an awful and hammy performance.
Well said. It felt like he was mocking Italians. Maybe he was trying to bring some Godfathers flashback in the movie.... of course he crashed badly.
Jared Leto took me all the way out of the film whenever he appeared. Straight clownish 🤡 As Dan said, did not fit the tone of the film. Not enough people are giving Adam shine for Maurizio. So understated but really built a strong character. I came to really like him and root for him. I’m glad Dan gave him a shout out. Gaga did a great job, I feel like they didn’t give her enough to do once she was married into the Gucci family.
"If The Producers ended with the actual invasion of Poland." Oh that line killed me.
Leto is precisely the kind of actor which gives Anthony Hopkins ulcers. "Who wants to work with people like that?"
I've heard a lotta criticism about Leto throughout his career, but... *"There's a Jared Leto LINE"* must be the most brutal ever.
Boof. That is all.
Dan's italian plumber voice is spot on 🤌
Am I the only one who thought that this film was terribly written, directed, shot and edited? And the score, GOD FORGIVE ME, the SCORE?! I first noticed it when during the wedding scene George Micheal's Faith comes on and while people are getting married you hear "well, I gotta have faith-a-faith-a-faith-ahhh" over people saying their "I do's". It made no sense whatsoever. Every popsong that is prominently featured (at least 5) are over scenes that make no sense with that song. Actors are in dialogues that seem improvised (badly) all the time. When I start noticing continuity errors without even looking for them, I'm thinking: some people who worked on this film really didn't do their job. I still wanted to know how the story would end, but I looked at my watch every 15 minutes to see how long I had to stay in the theater.
Congrats on 100k Dan, well deserved!!!
Lady Gaga was phenomenal in this…she took her acting to another level. She must of really study Patrizia and Adam Driver had all the mannerisms of Mauricio….Amazing amazing I’ll see it again for sure
I would say Scott never knew what kind of movie he was making. The entire thing was overly slow and serious. He was trying to make awards bate and it should have been a glam camp show
Totally agree on your stance on Leto. I was in shock when I heard his accent, his performance was the worst thing I have ever seen and I can't understand how Ridley Scott didn't tell him to stop. It felt like a joke in a kid's show from the 70's or something, utterly ridiculous, (it is therefore baffling to hear that some people liked it? In what world!?)
I enjoyed House of Gucci for everyone except Jared Leto. He was the worst. I agree it was too long though.
I feel like this film, much like several other Ridley Scott films like Kingdom of Heaven and Blade Runner, will be vastly improved with a directors cut. For a 2 hour 30+ minute movie, it felt like big character development was missing, the editing seemed studio forced. Adam Driver was fantastic in his role and did all he could but I felt like his transformation and Gaga’s downfall was really glossed over and the film suffered for it. Another 30 minutes could give the epic story more room to breathe and flesh out the characters beyond well acted caricatures (excluding Driver and Gaga) but even their characters would be better off in a directors cut.
Yes, I can truly say the directors cut of Kingdom of Heaven makes that movie so much better.
As an Italian, I felt embarrassed and offended by Jared Leto's performance. And I've never felt like that before. His "SuperMario-face" was insulting to me, and I'm baffled by the fact that many people are OK with his racist farce. Second, I'm not sure it was the right choice for English-speaking actresses and actors to perform in English with a (bad or mediocre) Italian accent. Could you imagine an Italian production working on a movie about, idk, Tony Blair, with all Italian performers speaking Italian with a brit accent with some "bloody hell" here and there?
This is not " racist". Italian is not a race. I believe "culturally or ethnically insensitive" would be a more accurate phrase.
@@kathynicholson103 Fair!
I agree, would have been a much better film if they cast Italians and there was subtitles. The bad accents made it feel very campy.
I had to listen to legitimate interviews with Paolo to see if Leto just did as close to the man's actual voice or not... and no. No he did not. It wasn't anywhere NEAR that sort of sound. Why the hell would he do that?
I agree
Oof, something tells me Jared Leto is going to get that Oscar nomination now…
Thanks Dan!! Great review as always!
For me, I don't understand why the accents were even needed. We know that these people are supposed to be Italian and I assume that they are speaking Italian among each other in real life, but making them speak normal English in the movie for me would have been better than having these distracting horrible accents, representing them speaking Italian. I could barely watch the trailer because of the accents.
More or less everyone in Italy would agree. We are mocking the movie since the first trailer for exactly that reason.
The accents are also... not that good, let's say.
The folks that made Chernobyl mini series understood the assignment. Everyone knows Chernobyl disaster happened in Ukraine so instead of doing "accents", the whole cast of Chernobyl is made of British actors with normal British accents. And surprise surprise, it turned out to be one of the best show made in recent memory.
@@danisalusha5739 Isn't that what they always do? I don't recall like Kirsten Dunst speaking with an Austrian accent in Marie Antoinette. Thank god.
YES!!! Thank you! Those are my thoughts exactly! I’m not Italian, but to me the accents sound like awful caricatures, and I don’t get why they were necessary. If you can’t make the audience understand that this movie is taking place in Italy without making them sound like Super Mario, then maybe don’t make that movie. I love Adam Driver, but I might have to skip this one because of those accents
My thoughts exactly. I speak both Italian and English as foreign languages, so English with such deliberate Italian accent from American actors who portray Italians sounds quite ridiculous. I can imagine how it sounds to native Italians))
Agree about Leto’s performance. In fact agree with all your thoughts here. Appreciate the review as it helps clarify my thoughts on this too. Thank you!
I really love these reviews. Dan gives great insights and always explains why someone may enjoy/hate a movie he has a differing opinion from. Best reviews out there.
Jared Leto was a caricature, Super Mario Bros. animation.
I’ve really avoided Lego’s work of late…I just have gone completely off him since his Joker interpretation & his off screen antics! I am usually pretty good at separating the art from the artist…however, with him I struggle. I’ll see this for Driver, Gaga & Pacino then probably try to enjoy the Mario cringes Leto brings! Great content as always Dan
Don't bring Lego into this! Jared Leto wasn't even in Lego Batman! Lego deserves better!!!!!
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@@staceyann1180 Pahaha! Bloody autocorrect on my phone 😂 I shall have to watch Lego Batman again as my penance (I love that move)
Yeah I was somewhat interested in this until I heard Leto was in it. Same as when I was somewhat interested in The Last Duel until I saw it was written by and starting Affleck and Damon.
@@toddhollen completely get you! I saw The Last Duel and thought it was brilliant, but I totally understand that it’s certainly not going to be a movie for everyone…particularly given the subject & writers at this moment in time! Matt Damon certainly has gone from edging back toward my good books with The Martian, to making me wait and see how any movie he is in gets received and wether I’ll see it or not. I try and take an objective or wait and see approach towards any movie/actor/director that I may not like or feel is a bit tone deaf.
@@staceyann1180 Poor Lego! First it had Chris Pratt to put up with and now this!
I love Dan’s epic rants haha, they are so good.
Jared Leto should have been Mario instead of Chris Pratt.
So, here I am at 1:13am, Sunday, February 6, 2022, about 1:16:00 into the movie, and I'm mesmerized by this actor but have not really paid attention to whom it might be, and now, all of the sudden, there's a close shot of his face and eyes, and I'm thinking: "Wait a minute, is that really _____?" OMG, what a performance by this actor who is Completely Unrecognizable.
Didn't expect to laugh so hard at the Jared Leto impression😂 Dan, you just made my day!
i think that Letto perfomancewas a little bit over the top ...BUT.. rewatching the film yesterday i think if he just lowered down a little bit.. it would have been perfect , all in all i enjoyed his perfomance...
I saw the movie and I enjoyed it. Jared Leto was portraying a real life goof ball and without his comic relief, the movie would have felt too flat. It needed his energy.
We need to see what Jared was working from. The actual guy. The other thing is, there's hundreds of great Italian actors who could have stepped up.
I am not a Jared Leto fan, nor a detractor, however before I condemn his performance I'd want to know, did Pauolo Gucci act and sound that way? I honestly don't know.
As always, thank you so very much for your video.
Good question. His daughter panned the project but I wonder about her underlying motives and wonder if she decided to speak up before even seeing it. In some interview, Leto said he was moved to visit Paolo's grave (he died the same year as Maurizio). So I've wondered what the real Paolo was like. It seems to me a number of the actors tried to be at least partly accurate in their portrayals (e.g., Gaga sounds like her character). Don't know, tho.
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Based on this video, not really
@@sharknado623 😂😂
I was thinking the same thing...that maybe the dude sounds like that in real life. I don't know so I can't say either way
@@wouhoulifeisamazing His voice gets high when he's excited like Leto tho. So it's not too far off
It’s Springtime for Leto
I haaaaaaaate the accents. I don’t know what they were thinking when they decided to do this. I love Adam Driver, but I think I’ll miss this one, because the way they talk is so cringy to me.
Whoever coached Driver on how to do an Italian accent must have been bruised by multiple facepalms.
Yo, Dan. Your impression of Leto in this film was spot on! 😂
Hilarious 😂
I wish the film was about rodolfo and how gucci was made
I haven’t seen it yet and likely won’t until it’s on some streaming channel. However, it’s so sad to hear that (in Dan’s opinion) it doesn’t quite work. When you get that much talent together in one film I feel it’s tragic when that’s not enough to create something wonderful. I’ve seen plenty of mediocre plots be raised simply because of the talent involved. Here was a compelling story, great actors (except for Leto, whom I also don’t care for), awesome direction and cinematography and costumes-it is so promising…
Its full of struggling wannabes & aging classical actors,with an oscar /academy air of baiting & pandering to power hungry elites .this movie is ass ,for those who love eating fancy shit.
I saw the movie and it does not live up to the trailers. Story is wonky and the accents/ acting were campy or bad. Lady Gaga was the best part of the movie and the movie centers around her character but overall the characters were poorly written. Nice start but the plot went flat. Jared Leto was over the top camp. Rest of the actors didn’t really try.
@@Edward-6909 Struggling wannabes????
This movie delivers. It’s a great movie, it’s a fun movie, but not one that will be loved by critics. In fact, critics will hate it for many reasons. Audiences, will love it. And I’m sure it’ll become a cult classic that will live in infamy the way something like Big Lebowski or Uncut Gems has.
Well Jared Leto is a great actor, he won an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club. He can act very well if he was given a better material
From what I've heard and read from critics who loved Jared Leto's performance? It's based on an ironic love. That his performance is "so bad it's good." Not that he actually deserves an Oscar award. A performance to be laughed at, not with.
I had absolutely no interest in this movie and still don't, but if it just happens to be on somewhere I'll watch it now just to laugh at that ridiculous accent. Dan nailed it with even the parody of that isn't as bad as that was. So I guess that takes some talent to pull off? 🤣
thank you for calling out Jared Leto in this. He's like a cartoon, a clown in a serious drama and not in a comic relief kind of way. He's distracting and I kept thinking isn't there an actor that would not have needed all the prosthetics and terrible accent for this part?
jared leto is the mvp of this movie for me
Geez. And I thought I hated Jared Leto performances. My favorite burn: You know how bad your performance has to be for me to look you and Al Pacino in a scene and say “Wow! Jared Leto is really hamming it up.” 😂
the tones and pacing were my problems too. really great scenes just end mid sentence; mauricio is telling off his dad cut to he's homeless and proposing, or Irons learns he has a granddaughter and before he sits down he's in his casket. i've never been a leto defender but he couldve been way worse. if he turned it down one paulo wouldve been as sympathetic a character i see him. jared was enjoyable enough for the laugh.
Also when Gaga says bravo…. Don’t remember the next scene but ugh….
petition to replace Chris Pratt with Dan Murrel
Perhaps this should have gone for Wolf of Wall Street in tone, rather than try to be something more serious.
there is also a miracle in this movie; when Patrizia gets a tour through Rodolfo's house her pleblean mentality is shown by her confusing a portrait by Gustav Klimt for one of Picasso.
it is Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I hanging on the wall, which, at the time this scene is set, was on display at Galery Belvedere in Vienna as Frau im Gold from 1941 till 2006.
It was subject in the legal case as shown in Woman in Gold directed by in 2015.
tough reseach, mr Scott, very tough reseach. Can we expect a prequel: "How the Woman in Gold ended up in the House of Cucci"?
you perfectly desribe what nagged me about the Paolo figure in the movie, I get the impression Jared Leto is more in love with the makeup then the character he plays. In Suicide Squad he also got a lot of attention for the Joker due to extreme make-up while the performance was mediocre.
On thing I loved in House of Cucci was the excelent use of music.
Dan's Jared Leto reaction reminds me of how I felt when everyone tried to trick me into thinking Jaquin Phoenix's performance in The Master was genius when he was unconvincing in the role of a human.
House of Gucci definitely wasn't for me. Great performances all around the board, and I agree the first half was really fun, but as soon as the tone shift the story fell flat for me. There was no bite or intense moments for me, it just seemed to be sequences of things that are happening, like I was watching a history presentation. But I can totally see why people like this movie.
Couldn't agree more that Leto was the worst part.
jared leto and ruining a movie, name a more iconic duo.
I’m laughing at what you said about Jared Leto’s accent, but I have to tell you that I actually have family members who speak exactly like he does in this movie. They are all from Italy, but are American Citizens. I honestly think that he did a good job, and if you heard my family speak, I think you would agree. You mentioned about the fluctuation of Paulo’s voice, going high and low. Up high and down, which my family also does, but, I think he does that on purpose here in this movie because, he is portraying the “black sheep”. The one who is never taken seriously. I do believe that his portrayal is that of a gentle spirit, maybe a bit, or a lot insecure from his family putting him down so often, his incredibly sensitive nature, all of that may be the reason JL portrays him in this manner. But, I have to honestly say, I have heard my relatives sound just like that over the years. A few of them have lost a touch of the accent, but it’s definitely still there. Some, are just as strong as when we first met, 40 years ago. Many with differences also, with dialect and tone of voice as well.
I didnt know in the film until after researching the story.. they had been broken up for 10 years prior to his death. They made it seem more recent in the movie
Really respect the author’s willingness to challenge the popular vote and acknowledge Jared Laredo’s subpar performance.
The Jared Leto thing is weird. I love him as a performer. If his performance in this film was a true reflection of what Paolo Gucci was like in real life then I guess it could be excused. However from what I have read, he was nothing like how Leto portrayed him in the movie. It was a flawed performance for sure. The accent was a bit off. He seemed very flamboyant. More than someone like that should have been. It's like the were going for some sort of stereotypical Italian with the accent. Perhaps Ridley Scott thought that the film could do with some comic relief at certain points. It's obviously a very serious film and I hate myself for enjoying the time Leto was on screen. For me, he was funny. He made me feel sorry for him at certain points so I suppose he did his job when it mattered. I do agree that someone should have said to him "Hey, wtf are you doing bro?" and steered his performance in a different direction. Especially if he was acting nothing like the real dude. But at the same time I cannot help think that maybe that's what the film makers wanted. Were they just letting it slide because it was Leto? Did they ask him to do it like that? Would it have mattered if someone else played the part?
All these questions will probably go unanswered. We can rest easy knowing the answer to the real question though. Aliens did help ancient humans build the pyramids.
Jared Leto is like an Austin Powers character in this movie.
I love your reviews and honest thoughts Dan. Would love to see some more reviews to older movies as well! Maybe some of your favourite holiday movies as we enter December?
Thing is, though, there's literally no way that Leto was doing this without Ridley Scott's instruction or approval. So... yeah. Whatever that says about Ridley Scott and his vision for this movie...
Not necessarily. Sometimes it can be very difficult to restrain an actor's interpretation of a character, even if you are a globally famous director.
I laughed at the JL acting so much I couldn't finish the movie, I was stoned and even when he was off screen he would come back into my head and I would laugh out loud and missing key points.
I felt the same for Leto's perfomance! He felt like Roger from American Dad, like the tone was just a mess going back and forth from serious to some weird comedy-- it was like an awkward snl skit
Very fair review! I've already watched it and he described it perfectly ! The first half was sooo good and the second half drags on forever. Lady Gaga was absolutely amazing. I didn't know she was in the film and kept wondering the whole time "is that her? it can't be"
A huge mistake with this movie (in my opinion) is the choice of making everyone not only talk in English but with a ridiculous "Italian" accent which is as comical as 99% of the American movies portraying Russian accent wrongly. So why a story about this Italian family which involves majority Italians in Italy interacting with each other has to be in English I kind of understand - accessibility for wider audiences but it would seem way more organic if they removed the accent bit.
Sounds like if Leto wins an Oscar then Dana Carvey should get a belated Oscar for his performance as Pistachio Disguisey from Master Of Disguise.
Agreed, Leto's performance was borderline comical and insulting. The whole film though was like eating your friends under seasoned food. You still eat it and say it's good when it taste like shit. Ridley Scott should know better.
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The only thing that could have made this movie better would be Jared Leto in every scene
Oh gosh I couldn’t agree more!! Great review
In the trailers, Jared seems passable but geez, I see what you mean from the clip you showed. Seems a pretty intriguing movie. The divide between two halves could be the point but let's see.
Have to disagree on Lady Gaga's performance. Her acting to me felt awkward and amateurish, like she didn't know where to look when she was in the frame, and the timing of her reactions was always just a little off. Professionally trained and experienced actors are able to show complex emotions, because they achieve mastery of even the tiny movements of their muscles, and Lady Gaga's face looks quite static most of the time, unless it's a scene with "big" emotions where there's less need for nuance. In my opinion she and Jared Leto kind of complement each other in a weird way. They were both comical and unnatural, but each in their own way. Salma Hayek was great, though.
Saw the movie just today and I do agree with your review. Lady Gaga and Adam Driver kept it pretty interesting but the Paolo Gucci character by Jared Leto was so annoying. I thought it’s only me who got that feeling. The movie could have been a little shorter too. But overall I loved the movie as I felt as if I did go on an Italian trip! It was really really Italian!
trust me it wasn't italian at all...
This movie was good all the actors were good in it its the best film I have seen for a while they all deserve credit even Jared letto
Such a strange movie. It’s like every actor made an insane decision on how they were going to play their character and never once consulted with anyone and they all just showed up and filmed it. This movie is also too long yet doesn’t explore enough of the story to be fully compelling.
Exactly. Both too long AND not fully explored.
Never thought I’d see Dan looks so irritated over House of Gucci of all things. 😂
Well actually...Jared Leto.
@@ianlexington oh 😂
I mean Jared Leto was like the most talk about performance of the year for all the wrong reasons. He's like in a different movie, everyone is like in a different movie, only Pacino who seemed to be commited in one tone of the movie
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The negative reviews this film has generated have been reassuring. It's a sign that we still have standards and demand substance from the films we watch. I hope Adam Driver goes back to doing quality work after this mess.
To be honest I saw the documentary about this family a year ago and I think this was a phenomenal movie and this is the best I’ve seen in Lady Gaga as an actress and Adam Driver got the mannerisms of Mauricio down according from what I saw in the documentary about the Gucci Family
We also still have mobile phones. Damn us millennials.
@@refitmedia7883 This is good material, don't get me wrong. I just think it would have better handled by almost any director not named Ridley Scott.
Jared Leto was so bad he made is Joker portrayal look good
Sorry but I think Ridley Scott is intelligent enough to have Jared play it differently if he didn't like it agree with the way he played the role. JARED was supposed to be an oaf, a goof, a disappointment. I think he succeeded.
I totally agree - Most here will find this ridiculous but I loved Jared's performance, it was comical in an otherwise dark movie. I've watched his scenes several times.
As an Italian I felt the depiction of Italians was offensive almost constantly through the movie, the forced accent was just weird and ridiculous, zero understanding of Italian culture, farcical.
It just felt embarrassing the whole time
Jesus, that ACCENT on Jared Leto. Thank you for making my mind up on whether or not I should look for an English screening in my town. Damn, the one Adam and Gaga put on felt almost like an actual Italian accent.
Gaga sounds Russian
Nessuno di loro è riuscito a recitare con un vero accento credibile
No it didn't....
Your take on Jared Leto's performance is the same as Mark Kermodes'. Great review Dan, thank you.
I didn’t like the movie but thought Lady Gaga was easily the best part. I like the look of the movie, too bad the rest of the cast and story was bland. Jared Leto was also the worst part for me. He reminds me of when Johnny Depp went off the rails with campy performances that went beyond parody that turned audiences off. I think Leto is trying to mimic Depp’s acting choices but that didn’t go well for him and now Leto. My god he was so bad. Leto can over do it or under perform which makes me super skeptical of Morbius.
I liked him as Paulo, I think you're a bit hard on Mr. Leto. Paulo was done so wrong in the movie. Really the only talented person besides his father and uncle.
See, for me, I wanted the whole movie to have more Jared Leto energy. He was in the movie I wanted to be watching.
I didn't hate Leto's performance as much as others did, but it is surprising to hear people say he was a highlight.