Tony | Official Trailer | A24

Really dig the dynamic between Sessa & Banderas.

I don’t know how to feel about this? It has all the hallmarks of a story that may be done well and yet I still can’t put my finger on it, leaves me with a sense of biopic fatigue. Even the pacing and formula of the trailer just didn’t do it for me.

I’d rather we had a story on his struggle with adapting to television and reluctant acceptance of his fame and his personal demons similar to Roadrunner

It took me some time to really hear the energy of Tony from Sessa, but I think it started to come out around 1:37-1:43

Matt Johnson doesn’t miss. I will be seated day 1

Zero interest in this, biopics are a bore.

Spoon

I can imagine Tony making fun of people willing to see a biopic about himself calling them losers

Sigh…

He was someone I admired more than pretty much anyone. His passion for seeing the world, for meeting new people and experiencing everything life could throw at you. Because of him, I’ve traveled the world. I’ve eaten foods I’d never imagined. I’ve climbed mountains, been to countries that people tell me I’m crazy for going to and met some of the most wonderful people along the way.

He changed my life from one of uncertainty to one of adventure.

So, while I watch this trailer and am sure it may be a perfectly good movie based around his early life, I can’t help but wish it didn’t exist because it will be fake, which Anthony was anything but.

I hope the movie is good, but would rather people read his books and watch his shows and experience how HE wanted himself and the world to be seen. And if a good movie is something that introduces a new generation of people to him and inspires them to do those things, then I’ll be happy about that.

#Kony2012

I recently listened to the Kitchen Confidential audiobook and loved it, so I have some excitement for this, but I am seeing none of Matt Johnson’s style or flair on the screen here. I’m hoping its just a generically edited trailer, because if they hired a man as talented as him just to clip his wings as a hired gun, I’m going to be very sad.

Wait it’s not aanother prequel to The Sopranos?

I know it’s heavily dramatized and everything, but man, it just reminds me how crazy it is that someone with a life like Bourdain’s ended it the way he did. After all his accomplishments and success, the fact that he couldn’t find happiness really gets to me.

Cut to black. Music stops. Cut to woman over the protagonist’s shoulder.

> Are you a good guy or a bad guy?

Protagonist looks up slowly (no, he wasn’t looking at her when she was speaking, why would he?) and new music swells.

Oscars here we come, baby!!

Ah, great – a movie about the least interesting part of his life

This looks like a generic coming of age movie but I really hope that’s just the trailer.

Eh…looks fine? But also looks like something Bourdain would have made fun of.