Kermode's take on Leto's performance is actually a perfect encapsulation of Leto's who career. He munches through the scenery in everything he's in, trying too hard and in an utterly thoughtless way that is frequently careless of the overall tone of the scene or the film, and of the fact that when you're acting alongside other people you are part of a team. Leto is the ultimate "look at me" actor.
I liked him in American Psycho when he got chopped up by a wood axe. And I liked him in Fight Club when he got brutally beaten. Aside from that he ruins every movie he's in.
I liked him in Requiem For a Dream too. Back around that Fight Club/American Psycho period he was a pretty effective, even talented character actor. Even as late as Mr. Nobody (a film I dislike) this seemed to be the case. Then he did Dallas Buyer's Club and got the Oscar for doing the typical actor's thing of overtly losing lots of weight and 'transforming' for the role. After that point he went down the path of heavy make-up, odd voices, strange mannerisms etc. I honestly think his performance in Blade Runner 2049 is embarrassing. His performance in this is very, very strange too. Like, I wouldn't know it was him if I hadn't been told, but this character is clearly a younger man in heavy make-up doing a dodgy Italian accent.
We Italians speak normally when we are among ourselves, but if someone from abroad is watching us, we instantly talk like calabrese immigrants who have been living in Jersey for the last 20 years.
Yep, Irish people begin speaking like cast members of Darby O'Gill and the Little People when American tourists show up! "Top of da Morning to ya" Go neiri an t-uafas diot..
He was so bad. It was pantomime like. The first joke, we chuckled a bit. But then it kept going... one unfunny joke after another. I hated his scenes. The film was great, however. I enjoyed it.
All I could think with Jared’s performance was “Why is there an Austin Powers character in this movie?” Every other actor understood the assignment but Jared derailed every scene he was in. He tried to steal the show but his efforts were damaging to the film as a whole.
I know everyone's commenting on that one bit, and guess what, so am I. All those years of watching Mark's movie reviews feel like a giant lead-up to whatever just happened at 6:00 here, and I loved all 30 seconds of it. Thank you for making me so happy, Mark.
I can't take this film seriously after hearing all the 'Just-a-one-Cornetto' accents in the trailer, whose bright idea was it to get this talented cast (OK, talented cast and Jared Leto) to do those absurd accents? Makes me grateful again that Armando Iannucci got everyone in The Death of Stalin to speak with their usual accent
Also in Chernobyl they didn’t use accents because the director said it would make the whole thing farcical. Actors can’t resist trying an accent, but if you don’t let them then they just focus on acting.
What it's annoying it's that's not even a real italian accent, especially if it is from central ( like Gucci family) or northern italians, but it's a grotesque overaxaggeration of southern italian dialects like neapolitan and sicilian ( the ones that emigrated the most to Usa), which are extremely different to standard italian ( and not intelligible by other italians, not even kidding).
@@crobeastness Have you? That accent is a mockery and not only sounds way more like how a stereotypical *italo-american* talks, rather than an italian, but is also the wrong accent for a person that grew up in Tuscany and is living in the North. He's so cringeworthy, I don't know one italian person who likes his performance(aside from his dialect coach I imagine lmao) and it has already been shunned by what remains of the real man's family, so it'salso offensive. Sit down lol
The movie is very fun. From the very beginning to the musical cues. The tone is somewhere between Wall Street, Rain Man, and Goodfellas. It’s not a comedy, but it’s very intentionally funny. It’s similar to The Martian that way. The audience I watched with had a blast and it was by far one of the funnest movie experiences I’ve had all year.
@@cecilialovalvo5709 as a native Italian speaker I 100% agree with you - it’s embarrassing! Everyone is going on about Gaga’s accent, which is also bad, but nowhere near as cringe 🙈
It's weird. Leto is clearly delivering a better performance than Lady Gaga, but it's a good performance as a one-dimensional Italian stereotype. It's not a lack of talent on his part, it's just a really bad decision. I have to suspect he's a guy who refuses to take direction. No one with any sense would want him to play his role in that way. But, for such a stereotype, he plays it pretty well. He'd be real good at amateur community theater, or 1980s voice acting, where the lack of standards or realism is expected. I guess he's a man behind his time, or above his station.
@@andrewklang809 He’s either completely clueless and devoid of self-awareness, or the accent and everything is just an elaborate act to make the film funnier. Honestly, I kind of hope it’s the former.
@@andrewklang809 If Gaga sounds like a real person while Leto sounds like a bad parody of an Italian accent, then her performance is better. That performance would be too OTT for a Grand Theft Auto game, never mind a movie.
Couldn't agree with you more about Jared Leto. And I'm beyond sick of them going overboard with fatsuits and prosthetics on actors that look nothing like the real people they're meant to be portraying - instead of them just casting actors that look closer to the real people to begin with
You can tell Mark loves being back in the studio so much by the amount of rants we’ve been getting recently. We haven’t seen these kind of rants for the past couple of years and I’m living for them!
In the trailer Jared Leto looks like he’s doing an OTT version of Christian Bale’s character in American Hustle. The prosthetic paunch, the bald head - it all looks like a direct copy.
@@HugoRBMarques So the "straight" performance failed to live up to the parody? Whatever weirdness Cruise has going on in his personal life, he has never once failed to deliver a magnetic performance onscreen. With Leto, that magnet is constantly pointed in the wrong direction.
@@andrewklang809 I don't know what you're arguing against. I never said Tom Cruise's performance on Tropic Thunder was worse than Jared Leto's performance on Gucci.
This is the most lively I’ve ever seen Kermode in a review. I do wonder in the future if they invite Jared Leto in promoting a film and he gets wind of this review. Still, after seeing this clip of gaga and Leto, i’m still looking forward to seeing it. This could be very well in the unintentionally hilarious territory.
Millenials are currently aged between approx 25-40. Does he really think that the reason the film flopped is because a bunch of folks in their 30s were too busy with Tik Tok? It's such a stupid comment.
I'm surprised he didn't mention everyone else's accents/voices as well. Jared Leto was by far the worst, but every actor in the film had issues holding their accent throughout. Either do it, or don't. You can't do it sometimes and then not other times, or at least have the director pull them up on it when needed. Car crash described the film itself, not just Jared, who was a car crash in a car crash.
If I’m honest here I found the central plot quite boring …although gaga and driver both gave terrific performances they were let down by the writing. I preferred the weird buddy comedy with Pacino and Leto going 300 %. I genuinely think this is the one time Leto chewing the scenery worked.
🤣🤣Right i was having a tough day but this review actually cheered me up Mark Kermode's comments about Jared Leto's acting are spot on it's like everybody look at me my character it's more quirky/funny and aloof and crazier than yours so he just overdoes it now to the point were he just looks and sounds ridiculous his acting is just getting worse as the years go by Mark's impression of his voice had me in stitches and tears coming out of my eyes still my favorite movie critic but he has the ability to be really funny at times this is now up there with his Angel Has Fallen review were he did a seriously hilarious impression of Nick Nolte's voice and was baffled by how random it was that Gerald Butler and Nick Nolte were father and son in that movie.
I think Leto’s overstated performance actually salvaged what would be pretty dull scenes on their own merit. It’s like he thought he was in a Terry Gilliam movie. Very enjoyable for me.
I actually want to see this now! I love how Kermode first say he wanted this to be Showgirls and then slightly going into Fred: The Movie territory. (Simon’s reaction is priceless) Mark has been a bit somber for a while, understandably with one thing and another, but I actually felt he is back on form now!
It is great. Bonkers, wtf, and hilarious. Simultaneously awful and brilliant. This film is going to be hated by critics but adored by the public. I predict it’s going to achieve Big Lebowski levels of cult fandom.
Jared can give good performance in roles where's the acting is subdued but when he gets a role that's more eccentric or he has to act "crazy " its so god damn awful.
At Nicolas Cage doesn’t publicly brag about how brilliant he is at method acting and that playing the joker was the equivalent of giving birth out of his prick hole (a real quote by Leto). There’s a difference to being an over the top actor but decent guy and over the top actor on crack while being an absolute knob in life.
I'm really surprised that Mark didn't smash the whole movie all together. Jared Leto is the least of its problems. The movie is all over the place. One scene is a serious drama, next one - bad parody, another - sitcom. It's an hour longer than it should be. The story itself lacks congruity. And the main bit - wtf happened to the soundtrack there? It's truly shockingly aweful. I think Al Pacino, Lady Gaga, Adam Drive are giving one of their best performances there. I was blown away by them. It's shame that the editor has thrown it all into a bin.
The movie was also poorly edited and had poorly placed and chosen music cues. I noted so many odd/harsh cuts. It couldn’t decide if it was a comedy or drama. Bizarre.
Oh that Jared Leto rant was good for my soul, it really was. He ruins EVERYTHING he’s ever in. I was cautiously optimistic for Blade Runner 2049 but could barely get through it because of him. He makes my skin crawl. Wouldn’t know talent if it beat him repeatedly in the face and uses “method acting” as an excuse to be a massive a-hole. Why on Earth does this creature keep getting work?!
I think the idea of it being an unintentional comedy only comes from people thinking they're better than it. Leto aside it's entirely aware of what it's doing. The wedding scene is soundtracked by Faith - George Michael. Pacino enters the film going "whatTTTT iss ThiSSSSSS" looking at a newspaper. It is in on the joke.
Even if that were true, a bad movie that references how bad it is in the script doesn't suddenly become a good movie. If anything, it makes it even worse, because it's not just incompetence but willful ignorance.
I'm sorry, but I just have to make up an excuse for Ridley Scott being an older gentleman and people do get cranky and intolerant with age, because otherwise I'd hate to admit that the director of quite a few movies I love dearly is one of the worst self-unconscious hypocrites out there. I mean, contempt for your audience always goes down so well, especially from someone who thinks I am so dumb I am not going to believe the characters are Italian unless they speak English with a fake accent. Seriously, I don't understand why it's okay to call out shows like Emily In Paris for shit like that, but Ridley Scott more or less gets a pass, even though he is not only consistent with this, but he has been quite vocal that it's not "an honest mistake", he just doesn't care.
I was interested in seeing this because good or bad I enjoy a Ridley Scott movie but after Marks hilarious description of Jared Letos performance I definitely will!
That Jared Leto bit made my day. But also, it's finally time to say it: Ridley Scott is a hack. He did 3 great films, with the good part of his career lasting from 1976 to 1982. I rewatch Blade Runner once a month and have an Alien tatto, but he literally hasn't made anything good since. Finally: would anyone talk of those goddamn accents??? I only have one question: WHY???
Nonsense. I do agree he's incredibly hit and miss and has had a few stinkers but Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, The Martian, American Gangster even the Last Duel more recently to name a few he's made many solid movies since the 80s.
Watched H o G yesterday. These two are not exaggerating about how much Jared Leto overacts. It's actually a little offensive towards the Italians. They're portrayed as such monstrous stereotypes.
Didn't Ridley Scott cite Dune (2021) as an example of movies Millennials want to see instead of his movies? You know, Dune, that 156-minute movie which you would assume people with short attention spans would have trouble with?
Surprised to know how Leto's performance is generally disliked. This movie feels very bland, most shots not interesting, looking like any other passable movies an acclaimed director like Ridley Scott should not make, while the only good thing is for me (be calm, everybody) Jared Leto's ridiculous campy acting. Without him, the movie would be nothing: fancy clothes and predictable fall of rich people. Leto's "I can finally soar like a . . . pigeon" is golden.
To be fair, it does rather depend on whether the person Leto was playing actually behaved that way. It’s also kind of up to the director - all the blame can’t lie at Leto’s feet without knowing the facts.
This is my hot take. Jared Leto is the best thing in this film, his performance is terrible but it did make me at least laugh. The rest of the film was so so boring! I'm so disappointed and props to the people who made the trailer because it looks like so much fun. Simon is right, all the ingredients are there but the result is incredibly underwhelming
I caught this on the radio on Friday but I needed to come see the video as well purely because I HAD to see with my own eyes Dr Kermode doing that Jared impression! It did not disappoint!! 😄😄😄
I love Ridley Scott movies, i really do. But why is it that all italians in his movies look like they're straight out of Married to the Mob by Jonathan Demme?
Hilarious impression 😂 though I disagree about Gaga. I think she was nothing special and still looks like she's "trying" to act and was outperformed by Driver. Just looks and feels forced and being a mega star can't hide that
Rome, 21 Dec - We did an experiment: we went to see House of Gucci knowing that we most likely wouldn't like it. Well, the film is very bad, much worse than we expected. The room, ca va sans dire, was packed - never before seen such a crowd in the era of Covid. You know, Lady Gaga shoots. But Ridley Scott performed an unworthy operation and is doubly guilty, having shot absolute masterpieces in the past. House of Gucci, all the clues are already in the title In fact, the title is already a clue in itself: a film about Americans who make Italians. And it does not matter that some of them, starting with the protagonist, have Italian origins. It is not enough to save the film from the clear feeling that like the Gucci brand it has no longer had anything to do with Gucci for some time, so Scott's film has nothing to do with the Tuscan family. There is Jared Leto, who plays Paolo Gucci, the foolish son of Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino at his worst, the caricature of a mafia boss), who looks like a puppet of Pulcinella as much as he gestures. On the contrary, there is Jeremy Irons who plays Rodolfo Gucci as if it were Laurence Olivier who plays a nineteenth-century England aristocrat. Adam Driver then, who plays Maurizio Gucci, is a very good actor wasted in making a nerd that in Italy as a stereotype (yet) does not exist.
Kermode’s impersonation of Jared Leto’s character sounds like Jar Jar Binks. And Jared Leto has become extremely pretentious and hokey. Kermode is the GOAT
I guess the other accents look less bad next to Leto's, but the better one speaks Italian, the cringier they all are. They don't even pronounce Maurizio and Patrizia properly. Why do this with accents, it's madness! I refer everyone to Ralph Fiennes' interview about the White Crow.
I haven't seen House of Gucci yet, but I really enjoyed The Last Duel and thought it was probably Scott's best film since The Martian. My own theory on why it bombed is firstly that it's 33% covid based - older folks basically nervous to go back in theaters, 33% based in that it's not an existing IP and the younger generations especially tend to be a bit obsessed with existing IPs these days, especially in America. And the last 33% is due to marketing; I just don't think the trailers were put together very well. I was interested in the movie just from the names involved, but, if I weren't already invested in the talent, I might have easily ignored the movie too, thinking it was just another bland period epic.
Jared Letos performance was great!He plays a nutter so the over the top nuttiness is fine.When he is on screen you watch him and he adds a bit of levity to a bland film full of bland boring characters
Gaga’s performance deserved a better crafted film. Not that it was a bad film. But the pacing at the beginning was far too slow and bitty. By half way through though, she completely tearing it up, and she totally blends into the character. It’s sparse pickings for best actress this year, but even if it was a good year, she’d still be up in the running.
Kermode's take on Leto's performance is actually a perfect encapsulation of Leto's who career. He munches through the scenery in everything he's in, trying too hard and in an utterly thoughtless way that is frequently careless of the overall tone of the scene or the film, and of the fact that when you're acting alongside other people you are part of a team. Leto is the ultimate "look at me" actor.
/cult leader
I liked him in American Psycho when he got chopped up by a wood axe. And I liked him in Fight Club when he got brutally beaten. Aside from that he ruins every movie he's in.
I liked him in Requiem For a Dream too. Back around that Fight Club/American Psycho period he was a pretty effective, even talented character actor. Even as late as Mr. Nobody (a film I dislike) this seemed to be the case. Then he did Dallas Buyer's Club and got the Oscar for doing the typical actor's thing of overtly losing lots of weight and 'transforming' for the role. After that point he went down the path of heavy make-up, odd voices, strange mannerisms etc. I honestly think his performance in Blade Runner 2049 is embarrassing. His performance in this is very, very strange too. Like, I wouldn't know it was him if I hadn't been told, but this character is clearly a younger man in heavy make-up doing a dodgy Italian accent.
He gives understated performances in Dallas Buyers Club and Blade Runner 2049 in my opinion.
@@anthonymartensen3164 Just because he's quiet doesn't mean he's understated. He was ridiculous in Blade Runner.
Mark wins for his portrayal of Jared Leto trying to get an award
Give that man an Oscar!!
the award should really go to the makeup department
@@geraldseydoux3496 I didn’t have a clue it was him. Was waiting for Leto to turn up for a while
The cut from Mark wailing to Simon’s disapproving look sent me today
Simon clearly feared we would have another Fred: The Movie incident… 🤣
Sent you where?!?!?
I just rewatched it like 5 times
his yelling can literally give people a headache
🤣
After seeing this movie, I think they should've cast Jared Leto in the new Mario movie instead of Chris Pratt.
ITS A ME MAURIZIO!
Brilliant 😂😂😂😂
Well it's never too late to cast him as wario
@@borismuller86😂😂😂😂
The Jared Leto rant was perfection. Also “It was fine but I’d rather watch Succession” seems a perfect review for the movie.
I like Mark's comment about how Adam Driver has a never resting resting face.
Even an emotionless Adam Driver is consistently compelling. You can feel the rumblings of emotion behind that face, even when he's just sitting there.
He has to match lady Gaga,s resting bitch face (in the character she plays) 😂
Jared Leto is quite possibly the most overrated actor of the last 30 years. Mark‘s impression was heavenly! 🤣
He’s utter garbage. Only thing where he’s decent was buyers club
@@fishels3895 2049 was right for the movie
Him in Blade Runner was almost comedic. Perhaps that was the point
Have you seen We Crashed? His accent there is identical to this which, considering the subject matter, is HILARIOUS.
I don't think people consider him a particularly good actor
We Italians speak normally when we are among ourselves, but if someone from abroad is watching us, we instantly talk like calabrese immigrants who have been living in Jersey for the last 20 years.
As a descendant of Calabrese immigrants who moved to Jersey, this isn't wrong, but even they never gabagooled it up like this.
Thank you for finally admitting it
Yep, Irish people begin speaking like cast members of Darby O'Gill and the Little People when American tourists show up!
"Top of da Morning to ya"
Go neiri an t-uafas diot..
You mean-a Joizey! Vai, vai, vai!
@@saltech3444 EEEEH! OOOOH!
Jared Leto could have starred in Tropic Thunder as himself. YOU. NEVER. GO. THE. FULL. LETO.
Leto - shittest joker ever. embarrassing
If Leto was overdosing on acting pills in The Little Things, he's chugging vats of them while committing GTA in House of Gucci
He was so bad. It was pantomime like. The first joke, we chuckled a bit. But then it kept going... one unfunny joke after another. I hated his scenes. The film was great, however. I enjoyed it.
"It made me want to go home and watch succession" enough said
Put that on the poster.
Many things make me feel that way
@@travisspazz1624 ohhhh does it get better.
All I could think with Jared’s performance was “Why is there an Austin Powers character in this movie?” Every other actor understood the assignment but Jared derailed every scene he was in. He tried to steal the show but his efforts were damaging to the film as a whole.
I know everyone's commenting on that one bit, and guess what, so am I.
All those years of watching Mark's movie reviews feel like a giant lead-up to whatever just happened at 6:00 here, and I loved all 30 seconds of it.
Thank you for making me so happy, Mark.
I can't take this film seriously after hearing all the 'Just-a-one-Cornetto' accents in the trailer, whose bright idea was it to get this talented cast (OK, talented cast and Jared Leto) to do those absurd accents? Makes me grateful again that Armando Iannucci got everyone in The Death of Stalin to speak with their usual accent
My feelings precisely; well said.
@@spennybullen2178 Great contribution, thank you.
Also in Chernobyl they didn’t use accents because the director said it would make the whole thing farcical. Actors can’t resist trying an accent, but if you don’t let them then they just focus on acting.
What it's annoying it's that's not even a real italian accent, especially if it is from central ( like Gucci family) or northern italians, but it's a grotesque overaxaggeration of southern italian dialects like neapolitan and sicilian ( the ones that emigrated the most to Usa), which are extremely different to standard italian ( and not intelligible by other italians, not even kidding).
Normal accents except Jason Isaacs tremendous yoksure accent.
How in god’s name did Ridley Scott allow Jared Leto to give that performance? I might go into this as an unintentional comedy.
He has the best accent in the cast. Have you ever met an old Italian man?
@@crobeastness Have you? That accent is a mockery and not only sounds way more like how a stereotypical *italo-american* talks, rather than an italian, but is also the wrong accent for a person that grew up in Tuscany and is living in the North.
He's so cringeworthy, I don't know one italian person who likes his performance(aside from his dialect coach I imagine lmao) and it has already been shunned by what remains of the real man's family, so it'salso offensive.
Sit down lol
The movie is very fun. From the very beginning to the musical cues. The tone is somewhere between Wall Street, Rain Man, and Goodfellas. It’s not a comedy, but it’s very intentionally funny. It’s similar to The Martian that way. The audience I watched with had a blast and it was by far one of the funnest movie experiences I’ve had all year.
@@cecilialovalvo5709 as a native Italian speaker I 100% agree with you - it’s embarrassing! Everyone is going on about Gaga’s accent, which is also bad, but nowhere near as cringe 🙈
@@crobeastness are you serious? I'm Italian and Leto is a joke, no one in Italy talks in that way. He seems Mario bros " Mamma mia"
I’m surprised Jared Leto didn’t just yell “‘Mama Mia!”
It's weird. Leto is clearly delivering a better performance than Lady Gaga, but it's a good performance as a one-dimensional Italian stereotype. It's not a lack of talent on his part, it's just a really bad decision. I have to suspect he's a guy who refuses to take direction. No one with any sense would want him to play his role in that way. But, for such a stereotype, he plays it pretty well. He'd be real good at amateur community theater, or 1980s voice acting, where the lack of standards or realism is expected. I guess he's a man behind his time, or above his station.
@@andrewklang809 He’s either completely clueless and devoid of self-awareness, or the accent and everything is just an elaborate act to make the film funnier. Honestly, I kind of hope it’s the former.
@@andrewklang809 If Gaga sounds like a real person while Leto sounds like a bad parody of an Italian accent, then her performance is better. That performance would be too OTT for a Grand Theft Auto game, never mind a movie.
Mark wailing like Jared Leto in the film 😀
‘I’ve never seen somebody take so many acting pills.’
Quotable quote
Couldn't agree with you more about Jared Leto.
And I'm beyond sick of them going overboard with fatsuits and prosthetics on actors that look nothing like the real people they're meant to be portraying - instead of them just casting actors that look closer to the real people to begin with
Simons face after Mark's first live avantgarde exorcism was something to behold.
You can tell Mark loves being back in the studio so much by the amount of rants we’ve been getting recently. We haven’t seen these kind of rants for the past couple of years and I’m living for them!
"House of Gucci" was worth making just so we could get Kermode doing an imitation of Jared Leto.
Omg the impersonation of Jared had me howling 🤣 Mark really has not liked any of his recent performances
In the trailer Jared Leto looks like he’s doing an OTT version of Christian Bale’s character in American Hustle. The prosthetic paunch, the bald head - it all looks like a direct copy.
Bale's belly in American Hustle wasn't prosthetic. It was an aweful lot of apple pies.
A more apt comparison would be Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.
@@HugoRBMarques and Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder was much better.
@@playman350 Not necessarily better. But much more memorable.
@@HugoRBMarques So the "straight" performance failed to live up to the parody? Whatever weirdness Cruise has going on in his personal life, he has never once failed to deliver a magnetic performance onscreen. With Leto, that magnet is constantly pointed in the wrong direction.
@@andrewklang809 I don't know what you're arguing against. I never said Tom Cruise's performance on Tropic Thunder was worse than Jared Leto's performance on Gucci.
This is the most lively I’ve ever seen Kermode in a review. I do wonder in the future if they invite Jared Leto in promoting a film and he gets wind of this review. Still, after seeing this clip of gaga and Leto, i’m still looking forward to seeing it. This could be very well in the unintentionally hilarious territory.
You need to watch his Entourage rant. It’s a classic
sex and the city review?
@@Raachel244 oh yes. It’s a moment in film history 😂😂😂😂😂
There's a playlist with his best rants; this one was great but so many others to rewatch and admire
@jean Cárdenas it's a pity they never uploaded the webcam video of that review. I saw it live on the webcam and it was glorious. 😜
Jared Leto's character should have "Damaged" tattooed to his forehead, because he's behaving no different than The Joker.
A great portion of critically adored movies bomb at the box office. There weren't millennials around when the Shawshank Redemption came out.
I was literally thinking the same thing.....exact same film as an example as well lol
Shawshank was released in the 90s, so I suppose there *were*. But I don't know how many 4 year olds were hyped to see it.
It wasn't critically adored on release (I remember it was give ⭐⭐) by Empire magazine and other publications
Millenials are currently aged between approx 25-40. Does he really think that the reason the film flopped is because a bunch of folks in their 30s were too busy with Tik Tok? It's such a stupid comment.
Millenials are the generation born 1980 - 1998.
So they were around, and some probably watched it first time around too.
House of Gucci is the worse case of American actors using fake accents to mock Italians and they want to win an Oscar for this behavior.
But their voice coach was literally an Italian so... 🤔
Haven't heard high pitch Mark for ages, I've missed it
I'm surprised he didn't mention everyone else's accents/voices as well. Jared Leto was by far the worst, but every actor in the film had issues holding their accent throughout. Either do it, or don't. You can't do it sometimes and then not other times, or at least have the director pull them up on it when needed. Car crash described the film itself, not just Jared, who was a car crash in a car crash.
Not shocked that Jared Leto is the worst performance. He'll win an award alright - a razzie
He's going downhill quickly, isn't he
He had prosthetics on... that alone means he has a real chance of an Oscar nomination. You know what the academy are like
@@ryanyates4124 Yeah, I still can’t believe they overlooked Eddie Murphy for Big Mommas House
Brace yourselfs: According to wikipedia, Jared Leto is nominated for the Satellite Awards and the Detroit Film Critics Society.
Love that this review from Mark is basically
Liked a lot about it, needed more Camp and then ranted about Leto before Simon took over..
An incredibly rare occasion where I find myself agreeing with Simon more than Mark. Really didn't get on with this one, and Leto is dire in it.
If I’m honest here I found the central plot quite boring …although gaga and driver both gave terrific performances they were let down by the writing. I preferred the weird buddy comedy with Pacino and Leto going 300 %. I genuinely think this is the one time Leto chewing the scenery worked.
The Last Duel is so underrated. I don't often disagree with Mark, but he's wrong about it in my opinion. It's fantastic
The last duel is a deeply flawed goofy film that's only saved by decent action and set design
🤣🤣Right i was having a tough day but this review actually cheered me up Mark Kermode's comments about Jared Leto's acting are spot on it's like everybody look at me my character it's more quirky/funny and aloof and crazier than yours so he just overdoes it now to the point were he just looks and sounds ridiculous his acting is just getting worse as the years go by Mark's impression of his voice had me in stitches and tears coming out of my eyes still my favorite movie critic but he has the ability to be really funny at times this is now up there with his Angel Has Fallen review were he did a seriously hilarious impression of Nick Nolte's voice and was baffled by how random it was that Gerald Butler and Nick Nolte were father and son in that movie.
Mark mimicking Jared Leto just became one of my favourite youtube moments.
I think Leto’s overstated performance actually salvaged what would be pretty dull scenes on their own merit. It’s like he thought he was in a Terry Gilliam movie. Very enjoyable for me.
Paraphrasing the acclaimed actor Kirk Lazarus: “Never go full Paolo”.
I've only walked out of three movies out of sheer boredom and contempt.... this is one of them...
I actually want to see this now! I love how Kermode first say he wanted this to be Showgirls and then slightly going into Fred: The Movie territory. (Simon’s reaction is priceless)
Mark has been a bit somber for a while, understandably with one thing and another, but I actually felt he is back on form now!
Laughing so hard at mark's whale impression that I woke my cat up.
How is he winning a Golden Globe when every review points out how horrendous Jared Letto's performance is? Vexingly so.
The Golden Globes makes the Peoples' Choice Awards look like The Grammies.
Leto, one of my least favourite actors, managed to turn Mark into a theramin 🎶
I'm now excited to see how bad Leto's performance is
It is great. Bonkers, wtf, and hilarious. Simultaneously awful and brilliant. This film is going to be hated by critics but adored by the public. I predict it’s going to achieve Big Lebowski levels of cult fandom.
It's very rare that mark hits that register but when he does it's a joy
Jared can give good performance in roles where's the acting is subdued but when he gets a role that's more eccentric or he has to act "crazy " its so god damn awful.
He's perfect in Blade Runner 2049
Mark’s one hundred million percent right Leto’s gonna win the Golden Globe for Supporting Actor. It’s a lock.
If the award voters are dominated by actors (as they usually are) then Best Acting = Most Acting.
Are the Golden Globes still going ahead after the scandal earlier this year?
@@stuartkenny7430 scandal? I’m painfully out of touch when it comes to award season these days, so if there was one, I’m oblivious. Lol
Leto's performance is the most embarrassing Italian stereotype since Edward G. Robinson in House of Strangers.
Oh god! I’d forgotten that. Dead right.
Leto's acting is so scenery-chewing it almost verges on sabotage. He's going the way of Nicolas Cage at this point.
At Nicolas Cage doesn’t publicly brag about how brilliant he is at method acting and that playing the joker was the equivalent of giving birth out of his prick hole (a real quote by Leto). There’s a difference to being an over the top actor but decent guy and over the top actor on crack while being an absolute knob in life.
Even if they'd cast Nicolas Cage over Jared Leto as Paolo Gucci, it still would have been way over the top.
I feel sorry for the sound engineers on today's show
I'm really surprised that Mark didn't smash the whole movie all together. Jared Leto is the least of its problems. The movie is all over the place. One scene is a serious drama, next one - bad parody, another - sitcom. It's an hour longer than it should be. The story itself lacks congruity. And the main bit - wtf happened to the soundtrack there? It's truly shockingly aweful.
I think Al Pacino, Lady Gaga, Adam Drive are giving one of their best performances there. I was blown away by them. It's shame that the editor has thrown it all into a bin.
The movie was also poorly edited and had poorly placed and chosen music cues. I noted so many odd/harsh cuts. It couldn’t decide if it was a comedy or drama. Bizarre.
Oh that Jared Leto rant was good for my soul, it really was. He ruins EVERYTHING he’s ever in. I was cautiously optimistic for Blade Runner 2049 but could barely get through it because of him. He makes my skin crawl. Wouldn’t know talent if it beat him repeatedly in the face and uses “method acting” as an excuse to be a massive a-hole. Why on Earth does this creature keep getting work?!
Jared “It’s-a-me - Maaario!” Leto. 😂😂😂
That’s what I loved about Leto. It was so insane overly the top.
Jared Leto in this film: 'Ahhh, fuggedaboudid!'
THIS! Youre bustin' my beans with this comment......:) :)
I think the idea of it being an unintentional comedy only comes from people thinking they're better than it. Leto aside it's entirely aware of what it's doing. The wedding scene is soundtracked by Faith - George Michael. Pacino enters the film going "whatTTTT iss ThiSSSSSS" looking at a newspaper. It is in on the joke.
Even if that were true, a bad movie that references how bad it is in the script doesn't suddenly become a good movie. If anything, it makes it even worse, because it's not just incompetence but willful ignorance.
I'm sorry, but I just have to make up an excuse for Ridley Scott being an older gentleman and people do get cranky and intolerant with age, because otherwise I'd hate to admit that the director of quite a few movies I love dearly is one of the worst self-unconscious hypocrites out there. I mean, contempt for your audience always goes down so well, especially from someone who thinks I am so dumb I am not going to believe the characters are Italian unless they speak English with a fake accent. Seriously, I don't understand why it's okay to call out shows like Emily In Paris for shit like that, but Ridley Scott more or less gets a pass, even though he is not only consistent with this, but he has been quite vocal that it's not "an honest mistake", he just doesn't care.
I was interested in seeing this because good or bad I enjoy a Ridley Scott movie but after Marks hilarious description of Jared Letos performance I definitely will!
need a comprehensive kermode impressions compilation
Oh, that mini rant was something glorious, like Charles Dickens's's's's England level glorious 😂
That Jared Leto bit made my day.
But also, it's finally time to say it: Ridley Scott is a hack. He did 3 great films, with the good part of his career lasting from 1976 to 1982. I rewatch Blade Runner once a month and have an Alien tatto, but he literally hasn't made anything good since.
Finally: would anyone talk of those goddamn accents??? I only have one question: WHY???
Nonsense. I do agree he's incredibly hit and miss and has had a few stinkers but Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, The Martian, American Gangster even the Last Duel more recently to name a few he's made many solid movies since the 80s.
@@battlep0t Thelma & Louise is OK, but all the others you mentioned are just blockbuster trash.
Watched H o G yesterday. These two are not exaggerating about how much Jared Leto overacts.
It's actually a little offensive towards the Italians. They're portrayed as such monstrous stereotypes.
Were the actors inspired by the accents in Super Mario?
Didn't Ridley Scott cite Dune (2021) as an example of movies Millennials want to see instead of his movies? You know, Dune, that 156-minute movie which you would assume people with short attention spans would have trouble with?
What happened to Adam Driver's ears? They used to be so wide and majestic. Has he taped them back just for this role or is it permanent?
Surprised to know how Leto's performance is generally disliked. This movie feels very bland, most shots not interesting, looking like any other passable movies an acclaimed director like Ridley Scott should not make, while the only good thing is for me (be calm, everybody) Jared Leto's ridiculous campy acting. Without him, the movie would be nothing: fancy clothes and predictable fall of rich people. Leto's "I can finally soar like a . . . pigeon" is golden.
To be fair, it does rather depend on whether the person Leto was playing actually behaved that way. It’s also kind of up to the director - all the blame can’t lie at Leto’s feet without knowing the facts.
if Ridley okayed it then its Ridley’s fault.
You can criticise Jared all you like but Ridley let him get away with it.
So should I go see this movie? I dont understand, not a native English speaker so maybe some subtle hints flew over my head idk.
This is my hot take. Jared Leto is the best thing in this film, his performance is terrible but it did make me at least laugh. The rest of the film was so so boring! I'm so disappointed and props to the people who made the trailer because it looks like so much fun. Simon is right, all the ingredients are there but the result is incredibly underwhelming
So all the Italian characters in the movie talk like Super Mario? Classy ...
Suffering from covid right now and Simon bursting into Shaddap Your Face was the first thing that’s made me laugh out loud all week 😂
I caught this on the radio on Friday but I needed to come see the video as well purely because I HAD to see with my own eyes Dr Kermode doing that Jared impression!
It did not disappoint!! 😄😄😄
I don't agree with the slating he gives Jared Leto's performance but, my God, it made me chuckle.
Wait, what? Jeremy Irons is in this? sign me up!
Not for very long. But he’s very good in his part.
I love Ridley Scott movies, i really do. But why is it that all italians in his movies look like they're straight out of Married to the Mob by Jonathan Demme?
Pierce Bron-Homm in Taffin as Jared Leto?
This movie looks like the very definition of cringe.
"A wieldy axe is a good..." Priceless.
Hilarious impression 😂 though I disagree about Gaga. I think she was nothing special and still looks like she's "trying" to act and was outperformed by Driver. Just looks and feels forced and being a mega star can't hide that
Mark Kermode's wailing impression of Jared Leto has sold me on seeing this film
Mark actually sounds like a gibbon when he starts wailing haha
Reminds me so much of this ua-cam.com/video/AGvy8ZR7xPo/v-deo.html
Rome, 21 Dec - We did an experiment: we went to see House of Gucci knowing that we most likely wouldn't like it. Well, the film is very bad, much worse than we expected. The room, ca va sans dire, was packed - never before seen such a crowd in the era of Covid. You know, Lady Gaga shoots. But Ridley Scott performed an unworthy operation and is doubly guilty, having shot absolute masterpieces in the past. House of Gucci, all the clues are already in the title In fact, the title is already a clue in itself: a film about Americans who make Italians. And it does not matter that some of them, starting with the protagonist, have Italian origins. It is not enough to save the film from the clear feeling that like the Gucci brand it has no longer had anything to do with Gucci for some time, so Scott's film has nothing to do with the Tuscan family. There is Jared Leto, who plays Paolo Gucci, the foolish son of Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino at his worst, the caricature of a mafia boss), who looks like a puppet of Pulcinella as much as he gestures. On the contrary, there is Jeremy Irons who plays Rodolfo Gucci as if it were Laurence Olivier who plays a nineteenth-century England aristocrat. Adam Driver then, who plays Maurizio Gucci, is a very good actor wasted in making a nerd that in Italy as a stereotype (yet) does not exist.
Mark, absolutely nailed Leto.
I just watched the movie, and I came here right away because I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE JARED LETO OMG WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!
Kermode’s impersonation of Jared Leto’s character sounds like Jar Jar Binks. And Jared Leto has become extremely pretentious and hokey. Kermode is the GOAT
I guess the other accents look less bad next to Leto's, but the better one speaks Italian, the cringier they all are. They don't even pronounce Maurizio and Patrizia properly. Why do this with accents, it's madness! I refer everyone to Ralph Fiennes' interview about the White Crow.
My word. He's like an Italian Borat. Eees nice-a!
Leto sounds like an Italian version of Inspector Clouseau
6:25 the insanity while we cut to Simon 😑
6:16 my fav Mark moment of this year!
Mark should be given an award for this. I laughed my ass off. Damn!
The Last Duel did terribly because barely any cinemas showed it! I have an unlimited card and it wasn’t shown barely in my three closest cinemas.
And it was the best film released this year
Mark’s Jared Leto impression woke my dog up and made him bark.
I haven't seen House of Gucci yet, but I really enjoyed The Last Duel and thought it was probably Scott's best film since The Martian. My own theory on why it bombed is firstly that it's 33% covid based - older folks basically nervous to go back in theaters, 33% based in that it's not an existing IP and the younger generations especially tend to be a bit obsessed with existing IPs these days, especially in America. And the last 33% is due to marketing; I just don't think the trailers were put together very well. I was interested in the movie just from the names involved, but, if I weren't already invested in the talent, I might have easily ignored the movie too, thinking it was just another bland period epic.
The Martian was crap. Last duel much better
Shaddap You Face stopped VIENNA by Ultravox reaching Number One.
Jared Letos performance was great!He plays a nutter so the over the top nuttiness is fine.When he is on screen you watch him and he adds a bit of levity to a bland film full of bland boring characters
His recommendation persuaded me to see ‘Spencer’ and I have still not found it in my heart to forgive him.
Gaga’s performance deserved a better crafted film.
Not that it was a bad film. But the pacing at the beginning was far too slow and bitty.
By half way through though, she completely tearing it up, and she totally blends into the character.
It’s sparse pickings for best actress this year, but even if it was a good year, she’d still be up in the running.