What are you watching right now? #15

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Mark81 said:
It seems to be dividing people but for me it's miscast, too much style of substance and not well adapted. The 1999 film is so much better.
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Leaping into this thread for the first time 👋 just to ask you about Ripley. I watched it over the weekend and am still not sure. Like you I loved the film. People keep saying Matt Damon was too nerdy and miscast but I disagree. People keep referring to Tom Ripley as a charmer, but in the first book the point is he wasn't charming at all - he only became that after he became Dickie Greenleaf. Apparently Leonardo Di Caprio was first choice but turned it down - he would have been good too.
I liked Andrew Scott but he was too old. Eliot Sumner as Freddie was a complete failure imo. Compared to Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
 
Jelly Bean said:
Leaping into this thread for the first time 👋 just to ask you about Ripley. I watched it over the weekend and am still not sure. Like you I loved the film. People keep saying Matt Damon was too nerdy and miscast but I disagree. People keep referring to Tom Ripley as a charmer, but in the first book the point is he wasn't charming at all - he only became that after he became Dickie Greenleaf. Apparently Leonardo Di Caprio was first choice but turned it down - he would have been good too.
I liked Andrew Scott but he was too old. Eliot Sumner as Freddie was a complete failure imo. Compared to Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
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Completely sums up how I feel on everything 😊
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Andrew Scott also had too much psychopath about him. You couldn't see why dickie and marge would welcome him in, or why others would be charmed by him. Matt Damon had an awkward geek charm to him, bit of an odd bod and outsider but not someone you'd think would kill you.

Jude law was also a great dickie. Loads of charisma and charm. You can see why people are drawn to him and forgive him things. There was also chemistry with tom. It was also believable he would just leave marge to move to another town. This new Dickie is dull and charisma free and he and marge are more like an old married couple.
 
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Jelly Bean said:
Leaping into this thread for the first time 👋 just to ask you about Ripley. I watched it over the weekend and am still not sure. Like you I loved the film. People keep saying Matt Damon was too nerdy and miscast but I disagree. People keep referring to Tom Ripley as a charmer, but in the first book the point is he wasn't charming at all - he only became that after he became Dickie Greenleaf. Apparently Leonardo Di Caprio was first choice but turned it down - he would have been good too.
I liked Andrew Scott but he was too old. Eliot Sumner as Freddie was a complete failure imo. Compared to Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
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Just finished ep4. So far I'm really enjoying it, and had no idea it was going to be in b&w, which adds a whole new menacing dynamic IMO.
 
Booklover said:
Just finished ep4. So far I'm really enjoying it, and had no idea it was going to be in b&w, which adds a whole new menacing dynamic IMO.
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It's not that I didn't enjoy it in its own way. And at least it was a very fresh approach. The b & w is stunning. Andrew Scott really comes into his own after *that* boating incident.
There are just fundamental problems for me. Dickie and Marge are so bleeping dull and uncharismatic - who would envy them? 😂 As I said the Freddie actor is dreadful.
And I won't disclose the final scene but it is such a massive plot hole.
 
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