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The Death of Stalin - Barney's Incorrect Five Second Reviews
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This makes me realize that Valkyrie should have been a comedy perhaps.
This is a really good political comedy on what transpired after the death of Joseph Stalin and how the committee quickly schemed to gain control and advantage in the hours and days directly after.
There's some pretty funny stuff going on but it's not going to be for everyone. One guy in the theatre was cracking up at some parts, I was laughing at others. It will certainly hit people differently.
Steve Buscemi is good, Jeffrey Tambor is better, but Jason Issacs really steals the show as Zhukov. He just kills it in every scene he's in.
Warning, this is as black as comedy gets. Naturally, this movie has been completely banned in Russia.
They say that comedies are the hardest scripts to write. I seriously am dumbfounded as to how they manage to pull off a comedy set amongst a monstrous number of executions. But they did it.
Heart rating: 5 stars (the amount of risk this film takes alone makes it worth 5 stars, they put everything into it)
Brain rating: 4 stars
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Or when everyone on the list is being grabbed and the conductor hears someone at his door and the person acts like nothing is going on behind him. Business as usual.
I think Zhukov and the various guards were my favourite characters in the film. Remember the guard who was all miffed the recording was late?
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I'll oversee the releases. We have
unloosened the Union’s great
corset. Nikita, you've some
swatches and bouquets to look at. A
funeral doesn't organise itself.
lol, remember Malenkov's face when Beria says corset there?
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If you want to know what I am experiencing now, google some local radio or NPR person you hear every week and see what they look like. Its never anything like you'd imagined.
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And don't worry, Beaker is exactly what I look like.
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Overall, it was really well done and I was glad that Iannucci's trademark humor from Veep translated perfectly to this scenario. Yes, it was dark but that's the point. Sometimes things are so morbid as to be funny (witness the current political situation.) I thought it could have used maybe one moment of levity during Beria's execution, especially since it was such a personally satisfying event for all of them, and you kind of lost all of the "this is so unbelievable it's funny" veneer on everything, but that's a minor complaint. It was great.
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Issacs for me will always be that jerk limey from The Patriot. I think of it everytime I see him in anything. I don't even remember him from Harry Potter.
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I wonder if both Chris Cooper and Gerald Depardieu said after the first live script reading, "...are you sure this is all you want us to do?"
also note to the director: if an on-screen death of a child in front of his family has the audience feeling annoyed at the kid... you're doing it wrong.
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