Nightmare Alley (2021)

Name: Nightmare Alley (2021)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Released: 2021-12-02
Duration: 139 min
Rating: 3.67

spronk · Sep 17, 2021

3.67 star(s) Rating: 3.67/5 3 Votes

Title: Nightmare Alley (2021)

Tagline: Man or Beast.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Mark Povinelli, Jim Beaver, Romina Power, Paul Anderson

Release: 2021-12-02

Runtime: 139

Plot: An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

spronk · Sep 17, 2021

Latest movie from Guillermo Del Toro (Pacific Rim, Hellboy, Shape of Water)

absolutely insanely stacked cast

Bradley Cooper
Cate Blanchett
Willem Dafoe
Toni Collette
Ron Perlman
David Straithairn
Mary Steenburgen

the trailer tells me NOTHING about the movie other than Bradley Cooper is a circus carney, love that. Its based on a novel, there is apparently a 1947 movie but its not going to be too similar (other than also circus carney, etc).

out Dec 2nd, 2021 its a Fox movie so not sure exactly how, theatres for sure probably not out on any streaming services at the same time

Hateyou · Sep 17, 2021

Animosity · Sep 17, 2021

Completely in on this.

Fadaar · Sep 17, 2021

Sequel to this??

Chukzombi · Sep 17, 2021

this looks familar. i'll check it out. i enjoy most of Del Toro's films.

Slaanesh69 · Sep 18, 2021

Shape of Water was competently filmed but the movie was terrible, in my opinion.

Going back to his roots of semi-horror will hopefully serve Del Toro better than a smarmy monster romance.

I wish he would get on some Cthulhu shit though!

Edit - I have no real idea why but I despise Bradley Cooper, he just seems so full of himself at all times, I can't put my finger on it. But the rest of the cast is impressive aside from that retarded never-Trumper gorilla Perlman.

Intrinsic · Sep 18, 2021

Slaanesh69 said:
Shape of Water was competently filmed but the movie was terrible, in my opinion.

Going back to his roots of semi-horror will hopefully serve Del Toro better than a smarmy monster romance.

I wish he would get on some Cthulhu shit though!

Edit - I have no real idea why but I despise Bradley Cooper, he just seems so full of himself at all times, I can't put my finger on it. But the rest of the cast is impressive aside from that retarded never-Trumper gorilla Perlman.

Outside of Alias, maybe, he's just always played a full of himself asshole, so I mean it kind of makes sense.

TomServo · Sep 19, 2021

Slaanesh69 said:
Shape of Water was competently filmed but the movie was terrible, in my opinion.

Going back to his roots of semi-horror will hopefully serve Del Toro better than a smarmy monster romance.

I wish he would get on some Cthulhu shit though!

Edit - I have no real idea why but I despise Bradley Cooper, he just seems so full of himself at all times, I can't put my finger on it. But the rest of the cast is impressive aside from that retarded never-Trumper gorilla Perlman.

Pacific Rim 1, is Cthulu shit. We will never see Mountains of Madness. So just enjoy that movie for what it is.

spronk · Feb 1, 2022

up on hbo max

faille · Feb 1, 2022

spronk said:
up on hbo max

which means up on the usual places too

Adebisi · Feb 1, 2022

The first act is some of the best filmmaking I've ever seen.

Overall I thought it was great

Gutterflesh · Feb 2, 2022

I was digging the first 2 hours of this movie, but it all started to unravel for me with the last 30 minutes. The final scene/ending was alright, but the motives of the characters never really made much sense and all the weird ass themes peppered throughout the movie felt wasted.

I give it a pass for the cast and first 2 hours, but I don't know too many people I could recommend this to.

jayrebb · Feb 2, 2022

I'm about 50-60% in and I stopped there for now. A friend spaced out and lost interest while watching it with me is why I stopped it (Guillermo movies can prattle on a little long in the 2nd act, never had a problem myself, but ADHD people consistently space out on his movies). Otherwise I wouldn't have. I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to anyone either even without getting to the third act referenced above.

That said, I'm finishing the movie and don't have any real complaints about it.

lurker · Feb 2, 2022

I enjoyed it. How can Cate Blanchett be so sexy and so odd looking at the same time? Weird boner indeed.

nu_11 · Feb 2, 2022

started strong but it settled at not great and not terrible

Fight · Feb 3, 2022

Watched it on HBO Max. Was worth the watch. Good movie, 7/10.

Drinsic · Feb 5, 2022

Thought it was good but also felt significantly less interested as soon as the plot left the carnival.

Animosity · Feb 7, 2022

Drinsic said:
Thought it was good but also felt significantly less interested as soon as the plot left the carnival.

This was my thought as well. Watched this last night and overall thought it was pretty good. But the carnival part was by far the best and more interesting. Like most others here, the last 30 minutes dragged on. They could of trimmed a lot of the time and made the movie a little better.

Merrith · Feb 9, 2022

7.5/10 for me. I'll echo others that the whole first hour plus to two hours is great stuff, loses a little steam towards the end. The actual final scene was good, though.

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