The mobster movie, I watched it, for reasons you probably can guess, and if you can't guess, what kind of a rock have you been living under and not reading my recent blog posts?
Anyways, let's get to it. It was a 2 hour long movie which is pretty average as far as movies go. I actually thought that this movie was a bit better than I was expecting. I thought I might be bored by it and I wasn't really. In the main role this movie starred Johnny Depp as the mobster James Bulger. First things first, he was definitely sleazy and creepy looking in this role, on top of how he already looks creepy even when he's not all made up to play the role of a mobster. Plus he was wearing these bug eyed sunglasses which didn't help things. I don't get why people think Peter Sarsgaard is creepy looking/sounding; he's perfectly normal and friendly looking especially compared to Johnny Depp in either this movie or just in real life.
It took place mostly in the 70s which was evident in the gaudy wallpaper, among other things. And the hairstyles, I suppose. I actually maybe wouldn't mind some 70s esque gaudy wallpaper if I had a house of my own.
There were a number of more or less well known actors in this movie. Obviously Johnny Depp, also Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Scott (from Parks and Recreation), Benedict Cumberbatch, among others. Benedict is British so it was weird to hear him speaking with an American accent.
This is, to my knowledge, the second movie that I have seen that was set in Boston. There might be others (hmm, actually, I'm remembering another one right now) but the other one that came to mind was Spotlight, with Mark Ruffalo and which was about journalism.
Let's get to my thoughts about Peter's performance in this movie, which is the primary reason I decided to watch it (if you couldn't guess at the beginning of the post). He was only in the movie for a short period of time as he played a somewhat minor character. For those that love attention to detail like I do, he showed up around 45 minutes in and was out of the picture by the 1 hour mark. So he maybe had about 10 minutes of screen time in the entire movie. Spoilers ahead, to varying degrees. I was sort of surprised to see him in the role that he was in, which was someone who was kind of involved with the mobsters but not really that important or anything. He seemed out of place, so to speak. He looked comparatively naive and like he didn't belong associating with mobsters. In any case, (spoiler!!) after his little run in with the mobsters, he goes to the FBI to tell them about it but they don't believe him, even though what he was saying was indeed true. Before he does this, he does drugs as his character is a drug addict (or, as the AP Stylebook advises, someone addicted to drugs). So when it comes to him actually being in everyone's favorite location, the interrogation room, he is freaking out and looks rough because he is high on cocaine. Interestingly enough, he still actually looked fairly decent... he did not look super awful even with his face showing evidence of drug use. Unlike Johnny Depp, who did not look appealing for a single moment in this movie. His character was a detestable person. Who murders Peter's character in broad daylight with, say, 10 gunshots or so. It was something else. Which certainly did nothing to endear me to either Johnny Depp or the character he played. I don't think I'll be watching any other movies with him in them. Edward Scissorhands was good though, but that was before he got all creepy looking.
Even though Peter was only in the movie for maybe 10 minutes, I figured I could probably get a whole paragraph out about him and I did. So on to something else now. The credits sequence was interesting as it had pictures of the real people the movie was about, newspaper clippings, that kind of thing.
All in all, this movie was decent, and better than I expected (my expectations weren't super high) but I wouldn't consider it a favorite or anything. But it wasn't awful or a waste of time, so that was good.
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