David Ehrlich's review contains many of my thoughts on this one. I should write mine before reading others to preserve freshness.
Monster swept me up in its tides. The trombone reveal immediately enters an upper-tier of impactful movie moments.
Reflecting, many of the alternate perspectives we get as the film folds inwards are too pat. There's this manicured, intelligent design-coded aftertaste.
Spent the first little bit thinking "this could have been a twitch stream" to the tune of "this could have been an email." But then we get to the vinewood bowl and the auditions begin; and some magic starts swirling. GTH blossoms into a veritable quirky-troupe-throws-together-an-underdog-theater-production movie but it's real but it's not because it's in a video game. Layered. Bonus viewing pleasure comes with having a lifetime of vg experiences, even more if with GTA.
Ultimately, I think this could've been a twitch stream (and the debut performance of Hamlet in fact was), but it would be a really excellent one.
Bigly disappointed. Terrific production design and a few sequences of bonafide horror are unable to carry this meandering, morose affair. Nos's mustache needn't have been there, either.
Also, going to theater really sucks sometimes. There were 3 separate groups of young people whispering throughout the entirety; cracked up laughing during several inappropriate moments. Unfair to Eggers and me. They stole at least a half star.
I'm communing with the screen on a much more intimate level when it's just me and it and I'm splayed out on couch and I've got my Bose Sport Earbuds jammed in.
Planes never had a chance of getting off the ground with Dane Cook's doofy ass voice in the cockpit. Impossible to get behind something sounding like that. The in-air action looks decent; though beneath what Cars (even the first) accomplished visually. There's no comparison with regard to every other measure of success.
