FOXCATCHER

I saw Foxcatcher... The people responsible for making this movie are audited by the IRS and summarily thrown into a dank and cold prison cell in rural Kentucky. Before I get into what made me so upset about this movie, let me give you a quick synopsis about what this hunk of garbage is about. Foxcatcher centers on Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, played here by Channing Tatum, and his time spent training with eccentric billionaire John E du Ponte, played by Steve Carell, at his palatial training facility for the 1988 Olympic games. Things between Schultz and du Ponte start off ok enough but as time goes on and the audience learns that neither man is the sharpest knife in the drawer nor the sanest, things go off the rails quickly and culminate in an truly horrific way.

This movie has got to be the worst film I've seen in the last 5 years. What this movie is, despite what the trailer would have you believe, is Steve Carell and Channing Tatum staring awkwardly at each other not saying too much and making everyone in the audience feel uncomfortable and bored in a scoreless stagnant bog of white noise and silence as you faintly hear the murmurs of other people in neighboring theaters laughing and having fun for (no lie) TWO HOURS! This goes on until Mark Ruffalo, who plays Mark Schultz's brother David, shows up and all but says, "what have you guys been doing up here with this audience for the last 2 hours?!" and Channing Tatum and Steve Carell responded by saying, "um...philanthropist, ornithologist, philatelist-" and then Ruffalo has to then try to carve a plot out of the COMPLETE waste of time this movie has been up until then but by the time he does, it's far too little far far far too late. I swear every 10 minutes of this snoozefest of a movie I felt myself on the cusp of shouting "DO SOMETHING!" at the screen!

Watching this movie was like a 3 hour version from this scene in MST3K.

The fact that Steve Carell or Mark Ruffalo are nominated for an Academy Awards for their performance in this movie is bordering on a criminal act especially considering people like David Oyelowo and Jake Gyllenhaal will be sitting at the house this year in spite of stellar performances in Selma and Nightcrawler. The only thing that is any good about this film is the makeup that they did on Steve Carell and even that isn't too spectacular seeing as it's just a nose piece from what I could tell. After all I've said, I'll summarize with this, it's one thing to be a bad movie, but to be a BORING bad movie is just unforgivable. Foxcatcher STINKS and I don't like it. It gets a 1... out of 5.