I tried to watch "Marty Supreme"

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I actually stuck it out for the first hour and a half. But I had to bail. I thought the costumes and sets were great, as was the cinematography. But he's a thoroughly unlikable character (which is the point, I get it). But there isn't a single likable character in the film. My only regret is not quitting sooner. It was just tedious.

[FalloutShelter]

1. Agreed .

I struggled to understand why this was a story that needed telling on film.


PS: watched Song Sung Blue last night.
A movie that I would never have chosen to go to the theater to see. Not a Neil Diamond fan and just not my normal cup of tea but…I thought it was really fantastic. High Jackman was really good and the whole cast was great.
Not at all what I expected.
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[Katinfl]

3. I watched Song Sung Blue twice. It is just an enjoyable movie and I thought the performances were great.

Refreshing to see a movie with no foul language, no violence, no sex. I highly recommend it to anyone.

[FalloutShelter]

6. Could not agree more.

A throwback to the kind of movies they don’t seem to make anymore.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. I enjoyed Song Sung Blue as well

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14. I feel the same way

Not a fan of Neil Diamond either, but this one is in my queue. Several friends raved about it and I trust their judgement. It seems like we have similar taste, Sue!

[FalloutShelter]

15. For sure we do, Mark.

Enjoy.

[hlthe2b]

2. Yeah. I haven't seen it because I found the promos highly unlikeable... But it is interesting

that Timothy Chalamet (and his promoters) thought he would get an Academy award for that movie and seemingly pitched such a fit about it that attendees at the Oscars basically shunned him (at least that is what I read). I know you didn't finish it, but was his performance even nomination-worthy?

[Katinfl]

4. I liked Marty Supreme but I like Timothy Chalamet in anything.

He gave an Oscar worthy performance in Complete Unkown.

[hlthe2b]

5. Did you think his Marty Supreme performance was Oscar-worthy?

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8. His performance was really good

He played an obnoxious, egomaniac perfectly. But I couldn't stand the film.

[Katinfl]

10. Probably not, but like I said, I think he is a very good actor.

Did he do all the table tennis shots or did they use a double? In Complete Unkown he did all the singing and guitar work. Worked for like 5 years on playing Dylan and he nailed it.

[hlthe2b]

11. Yes. I thought he was quite good playing Dylan.

[GreatGazoo]

17. Me too. Chalamet did great with Dylan

also good in Wonka. But Marty is a deeply unlikeable character. Dylan felt like a conflicted genius but Marty is not nuanced or layered.

[303squadron]

7. One of the worst movies of 2026

We really wanted to like it…..but we didn’t.

Some movies are great to watch again. This is not one of them.

Or, to misquote Dorothy Parker, ‘This is not a movie to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.’

[Doodley]

9. I loved it. I didn't like the characters, but I LOVED this character study of a narcissist who was laser-focused

on himself and his own ambition and finally faced a reckoning. It was funny, frenetic, unpredictable, incredibly well-acted, and beautifully filmed. To me, it had a lot to say.

[La Coliniere]

12. Agreed.

I thought it was one of the best films of 2025. The startling bathtub and porch scenes were incredible set-pieces and worth the price of admission alone. Actors who portray unlikable characters in compelling and authentic ways often give their best performances and Chalamet was great in his role as Marty. The film was perfectly cast and deserved the praise it received. BTW, I read that many of the table tennis scenes were enhanced by cgi.

[GreatGazoo]

16. I was hopeful that the Safdie brothers would mature into the filmmakers they could be

but they seem stalled, maybe regressed.

Watched as much of 'Marty Supreme' as I could take then swapped to the movie upstairs. It is worse than the premise. Worse than 'Uncut Gems'. Poorly shot. Painfully immature.

It was set in the NYC of the late 1940s which would have been enough for me to sit through it but most of what I saw was a dark shoe shop and ping pong tables in a big dark room. I thought maybe with 7 more years of adulthood since 'Uncut Gems' Josh and Benny Safdie would grow up a little but this movie is like something a 13YO boy would write.

About 15 minutes in the ping pong guy has sex with 53YO Gwyneth Paltrow. Spends money he doesn't have and seduces her right under her husband's nose. It makes no sense at all except maybe to show us the character is a dare devil? It felt randomly ripped off from 'Titanic'.

20 minutes in, Kevin "Shark Tank" O'Leary shows up as business man who wants to invest in ping pong. In any other film his presence, let alone his performance, would have been a joke. Disrespectful to force serious actors to to do scenes with non-actors.

It was like an SNL sketch, a parody of sports movies. Everything has been done, even Jamaican bobsledders, so...ping pong. But it wasn't funny. It had the tone and emotional sensibilities of a Scooby Doo cartoon minus all the Scooby and Shaggy bits. "Rut Row."

I tapped out after 30 minutes. The art house theater let me swap and watch "Carol" (2015) with Cate Blanchett instead.