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60 of 89 · most liked firstI watched the weirdest movie with the kids tonight -- "Killing Them Softly." The final scene has Obama on the TV doing the "not red, not blue, UNITED states of America!" schtick & then Brad Pitts' hitman saying, "bullshit, America's not a community, it's a business, so fucking pay me."
unlabelledView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #134 "Killing Them Softly" (Andrew Dominik/2012) Another movie I have not watched but came highly recommended to me. Fantastic cast in this one. I'll have to check it out soon!
unlabelledView post →The most iconic cinematic take on America's Independence Day is either the space alien invasion movie or the final scene of Killing Them Softly: youtu.be/m-mqgCliinQ
unlabelledView post →Has any recent film aged better in such a short period of time than “Killing Them Softly?” At the time of release it was lambasted as too ham-fisted and obvious. And now, it just comes across as matter of fact.
unlabelledView post →AUSA: How did Cassie sound on the audio recording? Combs' Steel: Objection! Judge: Overruled. Mia: Panicked. I heard the sound of someone getting hit. AUSA: Did you go to events? Mia: The premiere of Brad Pitt's movie Killing Them Softly
unlabelledView post →He’s in KILLING THEM SOFTLY for less than 10 minutes and walks off with the movie. Willy Loman as a hitman.
unlabelledView post →In a replacement to the scheduled programme, here’s a review of a stone cold classic you might not have seen, Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly, a crime story that’s pretty relevant to what’s happening right now to America under the Nazi salute of President Musk. film-authority.com/2025/02/07/k...
unlabelledView post →For homework purposes I am rewatching KILLING THEM SOFTLY, a blunt but very idiosyncratic movie I have grown to think of as 97 minutes of feature-not-bug.
unlabelledView post →"This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me." (Killing Them Softly, film, released May 22 2012) That's Trump's America It's just a business.
unlabelledView post →it goes without saying that whenever Richard Jenkins is on the screen, the audience is asking "Why isn't everyone in this movie Richard Jenkins" but I want to highlight this little bit of character actor puttering and business from KILLING THEM SOFTLY. the goatest, best in class etc:
unlabelledView post →I will say that unfortunately, whatever the merits of the whole movie, the Gandolfini scenes in KILLING THEM SOFTLY are without any qualification, just bad.
unlabelledView post →“Killing Them Softly” was the last good Chappelle stand-up movie and that was 23 years ago.
unlabelledView post →Just remembered the ending of the 2012 movie Killing Them Softly, where Brad Pitt's rant includes condemning Thomas Jefferson for being a hypocrite because of his familial slavery.
unlabelledView post →One of my favorite bits of movie trivia is that James Gandolfini was in three movies with Brad Pitt and in all three he was a hitman who failed to kill his target. (True Romance, The Mexican, Killing Them Softly)
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly is the other perfect movie about the Bush era. A tight, miserable show of violence and grim decline in the aftermath of natural disaster and systemic cruelty. It ends with Obama being elected.
unlabelledView post →Ben Mendolsohn is persistently wetter in Killing Them Softly than anybody in any James Cameron movie
unlabelledView post →Watched the 2012 movie Killing Them Softly and while I don’t think it works all that well man does Pitt’s last line/cut-to-black rule. Rare case of a movie’s last 15 seconds adding like a star and a half.
unlabelledView post →On this day in movie history: Killing Them Softly directed by Andrew Dominik released November 30, 2012. Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella, Sam Shepard, George Carroll, Linara Washington, Ross Brodar. #Noir
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly was the last time a movie told the truth about America.
unlabelledView post →R.I.P. Roberta Flack- and I'm tripping because just YESTERDAY I was explaining the title of the film 'Killing Them Softly' to my son, taking him through this on Youtube and then the Fugees remake, and now Pras is charged with being a spy for the Chinese government and Robert Flack is dead.
unlabelledView post →Your yearly reminder to watch the finest movie ever made about America: Killing Them Softly (2012) starring Brad Pitt as the greasiest hitman youve ever seen
unlabelledView post →Added To Watchlist: KILLING THEM SOFTLY (2012) @bradmilne79.bsky.social on Andrew Dominick’s crime film which has much more on its mind. www.neonsplatter.com/added-to-wat...
unlabelledView post →"So yeah, he [Thomas Jefferson] wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy (Obama) wants to tell me we're living in a community." (Killing Them Softly, film, released May 2012)
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly (2012) - this movie is underrated.
unlabelledView post →"Killing Them Softly" (Brad Pitt hitman movie) uses a bunch of 2008 financial crisis soundclips from Obama etc during times there's no dialogue for Artistic Reasons and it is possibly the single most annoying choice I have ever seen a director make. It just chips away at the movie being watchable.
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly, this movie was by far the biggest disappointment ever. I considered it a profane insult to the late actors Ray Liotta & James Gandolfini.
unlabelledView post →My ★★★★ review of Killing Them Softly on Letterboxd
unlabelledView post →It's now a rite of passage that any Australian director who makes it big with a crime drama has to go overseas and make an equally violent cops and robbers movie all about Capital A America. Justin Kurzel's THE OTHER isn't quite as thorny as KILLING THEM SOFTLY, but certainly better than TRIPLE 9.
unlabelledView post →In 2020, I launched an essay series at The Playlist called Inflection Point. The series used pandemic-era political issues - police violence, immigration reform - as a lens for key films of the 21st Century (such as CONTAGION, KILLING THEM SOFTLY, and SIN NOMBRE).
unlabelledView post →I miss Liotta, he was always great to see show up in any movie. He ruled in this, and also Killing Them Softly
unlabelledView post →The film "Killing Them Softly" described the United States perfectly, "America is not a country. It's just a business." Not to mention all the past bigotry that went unpunished has gotten us to this point.
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly is such an underrated quiet crime movie. I know those types of movies don’t make money and that’s why nobody really bothers to make them anymore but goddamn do I wish they did.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching Killing Them Softly.
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly is another film that more or less clocks america exactly.
unlabelledView post →Just watched Killing Them Softly, a movie that has been on my radar since I saw a commercial for it… 14 years ago holy fuck. Anyway, decent film. 6-7/10
unlabelledView post →My Latest FAILED LETTERBOXD REVIEW blog essay is out. This time it’s all about the capitalism and crime movie, Starring Brad Pitt KILLING THEM SOFTLY. Which seems a victim of mismarketing and bad calculations open.substack.com/pub/jeffreyu...
unlabelledView post →i really shoulda watched Killing Them Softly because on paper it seems hackneyed as fuck but i didn't realize it was the Jesse James movie guy directing it & he managed to compel actually good acting out of late-stage ray liotta some fucking how
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly (2012) might still be the most astute (and unsubtle) critique of modern America put to film in this century
unlabelledView post →I remember Samuel L. Jackson calling Killing Them Softly, a Pulp Fiction ripoff and every time I think about that I realize how out of touch the average actor is. I love Jackson’s work but that is the most tone deaf reading of that movie I can think of.
unlabelledView post →I can't get into everything I felt like it did wrong without getting mad all over again. That said, you're absolutely right about KILLING THEM SOFTLY. That's a legit great film.
unlabelledView post →I can understand why people hate the film, but yeah that’s a standout scene. I have issues with the film, but as an outsider I think it is closer to what’s happening in America right now, than anything has been since Killing Them Softly.
unlabelledView post →Have you watched Killing Them Softly? It's such a good movie, but the Boston accents and the constant radio chatter about the 2008 financial collapse are crazy-making.
unlabelledView post →In the movie Killing Them Softly, Brad Pritt's chatacter can be viewed as a stand in for neoliberalism compared to Gandolfini's character, who represents the old order
unlabelledView post →Killing Them Softly is the only mob movie I got interested in.
unlabelledView post →On this day in movie history: Killing Them Softly directed by Andrew Dominik released November 30, 2012. Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella, Sam Shepard, George Carroll, Linara Washington, Ross Brodar. #Noir
unlabelledView post →What y’all doin tonight? I’m watching a movie. Killing Them Softly. Pic unrelated I just wanna show off my new pants again 🥰
unlabelledView post →The week on Dead Format: the only New Orleans plays Boston movie that was years ahead of it's time in it's hatred for America, Andrew Dominick's Killing Them Softly sites.libsyn.com/602585/38-ki...
unlabelledView post →I was watching Killing Them Softly the other day and my spouse walked by during the scene where Ray Liotta is getting the shit kicked out of him. Just pure shock that we used to film the hell out of movies once.
unlabelledView post →watching the movie Killing Them Softly, it has Obama's speech in it at the end and I'm listening going, "Man this guy could give a speech." Like there is not a politician today who could talk like him when he was running for president. Confident, self-assured, educated, exceptional.
unlabelledView post →Enormous Killing Them Softly fan, incredible film.
unlabelledView post →In the movie "Killing Them Softly", Brad Pitt's character says: 'This guy [Obama, speaking on TV] wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business.' There's your answer.
unlabelledView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #ISawtheTVGlow #KillingThemSoftly 6 Genuinely Great Movies With Way-Too-Low IMDb Ratings http://dlvr.it/TQLxl5
unlabelledView post →The guy who wrote the book also wrote Killing Them Softly which is another great movie.
unlabelledView post →Completely agree on Chopper. I also think Robert Ford is excellent. Killing Them Softly isn’t quite as good as those, but it’s still a damn good movie. I haven’t seen a film of his I didn’t think was good.
unlabelledView post →. Yes, KILLING THEM SOFTLY (2012) is an excellent #NeoNoir film. I'll have to rewatch it soon for free on Roku: therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/8b7bd1... The 1971 Buick Riviera is a sweet whip, as seen in this trailer. .
unlabelledView post →I have a question. In your view does Killing Them Softly qualify as film noir? Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini.
unlabelledView post →For a first date, I brought them to the movie "Killing Them Softly" because I got it mixed up with a comedy movie that was playing at the same time Pretty sure I was hunched over and head in my hands in despair when they blew a guys brains out in the parking lot with a shotgun
unlabelledView post →On that same note, Andrew Dominik's follow up film "Killing Them Softly" is another masterpiece.
unlabelledView post →“Killing Them Softly” is not only overlooked and underrated as a film, but it has EXCELLENT politics, which is super rare in a movie that isn’t about politics at all.
unlabelledView post →God’s Gonna Cut You Down When I was thinking about his songs, I kept seeing movie scenes/trailers cause his music is so well associated with cinema. Like your song and Killing Them Softly
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