Let's anticipate Austin Butler and his cat in Darren Aronofsky's CAUGHT STEALING

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Opens wide tomorrow. Looks better than The Whale.

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Matt Smith as member of Rancid on posters looks so bad, don't think i can take this seriously enough bother with

Yeah, the trailer looked good outside of Smith's absolutely ridiculous getup.

Thought the trailer looked obnoxious. Is this Aronofsky's John Wick?

I plan to see this, but the trailer gave me Guy Ritchie minus the Briticisms vibes. (And given that Guy Ritchie is Quentin Tarantino minus the Americanisms, I expect things to be lost in translation.)

this looks kinda fun! the protagonist looks poor - not enough poor people in movies nowadays - i'm sure that's very tangential to the plot. would not have thought this was aronofsky.

the cat looks so cgi though. can't we just have a real cat for once. call up one of the instagram cat superstars. nimbus would kill in this role. or milo.

Absolutely determined to see it this weekend

The Hasidic gangsters seem extremely, wildly Ritchie

not really into kooky caper movies, not really into 'loveletter to the 90's' either... I'll likely pass

i am SO in and cant wait to see this

FUN aronofsky? hell yes

Call it a weird idiosyncracy on my part but kinda wish it was set in a New York of the now than one of his own 'around when I was filming Pi' youth.

the cat looks so cgi though. can't we just have a real cat for once. call up one of the instagram cat superstars. nimbus would kill in this role. or milo.

Probably some CGI elements in the movie somewhere, but it is very much a real cat! And one from Instagram no less!

https://www.instagram.com/tonicthecatactor/

I enjoyed this, better than most action films I've seen for a while. Much better than expected but I had no knowledge of the novel (or the author) which some people seem to love.

not really into kooky caper movies, not really into 'loveletter to the 90's' either... I'll likely pass

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, August 28, 2025 2:06 PM

It's none of these things. The time period matters in that (a) no tracking devices (b) a certain pre-9/11 development in the last five minutes.

90s vibe present also in the way this is really no better than post-Reservoir Dogs cash-ins like Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead. Give me Mother! any old day over this kind of anonymous efficiency.

I disagree about the anonymity. The flashbacks, the way at its core it emphasizes family, whoever comprises it -- they strike me as Aronofsky-esque.

The Whale and The Wrestler were worse.

I didn't expect the violence, though.

Haven’t seen The Whale but I loved the Wrestler, maybe because I’m more of a sucker for 70s New Hollywood pastiches than 90s John Dahl reruns.

Black Swan prob his best film?

Well, I thought I’d get to see this over the weekend, but the universe didn’t see things the same way. So: maybe next weekend.

I almost wanna praise Noah as his best film.

I do not retract my Ritchie vibes comment, but it was WAY more violent, and less comic, than the trailer led me to expect.

My review imo.

The Whale and The Wrestler were worse

The Wrestler was honestly the first time I respected Aronofsky as a director, but I'm a big social-realism fan

Meh

Alfred's review about right

This was so fun

Really wanted to see Bonds connect with that pitch though, character development be damned

I wanted to see Austin Butler naked.

It was pretty uneven, def way more violent then I was expecting, but I'm glad I saw it, maybe the Dolby format was overkill but man it it looked really great, esp when the action moved outside. Butler was fine, but I think the role needed someone with a bit more...panache? He was great in the flashbacks. Felt like there was a lot of missed opportunities for it go somewhere else, which I realize is how I end up feeling about a lot of Aronofsky's movies.

Still, toward the end when the, not really twist, but I guess reveal, happened they way it has in a zillion movies, I was surprised! I gasped a little, maybe just at boring old competent film-making.

As a general rule I can't really hate on a movie where Griffin Dunne (in full biker regalia) and Action Bronson do coke while listening to "Cities on Flame With Rock'n'Roll"

This was 90s AF

He builds websites!

FUCK OFF DUANE!

“Go Giants”

that was a whole lot of killing for something that felt kind of pointless. more of a horror movie than a caper. i didn't know much going in, so at some point i thought, wait is that action bronson? and it was!

Got as far as the bit where theyre about to start removing his teeth or whatever they were threatening to do and me and the bf just went "ugh no" and turned it off. I like Aronofsky, but you need to be in the right frame of mind for the level of violence he can sometimes mete out. And we just werent.

I might have another go at it when I feel less fragile, but if its anything close to the level of RFAD maybe I'll pass.

I seen Oldboy in the cinema and someone ran out the cinema when that threatened teeth pulling happened.

On Netflix now. I imagine I'm the target audience for this as I grew up on all the 90s movies it is homaging, but even I felt it was too by-the-numbers. Not enough surprise, wanted more laugh lines

I thought this was pretty fun, minor nitpicks aside. Griffin Dunne was great!

Raymond otm upthread, this was definitely very '90s, it was like "what if post-Pulp Fiction straight to video Tarantino knock-off but actually entertaining?".