Hot Trailer: ‘Being Flynn’

COMMENTS (20)

• They changed the title “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” to “Being Flynn”? That’s really, really lame.

  Comment by Moggle — Monday November 14, 2011 @ 8:13pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Because, clearly, “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” is such a marketable title for a major production out of Fox. Maybe, you know, use some of those brain cells before making ridiculous comments?

    Comment by Prax — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 8:23am PST  Reply to this post

• CBS would have kept the title and added punctuation.

  Comment by I bet — Monday November 14, 2011 @ 8:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• Title change lame and book now looks like a Hallmark movie. Way to go hollywood. Hot trailer? More like hot mess.

  Comment by chinanski — Monday November 14, 2011 @ 9:03pm PST  Reply to this post

• At least call it “Another Bullshit Night” or “Suck City.” That way you’re only cutting off one of it’s balls.

  Comment by Jim Jonze — Monday November 14, 2011 @ 10:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• do you really believe the mpaa would allow that? umlikely.

  Comment by smitty — Monday November 14, 2011 @ 10:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• The style seems inappropriate for the material. Way over produced. Still, it looks like DeNiro is playing a three dimensional character. I don’t know what it is about Paul Dano, he is technically a good actor, but there is nothing about him that I want to know or care about. Also, didn’t he just make this movie with Kevin Kline? haha

  Comment by Larry — Monday November 14, 2011 @ 11:17pm PST  Reply to this post

• “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” is a bullshit title. What does the word “bullshit” in the title tell you? Nothing that wasn’t conveyed by “suck,” except now you suspect the book is poorly written. “Another Bullshit Night in Boston” or “Another Night in Suck City” would have sufficed. For that realism vibe, “A Homeless Shelter in Boston” would have spoken volumes. To get some cursing in, just cursing would have been fine. “Fuck. This a Memoir about Meeting my Dad at the Homeless Shelter where I Work.” Now that’s a fucking title.

  Comment by Shawn — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 12:27am PST  Reply to this post

  • Well said…

    Comment by Roland — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 9:13am PST  Reply to this post

  • Completely agree.

    The solution is to leave the title alone.

    Bad movies=necessity for attractive titles=confused, angry movie goers.

    Comment by yes — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 11:55am PST  Reply to this post

• Movie of the week.

  Comment by dee123 — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 1:14am PST  Reply to this post

• TAXI DRIVER 2: Bickle is a Dad!!!

  Comment by Luke — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 3:10am PST  Reply to this post

• Wow, are we all cynical or what?

  It looks like some powerful acting. I rarely, if ever, have judged a movie by it’s title, so I could care less what it’s called.

  Comment by Wicked — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 3:58am PST  Reply to this post

• Wait! Where’s Ben Stiller in this?

  Or, Billy Crystal?

  Comment by LuigiDaMan — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 6:06am PST  Reply to this post

• i saw it and it’s pretty great…dano and de niro do a great job…. it’s a serious and touchy subject matter…still would love the title to change back to another night in suck city

  Comment by fredster — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 6:47am PST  Reply to this post

• Robert De Niro is finally in a good movie again. So, so happy.

  Comment by filmstudent — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 7:05am PST  Reply to this post

• I’ve seen the movie. It is absolutely beautiful.
  Best work Paul has done since About a Boy.

  Comment by movie watcher — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 8:43am PST  Reply to this post

• You can argue about the title all you want. All I know is that I couldn’t get through the bullshit trailer. Talk about Suck City. Ugh.

  Comment by jarlerguy — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 10:11am PST  Reply to this post

• Talk about completely changing a title. Who knows? The publishing company may have changed the author’s title to ANISC. In that case, publishers/editors also need to leave the artist’s title alone. “Being Flynn” makes it sound like we’re going to be looking at the world through the eyes of Nick, with him being the focal point of everything else. From the trailer, it appears to be a story about an event: what happened when a boy and his estranged father, who are both writers and writing memoirs, meet by chance at the homeless shelter where the boy works.

  Speaking of De Niro, one can come up with numerous workable titles for The Deerhunter but “The Deerhunter” worked out.

  Not bad. This may get 12 bucks out of me.

  Comment by avgmoviegoer — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 10:42am PST  Reply to this post

• looks pretty interesting to me

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 10:47am PST  Reply to this post