Timothée Chalamet | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

The new movie “Marty Supreme” is yet another example of the latest type of Hollywood movie that focuses on being different rather than being good. This story is loosely based on a real table tennis player Marty Reisman (1930–2012) and is not a biography about his life. The sport of table tennis is not popular in the United States but is around the world, mostly in Japan, making this unlikely movie all the more unusual. Other attempts to make this story different are that it is way too loud, too long, too haphazard and most of all too weird.

Starting with the timeline starting in 1952, the unusual cast that includes Gwyneth Paltrow as a famous actress Kay Stone, Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, the insane, broke, and constantly on the run table tenis player, x-NBA star player George Gervin of all people, Kevin O’Leary as the CEO of a pen company Milton Rockwell and angry husband of Kay Stone, who sponsors table tennis tournaments in Japan. Fran Drescher plays Marty’s mother, Rebecca Mauser.

Marty also has an on-again off off-again girlfriend, Rachel Mizler, played by Odessa A’zion, and their relationship includes scrounging for money, violence, and searching for a lost dog that later involved a gunfight. How this fits into a story about an overly ambitious table tennis player is anyone’s guess, with all these extra insane scenes making this entire 2-hour and 30-minute ride more difficult to sit through.

There is a scene with Milton Rockwell and Marty Mauser towards the end of this film that once again answers the question, “as an actor, how far are you willing to humiliate yourself to be a famous movie star, or to be an actor in a movie”? I could not believe this embarrassing scene with O’Leary and Chalamet, and I cannot believe the idiotic high ratings of 95% for this insane waste of two hours.

This movie is too long, too boring, too weird, and extremely loud. I am more than tired of all these crazy movies now becoming almost commonplace, released by Hollywood every year.

My rating for this movie is 50% only for some of Chalamet’s acting, who will probably be nominated for an Academy Award, and a recommendation to “miss this mess” at all costs.

The sequel to the original Dune released in 2021 was a movie I streamed some time ago and it was so boring that I had to fast-forward through a majority of the film. For the sequel “Dune Part 2”, the extreme levels of boredom still exist and I thought that the best way to see both of these movies is to either get the DVDs or stream them, and then just skip to the action scenes and special effects. Dune 2 is yet another example of special effects first, great screenplay a distant second. This is mostly because of the anticipated embedded audience that the producers expect because of the fans of the Dune books and the original movie.

The other problem with this film is that nothing is really explained almost as if they expect that the entire movie-going audience has fully read the entire book series. Characters come out of nowhere, and there are few if any connections from one scene to the next. For a 2 hour and 46 minute film, this can get old very quickly and I was anxiously waiting for this entire long nightmare to end after about 30 minutes.

As for the high ratings both on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, I have no idea why this long, boring, and disconnected story is receiving such high marks. 190 million dollars was spent on this production, and most of this went to the special effects, which for me the is only reason to try and endure the 2+ hours. There is no real understandable or even recognizable story here, and with a better screenplay, this would have been a much better movie experience.

Dune 2 has several of the same actors as the first film, including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and Josh Brolin with this sequel including new actors, Austin Butler, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, and Christopher Walken. After some research there is a Dune 3 in the planning stages and depending on how much money this mostly bad movie makes there might very well be a 3rd movie. Based on how boring the first two Dune films have been, I will find it difficult to sit through a 3rd one.

Regardless of the incorrect high ratings for Dune Part 2, I do not recommend this movie.