"Being the Ricardos' mini review
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 11:11 am
Wife and I watched it last night on Prime. Overall, we liked it. I think Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem did a great job playing Lucy and Desi.
J. K. Simmons was f'ing perfect as William Frawley (the actor that played Fred Murtz).
I know a lot of critics claimed the jumping around in time was confusing, but I had no problem with it. Many docu-dramas are done that way. I swear, I think modern critics all think we're too stupid to follow a complex plot nowadays.
IT IS an Arron Sorkin film, so there's a lot of dialog you need to follow, and yeah, sometimes Javier Bardem lays on the Cuban accent a little thick to follow, but overall we enjoyed the hell out of it.
So happened my wife had recorded a Lucille Ball documentary a few weeks ago, so we watched that afterwards, and it was nice to get some more background from that.
J. K. Simmons was f'ing perfect as William Frawley (the actor that played Fred Murtz).
I know a lot of critics claimed the jumping around in time was confusing, but I had no problem with it. Many docu-dramas are done that way. I swear, I think modern critics all think we're too stupid to follow a complex plot nowadays.
IT IS an Arron Sorkin film, so there's a lot of dialog you need to follow, and yeah, sometimes Javier Bardem lays on the Cuban accent a little thick to follow, but overall we enjoyed the hell out of it.
So happened my wife had recorded a Lucille Ball documentary a few weeks ago, so we watched that afterwards, and it was nice to get some more background from that.