The Dinner (2017)

Really Surprised!

People are voting emotionally.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This seemed like the type of film I would typically enjoy, however there is nothing enjoyable about this film whatsoever.The first half is so slow-paced and drawn out that I almost completely lost interest before the actual point of the dinner was revealed. Once I got to that point, the premise of the film was *just* interesting enough to force myself to suffer through the meandering second half to find out what happens in the end... except there is no actual ending. It just stops, as if they suddenly ran out of film while shooting the final scene.Besides that, the sound editing made me want to punch my TV screen in the face. How, you ask? By starting with practically inaudible dialogue muttered under the breath, and cutting suddenly to blaringly loud transition music, and repeating that about 46 trillion times until I wore out the volume buttons on my remote.This might be the most excruciating film I've ever sat through.

Wow what a bad movie, such a great, famous and talented actors and such a slow movie. Richard Gere did you even read this script before you said YES ? awful, don't waste your time, watch something else

Well casted, well acted, well filmed... all of which makes this complete nothing of a film more irritating.An incessantly interrupted dinner...which I realize is the point, but after about the tenth halt to all action just for the point of being frustrating... got more and more tedious as each pretentious and overwraught course was served. Two couples, related, arguing about long-held grudges, moving slowly, slowly, slowly to the point: a serious incident involving their children. Very serious.The tense relationships between all parties is revealed slowly slowly slowly via flashbacks, as is the incident in question.Then we reach a scene which should be the climax, but the movie ends mid-scene with no resolution and we are taken to the credits.No resolution.No character arcs.No plot developments.Just a lot of backstory and a really frustrating and pretentious meal.If you want to be put into an irritated mood with a general desire to slap every person you see for the next several hours, by all means, subject yourself to this self-indulgent bit of nothing. I'm pretty sure that the entire message of the movie is: Don't refuse the dessert course, you will piss off the wait-staff and they will argue with you about your poor choice. It was the only coherent scene in the entire miasma of irritation.

I was really looking forward to watching this movie. Great cast, interesting story line. Such a waste of 2 hours of my life. Don't bother