Being the Ricardos (2021)'s comments

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boulderman

I felt they are making more out of the film than either what is needed or what is being asked (for).

The first scene is a great intro (and just as my wife wondered..."wha-" the scene ended to then switch to the explanation.

I think it's a case of "the film/script" is trying to be clever.

I also think they could have let sleeping dogs lie. I didn't feel I needed to see it and certainly held off watching it for months.

I'm not American, hadn't watched the TV show and maybe that was part of it? I was familiar with all the characters/companies mentioned.

The "deeper mind"(?) of Lucille was ...interesting but I think it was over used.

Ok 5/10

2 years 1 month ago

chicachica

I love "I Love Lucy" a lot. I also love Lucy. What I didn't love was Nicole Kidman as Lucy, Kidman and Bardem are almost 20 years older than Lucy and Ricky at that time, and no amount of makeup will make Kidman look like Lucille Ball, or act like her. I could have done without two hours of Lucy and Desi sniping at each other, and at everyone else on their staff. I'm not even sure that the HUAC situation was a good story to build a movie around. It was terrible, and I plan to forget I ever saw it.

2 years 4 months ago

frankqb

Javier Bardem is great in this film, Nicole Kidman is certainly not bad either. I'm jus not sure they're great TOGETHER. There's a certain spark missing to their conversations. Moreover, there's a certain spark missing to the narrative here. The premise of this being a peek at the worst week in this storied show's history was intriguing, but then we ended up with 45 mins of backstory that isn't particularly relevant. It's like watching a film about a pivotal WWII battle, but we spend half the film showing the making of the Treaty of Versailles.

That said, there are a number of just AMAZING scenes in this film. I loved many of the scenes, but as a whole they do nothing for me. The film comes off as a weird mish-mash of biopic and behind the scenes Sorkin-isms (including one walk and talk). I think this film might have been a better stage play.

4 stars out ot 5

2 years 4 months ago

Earring72

OK drama but overall not that involving. Acting was good but movie just didn't sparkle for me. Looks great though.

2 years 1 month ago

Forzelius

Enjoyable acting performances. Brought back Studio 60/Sports Night feels. I would guess Sorkin lovers will like this, average viewers possibly not so much.

2 years 3 months ago

Siskoid

In spite of not being a particular Lucille Ball fan (have I ever seen an episode of I Love Lucy? I don't think so), I did enjoy Being the Ricardos, while at the same time acknowledging it's nowhere near Aaron Sorkin's best work. Maybe there are too many narrative devices - a fake talking heads documentary, flashbacks within the flashback, Lucy's imagination staging the sketches in black and white - or perhaps the likeness make-up is distracting (on Nicole Kidman especially), I'm not sure, but it doesn't quite gel. And yet, there are a lot of great moments in the nitty-gritty of comedy writing and working out the slapstick, J.K. Simmons can do no wrong, and you can always count on Sorkin to deliver some cracking dialog. And to bring it back to a single theme, in this case Lucy's deep need to find a home, illustrated in the type of show she built, and contrasted with the type of marriage she had. I like Sorkin's biopics for that kind of distillation and insight, I just wish he'd cut out the layer too many.

2 years 4 months ago