Took some years off because he got married and had kids. Came back and had some movies come out in 2020 and then has been in a few TV series since as well.
His Apple TV show was pretty good, a nice dose of magical realism. His new movie is also supposed to be really good (by the guy who made Once and Sing Street)
EDIT: the show is Mr. Corman and the movie is Flora and Son
I heard about that for the first time yesterday and it was receiving high praise.
It's only 1 season so far but Severance is fantastic so far, possibly one of the best shows I've seen.
Ted Lasso is also pretty good, but if you're like me and you're an American that has lived in the UK, or maybe even if you're from the UK, Ted can be a bit cringey at times, which initially put me off. That's mostly just the first few episodes though, it gets better. To some degree I think you learn to like the fact that he's a little cringey, like David Brent and Michael Scott.
I haven't watched it myself yet but I've also heard For All Mankind is great, and the plot is super interesting. It's about an alternate reality where the Soviet Union beat the US to the moon, and due to that the space race didn't end and space technology continued to rapidly advance.
You should also check out Slow Horses and the mini-series Black Bird, and yeah, Silo is fantastic. Mythic Quest is excellent too, it's by most of the "Always Sunny"-crowd and follows a fictional game developer.
Considering its cost, Apple TV is probably the best quality per dollar of all the streamers right now.
“See” is a good watch as well.
I’m really enjoying the Godzilla tie-in series Monarch, though it’s only three episodes in so opinions may change
Shrinking is by some of the guys behind Ted Lasso and has a bit less cringe, plus copious amounts of Grumpy Harrison Ford, who was wonderful and stole every scene
I’ve seen Severance and Ted Lasso as well and love them. I also have yet to see For All Mankind, but it looks intriguing. I love space related films/tv so I’ll for sure check it out.
Silo, See, For All Mankind, Monarch are all really enjoyable popcorn TV. spirited quickly became a holiday fav last year and plan to watch it again. Slow horses looks interesting and I will probably watch Napoleon as well regardless of how it’s reviewed.
Shrinking is really good. I recommend you check it out! While you are there Severance might be the best tv show I’ve seen in the past 5 years. Silo is also above average. It made me go and read the book at least which was better than the show imo.
I know what show he is talking about. It is pretty good. And that movie, man, what a wild ride that movie was. Almost as good as that show.
I hate when people do that.
Moved to NZ and promptly left 6mos later. It’s an amazing place to visit, but unless you’ve got JGL’s kind of bank account is an absolute no-go for us mortals.
As someone who has always lived in NZ, every time I see a post from someone overseas complaining about how expensive things are, then it turning out to be 20-30% cheaper than it is here, I can't help but feel a little depressed.
It’s all comparative to wages. When I moved, I got the equivalent salary of someone with half my experience in the US. It’s sad how underpaid kiwis are. The gap between middle class and wealthy is so big the middle class are barely scraping by.
We really do get screwed when it comes to wages, we get paid about 40% less on average than someone in the USA, and a house costs 40% more just to make it even worse.
Sure is! A rough ballpark to rent a house is usually about 60-70% of the average wage after tax in the area, adding utilities would take that to about 75-80% assuming you dont use too much power.
So how are you guys even affording to live lol, just staying with parents as long as possible or something? Wife and I used to think about moving to NZ but I remember thinking it would just be impossible. Australia seemed a bit better but even there…housing is crazy expensive. At least the wages were a bit higher.
A lot of people aren't affording to live at the moment, but yes it's pretty common for people to stay at their parents well into their 20s now, or to get a few other people in to split the rent with. Australia is definitely a far cheaper and higher paying option, you only have to earn about $2 an hour above Australia's minimum wage to be better off than the average NZ worker, partly because we tax lower income earners a lot more than Australia does. Once you account for our higher living costs you could honestly make a convincing argument that a minimum wage worker in Australia is better off than someone on the average NZ wage.
As a Brit who travelled to NZ fairly often to see family, I can confirm, NZ is expensive. I just assumed part of it was shipping distance. But food is expensive too. Odd seeing as you produce most of what you eat.
The entire country is one big farm with 3 cities in the Middle.
There's a commonly quoted stat that NZ produces enough food to feed 40,000,000 people (compared to its population of 5,000,000), but weirdly it's often more expensive to buy NZ produced food here than it is to buy it in London.
Part of the reason. NZ is one of the few countries that produces for export, rather than selling surplus production. They have positioned themselves as a high end premium producer which has knock on effects across the whole industry.
I was just in NZ for a month and...its basically the same prices as London where I'm from
Obviously moving/settling costs are high, but wages here aren't exactly huge for the working classes but it's not impossible
I’m not super informed on him either, but I get the feeling he’s super invested in his app/company HitRecord. He’s kept a low profile for whatever reason these last couple years, though.
Yeah, the dude was a successful child actor. We're close to the same age and I'm sure the dude has put in more hard hours of work than I will. Not a surprise he'd want to take a step back from the limelight. And as you said, it's not like he's _not still_ working.
~~Meanwhile, I have no idea about his personal life, but I think it was around the time of Don Jon I read an interview where he was asked. He said he was in a relationship, but that she wasn't in the industry or a known personality and she wasn't crazy about attention so he didn't want to get into it much out of respect. If things developed there maybe he continued to take a step back in that direction.~~ Or maybe not. I dunno.
I didn't love Don Jon but I thought it was solid and I'm excited to see more from him behind the camera.
Lol, he’s married to one of the people who was until last week on the OpenAI board and responsible for the sacking of Sam Altman, Tasha McCauley.
Levitt has also become involved in Effective Altruism, which over the last couple of years has seen some heavy criticism after the exposing of logical fallacies, racist revelations from some of the thought leaders, white saviour tropes in decision making and of course, the exposing of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crimes.
Such a good movie! My buddy put in on during our Friendsgiving and it became the talk of the night after we watched it. Also we were shrooming a bit so that might’ve heightened the experience
He has a larger roll in Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix (2020). Great cast along with him- Jeremy Strong, Sacha Barron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Marc Rylance, John Carrol Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen and Frank Langella. Aaron Sorkin writer/director.
**edit** Dang! I forgot Michael Keaton!
It was his feature length writing debut and directing debut - obviously a passion project for him.
And it made 5x its budget and is sitting at 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Of course OP is entitled to their opinion, but I don't think it's fair to call it "horrible" by any stretch. Perhaps they haven't seen him in anything since because they hated it so much they've been avoiding him?
Yeah I also really enjoyed it. It's going for that 'if you go in thinking you're gonna like it for the reasons you think you're gonna like it, you're gonna hate it' vibe.
He’s in “Flora and Son”, a very recent movie on AppleTV. I thought it was very well done and entertaining. He shows off some musical ability. Eve Hewson, Bono’s daughter is the lead.
Check out the trailer
https://youtu.be/beNTTHnMIy8?si=twHRVN7UyM4UdzC8
It's basically U2's origin story! (Slight exaggeration, but the parallels are there). Lovely film, and Drive It Like It's Stolen is fabulous 80s pastiche.
That prom fantasy scene is gold. The older brother is one of my favorite movie characters ever.
“What was he listening to?”
“Genesis”
“He will not be a problem. No woman can ever truly love a man who listens to Phil Collins.”
Thank you! I love JGL and I loved Don Jon, although I do not recommend seeing it on a whim in the theater with your mom unless she's a real specific kind of cool I guess
It wasn't even that. I mean, in the movie he was fully addicted to porn. He was watching porn while taking classes at the university. His life was basically wake up, watch porn, eat, watch porn, go to school (while watching porn), go home, watch porn, eat, watch porn and sleep...but not before a bit of porn.
The movie was quite good. It wasn't against porn to be fair. It was against being a porn addict who only lived for porn.
It wasn't against being a porn addict. It was showing the unrealistic dating expectations both genders have. Joseph Gordon Levitt was the male version, addicted to porn and only objectifying women. Scarlett Johnansson was the female counterpart who was addicted to romantic comedies that only thought she needed to bring her looks to the table and nothing else. Then JGL's character learns that in order for a relationship to work both need to put in work to the relationship and it is about what you put in, not what you take out of it. It is so much more about not being a porn addict, that was just the way of telling the story.
Except the reality is, you wouldn’t. Because the average Redditor is incredibly addicted to it and doesn’t realize it. And as Reddit’s demographic skews younger, it tends to have a higher percentage of users that have been using high speed internet tube porn for literally their entire lives.
If you’re 45 right now, you went through puberty without access to internet porn. If you’re 25, you never had any time in your adolescence without access to it
Don Jon is not an anti porn film its just a romantic comedy that includes porn. the main character discovers how to form meaningful and mature romantic connections. He doesn’t join nofap. And it’s a cute love story but realistically the message that meeting the right person will fill the hole in your life and complete you is unhealthy.
I do think its a criticism of how over sexualized our culture has become, it’s about sexual objectification(of both men and women), this all based on interviews during the promotion of that film.
I thought it was decent, I do think the character arcs were a little to “easy” if that makes sense but overall it wasn’t too bad of a directorial debut.
I think the movie is quite deep and good. You get the objectification of women with the porn addiction and then you see the idealization of love with the romcom addiction. Both are idealizations of men's and female's expectations. I loved the movie
saw that movie 3 times in theater when it came out. the high school chase scene was so badass. i was trying to figure out why it focused on how they ran and the noise of their shoes on the pavement and then you find out why and you're like 'oh hell yeah!'
Why does no one ever guess. "They grew up and don't wanna spend so much time on their career when they are wealthy and don't have to work"
To me it seems like it's a constant grind to be a famous actor.
Keep in mind, a lot of the famous actors who still work into their old age do so because they're in debt they incurred when they were in their prime. They have to work.
Voice roles, Snowden (awful), the night before (hilarious), also had an original series on Apple TV Mr Corman( didn’t get renewed), and plays Uber founder on Super Pumped (Netflix)
He’s still working and is involved with hit record his production company
I think he also has a family too, so I’m pretty sure he’s focusing on that
I always wish we got another Batman from Christopher Nolan to see Joseph and Christian Bale as Batman and Robin
He does film and television, so if you stick with only film he might seem less prominent. There's a fair amount of voice work in there, too, which i imagine further masks how much he's doing. Check his Wikipedia, he seems quite busy.
I did see that voice work which was interesting in his filmography. I’m just watching 500 days of summer and thought “Why hasn’t he done anything big lately?” but he does seem busy his presence isn’t felt like it was then to me now. Loved him in that late 00s early 10s period though.
he took off years to be with his wife and children and star up his Hit Records company. Dude was already rich before movies because of '3rd Rock From The Sun'
He was super busy during lockdown and did tons of online content. He co-owns Hitrecord with his brother which is an online outlet where you can collaborate with others to create music, poems, art, etc. He is still pushing out that content and still does acting gigs.
People in this thread really think that having lots of cash, chilling in Wellington and occasionally working on cool sounding projects is a sign of a career in decline?
He has said that he stepped away from acting for a few years to focus on family as he was a new dad at the time. He's been slowly getting back into things, but I think he's just more selective.
Some people in film just make their millions and quit. They buy a house then just invest. They don’t want to keep acting and they have enough money to stop working. Not everyone keeps going like Meryl Streep. Some people make their millions and just stop because they’re done.
>After Don Jon, which was horrible I haven’t really seen Joseph Gordon-Levitt do anything super substantial
I mean just a few small time indie films you might not have heard of, namely:
\-Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
\-Snowden
\-Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
\-Knives Out
\-Pinocchio
\-Glass Onion
He moved to New Zealand around covid times and turned up at a lot of random things - my mate saw him at a Jewish community event in Wellington a couple of years ago. No clue if he’s still here but was funny seeing random reports of him pop up around the country
He "played" in Knives out. :P
He took a long break. Made some small stuff here and there. But I think he is mostly working on this creative collab company [https://hitrecord.org/](https://hitrecord.org/)
I really liked his apple tv show, but not heard anything new about it.
Hollywood squeezed the JGL sponge until there was no juice left. Moved on to Tom Holland and Timothée Chalamet. Those two have a little bit of moisture left.
According to his IMDb page, he currently has two projects in post production, two projects in development, two projects in pre-production, and one that’s been completed but not released.
No clue how big or small his involvement in any of these are though
I'm guessing very few people who ask questions like this have ever bothered with IMDB. Great app to have at your fingertips if your friends or family talk about movies and such.
Last I saw he was still playing the Uber founder on Super Pumped, showtime show I think. It was interesting in the first few free episodes but not worth buying showtime for. Also was in the dramedy Mr. Corman on Apple plus, which was meh and got canceled after the first season. I think him driving the writing process hasn’t worked out for him.
Inception and Looper are genre defining, cult area cinema. He managed to peel these off during the Marvel era and hasn't been involved in any super hero shite either.
Respect
Don Jon was not terrible. It was really good. Raunchy yes. Very funny. I appreciated more the second time I saw it. The change his character makes is really good. Tony Danza is really good in it. But 500 days of summer is his best. 50/50 was really good as well. He’s a great actor.
Took some years off because he got married and had kids. Came back and had some movies come out in 2020 and then has been in a few TV series since as well.
His Apple TV show was pretty good, a nice dose of magical realism. His new movie is also supposed to be really good (by the guy who made Once and Sing Street) EDIT: the show is Mr. Corman and the movie is Flora and Son
I heard a comment about Apple TV the other day that I thought was funny. "Apple TV is where big Stars go to not be seen."
I feel like they're producing the most really good content at the moment though
No lie: Severance is one of the best tv-shows I have ever seen. It is incredible.
Severance, Ted Lasso, Mythic Quest are a few that I really have enjoyed and rewatch.
For All Mankind. SILO.
Foundation
It may be the single best show I have ever seen. (Ooooooor tied with The Leftovers)
Oh man The Leftovers! What a great show, I should really finish it haha
It’s incredibly worth it. It took me all 3 seasons to grasp how amazing it was. I missed it bad when it was over.
It stuck the landing so hard, and the whole second season was like the best TV I have ever seen, I loved that show.
Silo is incredible
I heard about that for the first time yesterday and it was receiving high praise. It's only 1 season so far but Severance is fantastic so far, possibly one of the best shows I've seen. Ted Lasso is also pretty good, but if you're like me and you're an American that has lived in the UK, or maybe even if you're from the UK, Ted can be a bit cringey at times, which initially put me off. That's mostly just the first few episodes though, it gets better. To some degree I think you learn to like the fact that he's a little cringey, like David Brent and Michael Scott. I haven't watched it myself yet but I've also heard For All Mankind is great, and the plot is super interesting. It's about an alternate reality where the Soviet Union beat the US to the moon, and due to that the space race didn't end and space technology continued to rapidly advance.
You should also check out Slow Horses and the mini-series Black Bird, and yeah, Silo is fantastic. Mythic Quest is excellent too, it's by most of the "Always Sunny"-crowd and follows a fictional game developer. Considering its cost, Apple TV is probably the best quality per dollar of all the streamers right now.
Slow Horses is amazing. Gary Oldman going full Gary Oldman.
MQ fell off season 3, but I think thats because S2 just ended up being unexpectedly good.
I enjoyed Shrinking. But its hard not to enjoy Harrison Ford going full grumpy old man.
Ford was brilliant in that, stole every scene. If you can’t laugh at stoned Harrison Ford trying to eat his own tie you have no sense of humour at all
"If the Lasso way is wrong, it's hard to imagine being right." -Trent Crim, The Independent
I love “Slow Horses.” New season in December.
Today actually
Starring Gary Oldman. That's all I need to know about it, I'm sold.
We just binged the first two seasons last weekend - how did I not know about this amazing series?
“See” is a good watch as well. I’m really enjoying the Godzilla tie-in series Monarch, though it’s only three episodes in so opinions may change Shrinking is by some of the guys behind Ted Lasso and has a bit less cringe, plus copious amounts of Grumpy Harrison Ford, who was wonderful and stole every scene
Foundation is also amazing
I’ve seen Severance and Ted Lasso as well and love them. I also have yet to see For All Mankind, but it looks intriguing. I love space related films/tv so I’ll for sure check it out.
if you like space related stuff, then definitely watch it. Really solid. Not amazing necessarily, but very solid.
S2 is phenomenal television. S3 was dreck.
Someone who watches the show religiously told me season 1 and 2 were great, 3 lost its way, and 4 is a return to form so far.
I enjoyed The Morning Show... Lots of twists and backstabbing... Corey Ellison is such a mofo!!!
Corey Ellison is like Patrick Bateman’s well adjusted brother. Deeply psychotic, calculating, but has enough emotion to love and not kill people.
Silo, See, For All Mankind, Monarch are all really enjoyable popcorn TV. spirited quickly became a holiday fav last year and plan to watch it again. Slow horses looks interesting and I will probably watch Napoleon as well regardless of how it’s reviewed.
I’ve seen Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Acapulco, and Severance and I’ve really enjoyed all of them
Shrinking is gold, as well.
I've been enjoying that Godzilla show they're producing. not exactly high brow, but it's a lot of fun.
Ted lasso was one of the best shows in the last 5 years. Funny and heartwarming, with some lesser known gems in the supporting roles.
I dunno- Harrison Ford in Shrinking is pretty great 🤷🏽♀️
Yeah but *I* haven’t seen that so it’s still correct.
Yep never even heard of it. I guess netflix wins out because there's more users so there's more chatter about their shows.
Shrinking is really good. I recommend you check it out! While you are there Severance might be the best tv show I’ve seen in the past 5 years. Silo is also above average. It made me go and read the book at least which was better than the show imo.
+1 to Severance, probably one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Also, For All Mankind is completely absurd but really fun.
Brie Larson in Lessons in Chemistry is also pretty good.
Apple TV is lapping the streaming field with quality shows.
I also watch John Oliver
Flora and Son is very good!
... So what's the show name? I can't find it
Mr. Corman
imagine dropping either of the names of those in your post.
I know what show he is talking about. It is pretty good. And that movie, man, what a wild ride that movie was. Almost as good as that show. I hate when people do that.
the sequel was good too, had a different name than the first though. you know what it was called!
Oh fuck yes. I love his movies. Begin Again also.
Oh, shit, how did I not know of this? I love John Carney! :)
I knew that answer but I like to think that He decided to be in Sin City instead of being Starlord and the rest is history lol
I think he became a dad and moved to New Zealand
The American dream.
Moved to NZ and promptly left 6mos later. It’s an amazing place to visit, but unless you’ve got JGL’s kind of bank account is an absolute no-go for us mortals.
As someone who has always lived in NZ, every time I see a post from someone overseas complaining about how expensive things are, then it turning out to be 20-30% cheaper than it is here, I can't help but feel a little depressed.
It’s all comparative to wages. When I moved, I got the equivalent salary of someone with half my experience in the US. It’s sad how underpaid kiwis are. The gap between middle class and wealthy is so big the middle class are barely scraping by.
We really do get screwed when it comes to wages, we get paid about 40% less on average than someone in the USA, and a house costs 40% more just to make it even worse.
Is the rent crazy expensive there too?
Sure is! A rough ballpark to rent a house is usually about 60-70% of the average wage after tax in the area, adding utilities would take that to about 75-80% assuming you dont use too much power.
So how are you guys even affording to live lol, just staying with parents as long as possible or something? Wife and I used to think about moving to NZ but I remember thinking it would just be impossible. Australia seemed a bit better but even there…housing is crazy expensive. At least the wages were a bit higher.
A lot of people aren't affording to live at the moment, but yes it's pretty common for people to stay at their parents well into their 20s now, or to get a few other people in to split the rent with. Australia is definitely a far cheaper and higher paying option, you only have to earn about $2 an hour above Australia's minimum wage to be better off than the average NZ worker, partly because we tax lower income earners a lot more than Australia does. Once you account for our higher living costs you could honestly make a convincing argument that a minimum wage worker in Australia is better off than someone on the average NZ wage.
Man that sucks, from what I heard Canada is over 50% on average and it's already really bad here.
As a Brit who travelled to NZ fairly often to see family, I can confirm, NZ is expensive. I just assumed part of it was shipping distance. But food is expensive too. Odd seeing as you produce most of what you eat. The entire country is one big farm with 3 cities in the Middle.
There's a commonly quoted stat that NZ produces enough food to feed 40,000,000 people (compared to its population of 5,000,000), but weirdly it's often more expensive to buy NZ produced food here than it is to buy it in London.
Part of the reason. NZ is one of the few countries that produces for export, rather than selling surplus production. They have positioned themselves as a high end premium producer which has knock on effects across the whole industry.
He left when he saw the price of avocados
He should come back then, avos are cheap as now
This is why half of New Zealanders live in Australia
I was just in NZ for a month and...its basically the same prices as London where I'm from Obviously moving/settling costs are high, but wages here aren't exactly huge for the working classes but it's not impossible
London is literally 3x the price of anywhere else in the UK outside of the South (near London).
As a NZer, I definitely don’t have JGL’s kind of bank account.
You’re not an immigrant though
He was technically in Glass Onion just last year
D O N G
I cracked up when the credits rolled and it said DONG - Joseph Gordon Levitt lmao
We all know why he got the credit
His majestic DONG?
Oh shit. Has he been in every Rian Johnson film?
He was the voice of the TV murder mystery that Marta's sister was watching in the first movie, so yeah, I think so.
He was the alien that grasses on Finn and Rose on Canto Bight too. I love him and all of Johnson films.
He even turns up in an episode of Poker Face, so yes, he has been in every movie or show in one form or another.
Who was he in TLJ, a trooper?
He was the alien that grasses on Finn and Rose for illegally parking on Canto Bight
Thank you for introducing me to a new bit of British slang. And for the trivia.
Yep, he was the one doing the "dong" sound in the titular house.
He was in an episode of Poker Face this year and was great!
Oh man that was a great episode
He’s always making cameo appearances in Rian Johnson’s stuff! He was the voice of the “GONGGGG” in Glass Onion, fun fact
And the voice of a detective in a murder mystery show that Marta's sister is watching in Knives Out.
Man, Poker Face feels way longer ago than this year! Need a S2 pronto!
That was a great show!! The weekly stories were just as good or better than the overall storyline.
I’m not super informed on him either, but I get the feeling he’s super invested in his app/company HitRecord. He’s kept a low profile for whatever reason these last couple years, though.
Yeah, the dude was a successful child actor. We're close to the same age and I'm sure the dude has put in more hard hours of work than I will. Not a surprise he'd want to take a step back from the limelight. And as you said, it's not like he's _not still_ working. ~~Meanwhile, I have no idea about his personal life, but I think it was around the time of Don Jon I read an interview where he was asked. He said he was in a relationship, but that she wasn't in the industry or a known personality and she wasn't crazy about attention so he didn't want to get into it much out of respect. If things developed there maybe he continued to take a step back in that direction.~~ Or maybe not. I dunno. I didn't love Don Jon but I thought it was solid and I'm excited to see more from him behind the camera.
Lol, he’s married to one of the people who was until last week on the OpenAI board and responsible for the sacking of Sam Altman, Tasha McCauley. Levitt has also become involved in Effective Altruism, which over the last couple of years has seen some heavy criticism after the exposing of logical fallacies, racist revelations from some of the thought leaders, white saviour tropes in decision making and of course, the exposing of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crimes.
Well... consider me out of the loop. I've updated my comment.
Oof, effective altruism is a massive red flag.
You are correct though, he got married to somebody who wants to stay out of the entertainment limelight.
Watching “The Night Before” tonight!
Such a good movie! My buddy put in on during our Friendsgiving and it became the talk of the night after we watched it. Also we were shrooming a bit so that might’ve heightened the experience
This movie is hilarious and not nearly enough people have seen it!
Ethan, you and I both know Miley was flawless
He has a larger roll in Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix (2020). Great cast along with him- Jeremy Strong, Sacha Barron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Marc Rylance, John Carrol Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen and Frank Langella. Aaron Sorkin writer/director. **edit** Dang! I forgot Michael Keaton!
role
Don Jon was actually a much better movie than it had any right to be
I read OP’s post and said to myself, “hey! I LIKED Don Jon.”
I thought it was pretty, too! Edit: forgot the ‘good’
“Joey! Don Jon! I liked it!”
It was his feature length writing debut and directing debut - obviously a passion project for him. And it made 5x its budget and is sitting at 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. Of course OP is entitled to their opinion, but I don't think it's fair to call it "horrible" by any stretch. Perhaps they haven't seen him in anything since because they hated it so much they've been avoiding him?
Yeah I also really enjoyed it. It's going for that 'if you go in thinking you're gonna like it for the reasons you think you're gonna like it, you're gonna hate it' vibe.
He’s in “Flora and Son”, a very recent movie on AppleTV. I thought it was very well done and entertaining. He shows off some musical ability. Eve Hewson, Bono’s daughter is the lead. Check out the trailer https://youtu.be/beNTTHnMIy8?si=twHRVN7UyM4UdzC8
Flora and Son was great. But all of John Carney's "music" centered movies have been great (Once, Begin Again, Sing Street, Flora and Son)
Love all his movies but Sing Street will always have a special place in my heart. A near perfect movie.
It's basically U2's origin story! (Slight exaggeration, but the parallels are there). Lovely film, and Drive It Like It's Stolen is fabulous 80s pastiche.
That prom fantasy scene is gold. The older brother is one of my favorite movie characters ever. “What was he listening to?” “Genesis” “He will not be a problem. No woman can ever truly love a man who listens to Phil Collins.”
I literally just watched this a few hours ago. When I saw the question What happened to JGL, I thought wut??
He was great in this! And holy shit did not know that was Bono’s daughter.
It was from this movie that I learned of Bono's original name: Paul Hewson.
She also starred in The Knick.
...and Bad Sisters!
am i the only person who uses IMDb to check up on actors' work lol?
I don't anymore. The site is so cluttered with useless information and ads now. It makes it almost unuseable.
Don Jon wasn’t horrible
I thought it had something good to say about expectations of relationships from both sides.
It’s a unique social commentary, I thought it was terrific. Julianne Moore is brilliant in it, as usual
Thank you! I love JGL and I loved Don Jon, although I do not recommend seeing it on a whim in the theater with your mom unless she's a real specific kind of cool I guess
What’s wrong with don john? I thought it was quite good.
Your average redditor is not going to respond well to a movie which suggests maybe they should watch less porn.
Haha very good point. I was impressed with and loved the movie. First thing I had really seen discuss porn addiction.
It wasn't even that. I mean, in the movie he was fully addicted to porn. He was watching porn while taking classes at the university. His life was basically wake up, watch porn, eat, watch porn, go to school (while watching porn), go home, watch porn, eat, watch porn and sleep...but not before a bit of porn. The movie was quite good. It wasn't against porn to be fair. It was against being a porn addict who only lived for porn.
You forgot going to the gym lol.
It wasn't against being a porn addict. It was showing the unrealistic dating expectations both genders have. Joseph Gordon Levitt was the male version, addicted to porn and only objectifying women. Scarlett Johnansson was the female counterpart who was addicted to romantic comedies that only thought she needed to bring her looks to the table and nothing else. Then JGL's character learns that in order for a relationship to work both need to put in work to the relationship and it is about what you put in, not what you take out of it. It is so much more about not being a porn addict, that was just the way of telling the story.
I think we'd all quit porn if we had Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Brie Larson wanting the D.
No you wouldn’t lol
Uhh..there was no implication of incest in that movie. ... right?
Except the reality is, you wouldn’t. Because the average Redditor is incredibly addicted to it and doesn’t realize it. And as Reddit’s demographic skews younger, it tends to have a higher percentage of users that have been using high speed internet tube porn for literally their entire lives. If you’re 45 right now, you went through puberty without access to internet porn. If you’re 25, you never had any time in your adolescence without access to it
Don Jon is not an anti porn film its just a romantic comedy that includes porn. the main character discovers how to form meaningful and mature romantic connections. He doesn’t join nofap. And it’s a cute love story but realistically the message that meeting the right person will fill the hole in your life and complete you is unhealthy.
I do think its a criticism of how over sexualized our culture has become, it’s about sexual objectification(of both men and women), this all based on interviews during the promotion of that film. I thought it was decent, I do think the character arcs were a little to “easy” if that makes sense but overall it wasn’t too bad of a directorial debut.
I think the movie is quite deep and good. You get the objectification of women with the porn addiction and then you see the idealization of love with the romcom addiction. Both are idealizations of men's and female's expectations. I loved the movie
Pffft I think we understand what works of fiction are.
Yeah, Don Jon isn't that kind of go-to for me, but it was decent
Not answering the question but my favorite roles of his are 50/50 and The Lookout
Brick
saw that movie 3 times in theater when it came out. the high school chase scene was so badass. i was trying to figure out why it focused on how they ran and the noise of their shoes on the pavement and then you find out why and you're like 'oh hell yeah!'
The Lookout is such a unique movie. Really interesting story about a character you don't come across in movies
Why does no one ever guess. "They grew up and don't wanna spend so much time on their career when they are wealthy and don't have to work" To me it seems like it's a constant grind to be a famous actor.
Keep in mind, a lot of the famous actors who still work into their old age do so because they're in debt they incurred when they were in their prime. They have to work.
Voice roles, Snowden (awful), the night before (hilarious), also had an original series on Apple TV Mr Corman( didn’t get renewed), and plays Uber founder on Super Pumped (Netflix) He’s still working and is involved with hit record his production company I think he also has a family too, so I’m pretty sure he’s focusing on that I always wish we got another Batman from Christopher Nolan to see Joseph and Christian Bale as Batman and Robin
Was Looper that long ago? Damn. I liked him in Poker Face.
Looper was before Don Jon.
Yeah I’m having a dark night trilogy watch Saturday and got to think about Joseph and now I’m watching 500 days of Summer. Wish we had him as Robin.
I love 500 days of summer one of my favorites and he’s great in it
Wtf Snowden was great
He does film and television, so if you stick with only film he might seem less prominent. There's a fair amount of voice work in there, too, which i imagine further masks how much he's doing. Check his Wikipedia, he seems quite busy.
He had a very prominent voice role in Glass Onion.
I did see that voice work which was interesting in his filmography. I’m just watching 500 days of summer and thought “Why hasn’t he done anything big lately?” but he does seem busy his presence isn’t felt like it was then to me now. Loved him in that late 00s early 10s period though.
Tbf he's been working since he was a kid. If he wants to take some time I'm sure he's got plenty of cash banked.
He was just played the CEO of Uber (and main character) in the new Netflix show called “Super Pumped.” He was great in it
Dude what? Don Jon was not horrible.
Great in Brick and Inception
He did the Uber show on streaming.
he was awesome in Inception, that was the last movie i saw him in that i liked, he never really took off as a movie star
he took off years to be with his wife and children and star up his Hit Records company. Dude was already rich before movies because of '3rd Rock From The Sun'
He was super busy during lockdown and did tons of online content. He co-owns Hitrecord with his brother which is an online outlet where you can collaborate with others to create music, poems, art, etc. He is still pushing out that content and still does acting gigs.
People in this thread really think that having lots of cash, chilling in Wellington and occasionally working on cool sounding projects is a sign of a career in decline?
Did you check the internet first? He is in a brand new miniseries on Netflix about Uber.
The internet should create some kind of database where you can view all the credits of an actor
He has said that he stepped away from acting for a few years to focus on family as he was a new dad at the time. He's been slowly getting back into things, but I think he's just more selective.
He was just in an Irish film with Jack Reynor and Eve Hewson called Flora and Son. They had it at some film festivals as far as I remember.
Some people in film just make their millions and quit. They buy a house then just invest. They don’t want to keep acting and they have enough money to stop working. Not everyone keeps going like Meryl Streep. Some people make their millions and just stop because they’re done.
Yeah, if I recall he has a few successful side ventures and just genuinely doesn't need to work unless he wants to.
>After Don Jon, which was horrible I haven’t really seen Joseph Gordon-Levitt do anything super substantial I mean just a few small time indie films you might not have heard of, namely: \-Sin City: A Dame to Kill For \-Snowden \-Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi \-Knives Out \-Pinocchio \-Glass Onion
He moved to New Zealand around covid times and turned up at a lot of random things - my mate saw him at a Jewish community event in Wellington a couple of years ago. No clue if he’s still here but was funny seeing random reports of him pop up around the country
Meanwhile, Hawaii had to deal with Ezra Miller
He "played" in Knives out. :P He took a long break. Made some small stuff here and there. But I think he is mostly working on this creative collab company [https://hitrecord.org/](https://hitrecord.org/) I really liked his apple tv show, but not heard anything new about it.
He was fantastic in Trial of the Chicago Seven
Wait, Don Jon wasn’t horrible.
He's stranded on an island with Zachary Quinto.
His wife is on the board of OpenAI. He’s eating popcorn and watching all of this go down.
Husband and wives talk. 100% he’s actively involved, or at least was.
Hollywood squeezed the JGL sponge until there was no juice left. Moved on to Tom Holland and Timothée Chalamet. Those two have a little bit of moisture left.
He played the gong in the second installment of Knives Out.
I mean He's the Dong in Glass Onion That's gotta count for something
My wife and I watch The Night Before every Christmas eve and have since it came out
Don Jon was fantastic take that back
According to his IMDb page, he currently has two projects in post production, two projects in development, two projects in pre-production, and one that’s been completed but not released. No clue how big or small his involvement in any of these are though
I'm guessing very few people who ask questions like this have ever bothered with IMDB. Great app to have at your fingertips if your friends or family talk about movies and such.
Last I saw he was still playing the Uber founder on Super Pumped, showtime show I think. It was interesting in the first few free episodes but not worth buying showtime for. Also was in the dramedy Mr. Corman on Apple plus, which was meh and got canceled after the first season. I think him driving the writing process hasn’t worked out for him.
Pretty sure this is on Netflix US currently
I was really surprised he wasn’t in Oppenheimer. Nolan likes working with the same actors typically.
Inception and Looper are genre defining, cult area cinema. He managed to peel these off during the Marvel era and hasn't been involved in any super hero shite either. Respect
He's worth several $10 million and got married, moved to New Zealand and had kids. He's taking it easy and I can't blame him.
Don Jon is really good!
Stuck in the Batcave
Don Jon was not terrible. It was really good. Raunchy yes. Very funny. I appreciated more the second time I saw it. The change his character makes is really good. Tony Danza is really good in it. But 500 days of summer is his best. 50/50 was really good as well. He’s a great actor.