Another Trailer - "Conclave"

[89th]

The cast is fantastic. Fiennes…he is so good.

[George K]

Looking forward to this one:

https://apnews.com/article/conclave-movie-ralph-fiennes-vatican-68b94414896f541a65f673b7bca7b7dc#

[89th]

Watched the movie. Won’t spoil, but the cast was good, as expected. I found myself “predicting” various twists and wish it had gone with one or two I had in mind. I didn’t expect the resolution, guess you knew it with the book!

[Klaus]

Terrible and embarrassing ending. The test was ok

[bachophile]

Read the book, saw the movie. I liked it irrespective of the surprise ending , just because it’s one of those look behind the scenes depictions, the politics and infighting behind picking the pope, ironic how God’s vicar on earth is voted in by a very temporal process, but I guess that’s part of the theology anyway.

[Copper]

@bachophile said in Another Trailer - "Conclave":

ironic how God’s vicar on earth is voted in by a very temporal process

People are no darned good.

[George K]

@bachophile said in Another Trailer - "Conclave":

I liked it irrespective of the surprise ending , just because it’s one of those look behind the scenes depictions

Agreed. All the machinations, factions and politics were intriguing to read about. Harris does pretty good research, iirc, so there's probably more than a grain of truth to this.

ironic how God’s vicar on earth is voted in by a very temporal process,

I've thought about that since I was about 10 years old. Not often, though, LOL.

[89th]

@Klaus said in Another Trailer - "Conclave":

Terrible and embarrassing ending. The test was ok

Agreed. It felt very forced and out of nowhere.

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I was hoping that Lithgow was actually innocent of the claims and it was a “8 moves ahead” chess move by Tucci to allow himself to become Pope by manipulating the dead Pope in his final days.

[George K]

Watched it today.

Better than I expected, putting the ending aside.

All the intrigue, etc., was well done. Fantastic acting and cinematography. If it weren't for that, it would be about 2 1/2 stars. The technical aspects, direction and action raise it to three - just for the spectacle.

Not worth a second watch and the "surprise" ending seemed a cop-out so that "I can surprise you how this ends."

Good, not great.

[89th]

Good review. I'm a big Ralph Fiennes fan (ever since Quiz Show), so it was fun to watch him lead this cast.

[89th]

Ah I forgot that the terrific John Turturro was in that movie as well. I need to re-watch it.