Anthony Hopkins as Freud

Not a huge market for quietly paced, smart movies these days

But the critiques were unfriendly too. I found this unwarranted.

AH's overuse of the interjection "ja" was a bit too much.

He would have benefited from a German coach. But Freud may have used "ja" a lot.

Sometimes an orchid is just an orchid.

He's done a lot of trash movies, consequently he's not really a big draw.

Not enough singing!

R6 nailed it. Hopkins is grabbing up everything. He’s got all these movies on streaming I’ve never heard about. There’s so much mediocrity on his resume lately that whenever I see he’s in something, I’m halfway wondering if it’s garbage. The more movies you make, the shittier they become.

It’s far from a mediocre performance, R8.

Anyway, that being said I'll check it out. Thanks OP.

It might be, R9. I’m sure Hopkins delivered—he always does. But that doesn’t mean the film itself is good. Many a great performance has been lost in a sea of schlock due to factors like overly long runtimes, weak plots and poor pacing.

OP, the film is an extended theological discussion between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis.

Did you really think it would be a big draw? Perhaps you assumed children would collect "Freud's Last Session" action figures.

Was this a remake of "Freud" starring Montgomery Clift?

Matthew Goode is like a well-maintained cemetery.

It may be pretty on the surface, but in the end, not much is happening there.

Well that’s the idea that not much is happening, no? I didn’t argue that the movie is a block buster, I argued that it is worth watching for people with more than half a brain cell. My Dinner with André was another movie where nothing much happened yet it was worth watching, no?

No.

I don’t think it did justice to any of the characters, they all came off so creepy.

Subject matter. Few people understand Freud and this snoozefest confirmed it.

ROFL R7, first thing I thought of.