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Killing Them Softly is a 2012 crime thriller film, directed by Andrew Dominik, starring Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn.
- 86 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon
- posts span Jun 10, 2023 to Nov 1, 2026
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60 of 95 · most liked firstI watched the weirdest movie with the kids tonight -- "Killing Them Softly." The final scene has Obama on the TV doing the "not red, not blue, UNITED states of America!" schtick & then Brad Pitts' hitman saying, "bullshit, America's not a community, it's a business, so fucking pay me."
positive · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #134 "Killing Them Softly" (Andrew Dominik/2012) Another movie I have not watched but came highly recommended to me. Fantastic cast in this one. I'll have to check it out soon!
neutral · AI labelView post →The most iconic cinematic take on America's Independence Day is either the space alien invasion movie or the final scene of Killing Them Softly: youtu.be/m-mqgCliinQ
neutral · AI labelView post →Has any recent film aged better in such a short period of time than “Killing Them Softly?” At the time of release it was lambasted as too ham-fisted and obvious. And now, it just comes across as matter of fact.
positive · AI labelView post →AUSA: How did Cassie sound on the audio recording? Combs' Steel: Objection! Judge: Overruled. Mia: Panicked. I heard the sound of someone getting hit. AUSA: Did you go to events? Mia: The premiere of Brad Pitt's movie Killing Them Softly
neutral · AI labelView post →He’s in KILLING THEM SOFTLY for less than 10 minutes and walks off with the movie. Willy Loman as a hitman.
neutral · AI labelView post →In a replacement to the scheduled programme, here’s a review of a stone cold classic you might not have seen, Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly, a crime story that’s pretty relevant to what’s happening right now to America under the Nazi salute of President Musk. film-authority.com/2025/02/07/k...
neutral · AI labelView post →For homework purposes I am rewatching KILLING THEM SOFTLY, a blunt but very idiosyncratic movie I have grown to think of as 97 minutes of feature-not-bug.
neutral · AI labelView post →"This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me." (Killing Them Softly, film, released May 22 2012) That's Trump's America It's just a business.
neutral · AI labelView post →it goes without saying that whenever Richard Jenkins is on the screen, the audience is asking "Why isn't everyone in this movie Richard Jenkins" but I want to highlight this little bit of character actor puttering and business from KILLING THEM SOFTLY. the goatest, best in class etc:
neutral · AI labelView post →I will say that unfortunately, whatever the merits of the whole movie, the Gandolfini scenes in KILLING THEM SOFTLY are without any qualification, just bad.
negative · AI labelView post →“Killing Them Softly” was the last good Chappelle stand-up movie and that was 23 years ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just remembered the ending of the 2012 movie Killing Them Softly, where Brad Pitt's rant includes condemning Thomas Jefferson for being a hypocrite because of his familial slavery.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favorite bits of movie trivia is that James Gandolfini was in three movies with Brad Pitt and in all three he was a hitman who failed to kill his target. (True Romance, The Mexican, Killing Them Softly)
neutral · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly is the other perfect movie about the Bush era. A tight, miserable show of violence and grim decline in the aftermath of natural disaster and systemic cruelty. It ends with Obama being elected.
positive · AI labelView post →Ben Mendolsohn is persistently wetter in Killing Them Softly than anybody in any James Cameron movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the 2012 movie Killing Them Softly and while I don’t think it works all that well man does Pitt’s last line/cut-to-black rule. Rare case of a movie’s last 15 seconds adding like a star and a half.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: Killing Them Softly directed by Andrew Dominik released November 30, 2012. Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella, Sam Shepard, George Carroll, Linara Washington, Ross Brodar. #Noir
neutral · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly was the last time a movie told the truth about America.
positive · AI labelView post →R.I.P. Roberta Flack- and I'm tripping because just YESTERDAY I was explaining the title of the film 'Killing Them Softly' to my son, taking him through this on Youtube and then the Fugees remake, and now Pras is charged with being a spy for the Chinese government and Robert Flack is dead.
neutral · AI labelView post →Your yearly reminder to watch the finest movie ever made about America: Killing Them Softly (2012) starring Brad Pitt as the greasiest hitman youve ever seen
positive · AI labelView post →Added To Watchlist: KILLING THEM SOFTLY (2012) @bradmilne79.bsky.social on Andrew Dominick’s crime film which has much more on its mind. www.neonsplatter.com/added-to-wat...
neutral · AI labelView post →"So yeah, he [Thomas Jefferson] wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy (Obama) wants to tell me we're living in a community." (Killing Them Softly, film, released May 2012)
neutral · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly (2012) - this movie is underrated.
positive · AI labelView post →"Killing Them Softly" (Brad Pitt hitman movie) uses a bunch of 2008 financial crisis soundclips from Obama etc during times there's no dialogue for Artistic Reasons and it is possibly the single most annoying choice I have ever seen a director make. It just chips away at the movie being watchable.
negative · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly, this movie was by far the biggest disappointment ever. I considered it a profane insult to the late actors Ray Liotta & James Gandolfini.
negative · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Killing Them Softly on Letterboxd
positive · AI labelView post →It's now a rite of passage that any Australian director who makes it big with a crime drama has to go overseas and make an equally violent cops and robbers movie all about Capital A America. Justin Kurzel's THE OTHER isn't quite as thorny as KILLING THEM SOFTLY, but certainly better than TRIPLE 9.
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2020, I launched an essay series at The Playlist called Inflection Point. The series used pandemic-era political issues - police violence, immigration reform - as a lens for key films of the 21st Century (such as CONTAGION, KILLING THEM SOFTLY, and SIN NOMBRE).
neutral · AI labelView post →I miss Liotta, he was always great to see show up in any movie. He ruled in this, and also Killing Them Softly
neutral · AI labelView post →The film "Killing Them Softly" described the United States perfectly, "America is not a country. It's just a business." Not to mention all the past bigotry that went unpunished has gotten us to this point.
positive · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly is such an underrated quiet crime movie. I know those types of movies don’t make money and that’s why nobody really bothers to make them anymore but goddamn do I wish they did.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Killing Them Softly.
neutral · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly is another film that more or less clocks america exactly.
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched Killing Them Softly, a movie that has been on my radar since I saw a commercial for it… 14 years ago holy fuck. Anyway, decent film. 6-7/10
neutral · AI labelView post →Books/Magazines/Podcasts: * No Logo by Naomi Klein * Adbusters by Kalle Lasn * Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev * A New Train of Thought (though somewhat ham-fistedly) by Various Writers * Ashes, Ashes by David Torcivia and Daniel Folkner * Reset by Roland J. Diebert Fitting the description of movie/show: * Mr. Robot * Utopia (UK version) * Killing Them Softly * The Big Short, Margin Call * Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai * 3-Iron (Korean film) *…
neutral · AI labelView post →My Latest FAILED LETTERBOXD REVIEW blog essay is out. This time it’s all about the capitalism and crime movie, Starring Brad Pitt KILLING THEM SOFTLY. Which seems a victim of mismarketing and bad calculations open.substack.com/pub/jeffreyu...
positive · AI labelView post →i really shoulda watched Killing Them Softly because on paper it seems hackneyed as fuck but i didn't realize it was the Jesse James movie guy directing it & he managed to compel actually good acting out of late-stage ray liotta some fucking how
positive · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly (2012) might still be the most astute (and unsubtle) critique of modern America put to film in this century
positive · AI labelView post →I remember Samuel L. Jackson calling Killing Them Softly, a Pulp Fiction ripoff and every time I think about that I realize how out of touch the average actor is. I love Jackson’s work but that is the most tone deaf reading of that movie I can think of.
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't get into everything I felt like it did wrong without getting mad all over again. That said, you're absolutely right about KILLING THEM SOFTLY. That's a legit great film.
positive · AI labelView post →I can understand why people hate the film, but yeah that’s a standout scene. I have issues with the film, but as an outsider I think it is closer to what’s happening in America right now, than anything has been since Killing Them Softly.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you watched Killing Them Softly? It's such a good movie, but the Boston accents and the constant radio chatter about the 2008 financial collapse are crazy-making.
positive · AI labelView post →In the movie Killing Them Softly, Brad Pritt's chatacter can be viewed as a stand in for neoliberalism compared to Gandolfini's character, who represents the old order
neutral · AI labelView post →Killing Them Softly is the only mob movie I got interested in.
positive · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: Killing Them Softly directed by Andrew Dominik released November 30, 2012. Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella, Sam Shepard, George Carroll, Linara Washington, Ross Brodar. #Noir
neutral · AI labelView post →What y’all doin tonight? I’m watching a movie. Killing Them Softly. Pic unrelated I just wanna show off my new pants again 🥰
neutral · AI labelView post →If the director had been less ham fisted with the social commentary and the movie knew what city the story was happening in Killing Them Softly would be a top 5 crime movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The week on Dead Format: the only New Orleans plays Boston movie that was years ahead of it's time in it's hatred for America, Andrew Dominick's Killing Them Softly sites.libsyn.com/602585/38-ki...
neutral · AI labelView post →I was watching Killing Them Softly the other day and my spouse walked by during the scene where Ray Liotta is getting the shit kicked out of him. Just pure shock that we used to film the hell out of movies once.
positive · AI labelView post →watching the movie Killing Them Softly, it has Obama's speech in it at the end and I'm listening going, "Man this guy could give a speech." Like there is not a politician today who could talk like him when he was running for president. Confident, self-assured, educated, exceptional.
positive · AI labelView post →Enormous Killing Them Softly fan, incredible film.
positive · AI labelView post →In the movie "Killing Them Softly", Brad Pitt's character says: 'This guy [Obama, speaking on TV] wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business.' There's your answer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #ISawtheTVGlow #KillingThemSoftly 6 Genuinely Great Movies With Way-Too-Low IMDb Ratings http://dlvr.it/TQLxl5
neutral · AI labelView post →The guy who wrote the book also wrote Killing Them Softly which is another great movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Completely agree on Chopper. I also think Robert Ford is excellent. Killing Them Softly isn’t quite as good as those, but it’s still a damn good movie. I haven’t seen a film of his I didn’t think was good.
positive · AI labelView post →. Yes, KILLING THEM SOFTLY (2012) is an excellent #NeoNoir film. I'll have to rewatch it soon for free on Roku: therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/8b7bd1... The 1971 Buick Riviera is a sweet whip, as seen in this trailer. .
positive · AI labelView post →I have a question. In your view does Killing Them Softly qualify as film noir? Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini.
neutral · AI labelView post →For a first date, I brought them to the movie "Killing Them Softly" because I got it mixed up with a comedy movie that was playing at the same time Pretty sure I was hunched over and head in my hands in despair when they blew a guys brains out in the parking lot with a shotgun
negative · AI labelView post →On that same note, Andrew Dominik's follow up film "Killing Them Softly" is another masterpiece.
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