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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3759551, member: 833"] Mank - Netflix - A movie about the making of a movie. David Fincher's direction and Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried's excellent performances make the move seem better than it really is. I will add that Tom Pelphrey was fantastic as Oldman's younger brother in a completely different role than he played in Ozark. The movie itself has a big fundamental issue from a plot construction perspective. [SPOILER]There is a good buildup for his conflict with William Randolph Hearst and his complicated relationship with Hearst's mistress Marion Davies, but there is virtually no buildup of the complete rupture between he and Orson Welles, which is by far the more defining event in Mankowiecz's life. The conflict with Welles just comes out of nowhere, before we even really know who Welles is, and because there is no buildup of the relationship either good or bad, it ends up being a random event thrown in at the end. [/SPOILER] There are enough clever lines and cool direction to go along with the great acting to make it entertaining, but it is ironic that a movie about writing a screenplay could have such significant issues with its own screenplay. [/QUOTE]