Killing Them Softly
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Sep 21, 2026
Gray PittmanHOST
My thing is, is I don't really have much to say about Gandolfini except for Sopranos and then True Romance.
Gray PittmanHOST
And then he's also in Killing Them Softly.
Gray PittmanHOST
All three of those roles, he's playing not the greatest guy.
Gray PittmanHOST
But the other thing I can go off of, and I know he's got comedy chops because he's done SNL.
Nick NunziataHOST
No, that's Scott Cooper, the other one.
Justin WaddellHOST
What is that movie called? Killing Them Softly.
Justin WaddellHOST
Killing Them Softly.
Justin WaddellHOST
But those two movies had kind of a similar feel to them.
Justin WaddellHOST
You needed someone a little bit more experienced or a little bit had more of a vision, I think, to direct this one.
Jordan PerryHOST
There's a lot of just lingering... beats between but like to me it is all tension ramping up like it doesn't need to tell you that this is intense because under the context of what we're perceiving very much so but so i could see like modern audiences not loving it it is weird to me that it didn't do well back then because this seems like right up like what early 70s it seems exactly early
Ryan OliverHOST
70s it's based on george v higgins novel which was also acclaimed um his work was also adapted into 2012's killing them softly um which was like but that movie was like set that book was set when it was written either in the 60s or 70s and then they updated the setting for that movie killing them
Jordan PerryHOST
softly but
Ryan OliverHOST
yeah i mean honestly like as I say that, I'm like, it makes sense.
Jordan PerryHOST
And you're watching every block start getting looser and start shaking.
Jordan PerryHOST
And then that's interspersed, which is so crazy because I did not think about it until just now.
Jordan PerryHOST
So many moments reminded me of the robbery scene in Killing Them Softly.
Jordan PerryHOST
And that was before I knew this was the same joke because that first bank robbery is almost no score.
Sean McGeeHOST
Yeah.
Sean McGeeHOST
But then obviously killing them softly, too, I think is like a maybe like not so much indirectly post 9-11, but it's obviously like the downfall of the American empire commentary.
Sean McGeeHOST
And yeah,
Andy SteinhauerGUEST
it's a reflection on the Bush years.
EHOST
See what people could be recommending.
EHOST
I don't know what you would pair with this film this week.
Sean McGeeHOST
I mean, I spoiled my run up top, but I think Killing Them Softly is a funny follow up to this as like book ending the Bush years where this is a little bit more of the optimism and then it wears off and it's just pure like pessimism by the time we get to Killing Them Softly.
EHOST
I love it.
Ryan M. MurphyGUEST
And they were picking and choosing the right kind of thinking man's action movies to put money into and to stand behind, and we got to go make some great movies.
Ryan M. MurphyGUEST
Um, Killing Them Softly is so, so underrated.
Ryan M. MurphyGUEST
Gerard Butler-
Dan ThompsonHOST
Yeah.
Dan ThompsonHOST
Ray Liotta.
Dan ThompsonHOST
Andrew Dominik's a good director.
Ryan M. MurphyGUEST
You've never seen anybody get their ass kicked like Ray Liotta in Killing Them Softly.
Dan ThompsonHOST
No kidding.
Stephen HydenGUEST
That was a hit maker through the 90s, yeah.
Lena MorganHOST
You remember that? He did it for that movie, Phenomenon.
Lena MorganHOST
Yeah,
Stephen HydenGUEST
changed the world.
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Lena MorganHOST
Game.
Stephen HydenGUEST
I love that scene.
Stephen HydenGUEST
I mean, it's the kind of song where if you put it in a movie now, I don't think it would work because it's so on the nose.
Stephen HydenGUEST
You'd almost have to be making fun of another movie by using it.
speaker_1HOST
man what was that other gang movie with I think it was Brad Pitt was in it or mob movie let's see here brad pitt mob movie
Neil LeckerHOST
killing them softly
speaker_1HOST
yeah did you like that one
Neil LeckerHOST
um i think so i it's been i don't really remember much i remember like there's the one scene like where the movie gets its title where he's talking about like people always like plead and like cry for their life so he just like shoots them in the back of the head so he doesn't listen to it and it's like there's a young like james gandolfini in it I don't remember disliking the movie, but it's been so long.
ScottHOST
In The Place Beyond the Pines, he returned to police corruption, older now and heavier with authority.
ScottHOST
In Killing Them Softly, he played a frightened, doomed man and allowed the character's humiliation to become genuinely upsetting.
ScottHOST
He was no longer protecting the handsome leading man image because he never seemed especially interested in protecting it to begin with.
ScottHOST
Noah Baumbach's marriage story used him beautifully as Jay Marotta, a divorce lawyer whose friendliness has the pressure of a closing trap.
RussellHOST
The Assassination of Jesse James and the director that made this movie.
RussellHOST
After that, he made a movie called Kill Them Softly.
RussellHOST
But then for 10 years, he was trying to make a Marilyn Monroe movie.
RussellHOST
And.
Graeme WilliamsonHOST
yeah.
Graeme WilliamsonHOST
Killing them softly is quite funny if you're in the right mood.
Rob SpencerGUEST
It is, it is actually.
Rob SpencerGUEST
I re-watched that recently.
Graeme WilliamsonHOST
I think Blonde didn't work, but I wish...
Graeme WilliamsonHOST
Yeah, I didn't see that yet.
Graeme WilliamsonHOST
I wish I had Letterboxd when Killing Them Softly was released just to set in stone that when everyone else was slagging it off, I said, no, this is a really great movie and you're all wrong because it is so much better than its initial reception.
Rob SpencerGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
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