Despite an 84% on Rotten Tomatoes with solid reviews, the movie didn't catch on at the box office upon its Aug. 29 release ... even with a robust marketing campaign. (There's also a sense that this might be a film people return to — and appreciate more — in the years ahead. )
The EV-based Aronofsky filmed parts of "Caught Stealing" in the neighborhood last fall, recreating a 1998 version of the East Village with authentic details, including signage from Kim's Video and Benny's Burritos at their former storefronts.
From Double Down Saloon to the Quick Coin laundromat, we caught (sorry, we keep doing that!) a lot of the filming action around here.
One location we didn't note! The International Bar at 102 First Ave. near Sixth Street stood in for a Chinatown establishment that Austin Butler's character visits ...
While we didn't love everything about the movie the first time around in the theater, we're looking forward to seeing it again on the small screen — especially the East Village scenes.
Previously on EV Grieve:
• EVG Q&A: Darren Aronofsky on 'Caught Stealing' and revisiting the East Village of 1998 (link)
• IDLES pack into Night Club 101 for a surprise East Village set (link)
• 'Caught' celebrating: Why Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz and Darren Aronofsky were at the Double Down Saloon last night (link)
11 comments:
It was not good. Rotten Tomatoes is not the place to get an idea of audience sentiment.
It was needlessly violent and stereotypical. Didn't feel like Aronofsky at all.
The book is great. Much more of the action takes place in the East Village. The car chase lands in now gone John Lindsay East River Park not Flushing Meadow and the finale happens around Astor Place. Worth a read. Huston is a good writer.
The book is one of the best East Village stories I've ever read. Huston nails the logistics very well and much more the story happens there. The car chase ends in the now gone John Lindsay East River Park and the final sequence of the story takes place around Astor Place. Huston is a good writer.
I tried to watch Caught Stealing this evening. The ‘90s East Village street scenes were neat to see, but the movie’s plot is really bad and the violence is gratuitous. After an hour, I turned off the movie and marked it “not for me” for the Netflix algorithm.
I enjoyed it a bunch!
Loved it!
Yeh, not good.
I loved it. I don't care what others say I'd watch it again
OK, maybe I'll read the book.
1 word review: Meh...
It had tone problems. You can have blackly funny violence or you can have sympathetic innocents suffering gratuitously, but not both.
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