Logan Lucky, like its characters, smartly gets out while the getting is still goodĪs you’d expect in a heist film, the crew ripping off the Coca Cola 600 NASCAR race at a Charlotte, North Carolina, speedway succeeds in their task. To explain why, I’m going to have to spoil everything.
#Cast away ending movie#
It even survives what amounts to an abrupt transformation into a totally different movie in its last 25 minutes.īut it’s the ending of Logan Lucky that best illustrates how much more successful this particular story is as a movie than it would have been as a TV show - and how much more successful certain kinds of stories are as movies than they would be as TV shows. The movie is tightly structured, beautifully paced, and endlessly inventive. I was spurred to this line of thinking by Logan Lucky, director Steven Soderbergh’s endlessly entertaining new heist film. Looking back at them now, it’s easy to identify the spots where they might have been needlessly blown out to fill a weekend’s worth of streaming. Indeed, a bunch of the summer’s best films tell precisely the sorts of stories that work beautifully when constrained to 120 minutes or less, but might feel forced or clunky or stretched if they were expanded to occupy an entire season of television. It’s enough to give those of us who worry that the multiplex has ceded some of its cultural centrality to the HDTV in your living room hope that the movies might once again become the center of passionate debates and arguments. Somewhat surprisingly, it’s been a really great summer at the movies.
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