“Collateral Beauty” Podcast Movie Review

By Daniel Barnes on August 7, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Collateral Beauty (2016; David Frankel) – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 13

“Shed your skin.”

Abstract concepts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell struggle to find any beauty, collateral or otherwise, in David Frankel’s 2016 “catastro-fuck of the shittiest order.”

Despite a cast that includes six former Oscar nominees (and two winners), including Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren, Collateral Beauty is essentially a rich person’s Hallmark Hall of Fame movie.

Daniel and Corky cut through the treacle to discuss Domino rallies, skin shedding, Heaven experts and CSI: Cleveland, all while scheming to digitally remove themselves from the entire episode.

COLLATERAL BEAUTY FACTS AND FIGURES

U.S. theatrical release date: December 16, 2016

Domestic box office: $31 million (production budget: $36 million)

Critics scores: 14 on Rotten Tomatoes; 23 on Metacritic

This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Blonde NV (5.5% ABV)

This week’s Darer: Jesse Davis

Why did Jesse dare Daniel and Corky to watch Collateral Beauty? “Because I want the two of you to suffer for my entertainment.”

IMDB synopsis: “Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.”

This week’s referenced movies: Bright; Robocop; Manhattan; The Silence of the Lambs; Quicksilver; Bowfinger; The Snowman; Aloha; The Dark Tower; Back to the Future; Lord of the Rings; Seven Pounds; The Pursuit of Happyness; After Earth; Wild Wild West; Men in Black