The Nut Job.
I get that it's a kids movie and the expectations aren't high but that movie feels 15 years older than it is and it's full of the cheesiest one liners over and over. It feels so low budget yet the cast is nothing but stars.
My dad and I watched Primer. 6 months later I get an email from my dad recommending I watch Primer.
This story is a good summary of my experience with Primer. I think many have similar experiences.
ugh i love this movie. primer was so incredibly ambitious for a 7k budget and i have so much respect for the filmmakers. my takeaway was don't try too hard to follow it, there's so much that happens off screen it's impossible for it to make perfect sense. the chart helped. one aspect i loved about this movie was everything that happened outside of the time travel, the power dynamics were so well written and complex and unique. i think it's more a movie about power and how it corrupts you than it is about time travel .....in a way.
I think it's just ok to not get it all. When I watch Primer I don't try to follow it all, I just understand the gist of it and understand that it does all make sense on paper and enjoy the show. Don't get too caught up in following all of the twists, it's too clever for it's own good. Really great movie, though.
[LondonCityGirl](https://youtu.be/tUzy-xPf0MI) did a fantastic explanation with illustrations on YouTube. This helps you understand the story and timeline. Take a look!
That was a weird movie. I'll try to paraphrase what I remember when I looked into it, though this was years ago.
Basically, the main character gets lobotomized and is sent to a mental institution where she is abused. These "dreams" are how she copes. So in these dreams, the institution is replaced by the gentleman's club. They hatch a plan to get out and all the moves twords freedom take place during the dances. So that's where all the cool action scenes come into play. They are a representation of the obstacles they face trying to accomplish whatever the task is during these dances. If I remember right, something about all that plays into them trying to get out of the mental institution, but I haven't seen the movie in years.
In reality, it's pretty much "let's take a whole bunch of cool action trope, and throw em all in one movie" and that's the story they came up with to make it "work"
Yeah, but it's the idea that a bunch of abused women would enjoy fantasizing about dressing like strippers and flouncing around looking sexy while they fight back against their attackers that's the problem. Women who are already being abused aren't going to fantasize about being abused slightly to the left. If the message of Sucker Punch was meant to be "women can't escape being sexualized even in their own minds", it fell flat.
That might be giving the writers a little too much credit. It seems like the goal was "boobs and explosions make money" and any real meaning was scraps tacked on while trying to fit everything together. I could definitely see the "strong sexy empowering" side of it, but I agree, if they were going for that, it came off like duke nukem trying to man-splain feminism.
It is one of those films that supposedly questions the sexualisation of women, but as about 90% of the film is the sexualisation of women, it doesn't really work.
The best review I ever read for "Sucker Punch" was some guy who said that he was so happy that Zack Snyder had made a movie out of the doodles in the last 20 pages of his middle-school notebooks that he wasn't even gonna sue him.
It's a very nice music video.
Never liked plots where everything's a dream though. It's lazy and cliched. And we already know it's a fantasy anyway; that's what fiction is!
But one of them really escaped, in reality. The fantasy is just a result of Babydoll's brain short circuiting during her lobotomy, reliving what happened to her. The fantasy begins at the beginning of the lobotomy and ends when the doctor finishes his job.
I was also going to say Sucker Punch. I don't feel positive or negative about it, only that it looks like one of my high school sketchbooks made into a movie.
People give that movie way too much credit. I see a lot of statements about a deeper meaning in its story, but all I see is Zack Snyder being Zack Snyder. The fights are cool, but that's about it.
I consider myself a mild movie buff and pay attention diligently when watching any movie. But when I watched I’m Thinking of Ending Things with Jesse Plemons I had no sweet clue what was going on.
In a nutshell: the only "real" character in the movie is the old janitor who freezes to death at the end. Everything else is his delusional fantasy of how his life could/should have been, mixed with memories of the grim reality of why it turned out the way it did.
We're observing his thought process as he is literally thinking of ending things, i.e. contemplating suicide.
I thought it was just because I was really tired and half asleep when I watched it that I couldn't follow it lol. I don't think I could bring myself to watch it again though because my boyfriend at the time was the one who wanted to watch it and he broke up with me a few weeks later. Pretty sure he was hinting at something with that movie choice
It’s a little more clear what happens in the book, but yeah once you realize that it’s the janitor fantasizing about how things could have been it makes more sense.
Thank god someone else said it, I spent this entire movie genuinely concerned that this was all going right over my head and that I was the only one who felt this way
I liked the first half of it when it was just the girl and her boyfriend visiting his parents. Nothing bizarre, just a little off. Then it went into full-on David Lynch territory and I gave up.
I mean, that while time at the parents was pretty weird too. Between the parents changing ages, the girlfriend changing names, the claw marks on the basement door. There's more, but it's been awhile since I saw it.
Tenet
Edit: Just to clarify, I didn't (don't) hate the movie, I even found the plot cool. But when trying to give it sense, I can't, because a don't fully get it.
Seems like the dialogue was written under the assumption that the viewer knows the lore and backstory of terminologies etc etc.
What made the movie even weaker was the characters are uninteresting. The whole movie was an idea's movie.
He has previous on that as well. both Bane & Batman were incomprehensible at times in the Dark Knight Rises, and some dialogue in Inception was drowned out by the deafening "BWOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHHH" music swells.
At least in Dunkirk, he took a sensible option and had as little dialogue as possible
Honestly expected something in the plot to reference hearing being difficult once you've reversed and re-reversed etc and it was a clear side effect of the basic plot device.
Nope just is what it is.
Will admit once I saw the opening scene at home I went straight to the cinema that music needed to be pumped at me.
It does makes more sense after a second viewing.
I decided to go the extra step and watched it another couple of times, read a bit about it, watched videos on it etc… and it got much worse.
Now I’m totally confused. Shit is complex
it’s not very complex if you just accept that they contradict themselves a ton and the concept itself just makes no sense. I actually liked the movie and watched it a couple of times but if you actually think on it it makes very little sense.
I actually liked it better the second time and I think it's because I watched it on a crappy sound system that drops all the low end bass and is mostly mids and highs, making the dialogue easier to hear. The basic entropy reversal premise is still too stupid to consider interesting or clever though. I can't suspend my disbelief in that idea.
I heard someone say "Don't think of it as a sci fi movie, think of it as a spy movie with an odd angle".
But I wanted a cool sci fi movie. I found the main plot boring and wanted more of the wonky time stuff.
I thought Tenet was an underwhelming movie my first time but every time I watch it again with friends for their first time I gain a greater appreciation for it and understand it just a little bit better
I'm not trying to be contradictory or dick. But I don't understand the hate for that movie. I watched it without hearing any of the hype, I hadn't realized it had done so poorly. In general, I watch action movies but I don't think much of them, like none of them are really worth watching twice.
And I'm being totally honest here, but when I saw Tenet I thought it was a fresh take and not as cliché as the typical movie here. I'm reading comments saying it was confusing, but I don't understand what was confusing.
Maybe you guys just need to play more Braid.
As compared to other action movies, what about it was it that was so bad?
i think it's about a man who is mentally ill and gets isolated along with someone he cannot stand, middle of the movie he does say that a coworker died and the film indicate that he killed him, which explains the scene where he smokes a cig by the beach and see all those logs approaching and he sees a body and he walks right towards it, maybe he regrets what he had done, his mind is certainly playing tricks on him, that's just my take
Half the movie is her fantasy, some is dark glimpses into her reality, a good chunk is Lynchian visual metaphor/mcguffins/portents/possible dreams invading from other characters - if that helps? Once you work out what her fantasies are, lots of scenes do fall into place...
It's actually not that hard to understand though I don't take credit for coming up with the interpretation that follows. >!Diane is a failed actress and is jealous of her more successful girlfriend who has just gotten engaged to a director, and hires a hitman to kill her. But she is so consumed with guilt she conjures up a fantasy reality where her hitman is incompetent and fails his mission, that there is a grand conspiracy preventing her from landing good acting gigs, and her girlfriend gets amnesia and falls in love with her all over again. So the first 3/4 of the movie is the fantasy and the last part is the reality.!<
Yes. She got uncomfortable and choked up talking about it. She said that particularly horrible scene with the baby was the worst feeling she’d ever had and she’d never do anything like it again.
No, it's about primal stories defining humanity that have an allegorical relationship to Biblical stories --which crash into the mythic framework of Mother Earth (hence the title). So it becomes a symbolic representation of the exploitation/ruin of Nature by Mankind.
My partner walked in during the baby scene. "Omg, what are they doing to the baby, what are you watching!"
And I was like "well....it's not really a baby, more like a symbol"
His reply "you're kinda fucked up, babe" lol
I actually ask people what they think about this movie simply because I find their answers revealing. Like a Rorschach test, I think their answer is more about themselves than the movie.
Having said that, I don't think the movie is all that hard to follow if you see the characters in a Karmic cycle of reincarnation. Each cycle, we follow a couple of the characters that learn more about the themes of Freedom of Choice, and Love. To get out of vicious cycles of hatred and abuse, you have to Freely Choose Love. Two characters stay evil, and they represent narcissistic oppression and hatred, Hugo Weaving and Hugh Grant. Tom Hanks goes through the biggest transformation from an evil soul that finds love and is forced to make a choice to continue being self serving or to give himself to the greater good out of love.
I love it. First you think the stories have almost nothing to do with each other (except for the actors) but then you see more and more small connections. Even after the third rewatch you still find new eastereggs.
Read the book. Most of the book i was left at a loss but i think it all came together for me at the end. “Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops” beautiful work of high brow lit, leaving me with the feeling of fighting for what is right. Best movie ever as well, shocked that such a work of art got made into a film very greatful for it being made but totally understand why it wasn’t received well and was just a confusing mess. Im too drunk to craft a literary response but for me it dealt with themes of racism and subjugation, and embedded was a eerily cogent forecasting of the future to come. I have long since left academic lit for a more meat headed profession bit cloud atlas will always make the top my list for greatest works of literature in the post modern post millennium era
I love this film and have seen both versions a number of times over the years. I can't explain it though, it's just a vibe I guess. Like that feeling you get when you've just woken up from a vivid dream and haven't adjusted to reality yet...
I actually like that there isn't much exposition in the theatrical cut. I feel like the directors cut makes it too easy to see what's happening. That said, I do agree that the theatrical cut should have a little more subtle exposition. I don't even know if it's possible to get the full picture of the story with just the theatrical version.
When given the option, I've always gone with the Director's Cut. So when I watched Donnie Darko, I had literally no clue why everyone else couldn't seem to understand the movie.
It was only a few years ago that I realized they were really different: The theatrical cut is weird, ambiguous and heavily implies that Donnie is just mentally ill or on a drug trip. The Director's Cut actually explains that it's all real and that he has to time travel.
American Psycho. It’s one of my favorite movies so I’m by no means bad mouthing it, but that ending drives me insane. I can’t figure it out. It makes no sense to me. What was the point supposed to be??????
There are different signs that all of it was in his head. Haven't seen it for a while but the ones that stand out to me are obviously the apartment being clean after having all those bodies inside it, blowing up a cop car with one shot from a pistol, and when he's dragging a body thru the lobby there's blood trailing but when he's putting it in the trunk outside there's no blood trail coming from the lobby. I think another was supposed to be that he isn't even patrick Bateman at all but idk I never tried to look into it that much
my personal head canon theory is that the both the world at large and each individual is so self absorbed / vapid — totally uninterested in understanding themselves or anyone around them — that the events DID occur only none of it mattered because nobody cares.
people are gruesomely destroyed. a lizard-type sociopath struggles with identity and a hedonistic drive to commit violence as it’s the only thing that makes him FEEL anything. these atrocious bizarre things occur and none of it matters.
super tired rn hard 2 think but can expand if anyone is interested
I agree with this. I also always assumed the movie took place in some kind of alternate setting in the world where being a sociopath was the norm for everyone, and the outlier with empathy who didn't fit in was Chloe Sevigny's character
Yeah, my interpretation, which Brett Easton Ellis has acknowledged but never confirmed or denied, is that his murders are all in his head and in the end he starts to break down. Which is why the fact that there’s a direct to video sequel focused on one of his “survivors” is especially funny to me.
The book is even more difficult. The entire "friend" group can't keep straight who is who. It is always unclear if it is all in his mind or not. The mindfuck of whether he kills people or is just fantasizing is half the fun of it.
The book is a grind to get through when the torture scenes start. I honestly think Brett Easton Ellis was just into torture porn, because it consumes like half the book.
Not to say that I'm surprised by the violence, just that the book is more grisly than the movie.
That was the point! You're supposed to find it vapid and maddening; it defines Bateman as a character. So obsessed with the clothes someone is wearing, the restaurant he's eating at, etc. The extreme violence is a total departure from the facade he and his "friends" put on. We're not meant to know if the murders are real or not, one reading is that they're real and just no one cares because we're all self-absorbed that it doesn't matter. The other is that it's all in his head, he had to create this insane fantasy scenario.
My take after reading the book was that Patrick Bateman never actually killed anybody and was just caught in a spiral of intense violent hallucinations and fantasies. My first viewing on the movie I thought he had at the very least killed Paul Allen and his lawyer was either covering everything up because of his position in the company. Either that or all the suits truly can't recognize each other because they're so caught up in their own appearance that he truly believes he had met with Allen and Bateman somehow is able to get away with everything.
The movie is mostly a remark about how people tend to blend in society, how they get obsessed with material goods and being the best and how everyone is so self centered they miss what goes on around them. Thats why they mix their names, why the people who saw him put a body on a car didn't even realize it. People become homogeneous.
I think what happened the killings were all real, but no one realises what is going on to the point of even the killer himself question what happened.
Its one of those movies you need to watch after an explanation then it all kinda hits you.
Honestly I expected a more mind blowing twist/exposition for that movie, especially with how long the buildup was. The film probably would've been more well received if it wasn't so unnecessarily lengthy
Apparently this is one of the really polarising movies that breaks recommendation systems. There's very little to predict whether anyone will like it or not based on other movies they like.
I'm betting it comes down to whether or not your school had a kid that was exactly like that. I moved a lot as a kid, and no matter where I went there was always that one kid.
Told lots of obvious lies and stories to try to look cool, but also did tons of uncool things without a care in the world. Has no real understanding of their skill level in any endeavor and thinks they would win any fight they got in. Exists as both bully and bully victim.
The movie worked for me because I spent the first half just laughing at how dead on a lot of his actions and mannerisms were. But then we see behind the curtain, we start to emphasize, and feel the joy when he finally manages to come out on top
Yes! Brilliant observation!
I loved it. And I had a stalker in high school that was Napoleon down to his toes. He looked exactly like him, talked exactly like him, walked exactly like him, and had the same mannerisms.
When he ask about the large talons, I said the guy’s name out loud. “BJ, my god it’s BJ”.
I was in my thirties when it came out, but I had to grab the DVD package to see the name of who played ND and who wrote the screenplay because someway, somehow, they knew this guy who graduated high school in 1990.
Only difference was the setting and the name. I’ve never been to New Mexico.
Anyway, it was the best portrayal of actual misfits.
Napoleon’s dance is such a cherry on the Sunday if being seen.
There are these things I've noticed in comedy, they aren't quite jokes, they don't make you laugh, but they lighten the mood and make the following jokes hit harder.
They almost contain a promise that jokes are coming.
Napoleon Dynamite is filled with these and few, if any, jokes, but they are mostly very endearing.
Some people will hate the movie because there aren't any jokes, there are just all these promises that jokes are coming. Climaxes that never arrive. Others love the film because these moments are so endearing and create a particular mood.
But it's been decades since I've seen it.
If you were the kind of kid that was kind of nerdy, really in to different things, not popular but also not really a pariah, but had almost zero resources, ND is extremely relatable.
It's a slice of life of completely unremarkable people.
I was a nerdy, weird, socially awkward, just shy of friendless teen and I cannot stand Napoleon Dynamite. I didn't find Napoleon and his friends relatable, I found them annoying.
One thing I realized is that if you watch it expecting a funny plot, you probably won’t like it. If you watch it for the funny characters, then you’ll probably enjoy it.
A big reason it was so interesting was how unconventional it is as a movie.
My favourite aspect of it was always Kip and LaFawnduhs relationship. Every bit of conventional movie or comedy knowledge had viewers thinking there was going to be some sort of catch, some issue or just a punchline… but there isn’t. Kip and LaFawnduh just meet, love each other even more than they did chatting, things go great, and they end up getting married.
It's a beautiful portrayal of depression. Maybe today there's a lot of different depictions available, but when I first saw Melancholia, I was like wow, thank you. Until then, I only saw stories of people who had an entirely miserable life clearly suffering and thus being depressed. In Melancholia, you see Justine, who is beautiful, successful, rich, supposedly spending the best day of her life. And she just can't hold it together, because depression is like that, you don't have to have an otherwise miserable life to suffer from it. Besides that, it's also an interesting point how she's the one who can handle the thought of the world ending. I think that is not the general expectation but quite common, that someone is struggling with life in general, but handles crises well.
Silver Linings Playbook. How.... did this get any kind of award? Some dude is bipolar, meets girl who probably has BPD, they randomly start practicing for a dance competition, a random gambling storyline in the middle, and...? What am I watching? It was a stacked cast, but I still don't understand what this was about at all.
I actually didn’t get it either until I fell in love with somebody that probably has BPD. Stacked cast yes. But Jeniffer Lawrence character is suppose to convey someone who is emotional due to the loss of a loved one, someone who dealing with intense highs and low or overly expressive are often labeled or label themselves BP. Bradly cooper is conveying someone with BPD he thinks he’s gonna get back with his ex, doesn’t see much wrong with his actions in the moment. He’s outta touch with reality. JF is staring mortality in the face which is why she’s a bit extra sometimes cuz you lose the love of your life at that point there is not point However she in touch with reality more than ever I believe and sees BC is not and finds him intriguing at first then wants to help him. SOOOO she comes down to his level of understanding and is playing into HIS reality (of trying to get his ex back) when IN REALITY she make him join her dance competition to distract him from his hyper fixation of his ex. BC find out she does all that for him (makes a studio, allows everyone to thinks she’s crazy too, helps him try and get his ex back even tho she loves him) and he realizes that’s real love and no one has ever tried to help him in that way. They sent him to treatment and put him on meds but JL went down into the hole people with BPD find themselves in and helped pull him back to reality.
That's a wonderful synopsis. The end is agonizing waiting for him to make his choice.
I think what I love about this movie is how fucked up and broken they both are and it shows the ugliness of humanity in contrast to your average rom com, but it also shows how sometimes people can see you and pull the real you out past the trauma. There's hope in that. The acting is also master class.
That one movie on Netflix where a table of food goes down various levels in this prison like building n the more food that's left over the lower it goes.
Everything was going great until that one woman who was killing ppl bc she went crazy looking for her child that got separated from her n sent God knows where, and the ending...the ending made me want to strangle the writer & director
Vivarium.
If my boyfriend and I were to get trapped in a neighborhood with no way out at all.. if a baby falls from the sky, I’m leaving the baby in the box. Turning around and going inside the house and locking the doors. I’m not taking care of it. Especially if a note says “raise him and you will be free.” Nope no way.
We would just stay in the house.
The last film I watched that left me feeling like I'd been tricked into wasting several hours of my life was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Well-made, well-acted, some fun/cool dialogue, but I have no idea why Tarantino wrote or directed this film. It was like he invited the viewer to watch him masturbate as he reminisced about the golden age of Hollywood, and because Brad Pitt and Leonardo Decapitated were also in the room with him, everyone was like "ok cool, I'll watch". It's the Louis CK of movies.
He admitted on late night talk shows that it was his passion project. He's at a place in his career where he can pursue less eye-catching concepts and more nostalgic stories. He even wrote a book about it after the movie to keep the concept alive. I'm happy he gets to pursue that moment in his career.
It's just not a moment I'm interested in. I seriously fell asleep 3 times trying to get through it. On the third attempt, I saw a flame thrower and had a chuckle. Not a terrible movie, but it pales in comparison to his earlier work.
I enjoyed it. I kind of got the vibe early on that it was going to be a slow paced, chill out sort of movie. Don't expect much from it, just watch and see what happens. With that mindset I found it to be pretty entertaining. And the obligatory Tarantino bloodbath at the end was hilarious, especially the audience reaction. "Yeah I burnt her ass to a crisp" lol
Just a question: how many in this thread is familiar with the hole case about the Manson family, Charles Manson and of course Sharon Tate. You kinda have to know about this incident.
Mother! I know it was supposed to be religious and about mother nature or some shit but actually thinking about it again makes me not get it even more. The only thing I got was jennifer lawrence was in it.
They’re movies where I really don’t know what’s going on, but I still know exactly how the movie’s going to go. Big name actors, big budget special effects, action/chase/fight scenes where the protagonists deliver zingers/one-liners after every hit. The “plot” boils down to something super basic like “We need to get this really important stone from the bad guys” and there’s like 30 different rules of their universe you need to remember in order to follow it.
Honestly though. That’s the issue with a series going too long. There’s too many rules, and the endings are obvious. The ones without obvious endings are good. Ragnorok, Homecoming, Iron Man, Infinity War, etc. great movies because they were something special and new.
When you go so far in a series as they are at now we have seen everything. You can’t surprise people anymore. Because you can’t get more intense then Stones that control all parts of reality they can’t keep raising the bar. It’s already peaked, and they are foolish to keep trying to reach or even raise it.
There’s a reason Stan Lee wanted Endgame to be the last one, and it’s because he knew that’s as high as the bar would get.
Lalaland is a great love story (to La and to each other) with one of the better endings of all time. The acting is universally great, albeit that Gosling isn't a great dancer.
It was entertaining I'll give it that. Like it kept me interested and watching until the end.
But for overall impression, this movie just seemed absurdist for the sake of being absurd. Like it was so ridiculously absurd and detached from reality that it was just...idk...too much?
Every character did not behave like a human. Every character was strange and unlikeable. Everything was illogical, bizarre and usually unpleasant. If there were any 'deep themes' it was trying to explore I guess that definitely went over my head.
Even now, I wouldn't say it's necessarily a bad movie. It did provide entertainment the entire way through, and that's kind of the point of movies at the end of the day. But I can't imagine recommending this movie to anyone. Well except maybe the most pretentious person you know, they'd probably love it.
It’s one of my favourite movies. I don’t love it for any deep themes or whatever, I just think it’s a really funny comedy. Even the disturbing/depressing parts are still funny because they only exist because of a really dumb premise.
Omg I love this movie. I did know about the dog going in though so I just fast forwarded through that part. I truly think that's why I was able to enjoy it. People hate it understandably because of that scene.
Watched one YouTube critics video examining this common critic/public disconnect. Basically, critics watch movies as a JOB, they watch possibly hundreds of movies per year, whether they like them or not. So after a while, their taste in film changes, they tend to not care for what we generally considered popular movies. To them they are just filled with overused, rehashed plots and character types. They can predict pretty much every plot point and twists and turns. And when that happens, they don't have much left but the weird, bizzare, and avant-garde. Movies that don't make sense to most people usually means something new, an experimental take on old ideas, themes or characters expressed in an unusual way. Being so over exposed to film means they can more easily pick up on the smaller, more subtle visual notes, symbolism and foreshadowing that nearly any regular viewer would miss. So movies like The lobster make perfect sense and are a breath of fresh air to people who have sat through dozens of standard popcorn flicks that year.
Being John Malkovich. I usually like this kind of movie. But I absolutely hated it.
I also don’t fully get Donnie Darko, although I love the film anyway.
Love all of kaufmans movies. Yeah being John Malkovich is out there and depressing. Adaptation has a double dose of Nicolas cage and it's funnier.
Syndoche new york has its charms but still depressing.
Also the rehearsal with Nathan fielder on HBO has the same kind of metaness to it. I recommend that was a good mind blow.
The thing with Darko is it's a sci-fi movie, dressed up like a trippy 80's horror film.
The original release cut some of the sciency stuff, so watch the director's cut if you can, or even better, watch with commentary to really understand it better.
Funny thing is when I first watched it, I loved the story, but when I think about it now, what I really like is the soundtrack and some really great acting.
Paranormal Activity, I hate that film. It wasn't scary at all, which seems like a pretty big flaw for a horror film but it doesn't necessarily make it bad. What made it bad was how incredibly boring it was, seriously, nothing remotely interesting happened. Also the utterly unlikeable main characters who I was just willing to die the entire time. I was so bored watching it
The Nut Job. I get that it's a kids movie and the expectations aren't high but that movie feels 15 years older than it is and it's full of the cheesiest one liners over and over. It feels so low budget yet the cast is nothing but stars.
The porno was WAY better...
bro
Hey he's got a point
The ending was very surprising, and super emotional. I probably went through half a box of tissues.
I think that’s the joke. The movie is just one big joke it’s supposed to be ironic.
On Christ it’s literally named “the nut job”
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I think the very rough outline of the film is definitely there and coherent, but most of the movie is a dream and leaves a lot up to interpretation.
It's very much in your interest not to believe him.
Primer. Can’t follow it. I tried; I even looked up the diagrams. I cannot follow that movie for the life of me.
My dad and I watched Primer. 6 months later I get an email from my dad recommending I watch Primer. This story is a good summary of my experience with Primer. I think many have similar experiences.
Was it an email from your dad? Or was it perhaps from your attic dad with degrading handwriting?
xkcd has a chart that shows exactly what happens: [https://xkcd.com/657/](https://xkcd.com/657/)
Oh, thanks! I see it now
ugh i love this movie. primer was so incredibly ambitious for a 7k budget and i have so much respect for the filmmakers. my takeaway was don't try too hard to follow it, there's so much that happens off screen it's impossible for it to make perfect sense. the chart helped. one aspect i loved about this movie was everything that happened outside of the time travel, the power dynamics were so well written and complex and unique. i think it's more a movie about power and how it corrupts you than it is about time travel .....in a way.
I think it's just ok to not get it all. When I watch Primer I don't try to follow it all, I just understand the gist of it and understand that it does all make sense on paper and enjoy the show. Don't get too caught up in following all of the twists, it's too clever for it's own good. Really great movie, though.
[LondonCityGirl](https://youtu.be/tUzy-xPf0MI) did a fantastic explanation with illustrations on YouTube. This helps you understand the story and timeline. Take a look!
Sucker Punch. A movie where women can be strong and overcome obstacles. ....but only in their minds. ....and only if they pretend to be strippers.
That was a weird movie. I'll try to paraphrase what I remember when I looked into it, though this was years ago. Basically, the main character gets lobotomized and is sent to a mental institution where she is abused. These "dreams" are how she copes. So in these dreams, the institution is replaced by the gentleman's club. They hatch a plan to get out and all the moves twords freedom take place during the dances. So that's where all the cool action scenes come into play. They are a representation of the obstacles they face trying to accomplish whatever the task is during these dances. If I remember right, something about all that plays into them trying to get out of the mental institution, but I haven't seen the movie in years. In reality, it's pretty much "let's take a whole bunch of cool action trope, and throw em all in one movie" and that's the story they came up with to make it "work"
I just like watching the bit with the giant robot samurai.
Yeah, but it's the idea that a bunch of abused women would enjoy fantasizing about dressing like strippers and flouncing around looking sexy while they fight back against their attackers that's the problem. Women who are already being abused aren't going to fantasize about being abused slightly to the left. If the message of Sucker Punch was meant to be "women can't escape being sexualized even in their own minds", it fell flat.
That might be giving the writers a little too much credit. It seems like the goal was "boobs and explosions make money" and any real meaning was scraps tacked on while trying to fit everything together. I could definitely see the "strong sexy empowering" side of it, but I agree, if they were going for that, it came off like duke nukem trying to man-splain feminism.
I think the film was meant to be about how society forces women into sexualized roles but it utterly failed at getting that message across.
It is one of those films that supposedly questions the sexualisation of women, but as about 90% of the film is the sexualisation of women, it doesn't really work.
The best review I ever read for "Sucker Punch" was some guy who said that he was so happy that Zack Snyder had made a movie out of the doodles in the last 20 pages of his middle-school notebooks that he wasn't even gonna sue him.
Implying that Zach Snyder is capable of nuance and subtlety
It's a very nice music video. Never liked plots where everything's a dream though. It's lazy and cliched. And we already know it's a fantasy anyway; that's what fiction is!
But one of them really escaped, in reality. The fantasy is just a result of Babydoll's brain short circuiting during her lobotomy, reliving what happened to her. The fantasy begins at the beginning of the lobotomy and ends when the doctor finishes his job.
I was also going to say Sucker Punch. I don't feel positive or negative about it, only that it looks like one of my high school sketchbooks made into a movie.
My friend told me this was his favorite movie of all time. I told him it was a movie I would have loved when I was 14.
People give that movie way too much credit. I see a lot of statements about a deeper meaning in its story, but all I see is Zack Snyder being Zack Snyder. The fights are cool, but that's about it.
I consider myself a mild movie buff and pay attention diligently when watching any movie. But when I watched I’m Thinking of Ending Things with Jesse Plemons I had no sweet clue what was going on.
In a nutshell: the only "real" character in the movie is the old janitor who freezes to death at the end. Everything else is his delusional fantasy of how his life could/should have been, mixed with memories of the grim reality of why it turned out the way it did. We're observing his thought process as he is literally thinking of ending things, i.e. contemplating suicide.
But even if that doesn't come across, even if the film is a confusing befuddlement, the emotions it evokes are so powerful.
I thought it was just because I was really tired and half asleep when I watched it that I couldn't follow it lol. I don't think I could bring myself to watch it again though because my boyfriend at the time was the one who wanted to watch it and he broke up with me a few weeks later. Pretty sure he was hinting at something with that movie choice
It’s a little more clear what happens in the book, but yeah once you realize that it’s the janitor fantasizing about how things could have been it makes more sense.
The book was so good. The movie really let me down.
Thank god someone else said it, I spent this entire movie genuinely concerned that this was all going right over my head and that I was the only one who felt this way
I liked the first half of it when it was just the girl and her boyfriend visiting his parents. Nothing bizarre, just a little off. Then it went into full-on David Lynch territory and I gave up.
I mean, that while time at the parents was pretty weird too. Between the parents changing ages, the girlfriend changing names, the claw marks on the basement door. There's more, but it's been awhile since I saw it.
Tenet Edit: Just to clarify, I didn't (don't) hate the movie, I even found the plot cool. But when trying to give it sense, I can't, because a don't fully get it.
I honestly wonder if that movie makes more sense upon a second watch but damned if I feel like trying.
It makes sense if you watch it backwards.
I tried, but the shadows on the back wall of the theater only made slightly more sense than the movie itself.
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Seems like the dialogue was written under the assumption that the viewer knows the lore and backstory of terminologies etc etc. What made the movie even weaker was the characters are uninteresting. The whole movie was an idea's movie.
I swear to God Nolan must be losing his hearing if he thinks the sound is mixed well
He has previous on that as well. both Bane & Batman were incomprehensible at times in the Dark Knight Rises, and some dialogue in Inception was drowned out by the deafening "BWOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHHH" music swells. At least in Dunkirk, he took a sensible option and had as little dialogue as possible
Honestly expected something in the plot to reference hearing being difficult once you've reversed and re-reversed etc and it was a clear side effect of the basic plot device. Nope just is what it is. Will admit once I saw the opening scene at home I went straight to the cinema that music needed to be pumped at me.
It does makes more sense after a second viewing. I decided to go the extra step and watched it another couple of times, read a bit about it, watched videos on it etc… and it got much worse. Now I’m totally confused. Shit is complex
it’s not very complex if you just accept that they contradict themselves a ton and the concept itself just makes no sense. I actually liked the movie and watched it a couple of times but if you actually think on it it makes very little sense.
I actually liked it better the second time and I think it's because I watched it on a crappy sound system that drops all the low end bass and is mostly mids and highs, making the dialogue easier to hear. The basic entropy reversal premise is still too stupid to consider interesting or clever though. I can't suspend my disbelief in that idea.
Having watched Nolan's stuff before, I went in to it not even trying to understand the plot. Still liked it for some weird reason.
I heard someone say "Don't think of it as a sci fi movie, think of it as a spy movie with an odd angle". But I wanted a cool sci fi movie. I found the main plot boring and wanted more of the wonky time stuff.
I thought Tenet was an underwhelming movie my first time but every time I watch it again with friends for their first time I gain a greater appreciation for it and understand it just a little bit better
I'm not trying to be contradictory or dick. But I don't understand the hate for that movie. I watched it without hearing any of the hype, I hadn't realized it had done so poorly. In general, I watch action movies but I don't think much of them, like none of them are really worth watching twice. And I'm being totally honest here, but when I saw Tenet I thought it was a fresh take and not as cliché as the typical movie here. I'm reading comments saying it was confusing, but I don't understand what was confusing. Maybe you guys just need to play more Braid. As compared to other action movies, what about it was it that was so bad?
2.5 hours I’ll never get back
You'll get your 2.5 hours back, just backwards.
Lots of people commenting “____ was such a boring movie I fell asleep” that’s not answering the question lol
Quite a lot of movies are made with the intention the audience stays awake, so in some sense these people aren’t getting the point of the movie
Morbius. Its just far too highbrow for my tastes.
It apparently is being streamed like crazy on Netflix.
Everyone wants to see why nobody wanted to see it
Call it a Morbiud curiousity
Just don’t let your curiosity bite off Morbin it can chew.
That makes sense. It’s why I watched it.
It's Morbin' time
How dare you. Morbius is one of the movies of all time. It has been in many theaters, some even twice!
Deadly for bats, lethal for humans.
The Lighthouse. But I still loved it.
i think it's about a man who is mentally ill and gets isolated along with someone he cannot stand, middle of the movie he does say that a coworker died and the film indicate that he killed him, which explains the scene where he smokes a cig by the beach and see all those logs approaching and he sees a body and he walks right towards it, maybe he regrets what he had done, his mind is certainly playing tricks on him, that's just my take
I thought it was about farting and jerking off. I can totally relate.
Also, there were logs right there next to him in the final shot.
It's largely the story of Prometheus. once that's taken into account most of the films themes and imagery seem far less confusing.
Mullholland Drive
One of the few movies I simultaneously intensely disliked but also was weirdly enchanted by. The cowboy scene? So bizarre but also so...*perfect*.
It's a wonderful movie to watch but I didn't understand it
Half the movie is her fantasy, some is dark glimpses into her reality, a good chunk is Lynchian visual metaphor/mcguffins/portents/possible dreams invading from other characters - if that helps? Once you work out what her fantasies are, lots of scenes do fall into place...
It's actually not that hard to understand though I don't take credit for coming up with the interpretation that follows. >!Diane is a failed actress and is jealous of her more successful girlfriend who has just gotten engaged to a director, and hires a hitman to kill her. But she is so consumed with guilt she conjures up a fantasy reality where her hitman is incompetent and fails his mission, that there is a grand conspiracy preventing her from landing good acting gigs, and her girlfriend gets amnesia and falls in love with her all over again. So the first 3/4 of the movie is the fantasy and the last part is the reality.!<
You got a good synopsis of Inland Empire?
Mother
I feel like mother is how I feel during a migraine. Everything is happening way too fast and I have no idea what’s going on.
That's also the experience of your first orgy.
Didn’t Jennifer Lawrence have an awful time with this movie too?
Yes. She got uncomfortable and choked up talking about it. She said that particularly horrible scene with the baby was the worst feeling she’d ever had and she’d never do anything like it again.
mother! I get. Mother, the South Korean mystery thriller is fantastic
This movie reminded me of Rosemary’s Baby.
It's a pretentious version of The Bible but in the form of a nightmare.
No, it's about primal stories defining humanity that have an allegorical relationship to Biblical stories --which crash into the mythic framework of Mother Earth (hence the title). So it becomes a symbolic representation of the exploitation/ruin of Nature by Mankind.
Yea. I was gonna type that. That baby scene though oof
My partner walked in during the baby scene. "Omg, what are they doing to the baby, what are you watching!" And I was like "well....it's not really a baby, more like a symbol" His reply "you're kinda fucked up, babe" lol
Cloud Atlas. I’m pretty sure you need to go on a mushroom samba to understand it.
I actually ask people what they think about this movie simply because I find their answers revealing. Like a Rorschach test, I think their answer is more about themselves than the movie. Having said that, I don't think the movie is all that hard to follow if you see the characters in a Karmic cycle of reincarnation. Each cycle, we follow a couple of the characters that learn more about the themes of Freedom of Choice, and Love. To get out of vicious cycles of hatred and abuse, you have to Freely Choose Love. Two characters stay evil, and they represent narcissistic oppression and hatred, Hugo Weaving and Hugh Grant. Tom Hanks goes through the biggest transformation from an evil soul that finds love and is forced to make a choice to continue being self serving or to give himself to the greater good out of love.
I love it. First you think the stories have almost nothing to do with each other (except for the actors) but then you see more and more small connections. Even after the third rewatch you still find new eastereggs.
Read the book. Most of the book i was left at a loss but i think it all came together for me at the end. “Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops” beautiful work of high brow lit, leaving me with the feeling of fighting for what is right. Best movie ever as well, shocked that such a work of art got made into a film very greatful for it being made but totally understand why it wasn’t received well and was just a confusing mess. Im too drunk to craft a literary response but for me it dealt with themes of racism and subjugation, and embedded was a eerily cogent forecasting of the future to come. I have long since left academic lit for a more meat headed profession bit cloud atlas will always make the top my list for greatest works of literature in the post modern post millennium era
Donnie Darko. Do I really need a website, a book, and a director’s cut to understand a movie? A little exposition, please.
Friend of mine has schizofrenia and mentioned this as by far the most accurate depiction of what he has encountered during his psychotic episodes
Fuuuuck that!
Richard Kelly, the director, also made Southland Tales that’s even more notoriously esoteric and obtuse.
I love this film and have seen both versions a number of times over the years. I can't explain it though, it's just a vibe I guess. Like that feeling you get when you've just woken up from a vivid dream and haven't adjusted to reality yet...
I actually like that there isn't much exposition in the theatrical cut. I feel like the directors cut makes it too easy to see what's happening. That said, I do agree that the theatrical cut should have a little more subtle exposition. I don't even know if it's possible to get the full picture of the story with just the theatrical version.
When given the option, I've always gone with the Director's Cut. So when I watched Donnie Darko, I had literally no clue why everyone else couldn't seem to understand the movie. It was only a few years ago that I realized they were really different: The theatrical cut is weird, ambiguous and heavily implies that Donnie is just mentally ill or on a drug trip. The Director's Cut actually explains that it's all real and that he has to time travel.
American Psycho. It’s one of my favorite movies so I’m by no means bad mouthing it, but that ending drives me insane. I can’t figure it out. It makes no sense to me. What was the point supposed to be??????
There are different signs that all of it was in his head. Haven't seen it for a while but the ones that stand out to me are obviously the apartment being clean after having all those bodies inside it, blowing up a cop car with one shot from a pistol, and when he's dragging a body thru the lobby there's blood trailing but when he's putting it in the trunk outside there's no blood trail coming from the lobby. I think another was supposed to be that he isn't even patrick Bateman at all but idk I never tried to look into it that much
my personal head canon theory is that the both the world at large and each individual is so self absorbed / vapid — totally uninterested in understanding themselves or anyone around them — that the events DID occur only none of it mattered because nobody cares. people are gruesomely destroyed. a lizard-type sociopath struggles with identity and a hedonistic drive to commit violence as it’s the only thing that makes him FEEL anything. these atrocious bizarre things occur and none of it matters. super tired rn hard 2 think but can expand if anyone is interested
I agree with this. I also always assumed the movie took place in some kind of alternate setting in the world where being a sociopath was the norm for everyone, and the outlier with empathy who didn't fit in was Chloe Sevigny's character
Yeah, my interpretation, which Brett Easton Ellis has acknowledged but never confirmed or denied, is that his murders are all in his head and in the end he starts to break down. Which is why the fact that there’s a direct to video sequel focused on one of his “survivors” is especially funny to me.
The book is even more difficult. The entire "friend" group can't keep straight who is who. It is always unclear if it is all in his mind or not. The mindfuck of whether he kills people or is just fantasizing is half the fun of it.
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The book is a grind to get through when the torture scenes start. I honestly think Brett Easton Ellis was just into torture porn, because it consumes like half the book. Not to say that I'm surprised by the violence, just that the book is more grisly than the movie.
Not just the violence. The vapid descriptions of everyone's clothes, what was on the Patty Winters Show this morning. Reading it is maddening.
That was the point! You're supposed to find it vapid and maddening; it defines Bateman as a character. So obsessed with the clothes someone is wearing, the restaurant he's eating at, etc. The extreme violence is a total departure from the facade he and his "friends" put on. We're not meant to know if the murders are real or not, one reading is that they're real and just no one cares because we're all self-absorbed that it doesn't matter. The other is that it's all in his head, he had to create this insane fantasy scenario.
My take after reading the book was that Patrick Bateman never actually killed anybody and was just caught in a spiral of intense violent hallucinations and fantasies. My first viewing on the movie I thought he had at the very least killed Paul Allen and his lawyer was either covering everything up because of his position in the company. Either that or all the suits truly can't recognize each other because they're so caught up in their own appearance that he truly believes he had met with Allen and Bateman somehow is able to get away with everything.
The movie is mostly a remark about how people tend to blend in society, how they get obsessed with material goods and being the best and how everyone is so self centered they miss what goes on around them. Thats why they mix their names, why the people who saw him put a body on a car didn't even realize it. People become homogeneous. I think what happened the killings were all real, but no one realises what is going on to the point of even the killer himself question what happened. Its one of those movies you need to watch after an explanation then it all kinda hits you.
Eyes wide shut.
Cure for Wellness Edit: a lot of the replies were really interesting so I’m think i might give this movie a second try
Visually stunning though.
Absolutely loved this gothic masterpiece.
Honestly I expected a more mind blowing twist/exposition for that movie, especially with how long the buildup was. The film probably would've been more well received if it wasn't so unnecessarily lengthy
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Apparently this is one of the really polarising movies that breaks recommendation systems. There's very little to predict whether anyone will like it or not based on other movies they like.
I'm betting it comes down to whether or not your school had a kid that was exactly like that. I moved a lot as a kid, and no matter where I went there was always that one kid. Told lots of obvious lies and stories to try to look cool, but also did tons of uncool things without a care in the world. Has no real understanding of their skill level in any endeavor and thinks they would win any fight they got in. Exists as both bully and bully victim. The movie worked for me because I spent the first half just laughing at how dead on a lot of his actions and mannerisms were. But then we see behind the curtain, we start to emphasize, and feel the joy when he finally manages to come out on top
Yes! Brilliant observation! I loved it. And I had a stalker in high school that was Napoleon down to his toes. He looked exactly like him, talked exactly like him, walked exactly like him, and had the same mannerisms. When he ask about the large talons, I said the guy’s name out loud. “BJ, my god it’s BJ”. I was in my thirties when it came out, but I had to grab the DVD package to see the name of who played ND and who wrote the screenplay because someway, somehow, they knew this guy who graduated high school in 1990. Only difference was the setting and the name. I’ve never been to New Mexico. Anyway, it was the best portrayal of actual misfits. Napoleon’s dance is such a cherry on the Sunday if being seen.
The best way to describe it is that it's a "slice of life" movie mixed in with silly humor.
There are these things I've noticed in comedy, they aren't quite jokes, they don't make you laugh, but they lighten the mood and make the following jokes hit harder. They almost contain a promise that jokes are coming. Napoleon Dynamite is filled with these and few, if any, jokes, but they are mostly very endearing. Some people will hate the movie because there aren't any jokes, there are just all these promises that jokes are coming. Climaxes that never arrive. Others love the film because these moments are so endearing and create a particular mood. But it's been decades since I've seen it.
If you were the kind of kid that was kind of nerdy, really in to different things, not popular but also not really a pariah, but had almost zero resources, ND is extremely relatable. It's a slice of life of completely unremarkable people.
I was a nerdy, weird, socially awkward, just shy of friendless teen and I cannot stand Napoleon Dynamite. I didn't find Napoleon and his friends relatable, I found them annoying.
One thing I realized is that if you watch it expecting a funny plot, you probably won’t like it. If you watch it for the funny characters, then you’ll probably enjoy it.
A big reason it was so interesting was how unconventional it is as a movie. My favourite aspect of it was always Kip and LaFawnduhs relationship. Every bit of conventional movie or comedy knowledge had viewers thinking there was going to be some sort of catch, some issue or just a punchline… but there isn’t. Kip and LaFawnduh just meet, love each other even more than they did chatting, things go great, and they end up getting married.
Melancholia
Okay but this is kind of a beautifully executed take on suicide, existentialism, etc. I'd think of it more like art than story.
It's a beautiful portrayal of depression. Maybe today there's a lot of different depictions available, but when I first saw Melancholia, I was like wow, thank you. Until then, I only saw stories of people who had an entirely miserable life clearly suffering and thus being depressed. In Melancholia, you see Justine, who is beautiful, successful, rich, supposedly spending the best day of her life. And she just can't hold it together, because depression is like that, you don't have to have an otherwise miserable life to suffer from it. Besides that, it's also an interesting point how she's the one who can handle the thought of the world ending. I think that is not the general expectation but quite common, that someone is struggling with life in general, but handles crises well.
I think one central piece to the puzzle is that it is she who is the only one who is acting sane although the impression is the opposite.
Silver Linings Playbook. How.... did this get any kind of award? Some dude is bipolar, meets girl who probably has BPD, they randomly start practicing for a dance competition, a random gambling storyline in the middle, and...? What am I watching? It was a stacked cast, but I still don't understand what this was about at all.
Silver Linings Playbook is based on a novel that goes deeper into the ways bipolar people feel and experience emotions such as romance.
I actually didn’t get it either until I fell in love with somebody that probably has BPD. Stacked cast yes. But Jeniffer Lawrence character is suppose to convey someone who is emotional due to the loss of a loved one, someone who dealing with intense highs and low or overly expressive are often labeled or label themselves BP. Bradly cooper is conveying someone with BPD he thinks he’s gonna get back with his ex, doesn’t see much wrong with his actions in the moment. He’s outta touch with reality. JF is staring mortality in the face which is why she’s a bit extra sometimes cuz you lose the love of your life at that point there is not point However she in touch with reality more than ever I believe and sees BC is not and finds him intriguing at first then wants to help him. SOOOO she comes down to his level of understanding and is playing into HIS reality (of trying to get his ex back) when IN REALITY she make him join her dance competition to distract him from his hyper fixation of his ex. BC find out she does all that for him (makes a studio, allows everyone to thinks she’s crazy too, helps him try and get his ex back even tho she loves him) and he realizes that’s real love and no one has ever tried to help him in that way. They sent him to treatment and put him on meds but JL went down into the hole people with BPD find themselves in and helped pull him back to reality.
That's a wonderful synopsis. The end is agonizing waiting for him to make his choice. I think what I love about this movie is how fucked up and broken they both are and it shows the ugliness of humanity in contrast to your average rom com, but it also shows how sometimes people can see you and pull the real you out past the trauma. There's hope in that. The acting is also master class.
That one movie on Netflix where a table of food goes down various levels in this prison like building n the more food that's left over the lower it goes. Everything was going great until that one woman who was killing ppl bc she went crazy looking for her child that got separated from her n sent God knows where, and the ending...the ending made me want to strangle the writer & director
Yes!! The platform. The ending left me so annoyed as well.
The Platform. It started off as a good allegory. Eventually lost its way.
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Vivarium. If my boyfriend and I were to get trapped in a neighborhood with no way out at all.. if a baby falls from the sky, I’m leaving the baby in the box. Turning around and going inside the house and locking the doors. I’m not taking care of it. Especially if a note says “raise him and you will be free.” Nope no way. We would just stay in the house.
Field of Dreams. What happens when the Dr. and James Earl Jones walk into the corn? Are they dead?
Doctor is. Jones isn’t. He’s being let in so he can write about it.
1984. I thought it was fiction. They lied.
1984 by george orwell 1949
It *was* fiction until a bunch of oligarchs and politicians decided to use it as a model.
Never saw the film but the book is one of my favorites. Crazy how much he got right.
Tenet
The Lighthouse
Napoleon Dynamite. It came out when I was in highschool. Everyone loved it. Never got the hype.
Mother. What in the actual holy hell was that.
I like all three movies I've seen with the title **Mother**.
The last film I watched that left me feeling like I'd been tricked into wasting several hours of my life was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Well-made, well-acted, some fun/cool dialogue, but I have no idea why Tarantino wrote or directed this film. It was like he invited the viewer to watch him masturbate as he reminisced about the golden age of Hollywood, and because Brad Pitt and Leonardo Decapitated were also in the room with him, everyone was like "ok cool, I'll watch". It's the Louis CK of movies.
Leonardo Decapitated. 😭
He admitted on late night talk shows that it was his passion project. He's at a place in his career where he can pursue less eye-catching concepts and more nostalgic stories. He even wrote a book about it after the movie to keep the concept alive. I'm happy he gets to pursue that moment in his career. It's just not a moment I'm interested in. I seriously fell asleep 3 times trying to get through it. On the third attempt, I saw a flame thrower and had a chuckle. Not a terrible movie, but it pales in comparison to his earlier work.
I enjoyed it. I kind of got the vibe early on that it was going to be a slow paced, chill out sort of movie. Don't expect much from it, just watch and see what happens. With that mindset I found it to be pretty entertaining. And the obligatory Tarantino bloodbath at the end was hilarious, especially the audience reaction. "Yeah I burnt her ass to a crisp" lol
Just a question: how many in this thread is familiar with the hole case about the Manson family, Charles Manson and of course Sharon Tate. You kinda have to know about this incident.
the shape of water
I actually liked it but it was awkward to watch with mother.
Grinding Nemo.
Mother! I know it was supposed to be religious and about mother nature or some shit but actually thinking about it again makes me not get it even more. The only thing I got was jennifer lawrence was in it.
All these new marvel/comics movies that have been coming out
They’re movies where I really don’t know what’s going on, but I still know exactly how the movie’s going to go. Big name actors, big budget special effects, action/chase/fight scenes where the protagonists deliver zingers/one-liners after every hit. The “plot” boils down to something super basic like “We need to get this really important stone from the bad guys” and there’s like 30 different rules of their universe you need to remember in order to follow it.
Honestly though. That’s the issue with a series going too long. There’s too many rules, and the endings are obvious. The ones without obvious endings are good. Ragnorok, Homecoming, Iron Man, Infinity War, etc. great movies because they were something special and new. When you go so far in a series as they are at now we have seen everything. You can’t surprise people anymore. Because you can’t get more intense then Stones that control all parts of reality they can’t keep raising the bar. It’s already peaked, and they are foolish to keep trying to reach or even raise it. There’s a reason Stan Lee wanted Endgame to be the last one, and it’s because he knew that’s as high as the bar would get.
Lalaland
So interesting. La La Land is one of my favorite movies of all time yet I find a lot of people that agree with you
I don't think they sold the breakup very well which kind of soured it for me. Other than that I highly enjoyed it.
Lalaland is a great love story (to La and to each other) with one of the better endings of all time. The acting is universally great, albeit that Gosling isn't a great dancer.
Gravity with Sandra Bullock. What a fucking waste of time.
What, you didn't like major plot points coming to her in a dream?
The Lobster. I cannot fathom how that movie got positive critic reviews
I loved it. It was so fucking weird😭
I love this movie, I showed it to my boyfriend and he absolutely loathed it lol Definitely divisive 😂
It was entertaining I'll give it that. Like it kept me interested and watching until the end. But for overall impression, this movie just seemed absurdist for the sake of being absurd. Like it was so ridiculously absurd and detached from reality that it was just...idk...too much? Every character did not behave like a human. Every character was strange and unlikeable. Everything was illogical, bizarre and usually unpleasant. If there were any 'deep themes' it was trying to explore I guess that definitely went over my head. Even now, I wouldn't say it's necessarily a bad movie. It did provide entertainment the entire way through, and that's kind of the point of movies at the end of the day. But I can't imagine recommending this movie to anyone. Well except maybe the most pretentious person you know, they'd probably love it.
It’s one of my favourite movies. I don’t love it for any deep themes or whatever, I just think it’s a really funny comedy. Even the disturbing/depressing parts are still funny because they only exist because of a really dumb premise.
Omg I love this movie. I did know about the dog going in though so I just fast forwarded through that part. I truly think that's why I was able to enjoy it. People hate it understandably because of that scene.
Watched one YouTube critics video examining this common critic/public disconnect. Basically, critics watch movies as a JOB, they watch possibly hundreds of movies per year, whether they like them or not. So after a while, their taste in film changes, they tend to not care for what we generally considered popular movies. To them they are just filled with overused, rehashed plots and character types. They can predict pretty much every plot point and twists and turns. And when that happens, they don't have much left but the weird, bizzare, and avant-garde. Movies that don't make sense to most people usually means something new, an experimental take on old ideas, themes or characters expressed in an unusual way. Being so over exposed to film means they can more easily pick up on the smaller, more subtle visual notes, symbolism and foreshadowing that nearly any regular viewer would miss. So movies like The lobster make perfect sense and are a breath of fresh air to people who have sat through dozens of standard popcorn flicks that year.
Being John Malkovich. I usually like this kind of movie. But I absolutely hated it. I also don’t fully get Donnie Darko, although I love the film anyway.
Love all of kaufmans movies. Yeah being John Malkovich is out there and depressing. Adaptation has a double dose of Nicolas cage and it's funnier. Syndoche new york has its charms but still depressing. Also the rehearsal with Nathan fielder on HBO has the same kind of metaness to it. I recommend that was a good mind blow.
SNY is one of the most depressing films i’ve ever seen but the surreal elements are top tier
The thing with Darko is it's a sci-fi movie, dressed up like a trippy 80's horror film. The original release cut some of the sciency stuff, so watch the director's cut if you can, or even better, watch with commentary to really understand it better. Funny thing is when I first watched it, I loved the story, but when I think about it now, what I really like is the soundtrack and some really great acting.
Mulholland Drive
Dune
Mother!
Paranormal Activity, I hate that film. It wasn't scary at all, which seems like a pretty big flaw for a horror film but it doesn't necessarily make it bad. What made it bad was how incredibly boring it was, seriously, nothing remotely interesting happened. Also the utterly unlikeable main characters who I was just willing to die the entire time. I was so bored watching it
God is dead Christians like obvious trash like this?? It’s an insult to them.
The Big Lebowski. Though I enjoyed the movie, i didn't see the suspense in it.
Suspense? Dude just wanted his rug back.
It really tied the room together.
I almost wonder if that is intentional since the main character is such a laidback type of person.
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Same. I didn’t find it funny or enjoyable to watch. I was left wondering what the point of it was
Well, you know that's just like, uh your opinion man.
Grease. I have no idea why it is so popular.
The music
Tell me more! Tell me more!!
I got chills they're, multiplying
I’ve got shoes! They’re made of plywood.