Always with the hookers. From "Pretty Woman" to the tarts in "Castle Keep", those ethereal beings who have so much to teach us. At least in the movies. In our mundane reality, their lives are horrible and mercifully short. But that doesn't make for magical cinema, so we skip ahead to the cool parts. Thanks for the review, and I'm sure everyone involved gave it their all, but hard pass.
I’m ok with characters as symbols (see Tarkovsky) and reality shows that people can love a human shit stainwith no redeeming features whatsoever (see Trump), so as usual it’s wise to dismiss any advice that comes up regularly in writing workshops. Now that I’ve gone there, could the Dafoe character be a symbolic ex-President Shitstain? Sounds like they had similar upbringings.
Thanks for the review, Roy. I adored The Favourite and I like Emma Stone. But the whole Steampunk conceit has always annoyed me, I'm not sure why. I'll probably catch this whenever it lands on Prime or Netflix.
I was in Las Vegas at a conference from last Thursday to yesterday. Talk about magical realism for children, lol. Very glad to be back in the land of reality.
Thank you for watching this, Roy, so I don’t have to. Actually, I would rather be beaten with sticks than watch this kind of movie. Though, because of your description, I have added May December to my queue (!)
I saw a Dogtooth. All the thought and work that went into it was obvious. I didn't really enjoy it though. Made me think of Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" -sick scientist father experiments on his own kids with bad results.
We just watched this the other day. I give it a hearty "pretty good". It was a nice night at the moves but I didn't come away wanting to discuss it or anything. Defoe's charachter was the star for me. I think he was hilarious.
Now that Wes Anderson seems to have lost a lot of the juice I was showing up for in his early days I'm glad Yorgos is out here keeping his corner of mainstream movies weird. As long as he keeps dropping in insane dance breaks in the middle of his movies I will probably keep showing up for them.
Oof. A mullagatawney of a movie, where you can find whatever you want it to be about. Your description horrified me, and I take your descriptions seriously. I can see the actors having a great time chewing the scenery from here.
It's the time of year again where Roy and I could do a version of the old Knowledge Fight intro:
ROY: I know a lot about movies!
PERE: And I know jack-shit!
I have no clue here. Goin' movie watching is kind of lame by yourself, I have too goddamn much to do on weekends already, and I don't remember WHAT movie I last saw in the theater. I'm just not a cineophile, I just, as Chance said, like to watch. (*ahem*)
That said, I did sit down and watch Cronenberg's Crimes Of The Future last night. And now I have to search out Videodrome because I can't remember much about it and I want to see if it's as twisted as Crimes. Fuck. Ing. Twisted. A pain-free, infection free undefined future. Surgery as performance art. Plastic eating. Landscapes of dried-up seas and abandoned ships, streets empty as if there just aren't enough people anymore to fill them. "Surgery is the new sex", says Timlin (Kristen Stewart), a plain-looking bureaucrat who I found REALLY hot, and I'm not sure why. Saul Tenser, who randomly grows bizarre new organs, cuts his wife Caprice's (Léa Seydoux) flesh with the autodoc she uses in their performances, and she gets turned on by it. It's dark and weird and creepy and ambivalent and I think I rather liked it.
From reading your review alone, I already have objections to the concepts, the 18th-19th century philosophy and science as the basis for reality. I have been reading too much about breakthroughs in the understanding of how genes are influenced by different environments to revert in a suspension of disbelief for entertainment's sake. I will likely at some point watch this.
i enjoyed watching it, but can't shake the feeling that Poor Things is, ultimately, an inventively designed and beautifully acted and clever and gorgeous movie about sex with a baby
Always with the hookers. From "Pretty Woman" to the tarts in "Castle Keep", those ethereal beings who have so much to teach us. At least in the movies. In our mundane reality, their lives are horrible and mercifully short. But that doesn't make for magical cinema, so we skip ahead to the cool parts. Thanks for the review, and I'm sure everyone involved gave it their all, but hard pass.
I’m ok with characters as symbols (see Tarkovsky) and reality shows that people can love a human shit stainwith no redeeming features whatsoever (see Trump), so as usual it’s wise to dismiss any advice that comes up regularly in writing workshops. Now that I’ve gone there, could the Dafoe character be a symbolic ex-President Shitstain? Sounds like they had similar upbringings.
Huh.
After “His Dark Materials” and “Carnival Row,” I’m done with steampunk. But I will watch “Poor Things” because of “The Lobster.”
Thanks for the review, Roy. I adored The Favourite and I like Emma Stone. But the whole Steampunk conceit has always annoyed me, I'm not sure why. I'll probably catch this whenever it lands on Prime or Netflix.
I was in Las Vegas at a conference from last Thursday to yesterday. Talk about magical realism for children, lol. Very glad to be back in the land of reality.
Thank you for watching this, Roy, so I don’t have to. Actually, I would rather be beaten with sticks than watch this kind of movie. Though, because of your description, I have added May December to my queue (!)
I saw a Dogtooth. All the thought and work that went into it was obvious. I didn't really enjoy it though. Made me think of Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" -sick scientist father experiments on his own kids with bad results.
We just watched this the other day. I give it a hearty "pretty good". It was a nice night at the moves but I didn't come away wanting to discuss it or anything. Defoe's charachter was the star for me. I think he was hilarious.
Now that Wes Anderson seems to have lost a lot of the juice I was showing up for in his early days I'm glad Yorgos is out here keeping his corner of mainstream movies weird. As long as he keeps dropping in insane dance breaks in the middle of his movies I will probably keep showing up for them.
Oof. A mullagatawney of a movie, where you can find whatever you want it to be about. Your description horrified me, and I take your descriptions seriously. I can see the actors having a great time chewing the scenery from here.
It's the time of year again where Roy and I could do a version of the old Knowledge Fight intro:
ROY: I know a lot about movies!
PERE: And I know jack-shit!
I have no clue here. Goin' movie watching is kind of lame by yourself, I have too goddamn much to do on weekends already, and I don't remember WHAT movie I last saw in the theater. I'm just not a cineophile, I just, as Chance said, like to watch. (*ahem*)
That said, I did sit down and watch Cronenberg's Crimes Of The Future last night. And now I have to search out Videodrome because I can't remember much about it and I want to see if it's as twisted as Crimes. Fuck. Ing. Twisted. A pain-free, infection free undefined future. Surgery as performance art. Plastic eating. Landscapes of dried-up seas and abandoned ships, streets empty as if there just aren't enough people anymore to fill them. "Surgery is the new sex", says Timlin (Kristen Stewart), a plain-looking bureaucrat who I found REALLY hot, and I'm not sure why. Saul Tenser, who randomly grows bizarre new organs, cuts his wife Caprice's (Léa Seydoux) flesh with the autodoc she uses in their performances, and she gets turned on by it. It's dark and weird and creepy and ambivalent and I think I rather liked it.
From reading your review alone, I already have objections to the concepts, the 18th-19th century philosophy and science as the basis for reality. I have been reading too much about breakthroughs in the understanding of how genes are influenced by different environments to revert in a suspension of disbelief for entertainment's sake. I will likely at some point watch this.
Great review as usual.
i enjoyed watching it, but can't shake the feeling that Poor Things is, ultimately, an inventively designed and beautifully acted and clever and gorgeous movie about sex with a baby