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Jorge wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Mickey wrote:
For instance tonight I started Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is a significantly better movie in terms of concept and production and just as bad of an experience.
Going to watch the final hour tomorrow just to see how it ends but so far this feels like a comic book movie for people with MFA degrees.
This was terrible. One of the most tedious, juvenile movies I've seen in years.
It's a movie that gets worse the more you think about it, I think
Great performance from the daughter though, she makes us care about the completely underwritten deal her character is going through
Yeah the parking lot scene was really well-acted, it honestly felt like it belonged in a better movie. But if you step back and think about the writing in that scene it doesn't make much sense. This more or less captures my response:
Jorge wrote:
Overall it ended up feeling like Rick and Morty crossed with "nicecore" and lol wtf le epic bacon reddit-level humor
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Hereditary is funnier than Midsommar (unintentionally) and for that I prefer it.
i think they’re both very funny, and agree that hereditary’s comedy ain’t intentional. my private theory is the dude read reviews/saw what dour work he made, and made a 180 turn
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
For instance tonight I started Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is a significantly better movie in terms of concept and production and just as bad of an experience.
Going to watch the final hour tomorrow just to see how it ends but so far this feels like a comic book movie for people with MFA degrees.
This was terrible. One of the most tedious, juvenile movies I've seen in years.
when I first read fred introduce the presupposition, "texts come before us as the always-already-read", it felt like a godly dispensation from seeing movies exactly like this.
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
It's the first movie in history to accurately depict PhD students
this is part of why the movie should be read as a really great satire
I think they were masters-level students. And a pell-mell, unscientific approach to a master's thesis is far from unheard of
you give too much credit to phd candidates, ash.
also, why would a kind of verisimilitude -- "actually, MAs do act like this" -- preclude the movie from satirizing them?
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
you pick the worst movies sometimes. What exactly is your method?
I have asked him like six times and he refuses to answer
and i assume you bought it, anders. insanity
Why do you dislike it so much?
see my reply to mickey re fredric jameson. I simultaneously have never seen this movie and have seen this movie countless times.
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Man you can't be quoting Jameson around here.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Watched a couple of Netflix movies over the weekend Carter - waste of time, wish this had never crossed our radar The Grey Man - thought this was fun if not a bit much at times
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Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Malloy wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Mickey wrote:
For instance tonight I started Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is a significantly better movie in terms of concept and production and just as bad of an experience.
Going to watch the final hour tomorrow just to see how it ends but so far this feels like a comic book movie for people with MFA degrees.
This was terrible. One of the most tedious, juvenile movies I've seen in years.
when I first read fred introduce the presupposition, "texts come before us as the always-already-read", it felt like a godly dispensation from seeing movies exactly like this.
I think overall Fred is correct and there's a way in which the previous reception of this movie (and how it fits into the matrix of what kinds of movies can be made) telegraphed its overall form, but there's also something to be said for witnessing first hand the way a certain (maybe middle class?) psychic reality is served up to its primary audience here, and how it negotiates material limitations to that reality. It was a terrible viewing experience but it is interesting.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10255 Location: in the air tonight
That's the approach that caused a bunch of you guys not to watch The Father. It's nothing like what you think it is. It's really great! Go watch The Father! It had terrible promotional materials because it is a very weird movie and they didn't know what to do with it. Look at this garbage, unrepresentative poster:
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10255 Location: in the air tonight
(I'm not actually pretending to understand or be familiar with the academic theory that the MFAs are discussing, I just saw an opportunity to plug The Father and took it)
That's the approach that caused a bunch of you guys not to watch The Father. It's nothing like what you think it is. It's really great! Go watch The Father! It had terrible promotional materials because it is a very weird movie and they didn't know what to do with it. Look at this garbage, unrepresentative poster:
I loved that movie. Five out of five stars from me.
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you pick the worst movies sometimes. What exactly is your method?
