What movies are you watching?

[Jorge]

Overall it ended up feeling like Rick and Morty crossed with "nicecore" and lol wtf le epic bacon reddit-level humor

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Hereditary is funnier than Midsommar (unintentionally) and for that I prefer it.

That's fair.

[epilogue]

Midsommar might be the best movie while Hereditary have more reply value maybe?

And damn two moments

-The car moment was a huge wtf.

-The son watching the fire with Toni Collette waiting in the dark in the fucking ceiling.

I don't disagree with any of this.

[BurtReynolds]

Hereditary seemed like a well made movie, but didn't add up to much for me. It felt like someone dabbling with a lot of different ideas.

Haven't seen Midsommar .

[Mickey]

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:

Overall it ended up feeling like Rick and Morty crossed with "nicecore" and lol wtf le epic bacon reddit-level humor

[epilogue]

Hereditary seemed like a well made movie, but didn't add up to much for me. It felt like someone dabbling with a lot of different ideas.

Odd as it sounds, I don't actually totally disagree with this either.

[Malloy]

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

[Malloy]

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.

[Malloy]

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?

[Malloy]

The Bucket List

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.

[Mickey]

Man you can't be quoting Jameson around here.

[Rangi Guy]

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

[Mickey]

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.

[The Argonaut]

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?

My post is also a satire, you see

[Anders]

The Bucket List

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.

I see where you are coming from with this, but I don’t agree with that approach, not seeing the movie, and having a stromg opinion on it.

Not saying you have to see it, or at all that you have to like it.

[The Argonaut]

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:

[The Argonaut]

(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)

[Anders]

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.

[Anders]

Watching the Ocean’s trilogy. On Twelve now.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Watching the Ocean’s trilogy. On Twelve now.

I am the only person who loves 12.