Red Mosquito

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 3:55 am**

Bought tickets today for a double feature on the 23rd.

Wonka in the morning, Poor Things in the afternoon.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 3:59 am**

The Argonaut wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:I did not really enjoy Poor Things. It won me over a bit by the end, but it was an uphill battle after a nearly insufferable first hour or so. The main problem may be that I seem to find Emma Stone entirely without charm, perhaps a personal failing.

But it does also kind of make me sad to see Yorgos Lanthimos basically doing Jean-Pierre Jeunet, especially since I don't really like Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
I'm liking it less as I think about it. "It won me over a bit by the end" because the bar was so low. I wasn't tearing my hair out and thinking of leaving at the end, but that's about it. But I'm having trouble identifying even in the end anything that I appreciated or found insightful or interesting or anything. It's mostly just shallow and silly
It's not for me

People were really laughing in the theatre, though. They loved it. But I found the "jokes" to be cruel-hearted or childish. One of the biggest laughs was when some guy tripped. Most of the laughs just came from Emma Stone acting like a non-verbal autistic person, which sincerely is not funny. I think maybe it just looks and is paced weird so people don't know how to react to it and laugh at anything?

Just garbage really
yeah, fuck this movie

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 4:13 am**

i'm so sad right now

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 4:18 am**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 4:24 am**

good advice, but I might never watch another movie again

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 7:51 am**

I don't get the love for Emma Stone either.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 8:19 am**

Burt when woman:

Spoiler: show

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 12:35 pm**

She's fine I guess I just don't get what the big deal is.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 12:42 pm**

The Argonaut wrote:i'm so sad right now

There, there

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 1:43 pm**

BurtReynolds wrote:She's fine I guess I just don't get what the big deal is.

She's kind of perfect for this age of beige. I like beige.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 1:59 pm**

Damn. And here I am reserving a spot for Poor Things at the top of my year end list.

I'm still very hopeful, since I, for one, find Emma Stone delightful.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 2:00 pm**

I like her quite a bit in The Curse. Very talented and charismatic, for sure. I can definitely think of many lesser actours and actoursses.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 2:01 pm**

Farmer John wrote:Damn. And here I am reserving a spot for Poor Things at the top of my year end list.

I'm still very hopeful, since I, for one, find Emma Stone delightful.

Everybody in the theatre and on the internet loves it.

I am alone

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 2:03 pm**

The Argonaut wrote:
Farmer John wrote:Damn. And here I am reserving a spot for Poor Things at the top of my year end list.

I'm still very hopeful, since I, for one, find Emma Stone delightful.
Everybody in the theatre and on the internet loves it.

I am alone

Do you like Yorgos' other movies?

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 2:07 pm**

I did not like Lobster but liked Killing of Sacred Deer quite a bit, but part of me hated it. Is the Favourite any good?

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 2:07 pm**

Farmer John wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
Farmer John wrote:Damn. And here I am reserving a spot for Poor Things at the top of my year end list.

I'm still very hopeful, since I, for one, find Emma Stone delightful.
Everybody in the theatre and on the internet loves it.

I am alone
Do you like Yorgos' other movies?

Dogtooth, Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster emphatically yes. Especially The Lobster.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 2:22 pm**

tree_ wrote:Is the Favourite any good?

It's not my favourite of his (that would probably be The Lobster), but I really liked it.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 2:45 pm**

I know we gotta cancel majors, but I hope that Magazine Dreams movie comes out one day.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 7:32 pm**

Leave the World Behind might be the dumbest movie I've ever seen.

Posted: **Tue December 19, 2023 7:35 pm**

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