movies

[mikechamp]

Hahaha, I can see why you'd naturally identify Paltrow as being in a box.

[Jocephus]

[cardinalkarp]

Watched I, Tonya and 3 Billboards....both good, although I was a little disappointed w/ the ending of Billboards.

Sorry for the [expletive] review. Both are definitely worth watching

[ghostrunner]

Logan is a good movie except for the strangely awful 10 minutes where they stay overnight with Dr Benton from ER and it briefly turns into Roadhouse.

[ghostrunner]

Annihilation is worth seeing in the theater if you still have it in your area. Really dips it toe in a lot of genres - sci-fi, cosmic horror, body horror. Tonally though it's more like 2001 or Moon, and moves at that pace for the most part. Asks more than it answers, and the ending can be interpreted different ways. Even if that kind of thing bugs you there's all kinds of interesting stuff in there.

Also worth supporting because the studio gave up on it. They wanted Alex Garland to change it, he didn't want to, and there was mixed support at the studio, so they made some deal where it only gets released theatrically in the US. Everywhere else it's being released on Netflix.

My favorite critic:

https://splicedpersonality.com/2018/02/28/annihilation/

I suppose it’s my job to be the big smarty pants who has everything figured out, or at least can fake it convincingly enough to fill six hundred words or so. I also suppose that if I went and saw Alex Garland’s Annihilation for a second time –maybe earlier in the evening when I’m not completely exhausted and half in the bag– I could probably come home with all sorts of theories about what’s really going on here, paying particular attention to those disappearing and re-appearing tattoos and sussing out the film’s fractured timeline into some sort of unified, coherent thesis explaining this strange and mesmerizing movie for you.

But I don’t really want to.

The best parts of Annihilation felt like I was having a nightmare right there in the theatre — the cutty, elliptical storyline making abrupt logical and temporal leaps while providing oddly unsettling visual sensations with little or no explanation. The template for the modern science fiction film makes sure to tell us everything you’re looking at while we’re seeing it. Annihilation is more like (if I may quote Jim Croce) a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone. It’s got that dreamy, vaguely incomplete feeling that made the first Blade Runner haunt you for ages afterwards. I’m not exactly sure what to make of this movie but I can’t seem to shake it.

[GeddyWrox]

I watched Mother! over the weekend. I'm still not quite sure what to think of it. It was... it was just... WtF did I watch???

[Schlich]

I watched Mother! over the weekend. I'm still not quite sure what to think of it. It was... it was just... WtF did I watch???

Its so good! Allegory is probably best word for it. Religious overtones but I think framing it that way doesnt do it justice. People focus too much on the plot and strange narrative structure. Just let it speak to you!

[GeddyWrox]

I watched Mother! over the weekend. I'm still not quite sure what to think of it. It was... it was just... WtF did I watch???

Its so good! Allegory is probably best word for it. Religious overtones but I think framing it that way doesnt do it justice. People focus too much on the plot and strange narrative structure. Just let it speak to you!

Did you think this on the first viewing? Or has your opinion grown over time?

I think if I had gone into it with this angle in mind I might have appreciated it more. I went into it knowing that it was weird, but that's all I knew. I think I was expecting a more traditional movie where the characters are just f'd up. But I'm not sure I really want to watch it again at this point.

[Schlich]

I watched Mother! over the weekend. I'm still not quite sure what to think of it. It was... it was just... WtF did I watch???

Its so good! Allegory is probably best word for it. Religious overtones but I think framing it that way doesnt do it justice. People focus too much on the plot and strange narrative structure. Just let it speak to you!

Did you think this on the first viewing? Or has your opinion grown over time?

I think if I had gone into it with this angle in mind I might have appreciated it more. I went into it knowing that it was weird, but that's all I knew. I think I was expecting a more traditional movie where the characters are just f'd up. But I'm not sure I really want to watch it again at this point.[/quotes]

I mean I do think it got better on a second viewing. Idk though its hard to view it outside of personally being a fan of Aronofsky's work and how many of his other movies speak to me. It kind of sets the framework and allows you to more easily follow along with the more fantastical elements. But regardless of that I feel like its just a little more experimental than most people are used to and expectations are key

[Jocephus]