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Really bored right now, so here goes something else: 25 films from this century I hated, trying to avoid some obvious choices.
About Schmidt
Antichrist
Atomic Blonde
Avengers: Infinity War
Beasts of The Southern Wild
Bohemian Rhapsody
Booksmart
The Dead don’t Die
Elephant
Eternal Beauty
Fantastic 4
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Jojo Rabbit
The Lobster
Luce
Margot at the Wedding
Me Before You
Mommy
Ocean’s 8
On The Rocks
Raw
Under The Skin
Vox Lux
Wonder Woman
Young AhmedI disagree with a couple of choices (Under the Skin and Elephant, although I never feel sure about the latter), but overall reading your list was pure delight. How ugly Booksmart was!
ReplyCopy URLAbout The Lobster and Under The Skin, I find them to be incredibly dense and in the case of former pretty stupid. I got nothing from them and it was really hard to even finish them. I can understand the love for UTS though, so don’t hate me; it just wasn’t for me.
Now, The Lobster is something I don’t get the praise for so I would like to know why you like it too. That quirky and uncomfortable humor didn’t work with me at all and the film being so reliant on it made it even worse and even less interesting. It was also constantly and needlessly cruel, right? Like, I guess that is partially his idea and style but maybe he could have done something else for like, idk, 10 minutes? The boring color palette and repetitive score made it even more boring too. Oh, and Colin Farrell kind of makes every film worse.
Then, about Elephant, I thought it was just a try-hard mess. I don’t like when films try to address so many problematics at once because I find no interest in them if they are loosely conveyed. One second it was showing bulimia, then it was showing the influence of video games on children and then it was randomly addressing nazism??? All in 80 minutes?? It just didn’t feel right to me. I get that the ideas can be related to the main plot of the film but maybe the director could have worked more on them instead of giving them a minute and then exhibit so much violence just because. It’s a very, very showy film that I personally didn’t enjoy at all.
Thanks for being polite, by the way. OccultCherry can choke!
There is a story about how The Lobster was created. Yorgos and Efthymis were enjoying a good evening with smoking drugs. And they started to talk about different ideas for a movie. And The Lobster was created. So so funny
I really like the absurdity if The Lobster. It is a clever critic of the society as a whole of the constant hunt for love. And also the pressure from the society of being in a “relationship” when you are entering the late 30s and early 40s. I think it is also a critic about the reality tv show orientated that creates a sick new norm of “real” love and the steps to get “the right one”. The dialog is fantastic, the acting etc. I cannot praise The Lobster enough.
Under The Skin was a dark ride and I truly loved it as well. I am a huge Jonathan Glazer fan. Sexy Beast was good, but Birth was magnetic! Under The Skin is not an easy movie and I had to really just jump in. I love that a movie just trances my brain and lets me follow every step the characters take, feeling that we are in this together. The mix of fear, seduction and horror is fantastic. And as The Lobster, there is a mystery there trying not to get seen or resolved
Elephant is a poetic movie with the balance between beauty and darkness. There are no easy answers here as there are in life. There are so many reasons and layers behind a school shooting. Van Sant takes an artistic approach and made me look at the behind the scenes of what happens prior to the massacre. Maybe we should not turn a blind eye to something the younger generation are doing. Instead of saying “stop doing that!”, we could rather ask “what is going on here and why do you find it interesting”. I think Van Sant wanted to provoke us and make us think, not to give any answers.
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2.Moonlight
3.12 Years A Slave
4.Inception
5.Mad Max Fury Road
6.The Wolf of Wall Street
7.The Social Network
8.The Master
9.Children of Men
10.There Will Be Blood
11.Black Swan
12.Get Out
13.Silence
14.Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
15.Marriage Story
16.The Grand Budapest Hotel
17.The Irishman
18.The Lighthouse
19.Inglorious Basterds
20.Lady Bird
21.The Aviator
22.Sexy Beast
23.The Lobster
24.Hereditary
25.Shutter IslandI disagree with a couple of choices (Under the Skin and Elephant, although I never feel sure about the latter), but overall reading your list was pure delight. How ugly Booksmart was!
Thanks! Very nice of you
There is a story about how The Lobster was created. Yorgos and Efthymis were enjoying a good evening with smoking drugs. And they started to talk about different ideas for a movie. And The Lobster was created. So so funny
I really like the absurdity if The Lobster. It is a clever critic of the society as a whole of the constant hunt for love. And also the pressure from the society of being in a “relationship” when you are entering the late 30s and early 40s. I think it is also a critic about the reality tv show orientated that creates a sick new norm of “real” love and the steps to get “the right one”. The dialog is fantastic, the acting etc. I cannot praise The Lobster enough.
Under The Skin was a dark ride and I truly loved it as well. I am a huge Jonathan Glazer fan. Sexy Beast was good, but Birth was magnetic! Under The Skin is not an easy movie and I had to really just jump in. I love that a movie just trances my brain and lets me follow every step the characters take, feeling that we are in this together. The mix of fear, seduction and horror is fantastic. And as The Lobster, there is a mystery there trying not to get seen or resolved
Elephant is a poetic movie with the balance between beauty and darkness. There are no easy answers here as there are in life. There are so many reasons and layers behind a school shooting. Van Sant takes an artistic approach and made me look at the behind the scenes of what happens prior to the massacre. Maybe we should not turn a blind eye to something the younger generation are doing. Instead of saying “stop doing that!”, we could rather ask “what is going on here and why do you find it interesting”. I think Van Sant wanted to provoke us and make us think, not to give any answers.
I’ll think about this if I ever watch these films again!
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Amy Adams
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Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt
Bradley Cooper
Cate Blanchett
Charlize Theron
Christian Bale
Daniel Day-Lewis
Denzel Washington
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
George Clooney
Halle Berry
Jake Gyllenhaal
Joaquin Phoenix
Johnny Depp
Leonardo DiCaprio
Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Robert Downey, Jr.
Samuel L. Jackson
Sandra Bullock
Scarlett Johansson
Viola Davis
Will SmithMovies:
1. A Separation
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2. Roma
3. The Tree of Life
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Mulholland Dr.
6. Lost in Translation
7. Pan’s Labyrinth
8. No Country for Old Men
9. The Lives of Others
10. The White Ribbon
11. Burning
12. Boyhood
13. Sideways
14. Birdman
15. Brokeback Mountain
16. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
17. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
18. American Splendor
19. The Fog of War
20. Capturing the Friedmans
21. The Best of Youth
22. A Prophet
23. Phantom Thread
24. Amour
25. 12 Years a SlaveIn no particular order:
1. Parasite
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2. The Master
3. Doubt
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. The Favourite
6. Volver
7. Babel
8. Inglorious Basterds
9. Benjamin Button
10. True Grit
11. Black Swan
12. Inception
13. Birdman
14. Get Out
15. Arrival
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
17. Rogue One
18. The Witch
19. District 9
20. There Will Be Blood
21. Pan’s Labyrinth
22. Brokeback Mountain
23. The Sixth Sense
24. No Country for Old Men
25. Carol
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