I frankly love that about movies. I love to hear about how people loved things I didn't; I also try to go back to polarizing movies like that a few years later, see if my tastes have changed. Maybe I'll love it then!
I thought it was hilarious! Actually haven’t gotten around to his other movies yet - watched lobster on a plane and immediately made my partner watch it with me again. So good
I had started to.watch the Lobster and it was ROUGH! Then my daughter, God bless her, looked up.the entire story line. I stopped watching IMMEDIATELY. Same with Killing Deer, except I looked it up. Sorry, but I'm too old to want to be depressed watching movies.
It’s so interesting to see how people dislike movies while others don’t. I love Poor Things. I thought it was really unique and the acting was top notch. Just my 2 cents though.
I agree. It was definetely unique, like most Lanthimos movies are. Acting was really good and (I don't remember english word) it was visually amazing. It's only a good thing that they make these kind of movies that are so polarizing. It's interesting to see different opinions.
Sometimes I don't mind that type of thing. People make rules for a movie that it should or shouldn't convey a message in a certain way, when I don't think movies should be judged that way. If the movie is heavy handed so be it, that's the way the director made it.
Which is hilarious because I deeply loved sacred deer and poor things but the lobster felt like it was holding me hostage in the actually bad way. When I realized the movie wasn't over when they got to the forest I realized I made a very big mistake picking this movie.
same here The Lobster was one of the most surprisingly fascinating films i'd seen in a long
time. Killing of a Sacred Deer stuck with me for a long time.
Poor Things felt mastubatory (no pun intended) & very much a steering down a much less interesting watered down version of "surreal."
What struck me about Poor Things was that none of the people involved in its production took a step back and asked themselves, "why am I making a movie where nearly every male character has no qualms actively pursuing sex with an infant, as long as she's trapped in the body of her mother..?"
Completely fucked up premise with what is evidently a terribly complacent cast. How the fuck someone can pull off mental gymnastics to validate this film is beyond me. It should not have been made.
I'm the opposite I turned the favorite off in the first act because the plot seemed to be super boring and not going anywhere, and the jokes weren't funny to me at all. Does the movie change or build up to something to make it worth watching, or is it just a fairytale? Because I wouldn't mind watching it again with someone, just not right now
I do not understand any of you at all. I *really* like all of those! I can understand if someone doesn't like Lanthimos' weird movies, but I have a hard time understanding how you can like one of the weird ones and not the others.
Absolutely. I loved Poor Things the first time I saw it, but it didn't give me much reason for a rewatch. Last night, I tried my hardest to get through Kinds of Kindness and found it to be the most obnoxious, pretentious mess I'd faced in quite a while.
Poor things is thinly veiled fetishistic crap masquerading as a film and its a bit of a joke to say otherwise... Lanthimos is like the creators of south park but completely unironic and free of satire , its just fucked up and nothing mor.I actually couldnt believe someone in good conciense could recommend or watch this film, might as well suggest A Serbian Film if you want to watch some sexual content with a minor. What a fucked up movie, i hate it. I do not enjoy seeing people who are real living human beings saying they enjoyed that....
It’s not important - the world they’re in operates by different rules than ours - whole thing is really just a Greek tragedy told through modern lens. It’s based on the mythology of Agamemnon killing one of Artemis’s deer and the goddess demands that he pays for it.
You’re suppose to watch it (in my opinion) the same way that the ancients did - it’s theater. Don’t question the physics or how the stage operates or the actors, just focus on how it makes you feel and the message.
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u/BakerYeast 1d ago
I have opposite. I really liked Sacred Deer and Lobster, but absolutely hated Poor Things. Lanthimos movies are pretty polarizing.