Last good movie you saw/and would recommend to others ~

**Day** · 2017-09-16 19:56

Hitman's Bodyguard A+

**Jefe** · 2017-09-19 17:51

I liked BB driver and mai waifu Eiza. Didn't like the whole romance w/ the waitress doe.

**thetruepandagod** · 2017-09-21 00:06

DO NOT WATCH MOTHER

AG was legit biting his hand to prevent busting out laughing near the end and even then some of his incredulous giggles were breakin through. To quote the fine man who walked out of the theater in front of us "So bad. So bad. So bad..." *trailing off into the distance

**chazzyphizzle** · 2017-09-21 07:16

dont worry aronofsky will say its 3deep5us plebs, we just dont get it

**Zetanio** · 2017-09-21 07:37

If you gave an extremely bright fifteen-year-old a bag of unfamiliar herbs to smoke, and forty million dollars or so to play with, "Mother!" would be the result.

I hesitate to label it the "Worst movie of the year" when "Worst movie of the century" fits it even better.

**Krazy** · 2017-09-21 07:50

I watched Society. This movie is weird as fuck and I kinda love it.

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**tyven** · 2017-09-21 10:00

I was very excited when the Mother! audience score of F was announced because it meant I was right in choosing AMERICAN ASSASSIN

**vagus** · 2017-09-21 10:46

Lol. More fuel to the J.Law is a shit actress.

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**Tyrath** · 2017-09-21 10:50

Jlaw isnt the issue with the movie.

**chazzyphizzle** · 2017-09-21 11:06

since when has she been considered a bad actress? she's phoned it in the last couple x-men movies but in her prestige projects she's great, what is this shit?

**dasva** · 2017-09-21 11:20

Yeah and she was fairly decent in this. The movie is rather divisive though and well if you took everything at face value it definitely looked progressively more trippy and chaotic. 2deep4some

Originally Posted by Critic

Jennifer Lawrence plays a woman who is listed in the end credits as Mother, though she has no children when the film begins

**Deftscythe** · 2017-09-21 11:46

Originally Posted by dasva

if you took everything at face value

I don't think the criticism of this movie is coming from people being unable to pierce it's thick veil of subtlety.

**archibaldcrane** · 2017-09-21 12:27

I kept hearing over the past 48 hours that people just fucking hate Mother!

...but it has a 68 RT score and a 74! on Metacritic.

Is this just critics getting caught up huffing their own farts or is it just a challenging movie that doesn't follow conventional storytelling?

...i suppose i'm just going to have to see it to find out

**Rhyis.** · 2017-09-21 12:40

I'll end up watching it just to see if it's actually bad or just different. I can deal with different.

**Andalusian girls** · 2017-09-21 13:42

different, artistic, subtle, demanding, i can handle. Terrence Malick and Andrei Tarkovsky are two of my favorite filmmakers. as Deftscythe said the issue was never Panda and i being unable to decipher the metaphors, i'd be surprised if anyone here couldn't to be honest. the issue is they are so incredibly heavyhanded, so hamfistededly shoved down your fucking throat that as Panda related i literally had to bite my hand hard enough to leave teeth marks to stop from bursting out laughing during the movie's emotional climactic revelation.

i respect Aronofsky's technical prowess, the sound design is outstanding and his early framing with every character dominating the scene in extreme closeups creates a unique sense of claustrophobia that helps the film build up a boiling suspense until shit goes 100, and he is undoubtedly a visionary. i just wish his visions weren't so shitty.

it's nowhere near the worst thing i've seen, if anything it's frustrating because he is gifted in ways other directors are not. but for a movie that is pure allegory, that dispenses entirely with actual human behavior to go about with didactic moralizing, the thematic content needs to be more than what a stoned freshman religious studies major who saw An Inconvenient Truth ten years ago would come up with.

Lawrence acts quite well it in, by the by.

**dasva** · 2017-09-21 13:47

Originally Posted by Deftscythe

I don't think the criticism of this movie is coming from people being unable to pierce it's thick veil of subtlety.

All no? Some definitely. And possible part of the reason between such a large difference between critics and viewers... maybe.

Like critics generally got it.. though some somehow simultaneously got it and didn't at other points and some tried to take it symbolically AND literally at the same time in as far as I can tell was an attempt to bring feminism into it lol.

But the viewers are kind of holy fuck. Several it's too disgusting/disturbing imagery (though a couple liked that), people ranging from clearly didn't get a damn thing to a few people saying it wasn't even slightly subtle just pretending to be (though to be fair when you look back on it in retrospect it wasn't as much as when you watched it), to people who actually thought it was a real horror/thriller and graded it as such.

One point that several of the critics and viewers both negative and positive had in common was that pacing was kind of terrible. Imo a large part of what made it not easy to figure out quickly wasn't necessarily how subtle it was being but the rapidity at which it jumped from one thing to the next crazier thing especially near the end. And sometimes just having some of the important details only up for a second (the sick Ed Harris scene comes to mind since I literally blinked and missed seeing the "injury" it was up for so little time). Made it hard to even follow let alone actually digest what is actually going on. Pretty much everything after the crowd shows up at the house was just random stream of consciousness while when it was just the 2 or 4 it was actually kind of good. Also I'll say while most the performances were pretty good though not great but Bardem's character... well had no character

**Deftscythe** · 2017-09-21 14:23

Originally Posted by dasva

One point that several of the critics and viewers both negative and positive had in common was that pacing was kind of terrible. Imo a large part of what made it not easy to figure out quickly wasn't necessarily how subtle it was being but the rapidity at which it jumped from one thing to the next crazier thing especially near the end. And sometimes just having some of the important details only up for a second (the sick Ed Harris scene comes to mind since I literally blinked and missed seeing the "injury" it was up for so little time). Made it hard to even follow let alone actually digest what is actually going on. Pretty much everything after the crowd shows up at the house was just random stream of consciousness while when it was just the 2 or 4 it was actually kind of good. Also I'll say while most the performances were pretty good though not great but Bardem's character... well had no character

Well when your goal is to

Spoiler: show

in 2 hours, shit is going to get rushed.

I don't see how anyone could miss what the movie was doing since Aronofsky is out there just stating it flatly.

**dasva** · 2017-09-21 14:48

Originally Posted by Deftscythe

Well when your goal is to

Spoiler: show

in 2 hours, shit is going to get rushed.

I don't see how anyone could miss what the movie was doing since Aronofsky is out there just stating it flatly.

Spoiler: show

As for miss well not to poke at one person but...

Originally Posted by Tyrath

Also lol @ them very clearly explaining it. They didn't. Maybe it's obvious if you know the

Spoiler: show

**thetruepandagod** · 2017-09-21 15:25

If you turned off your brain entirely and just sat back in a semi comatose state you could enjoy the movie far more. Or if you are an antisocial person who hates the idea of inconsiderate jackasses traipsing about your house it makes for a great tense and relatable horror. It has 0 depth to it and I fail to see how anyone could miss anything going on even at the most chaotic of parts unless they had fallen asleep during the slower first third of it.

**dasva** · 2017-09-21 16:00

Originally Posted by tyven

I was right in choosing AMERICAN ASSASSIN

Totally missed this but how was it. Mostly heard it was just ok except Keaton of course killed it

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