#3230
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#3231

mother! is a thuddingly heavy handed passion play that would be best played to really stupid kids at Sunday School, but for the swearing and occasional violence. It’s like something Mel Gibson would make, but less nuanced.

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#3232

Not enough anti-Semitism to be a Mel Gibson film

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#3233

yep

#3234

Fucking hell

#3235

I… enjoyed? mother! (?)

I certainly found it an interesting film. It’s not exactly subtle to anyone aware of religious allegory, it borrows heavily from Polanski’s Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby, and the CGI bits are hilariously naff… but I dunno, there’s something about it that meant I couldn’t keep my eyes off it. There are little touches here and there which make it an enjoyable (if that is the word) sensory overload of epic proportions. The first half was brilliantly tense, the second half brilliantly chaotic. It reflected (but didn’t say a lot) about the current world: celebrity, war, riots, sexism and threw all of the above into a huge pot and stirred. I don’t think there’s a huge need to read loads into it, just go with the fairly insane ride, or don’t. The Lars von Trier comparison isn’t an unjust one.

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Mother! film (*Possible spoilers*)
#3236

also I was pretty much right about this:

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#3237

One thing I learnt from Mother! was I would be happy to see a film where Kristen Wiig plays a psychotic killer. Make it happen Tarantino.

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#3238

hahaha I actually lost it a bit when she showed up

#3239

Just got back from Mother!

Thought it was pretty decent, and I’ve hated pretty much all of Aronofsky’s previous work. As said above in the thread, best enjoyed if seen as a romp rather than intellectual superiority.

If you’re not willing to go along with it, ypu’ll absolutely hate it and find it pretentious as fuck. Be interested to see what people make of it, I think over the years it’ll gain its own following.

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#3240

watched a pirate of mother. hilarious.

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#3241

Watched Michael Clayton for the first time in years last night. Fucking brilliant film still. Clooney, Wilkinson and Swinton all on top, top form.

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#3242

Second best ‘camera focussed on person in back of car during credits’ ending after Long Good Friday too.

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#3243

Twitter is absolutely heaving with people trying to justify mother! I’m finding it very amusing.

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#3244

The structure really reminded me of Melancholia

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#3245

Between that and right wing trolls crowing it’s flopped because of Jennifer Lawrence being a liberal I haven’t seen so many people getting overly invested in a film’s fate since the Ghostbusters remake.

#3246

It’s like an enema, gross but needed to happen

#3247

Careful what you wish for :wink:

#3248

watched Scream last night. Enjoyed it on the whole but it wasn’t nearly as clever as i remembered. Did laugh out a loud a good few times though, mostly at matthew lillard. The script is pretty good in places.

#3249

Watched it on Saturday because they had a late night showing at Screen on the Green. Haven’t seen it in years so there were a lot of sly nods that either I forgot about or didn’t pick up on the first time around.

Matthew Liliard’s character definitely supplied quite a bit of the comedy particularly in the latter half of the film. Might revisit the sequel’s actually :thinking: