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Why didn't I like this movie? I feel like a maniac after seeing all the gushing praise it's received. It has two of my favorite actors of all time, my favorite stunt crew finally getting some Hollywood love, great performances, a bunch of wild ideas, and a genuinely beautiful message. But I just....didn't like it! At all! It was a complete and utter slog for me to get through.  I think my brain is broken.
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It’s okay to not like something
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Jun 17, 2022 22:53
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CelticPredator posted:It’s okay to not like something
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:
It's basically sensory overload the movie... a lot of people are bouncing off for the same reason.
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Jun 18, 2022 04:41
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I’d never really heard the term “maximal film making” before I heard the director talk about this movie and how making it was basically doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing right now and it was kind of eye opening to realize that there’s this whole other style of movie making that it turns out I really enjoy and kind of prefer to minimalist filmmaking conceits but these kinds of movies seem like they would be so hard to do well. This movie reminds me more of stuff like The Lord of the Rings or MM: Fury Road, it’s just making a really loving gigantic movie with a really gigantic story and telling it in a really big way.
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Jun 18, 2022 04:55
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Yeah Daniels are big maximalist. See also Baz Luhrmann along with others mentioned. Here’s a review of Everything by a big minimalist: https://twitter.com/kogonada/status/1513575841208287236?s=21&t=E0U87hk6SlG0wVzsg2qSXg
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Jun 18, 2022 07:59
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apatheticman posted:It's basically sensory overload the movie... a lot of people are bouncing off for the same reason. Also very long for how intense it is. I'm glad I didn't watch it after a full day at work, I would have been exhausted by the end.
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Jun 18, 2022 13:52
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Why didn't I like this movie? I feel like a maniac after seeing all the gushing praise it's received. It has two of my favorite actors of all time, my favorite stunt crew finally getting some Hollywood love, great performances, a bunch of wild ideas, and a genuinely beautiful message.
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Jun 18, 2022 13:59
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I didn't like it that much, I think mostly because of its, i don't really know how to describe it but it's very common in American movies, like overbearing schmaltzy sentimentality. A lot of good stuff other than that
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Jun 18, 2022 19:45
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Loved every inch of this movie. But especially Stephanie Hsu's dual performance. Blessed to have not known anything about this before I saw it. Was hanging out with my father when he showed me the various things he was given for his retirement. Among them was this award which he failed to see the humor in: 
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Jun 23, 2022 18:07
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It's so strange to me how there's this fraction of people who just seem to reflexively hate this great movie https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1540871359613571074?s=20&t=9gukwwX-Hnh_jC_ultFnaA
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Jun 26, 2022 15:19
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oh no not silly
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Jun 26, 2022 17:24
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Silly is good I just saw Dr Strange and although the story was so-so I absolutely loved how silly Raimi’s directing was
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Jun 26, 2022 17:29
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She’s 84, so not surprised that it’s “over loud” for her. But she’s also got a lot of um hot film takes and seems to hate on many favorites.
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Jun 26, 2022 17:33
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Yeah an 84 year old stick in the mud not liking a movie made by 2 self diagnosed ADHD directors tracks. It's ok for people to not like things.
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Jun 26, 2022 18:33
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Joyce Carol Oates being entirely too online was not something I had anticipated before a few years ago.
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Jun 26, 2022 22:21
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Baron von Eevl posted:Joyce Carol Oates being entirely too online was not something I had anticipated before a few years ago.
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Jun 26, 2022 22:50
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Funny part is that she has absorbed the twitter/online tendency towards hyperbole that I usually associate with youth. She could not just say the film wasn’t for her or she didn’t like it. But Nope, it has to the worst, most pretentious film ever, stating that there may be a worst film, but would require one to think for a while. I guess Twitter anger connects to the theme of turning angry and bad when you get too connected to all the multiverses.
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Jun 26, 2022 23:58
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I finally watched this movie last night and enjoyed the poo poo out of it. I bought it so I'm gonna have a friend over and watch it again 
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I love everything about and associated with this movie, including this thread. I particularly enjoyed reactions like this:Lifepuzzler posted:I watched it again this last Saturday, and I formally renounce all of my criticisms. It does a lot of stuff wrong, and doesn't hit the mark with every single line, but who gives a gently caress? Of course you could imagine a better way to do the things that didn't resonate with you because that's how the multiverse works. Getting disappointed in something that didn't happen, or could happen differently, is in opposition to what this movie was trying to say. This movie is a refreshing beam of light that stands out from the darkness of the last 2.5 years. I saw it in theaters five times and it really clicked the second/third time. It's not just dense with details, the emotional journey can blur some details. My wife identified with Joy and I identified with Weymond so we each spent 1/3 of the movie with tear-blurred vision.
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Jun 29, 2022 20:05
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A24 knows what the people want https://shop.a24films.com/products/auditor-of-the-month-trophy-candle
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A candle too beautiful to burn
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Jun 30, 2022 17:42
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Michelle Yeoh deserves an Oscar for her delivery of "Joy? Why do you look so stupid?" alone.
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checkplease posted:Funny part is that she has absorbed the twitter/online tendency towards hyperbole that I usually associate with youth.
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live with fruit posted:Michelle Yeoh deserves an Oscar for her delivery of "Joy? Why do you look so stupid?" alone. And a supporting nom for James Hong for when he pulls the Googly eyes off and says “So stupid!”
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One of the things that really sits with me about this film is that, to me personally, everything landed. I can’t find a weak link, a bad performance, a joke that I didn’t get. It’s like Evengelion, I’m in 100% sync with this film, everyone back in the control room is like “whoa, oh my god, this movie is perfect!”
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live with fruit posted:Michelle Yeoh deserves an Oscar for her delivery of "Joy? Why do you look so stupid?" alone. That and the little duck walk she does when she comes out of hiding.
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A24 podcast has an episode up of the Daniels talking with Daniel Radcliffe. So all Daniels. It’s a fun listen where they talk a lot of Swiss Army man, some everywhere, everything stories, and and other random discussions. It’s very silly and you can see how Radcliffe was such a good fit. Highlights include who rubbed the Vaseline on Radcliffe’s butt for the farting corpse butt mold. Found a link! https://a24films.com/notes/2022/06/off-to-the-races-daniels-daniel-radcliffe checkplease fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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checkplease posted:farting corpse butt mold. Mods, name change please? Thanks and God bless
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I was looking forward to this but now I feel kinda silly, don't really know what I was expecting but probably not the most milquetoast take that the movie is really good but also maybe a bit long, kinda feels to me like they didn't really have a lot to say about the movie and that perhaps the way the approached this movie was largely affected by the fact that they felt compelled to make this review because their audience demanded it? I know this is silly cause it's just an RLM review but still, w\e. The too long complaints, like I can see where they're coming from but the movie is already pretty condensed and it feels to me like the emotional journey is really at its core, the final act is kind of what grounds the whole thing, ending it when Evelyn is giving everybody happy endings at the stairwell as Joy is making her way to the bagel is just... it's like an intentionally false ending, Joy and Evelyn's happy ending is all about Evelyn growing in a realistic manner, it's not about Evelyn using superpowers to make the world a better place, it's about choices anyone could make at any moment. The ending makes the movie sincere, imo. emanresu tnuocca fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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I'm a big RLM fan but a lot of their reviews seem kind of phoned in lately. They only really do a deep dive into something when it's Star Trek or an old favorite they're doing a re:view video on. Otherwise you get something like their Kenobi videos where it's like "it's good because it's bad and cheap" (each episode costs 25 million, the same as EEAO). Like you guys are critics, c'mon.
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Mantis42 posted:I'm a big RLM fan but a lot of their reviews seem kind of phoned in lately. They only really do a deep dive into something when it's Star Trek or an old favorite they're doing a re:view video on. Otherwise you get something like their Kenobi videos where it's like "it's good because it's bad and cheap" (each episode costs 25, the same as EEAO). Like you guys are critics, c'mon. Jay in particular seems completely over it. Mike at least puts some thought and energy into his critiques.
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Yeah they really should have just went into spoilers to explain more without it its like a 10 minute review felt like they were just rehashing the same talking points.
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I feel like “really good but overly long and overstayed it’s welcome and is maybe too enamored with its own creativity” were precisely the criticisms of most goons ITT. When Jay said “maybe if I’d seen it when I was 20 it would have been my favorite movie ever” that tells you all you need to know about Jay and about his relationship to this movie (and this job, honestly). I’m firmly in the camp of “you’re literally supposed to be exhausted and overwhelmed, that’s by design” but they both said that they liked it and would recommend it to most people, that’s about as good as it gets, there’s maybe 5-6 movies on their whole channel where all of the boys LOVE something
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Yeah I started to feel the length of the film around the rock scene, but RLM emphasized that criticism a little too much though. But I'm glad they covered the film at all compared to the nth superhero movie that came out this year (I hope they never review The Batman).
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I'd complain but there is literally nothing coming out for the rest the year
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