Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid

At great personal cost I once saw the most recent Bridget Jones movie, which has an extended arse-achingly tedious scene where Sheeran plays himself, not being recognised by the main character. It's one of the worst parts of a terrible, terrible film.

feel like theres a wave of conversion therapy movies coming out that i am going to Avoid

The Front Runner

King of Thieves w/ Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, Uncle Tom Courtenay and all

i missed the sheeran revive last week but i'm lolling hard now at the thought that danny boyle might have dropped out of directing the next bond movie to direct... an ed sheeran movie

At Eternity's Gate - Julian Schnabel's Van Gogh biopic w/ William Defoe. I loved the Altman and Pialat Van Gogh biopics in the 90's, but just feel strongly that this will be some nauseating garbage (see also every other shit Schnabel movie and his entire art career).

there's a bit in the trailer where he says he's painting for people who aren't born yet

lol, that's probably summat Schnabel said himself in the 80's, just before Clement Greenberg told him his work was complete dogshit!

Have we touched on the cringe-inducing trailer for Peppermint? It appears to be a Jennifer-Garner-headed remake of Death Wish (because one per year isn't enough?!) except this time every person she's killing is coded as Mexican.

I really like the name. It's refreshing. Like...well, I guess like peppermint! Ahhh.

that doc where a wide-eyed dem travels to trump country

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury
Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart
Christian Bale and Dick Cheney

A Star is Born, The Wife, A Simple Favour; I hadn’t planned on seeing any, but here I am at the cinema and this is all that’s on. Anyone have any idea which might be the most compelling of the three?

Christian Bale and Dick Cheney

this trailer generated a surprising number of whoops and cheers at my mostly 18-35 screening of A Star is Born. Everything about it remined me of what I dislike about Christian Bale's approach to acting and Adam McKay's approach to comedy.

I'd see The Wife out of that lot.

Why are people I like and thought I knew seeing A Star is Born? What is going on tbh

tt: only one of those is by Paul Feig

I know we're in Oscar bait season, but the trailer for On the Basis of Sex further increased my Do Not Wants.

Has Felicity Jones been good in anything?

i have never seen her, so that tends toward no

would be pretty swank to have seen every good movie ever ;)

i find that whenever i reluctantly sit down to watch something, it's almost always bad, so imagine how awful the stuff i skip must be.

The white people I know are awful, imagine how much worse all those unknown brown people must be.

now that's an award-winning straw man intro right there

Haha ok what the FUCK is this green book movie, how is it real. I saw the trailer and it was hilariously bad, it really feels like a parody trailer in the “simple jack” genre. Like, I might actually watch this it looks so bad

dark gritty Driving Miss Daisy reboot

Guido Mortensen vs ~articulate~

one does not simply walk into Mississippi

hahahahaha

Black Panther; I forgot to put that one down here months ago.

Cuarón, Jenkins and maybe a few others aside, this year's holiday/awards season crop looks pretty dire.

idk it seems pretty routine.

good:
Roma (assuming)
Beale Street (assuming)
Burning (assuming)
Vice (assuming... w/e I'm looking forward to it)
The Favourite
First Reformed
Eighth Grade
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Paddington 2
First Man

bad:
A Star is Born (i liked it for what it was but foh w/ any awards)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Green Book
Boy Erased
Beautiful Boy
Mary Poppins (wtf is this shit?)

i also don't think it's the worst year, but to be fair, a bunch of stuff on your 'good' list came out way earlier in the year.

yeah but they're getting nominated & winning, which is always good - silly to ignore films released before the fall/winter

fair enough, i took it as a comment on the 'awards movie season' as much as we evaluate 'this year's summer blockbuster crop' etc.

Beale Street was a mild disappointment.

Q: Is Green Book a spiritual sequel to Crash? Or is it a literal sequel to Crash?

Prequel

soft reboot

fair enough, i took it as a comment on the 'awards movie season' as much as we evaluate 'this year's summer blockbuster crop' etc.

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actually you're right, esp. with the wicked trifecta of star/book/rhapsody

Don't feel like Roma and A Phantom Thread (the 1/2 in the S&S poll) were that big a deal.

Benadryl Camembert IS Brexit

Did Michael sheen die or something?

The Favourite
Roma
The House that Jack Built

so they really cast the most posh, royal family-looking British actress as Brooklyn-born, second generation Jewish immigrant Ruth Bader Ginsburg? the Jews who control Hollywood need to be replaced with better Jews

— etan (@EtanHeytan) December 11, 2018

that movie has such a dumb, unwieldy title

Pubescent kids gonna be so disappointed after they surreptitiously DVR this Sex movie six months from now.

seems obvious they were banking on "RBG" as a can't-miss title, then the doc scooped them, and then they had months to come up with something else and just kept procrastinating the big meeting.

Oh is that what that film is about?! Funny that it’s coming out so close to the doc, one for the magician movies thread

This type of film is such an insta-skip for me that the only reason the fact of its existence has stuck in my mind at all is that the director mimi leder did consistently excellent work on the leftovers, & when I looked her up on the basis of that I saw that she’d directed deep impact and this upcoming oscarbait thing

Whoa

On The Basis Of Comets