I know we all love to waste our lives inside the black box but there is only so much you can tolerate. This is a negative thread so please be that.
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino, 2015)Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman, 2015) - this looks terribleHail, Ceasar! (Coen bros., 2015) - a cast to avoid
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:10 (two years ago) Permalink
I was just thinking this about Anomalisa, like ten minutes ago
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:13 (two years ago) Permalink
I will not allow myself to watch A Bigger Splash. Not that trailers are remotely an indication of how good a film is going to be, but the trailer for this is so pervasively nauseating that it would be a triumph of editing were it somehow to not reflect accurately.
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:24 (two years ago) Permalink
Now that awards season is over, I no longer feel like my avoidance of The Revenant, The Big Short, Mad Max: Fury Road, Room and The Martian is that big of a deal, so I'll just continue quietly avoiding them now.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 6 March 2016 14:20 (two years ago) Permalink
Youth is the worst Sorrention, and the first he's made in a long time that doesn't at least have that wonderful Sorrentinoesque editing, but it's still fine. Looking forward to A Bigger Splash!
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:08 (two years ago) Permalink
teh danish girlsteve jobshateful 8
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:13 (two years ago) Permalink
o yea room also def
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:17 (two years ago) Permalink
Brooklyn
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:19 (two years ago) Permalink
A War! Fuck that propagandistic crap.
Youth was a shade less revolting than The Danish Girl; both movies you can point and laugh at.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:24 (two years ago) Permalink
will avoid:Oliver Stone's Snowden thingX-Men XVIII or whateverIndependence Day 2Star Trek XXXVIII or whateverEastwood/SullyMagnificent Seven remakeHarry Potter spinoffStar Wars spinoff
will wait for streaming:ZootopiaDeadpool, maybeFinding Another Fish
― WilliamC, Sunday, 6 March 2016 16:33 (two years ago) Permalink
I thought I was pretty positive & unpicky about films but pretty much everything listed so far I am either avoiding or wish I had avoided
I think the sole exception is Independence Day which I will proooobably see one day even though it looks extremely terrible
― anglos with derpy phasis (wins), Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:07 (two years ago) Permalink
Anything Terrence Malick puts out. I have come to accept the fact I find his films shallow and boring, and can no longer be bothered to try.
(I mean, I rarely go to the cinema to catch new films anyway but I don't really see that as actively avoiding films, just... failing to go to the cinema.)
― emil.y, Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:27 (two years ago) Permalink
Oh right, now that Oscarbait season is done, Deadpool is thing I give the least shit about.
Might only watch Stone's Snowden thing because of JGL, but still a big maybe.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:41 (two years ago) Permalink
emil.y, I'm with you on Malick (after Thin Red Line).
― WilliamC, Sunday, 6 March 2016 19:23 (two years ago) Permalink
what movies have you willingly watched recently that would make you reconsider the actively avoid list by comparison?(my having watched zoolander2 means I can't really have an actively avoid list anymore)
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 6 March 2016 19:44 (two years ago) Permalink
how is malick "shallow"? of all the ways to go at the guy...
― circa1916, Sunday, 6 March 2016 19:58 (two years ago) Permalink
I don't think he's shallow, more like he's got these few things to say and repeats them ad nauseum. I will avoid the new one.
― stanley krubrick (rip van wanko), Sunday, 6 March 2016 20:04 (two years ago) Permalink
This is supposed to be a solely negative thread, so no defending! Though I guess to me 'shallow' = I appreciate the look of his films but the underlying messages and themes completely fail to resonate with me. I just get nothing deeper than 'oh, I guess that's quite pretty'. You might get something more, but I find myself unmoved.
― emil.y, Sunday, 6 March 2016 20:04 (two years ago) Permalink
all of them
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 March 2016 20:49 (two years ago) Permalink
Thirding the Malick disdain. Tree of Life felt achingly empty to me. I cannot gel with his very measured, almost clinically literary tone, and don't understand his emotional palette at all. I keep falling for the hype that surrounds him, but I don't think it will happen again.
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 6 March 2016 20:54 (two years ago) Permalink
As usual, you put it much better than I can. I often love "achingly empty" films, but that's normally when the emptiness is intentional. Whereas Malick seems to be desperately trying to impart something, but when I look I find nothing.
― emil.y, Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:01 (two years ago) Permalink
Youth is the worst Sorrention, and the first he's made in a long time that doesn't at least have that wonderful Sorrentinoesque editing, but it's still fine. Looking forward to A Bigger Splash!― Frederik B, Sunday, March 6, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Frederik B, Sunday, March 6, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The reason for this thread is that a friend & I were going to see it and then got there and it was sold out. We were both dreading it, knowing it was going to be complete and utter shit but liking some of his previous work.
Another friend dragged me to A Bigger Splash! and it was so banal - this barely disguised ad for the Italian tourist industry (even if good things don't happen) so you should avoid it if you can.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:14 (two years ago) Permalink
The even bigger reason is that 2016 has been terrible for films. Rams by Grímur Hákonarson looks like this quirky Icelandic film I just don't care for. The Revenant is a complete fkn joke.
In parallel the BFI has been running a Godard season and his work from the 70s onwards (never mind the 60s) has been putting everybody to shame.
Dreading the end of this (next week is the last of it). If I am able to I always like going to the cinema.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:23 (two years ago) Permalink
I know we aren't suppose to defend film, but Rams is delightful... If you all didn't see Of Horses and Men by Benedikt Erlingsson, you need to do that as well, and they're kinda the same film.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:33 (two years ago) Permalink
dunno if something can be both quirky and viscerally crushing but this is a thread of hatred so on we go. obv i am never watching The Revenant ever
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:34 (two years ago) Permalink
Even though I set-up the thread no one needs to follow all the rules (not that there are any hard-and-fast rules) so yeah defend if you happen to watch and like it. Obviously I'm saying 'no way' on the basis of a trailer or a review of it or what I hear about it. xp
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:37 (two years ago) Permalink
The rams trailer made it look like quirky deadpan comedy but it's like straight tragedy. I liked it, probably in large part because it wasn't the former - as we were leaving my friend said "imagine if that had been a British film" and we both shuddered at the thought of the fucking michael gambon rhys ifans bullshit that would be
― anglos with derpy phasis (wins), Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:42 (two years ago) Permalink
youth really was pretty bad -- glacial male-artist sorrow (certainly the end of something or other, one would sort of have to think), that one guy who only plays quivering bureaucrats as a quivering bureaucrat, all dialogue clearly written but not spoken in esl which gave the whole movie such a stilted uncanny feeling i almost liked it. liked the giant marx tattoo i guess.
anomalisa was perfect on its own extremely limited and unpleasant terms.
the coens have been at the top of their career since burn after reading so i am very excited for this obviously slight one.
anyway, deadpool.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:52 (two years ago) Permalink
The Revenant, The Danish Girl, the Dakota Fanning trans boy movie, most of the foreseeable superhero movies, Zoolander 2
― one way street, Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:56 (two years ago) Permalink
― mookieproof, Sunday, March 6, 2016 12:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm.
I am the Joey Chestnut of avoiding movies
― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:58 (two years ago) Permalink
had no idea stone was making a snowden movie; that's unnecessary. idk if there's a scene in oliver stone's whole oeuvre better than the fire alarm sequence in citizenfour unless it's the one where joe pesci's wig comes off.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:01 (two years ago) Permalink
Rams should be seen just for the awesome images of Iceland :) They have this whole boom of cheap films filmed around the countryside, using the landscape and many amateur actors. All of the films have names like Rams, Sparrows, Volcano, Virgin Mountain, Of Horses and Men. It's a style, kinda.
Yeah, Youth is pretty bad. Sorrentino has only made 'big-male-sorrow' films. His last three films were male-artist-sorrow, but before that it was politician and mafiosi. It's definitely the biggest failing of his filmography, and Youth is really doubling down on it. The guy is still just 45, why are all his films about men growing old and irrelevant? But he is a good picture-maker, and Youth has good pictures.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:42 (two years ago) Permalink
When Tree of Life came out the local alt-weekly ran two reviews: "I Saw The Tree of Life, and I Loved It" and "I Didn't See The Tree of Life, and I Hated It." I'll always love Badlands and should get around to watching The Thin Red Line but nothing after that has had much appeal.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:51 (two years ago) Permalink
The only 'my god what rubbish' reaction I've had to a trailer recently was for The BFG, but after the disaster of Tintin I was unlikely to see another Spielberg kids' movie anyway.
The trailer for Hail, Caesar pretty much gives the entire movie away - and does so in a far snappier fashion than the film itself. Ralph Fiennes is the standout turn in H,C but even that wasn't enough to make me see A Bigger Splash, especially after I read a really arsey interview w/ the director in Sight and Sound.
And yes, Youth was unrecoverable in any coherent critical way as a 'good' movie, but it's not an especially interesting bad movie either. The corollary of its male-artist-sorrow is a gross sexism and general disregard for any of the female characters (Rachel Weisz and Jane Fonda probably give the best performances in the film, but they're marginalised and trivialised when set against mouldy Michael Caine and mumbling Harvey Keitel). Also thought This Must Be The Place was a turd, so yeah, it def feels like Sorrentino loses something quite crucial when working with an English Language script.
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:06 (two years ago) Permalink
The Big Fucken Giant. Never saw Tintin but I will do my duty and watch it as part of the big Spielberg project. But I get to stop at Bridge Of Spies, then my commitment ends, so the BFG can G the F O.Never watched Avatar, Titanic, Independence Day, any Jurassic Park sequels, I watch a hella lit of bad ibdies but I can't be bothered with that shit.Still Alice, my mother keeps trying to show me and I am "no thank you"
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:58 (two years ago) Permalink
Fast/Furious films, Saw films, TV spinoffs...
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:01 (two years ago) Permalink
The director of A Bigger Splash is Luca Guadagnino who made the quite good I Am Love, so def seeing A Bigger Splash.
I watched Synecdoche New York two days back and decided to give Anomalisa a pass.
― Frederik B, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:06 (two years ago) Permalink
guys if you're not hating on days of heaven you're hating malick wrong
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Monday, 7 March 2016 00:27 (two years ago) Permalink
its like if you're really going to hate oasis you can't just start hating with 'be here now'. you have to commit to your hate. it's like hating only the late u2: fuck that.
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Monday, 7 March 2016 00:28 (two years ago) Permalink
i am love is a garbage movie for garbage people
oh my god rain on a statues face it looks like the statue is crying fuck me did your 5yo cowrite this thing
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Monday, 7 March 2016 00:29 (two years ago) Permalink
anomalisa is a great title for a mediocre mid-90s indie record
dlh's thing on youth and esl kinda makes me want to see it, or at least make a movie that uses the same trick to some effect
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Monday, 7 March 2016 00:30 (two years ago) Permalink
Non-english speaking people has been doing this for decades.
― Frederik B, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:54 (two years ago) Permalink
'Oh look at this stupid director, he isn't even a native English speaker, and he still thinks he can make a global film! lol, what a weirdo.'
― Frederik B, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:55 (two years ago) Permalink
'Meanwhile, isn't Eddie Redmayne amazing as a Dane, let's give him all the oscars!'
i think there was more to dlh's claim than that tbh
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:19 (two years ago) Permalink
Anything with "today's comedy superstars" US version - people I generally find unfunny (Louis CK, Tina Fey, The Amy's Schumer and Poehler) ---everything I've seen them in up to now a resounding dud so no thanks.Anything by Lanthimos"Anomalisa" was a real chore.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:48 (two years ago) Permalink
Also - no more Baumbach. Or Ben Stiller ( he just seems fed up in everything).
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:49 (two years ago) Permalink
that doc where a wide-eyed dem travels to trump country
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:21 (four months ago) Permalink
Rami Malek as Freddie MercuryHugh Jackman as Gary HartChristian Bale and Dick Cheney
― Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 22:34 (three months ago) Permalink
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?
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:04 (three months ago) Permalink
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.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:29 (three months ago) Permalink
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
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:32 (three months ago) Permalink
tt: only one of those is by Paul Feig
― Shy Betting Mega Hit (sic), Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:40 (three months ago) Permalink
I know we're in Oscar bait season, but the trailer for On the Basis of Sex further increased my Do Not Wants.
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 13:03 (three months ago) Permalink
Has Felicity Jones been good in anything?
― jmm, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:07 (three months ago) Permalink
i have never seen her, so that tends toward no
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:13 (three months ago) Permalink
would be pretty swank to have seen every good movie ever ;)
― imago, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:39 (three months ago) Permalink
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.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:41 (three months ago) Permalink
The white people I know are awful, imagine how much worse all those unknown brown people must be.
― oder doch?, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:57 (three months ago) Permalink
now that's an award-winning straw man intro right there
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 October 2018 00:33 (three months ago) Permalink
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
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:31 (one month ago) Permalink
dark gritty Driving Miss Daisy reboot
― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:34 (one month ago) Permalink
Guido Mortensen vs ~articulate~
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:36 (one month ago) Permalink
one does not simply walk into Mississippi
― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:38 (one month ago) Permalink
hahahahaha
― WmC, Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:40 (one month ago) Permalink
Black Panther; I forgot to put that one down here months ago.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:19 (one month ago) Permalink
Cuarón, Jenkins and maybe a few others aside, this year's holiday/awards season crop looks pretty dire.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:28 (one month ago) Permalink
idk it seems pretty routine.
good:Roma (assuming)Beale Street (assuming)Burning (assuming)Vice (assuming... w/e I'm looking forward to it)The FavouriteFirst ReformedEighth GradeBlacKkKlansmanCan You Ever Forgive Me?Paddington 2First Man
bad:A Star is Born (i liked it for what it was but foh w/ any awards)Bohemian RhapsodyGreen BookBoy ErasedBeautiful BoyMary Poppins (wtf is this shit?)
― flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:13 (one month ago) Permalink
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:57 (one month ago) Permalink
yeah but they're getting nominated & winning, which is always good - silly to ignore films released before the fall/winter
― flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:49 (one month ago) Permalink
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:51 (one month ago) Permalink
Beale Street was a mild disappointment.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:54 (one month ago) Permalink
Q: Is Green Book a spiritual sequel to Crash? Or is it a literal sequel to Crash?
― my hand is finally unglued from my face (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 December 2018 22:19 (one month ago) Permalink
Prequel
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 23:44 (one month ago) Permalink
soft reboot
― jmm, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:22 (one month ago) Permalink
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, December 10, 2018 4:51 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually you're right, esp. with the wicked trifecta of star/book/rhapsody
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 04:55 (one month ago) Permalink
Don't feel like Roma and A Phantom Thread (the 1/2 in the S&S poll) were that big a deal.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:29 (one month ago) Permalink
Benadryl Camembert IS Brexit
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:01 (one month ago) Permalink
Did Michael sheen die or something?
The FavouriteRomaThe House that Jack Built
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 30 December 2018 20:18 (three weeks ago) Permalink
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2019 12:50 (three weeks ago) Permalink
that movie has such a dumb, unwieldy title
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 16:38 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Pubescent kids gonna be so disappointed after they surreptitiously DVR this Sex movie six months from now.
― The Mandal Brah Set (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 January 2019 16:52 (three weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:00 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Oh is that what that film is about?! Funny that it’s coming out so close to the doc, one for the magician movies threadThis 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
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:09 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Whoa
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:15 (three weeks ago) Permalink
On The Basis Of Comets
― imago, Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:23 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Leder also helmed the icky Pay It Forward, which automatically cancels any interest I might have had in seeing this (though I had none).
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:28 (three weeks ago) Permalink
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:30 (three weeks ago) Permalink
ehh I think of leder as an example of how female filmmakers only get 1-2 cracks at blockbuster scale work if they "underperform" (or make money but not quite ENOUGH money) while male mediocrities seem to get chance after chance after chance. deep impact is a perfectly reasonable disaster movie that was only overshadowed because armageddon (same subject matter, different genre) was concentrated preposterous manipulative cheese. the peacemaker was pretty lame on recent rewatch, i'll admit. disclaimer, i haven't read any interviews or anything to back this up - maybe she found doing these movies to be a nightmare and never went back on purpose, idk.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:39 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Deep Impact is dope, maybe I will see this new Notorious RBG film
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:45 (three weeks ago) Permalink
I mean ...
2 Armageddon BV $201,578,182 3,184 $36,089,972 3,127 7/18 Deep Impact Par. $140,464,664 3,280 $41,152,375 3,156 5/8
Not to mention that apparently Deep Impact cost about half as much to make as Armageddon.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:46 (three weeks ago) Permalink
green book, the upside
why are these movies still being made
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:47 (six days ago) Permalink
Oscars, baby
― A Nugatory Excrescence (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:15 (six days ago) Permalink
are the voters who nominated guess who's coming to dinner still voting?
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 19 January 2019 00:19 (five days ago) Permalink
tide goes in, tide goes out
― flappy bird, Saturday, 19 January 2019 04:21 (five days ago) Permalink
I had my "enough" moment with comic book movies back in 2015. I saw "The Rock" in theaters and I haven't seen another Michael Bay movie since. Anything directed by Zach Snyder is also insta-banned.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:59 (two days ago) Permalink