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 (six years ago) link
I was just thinking this about Anomalisa, like ten minutes ago
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:13 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
teh danish girlsteve jobshateful 8
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:13 (six years ago) link
o yea room also def
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:17 (six years ago) link
Brooklyn
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:19 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
emil.y, I'm with you on Malick (after Thin Red Line).
― WilliamC, Sunday, 6 March 2016 19:23 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
how is malick "shallow"? of all the ways to go at the guy...
― circa1916, Sunday, 6 March 2016 19:58 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
all of them
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 March 2016 20:49 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
― 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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
Fast/Furious films, Saw films, TV spinoffs...
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:01 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
Non-english speaking people has been doing this for decades.
― Frederik B, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:54 (six years ago) link
'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 (six years ago) link
'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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
I thought I read he was executive producing it?
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:57 (two years ago) link
jesus, missed that
― devvvine, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 21:47 (two years ago) link
some fuckwit has made a movie about the military wives choir
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:17 (two years ago) link
We needed calendar girls for gammonettes
― wee jim o’conor (wins), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:20 (two years ago) link
I would watch a Short Cuts style movie about the wall of gammon lads tbh
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:29 (two years ago) link
I once sent a very offensive and treasonable comment to military wives choir on twitter in response to their xmas single when i was pissed. GCHQ probably have a file on me.
― calzino, Friday, 7 February 2020 19:42 (two years ago) link
ugh, Peter Cattaneo
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:53 (two years ago) link
as well as all that other parochial garbage he also did the fucking A Word. I nearly assaulted my television with a lump hammer over that shit!
― calzino, Friday, 7 February 2020 19:57 (two years ago) link
jesus what a wasteman
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:08 (two years ago) link
ffs Sharon Horgan youre better than this
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:30 (two years ago) link
She was also in that awful Game Night movie, which she was also better than.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 14 February 2020 06:01 (two years ago) link
Crazy Samurai Musashi: https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/08/fantastia-fest-20-crazy-samurai-musashi.html
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 18:05 (one year ago) link
I love examples where certain reviews are better than the movie itself
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 August 2020 04:34 (one year ago) link
Tenet
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 August 2020 11:24 (one year ago) link
The Painted Bird
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 01:04 (one year ago) link
What if you saved a souvenir from every relationship you've ever been in? THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY follows the always unique Lucy (Geraldine Viswanathan), a 20-something art gallery assistant living in New York City, who also happens to be an emotional hoarder. After she gets dumped by her latest boyfriend, Lucy is inspired to create The Broken Heart Gallery, a pop-up space for the items love has left behind. Word of the gallery spreads, encouraging a movement and a fresh start for all the romantics out there, including Lucy herself.
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 17 September 2020 21:36 (one year ago) link
it's the last sentence that really suggests "this will be trite and forced and awful"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 September 2020 22:47 (one year ago) link
Pete formerly of this parish had a lot of good things to say about it - it stars the actress who played John Cena's daughter from Blockers!
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 18 September 2020 09:03 (one year ago) link
well, certainly i support her getting more work! the kids in Blockers were all really good iirc.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 September 2020 11:31 (one year ago) link
Avoiding it all this year as the 2nd wave comes along :-(
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 September 2020 10:30 (one year ago) link
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 01:04 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm times a thousand
― calzino, Saturday, 19 September 2020 19:08 (one year ago) link
Hillbilly Elegy
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:41 (one year ago) link
o shit yes
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:33 (one year ago) link
SpencerBelfast
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 19 November 2021 23:49 (eight months ago) link
Spencer's good, but in an "effective portrait of a miserable situation" way. which i would fault no one for avoiding.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 November 2021 00:43 (eight months ago) link
Dune
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 November 2021 12:43 (eight months ago) link
i am also avoiding belfast
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 November 2021 13:39 (eight months ago) link
i liked dune. it is about as "out there" as a mainstream movie can get.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 20 November 2021 17:30 (eight months ago) link
It's going to turn into a three film bore fest. Just can't face it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 November 2021 19:27 (eight months ago) link
The worms are definitely boring… through the sand, that is
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 22 November 2021 19:08 (eight months ago) link
I lasted ten minutes through King Richard.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 November 2021 19:20 (eight months ago) link
Gonna be fantastic seeing Big Willie Style sweep the crix awards this year.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 22 November 2021 19:33 (eight months ago) link
Maybe its sorry-ass box office this weekend will save us.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 November 2021 19:36 (eight months ago) link
Ope, too late, his Oscar's already been engraved.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 22 November 2021 19:39 (eight months ago) link
letterboxd thread just reminded me of "C'mon C'mon," starring Joaquin Phoenix as a Nice Black-and-White Dad.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 14:56 (eight months ago) link
mike mills is such a good director tho. and he's an uncle!
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 14:56 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, after 20th Century Women I'll give this one a shot.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 14:59 (eight months ago) link
West Side Story. The original's okay, and I would sometimes play the opening clip for students on Jerome Robbins' birthday (primarily because the concept of a choreographer would be new to them). Nothing drawing me to a remake.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 December 2021 22:05 (eight months ago) link
Awards Season 2021 edition: House of Gucci; King Richard; tick, tick…BOOM!
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 13 December 2021 22:47 (eight months ago) link
I hope not to see a worse movie in the next two-ish months than tick tick BOOM!
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Monday, 13 December 2021 23:13 (eight months ago) link
HoGucc was a delightful, silly diversion in the theatre but would mostly slide off the eyes and brain at home
(hadn't seen a Scott in literally 30 years till The Last Duel, came out amped that I only had to wait a month for another three-hour historical Ridley epic starring Adam Driver)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 00:50 (eight months ago) link
at home
though it would probably have made a better five-hour miniseries
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 00:52 (eight months ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/2022/morbius_xlg.html
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 01:10 (eight months ago) link
that was supposed to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbius_(film)
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:32 (eight months ago) link
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino),
this is exactly what it is
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:37 (eight months ago) link
except he's a nice B&W unc.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:38 (eight months ago) link
Really wanna see House of Gooch tbh
― let's make lunch and listen to five finger death punch (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:21 (eight months ago) link
Here, found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBv3_0j0y_4
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:28 (eight months ago) link
Elvis
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Saturday, 4 June 2022 01:45 (two months ago) link
Baz Luhrmann is a tacky vulgarian and should never be allowed to make a film ever again.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 5 June 2022 08:09 (two months ago) link