Spoilers:
A women abandoned her kids when they were young then came back 3 years later. It was her coming to terms she left them.
Why I hate it:
I don’t feel bad for people that have children and she is a POS for leaving them. The movie is made out to be a horror movie but it isn’t. There are weird parts like her blacking out and a locust being on her bed. As well as horror movie sounds and a pinecone randomly hitting her and hurting her. We get zero explanations for this. Then she steals a doll from a little girl. WTF?? All her problems are caused by her being a shit person. Don’t have kids if you can’t take care of them???
This is actually the first time I straight up HATE a movie. It was seriously such trash.
I often have this debate with people, seems like we don’t enjoy Tarantino for the same things. I feel like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dog and OUATiH have narrative and staging intelligence that you don’t find much of in other Tarantino movies. Other people enjoy Tarantino’s movies for the over-the-top bloodiness. To each their own taste.
Saw a bunch of movies last week, including several 2021 releases.
My Left Foot (1989) - This was quite a hopeful movie, but when you learned that Christy Brown died just a few years later potentially because of that woman, it was just too ironic and too cruel. DDL and Brenda Fricker were really something else.
About Elly (2009) - Stupendously good. The script was so clever. Asghar Farhadi always knows how to make the toughest moral dilemma out of the most banal and normal people. In the end I just felt sorry for every single character involved.
Vincere (2009) - A soapy attempt to document Ida Dresler’s life who was Mussolini’s first and abandoned wife. The film was repetitive and incoherent af. The actress who played Ida Dresler, while very good, couldn’t save it.
Mass - An explosive experience about … four people having a chat about their respective dead sons in a room. It really was immensely sad.
The Power of the Dog - So gorgeous to look at. I thought the payoff in the end was underwhelming when I was watching it, but thinking back, it wasn’t meant to be a shock as it was never supposed to be a plot- or event-driven narrative.
Luca - Cute, beautiful, gay af, but everything felt super rushed.
Belfast - It was beautifully shot, and surprisingly endearing and sincere. Just the right amount of sweet without feeling too corny or cheesy.
The Mitchells vs the Machines - I really liked how it never took itself too seriously and just rolled with it. The humour was on point and the artwork was very unique. Definitely much better than Pixar/Disney’s output of the year.
Naturally, the most interesting bits was concering the early Benito himself and the gradual changes in his politics. Still, as a film agree that only average.
I’d agree, and I’d add Jackie Brown into the mix. Some of his other movies were lost on me.
Last weekend I saw The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Girls Were Made for Loving, both released in 1973. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a genuinely great movie, featuring Robert Mitchum as a low level crook trying to avoid prison time. Girls Were Made for Loving was terrible. It sounds like porn, but it’s more an excuse for bad acting and boobies. The worst part is where the stripper sings. Her voice drove me to shut off the sound.
A bit slow at times, not sure why it is the Golden Globe winner.
Really touching acting, even when people are trying out for acting parts.
Based on Haruki Murakami stories from collection Men Without Women. Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite authors, and his books are hard to turn into movies.
Mine too, and I’ve seen three movie adaptations of his works: Tony Takitani, Burning, and Drive My Car. All were letdowns compared to the original literary works IMO. One pleasant surprise in Drive My Car was the Taiwanese woman who spoke in Mandarin, but it was largely a waste of 3 hours of my life. I just don’t get the raving reviews.
