it's not reactions to the sex i'm dreading (tho someone did try and get their money back from me for the favourite lol). it's people saying the following: "that was COMPLETELY POINTLESS!"
haven't seen the movie; haven't read that much about it; just get the distinct vibe that it's gonna be COMPLETELY POINTLESS
will report tho
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 11 May 2019 06:18 (five years ago) link
Saw the trailer last night, can't wait
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 May 2019 06:43 (five years ago) link
There were walkouts at my relatively full showing during the attempted rape scene which then made me feel especially self-conscious sitting there in the dark watching it.
― ryan, Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
so long as you stayed dressed
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
what is zadie smiths involvement in this?
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
she left over "creative differences"
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/high-life-claire-denis-zadie-smith-left-robert-pattinson-1202009125/
― Dan S, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
nice
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
there were a couple of insanely bad scenes in this (j binoche in the sex box...rofl ) but overall it was pretty and fun to think about
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
my mom who i saw it with kept asking ‘why don’t they have [consensual] sex?’ not sure if it was ever explicitly addressed but id assumed jb was drugging them. felt ~meaningful that she was both the one who bore most guilt/committed the worst crime and was also most invested in the scientific mission
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
lmao
Denis also noted that Smith was intent on having the film’s central characters return to Earth after being tricked into joining an ill-fated space mission. “Nothing against her, but she wanted the people of the ship to — she wanted them to return to Earth,” the filmmaker said. “‘Going home,’ she kept telling me. I said, ‘What the fuck do you mean, going home?’ There is no one alive there, you know?”
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
lol, also it's hard to judge in retrospect but I think High Life is a much better and more memorable title than A New Life
― Dan S, Saturday, 11 May 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
“She was beautiful and half from the Caribbean, and I thought yes! I was impressed by that.”
She’s from Willesden
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 12 May 2019 07:13 (five years ago) link
they are equally terrible.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 12 May 2019 07:31 (five years ago) link
I liked this a lot. Very strange and creepy rhythm to the whole thing. Binoche looks demonic skulking about the ship while everyone else is passed out. The ending was quite beautiful.
― jmm, Monday, 20 May 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
it's not reactions to the sex i'm dreading ... it's people saying the following: "that was COMPLETELY POINTLESS!"
called this wrong: not nearly as many walkouts as the beach bum and the ones we did get were over the sex after all. lobby vibe afterwards was more "...huh" than exasperated
i liked it more as it went along but did fight sleep for a few stretches. however i was delighted from the beginning by the loving use of code page 437 (or something v like it) for the computer interfaces: my kind of retro
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 26 May 2019 08:48 (five years ago) link
also loved binoche's hair
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 26 May 2019 08:50 (five years ago) link
Finally got around to this now that its on amazon prime, thought it was ok but had a very hard time not switching it off during juliette binoche's scene in the dildo box, one of the silliest sex scenes this side of The Room
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Technically impressive--the sound design is excellent, and I love the junkiness of their vessel, particularly in the exterior shots--but I fidgeted through much of the running time and ultimately didn't get a whole lot out of it. The fuckbox was just Clooney's dildo bicycle thing from Burn After Reading, only not meant to be funny.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
Yea this was a letdown even though Pattinson was good
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
I’ve missed some of his more acclaimed work of recent years (Cosmopolis, Good Time) but this is definitely his best performance that I’ve seen.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
"you don't have an engine in your ass!"
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
Haha, I love that. I also loved this film.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 20 June 2021 07:15 (two years ago) link