darren aronofsky's mother!

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spring_breakers_2013/

The math checks out.

hahaha yesss

Noah is definitely Aronofsky's most entertaining movie

Well, going by my own rule, I guess I have to see it

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/noah_2014

intriguing cast and i honestly don't hate any of his movies (seen all but Noah)

I am developing a thesis that the 60-80% range on rotten tomatoes is where the most interesting movies tend to end up and this is sitting nicely in that range

Does this prove or disprove your thesis? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghostbusters_2016

Aronofsky's shitty track record as a filmmaker is more off-putting to me than anything else tbh.

Pi and Black Swan were really good. The Wrestler is a bit run-of-the-mill plotwise but Mickey Rourke makes it. Requiem is a bit shit alright.

Does this prove or disprove your thesis?

It certainly doesn't help, though winnowing it to "top critics" takes it down to 60 which puts it right on the edge.

I loved The Wrestler and Black Swan but everything is garbage. Mildly excited to see this.

s/everything/everything else

I forgot about the Wrestler, that might be my favorite. which is to say I thought it was "pretty good" instead of garbage.

The Wrestler was pretty much a movie by some other director. Not literally, but may as well have been.

his movies have been pretty diverse! Beyond most of them indulging in one form of aesthetic excess or another it's tough for me to locate a common thread.

beyond "obsession", I guess, which is 99% of movies really

as someone who thought black swan was hilarious i should probably be into this

his movies have been pretty diverse! Beyond most of them indulging in one form of aesthetic excess or another it's tough for me to locate a common thread.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yv6L4DunPDE/maxresdefault.jpg

http://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/The-Fountain/images/The-Fountain-363.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_OSaJE2rqxU/maxresdefault.jpg

Admittedly, I've not read or heard interviews with the guy for at least seven years, but surely Pi, Requiem, Wrestler and Black Swan are all half-decent films? He sure had his misfirings but I don't know where the hate comes from.

so...beards? more seriously I could see a case for squinting at the divine as a thread, but only in a few of 'em xp

lol The Fountain

xp

Filed under misfirings :)

heaven help me but I like The Fountain

tbh if we polled his movies I have no idea what would win

I found Pi and Requiem actively irritating, the Wrestler endearing if slight, and Black Swan I think I started to watch once but fell asleep

I should see that, I do like Winaynay

er Wino Forever

Pi actively irritating, really? Did you watch it around the time when it came out, or way later and maybe his image influenced it? I find nothing irritating about Pi. It can not be for you, sure, but that's something else.

I saw it when it came out. The ending, which the whole film is a furious buildup to, was a copout.

Idk it sucked me in Eraserhead-like, and by the time the ending came I already had my fair share of enjoyment

The new one apparently does not have a score, which is a genuine surprise.

I thought you said it was scoring in the 60-80% range

musical score

I know :(

:/

anyone got any other jokes that need mansplaining

Why did the Aronofsky cross the road? Because he's a fucking pile of shit and would have congealed into a big amorphous lump of turd if he had crossed via the sewer?

I like Pi a lot, and Black Swan was good - Noah was pretty silly but that was as much because I couldnt take Rusty seriously in the role.

I'm already hackles-up about this one though, because of THIS (which is not Aronofskys fault):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/mother21-director-darren-aronofsky-apologies-over-newtown-mural/8885476

oh fuck lol

I know right? I mean WHO PAINTS OVER A MURAL WITH ANOTHER MURAL. What the shit.

mural gate reminding me that theres a mural of stormzy in dublin for no reason

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/an-amazing-stormzy-mural-has-popped-up-in-dublin-and-the-rapper-is-delighted-35576589.html

i hardly know her

The audience at my screening was laughing at the end. I think they were expecting a horror movie, not a trippy creation myth with a couple of jump scares. I heard a lot of muttering coming out.

I had an okay time. I kind of wish it had gone more extreme. There are a few gross and brutal moments, but I never felt really uncomfortable. Kind of how I remember Black Swan being. I was mainly impressed at the crowded kaleidoscopic sequences where it felt like every cut was adding something new.

I liked Noah.

jmm your experience was very close to mine. I liked the movie and admired its moxie but didn't love it

otoh having seen it, I find this take bizarre

Let's not pander to Aronofsky with the 'But what does it all mean?!' articles. I've got an interpretation: Aronofsky is a vile misogynist

— Another Gaze (@anothergaze) September 16, 2017

choice quote from audience member on the way out: "I was expecting a normal movie, not...that"

also, this has joined the CinemaScore "F" club along with Solaris, the Box and a few others. They'd make a good poll, actually.

at a minimum, from the AO Scott review it seems like this will actively upset a large number of 'plexgoers, plus a nutty Polanski rip can't be all bad.

(I think I know too much already tho)

oh also that excellent CinemaScore result

ordinary fuckin' people, I hate em

it's incredible to me that William Friedkin's Bug is also on that very short list cause I thought of it a couple of times during my screening

I don't expect to ever see it so I spoiled myself on the plot/ending. In terms of that aspect alone and realizing film is not text: sounds pretty fucking boring.

also, this has joined the CinemaScore "F" club along with Solaris, the Box and a few others

aw man i love both of those movies

It is many things but "boring" is not in contention. xp

probly upset that I had to google who he is

this movie fairly accurately conjured up the feeling of being trapped in a nightmare, for that I appreciated it.

Xpost haha. Yeah.

also Pfeiffer and Wiig brought some lols. (The former: "Wow, you really love him. God help you.")

lol when i watched this film it was during a sleepless slow onset of fever for something that I was hospitalised for days later and I still thought it seemed clumsy and empty.

I was really hard on this movie when it came out & thinking back on it, pretty sure I still hate most of it, but there are some hilarious moments (Wiig shooting people execution style especially).

Rewatched it to see if it compared to what it feels like to be alive these last three months and, voila! Masterpiece.

have been planning on watching this for the last three years! will get around to it soon

maybe should see Black Swan again, I reacted negatively to it at the time and think my experience with it contributed to my reluctance to see mother!

I'm never sure about my past film opinions, especially when a decade or more has gone by. Pi and Requiem were interesting at the time, but that was a different era in my life and I can hardly remember them now.

I have always been pro mother! !!!

Someday. Not soon, not at home. But someday.

I thought this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Like, Lady In The Water-levels of bad.

it was so bad it made me angry, but have already complained about it upthread.

Admittedly my default w films maudit is to love tgdm

I thought this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Like, Lady In The Water-levels of bad.
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, June 22, 2020 5:34 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was so bad it made me angry, but have already complained about it upthread.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, June 22, 2020 5:38 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ditto--but the idea that it has pandemic resonances has me intrigued.

lol i watched this film when i had a fever and it was still unconvincing

i admire this film's dedication to being really annoying

imo aronofsky packed all of his good ideas into the fountain

finally saw it, it made sense (as has been mentioned) as a story about our treatment of earth

“He is God, she/the house = Mother Earth, babby = Jesus, etc. Environmentalist movie with biblical underpinnings.
― circa1916, Wednesday, October 31, 2018”

...is the essence imo.

I didn't hate it, don't think I will ever want to watch it again though

^^ My exact reaction to every Aronofsky movie I've seen lol

she was hot (joke about darren aronofsky's mother!)