lol best review
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Sunday, 24 December 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
at the end of the day, i liked darren aronofsky's mother more than she liked me.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Monday, 25 December 2017 05:22 (six years ago) link
lol @ the lead actress
― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, 25 December 2017 08:54 (six years ago) link
this movie was great, I don't get all you people who hated it. It was a bit "here is a very blatant metaphor' but I kind of appreciated that. At least it tried.
"A lot of the criticisms are the opposite of how I felt about it. I thought it was deeply feminist and Christian
― Whiney G. Weingarten, "
Yes
― akm, Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
We just watched this over two nights. After yesterday we thought it was pretty good, after finishing it today I feel like I've been put through a traumatic experience for no reason, my wife says it was a "parable about nothing." Feel like there's all the ingredients for a great movie in there somewhere, but something's gone really wrong in the cooking, we're all stuck here eating this baby and we don't know why.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
I don’t know if “parable about nothing” is really apt for this. I mean I think it’s main fault is in how sledgehammer-y it is with its themes.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
My glib go-to on aronofsky’s religiobabble movies is that they are judeo-christian mystery plays rendered as Scientology
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
Its weird that I felt sledgehammered but at the same time I don't know what point he was making. Stay away from asshole messianic writers? Fans tend to assume they own their heroes too much? Don't let a bunch of weirdos into your house?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
fred armisen's impression of kristen wiig is that she's cold all the time and is always looking for a sweater -- maybe the point of the movie is to construct a very elaborate joke about fred armisen's impression of kristen wiig.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
He's an artist! *slap* She's a mother! *slap* He's an artist! *slap* She's a mother! *slap*
― WmC, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
~spoilers~He is God, she/the house = Mother Earth, babby = Jesus, etc. Environmentalist movie with biblical underpinnings.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
I ignored the religious themes because they were so poorly thought-through, assumed there must be something more to it, reading an interview now it seems that was the whole point of the exercise? So why bother creating characters at all?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
why bother doing anything ever
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
the creation / destruction stuff was just so glib, I assumed it was part of the idiocy of the poet
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Does DA think there is a god, but he is a shallow narcissistic asshole? I guess I can be down with that.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
is this more or less scary than mike pence’s mother
― estela, Thursday, 1 November 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
tell us quickly mrs pence is killing me
― lie back and think of englund (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 November 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Kinda liked this; some of it doesn't work, but it's ambitious, and has the right attitude toward humanity (mistake).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
Don't let a bunch of weirdos into your house?
Let has nothing to do with it. Do you have relatives or friends? They'll be there.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
I didn't, because as I liked her for the first time since Winter's Bone here, I have no notion as to why she's a "superstar."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
Darren comes off as an asshole in the book "meet me in the bathroom." Lol.
― nathom, Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
TIM GOLDSWORTHY: Darren Aronofsky would turn up at Plant Bar with a wifebeater on, leaning on a bar, “Hey, guys, what are you drinking?” He’s such a tosser. He really reminds me of the super-nerdy Dungeons and Dragons kids who really wants to be cool.
think Goldsworthy comes off worse here tbh...
― Number None, Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
probly upset that I had to google who he is
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
this movie fairly accurately conjured up the feeling of being trapped in a nightmare, for that I appreciated it.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 3 March 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
Xpost haha. Yeah.
― nathom, Sunday, 3 March 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
also Pfeiffer and Wiig brought some lols. (The former: "Wow, you really love him. God help you.")
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 3 March 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
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).
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 March 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
Rewatched it to see if it compared to what it feels like to be alive these last three months and, voila! Masterpiece.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 22 June 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
have been planning on watching this for the last three years! will get around to it soon
― Dan S, Monday, 22 June 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
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!
― Dan S, Monday, 22 June 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― Dan S, Monday, 22 June 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
I have always been pro mother! !!!
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 22 June 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
Someday. Not soon, not at home. But someday.
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 June 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
I thought this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Like, Lady In The Water-levels of bad.
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 22 June 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
it was so bad it made me angry, but have already complained about it upthread.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 22 June 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
Admittedly my default w films maudit is to love tgdm
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 22 June 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 June 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
lol i watched this film when i had a fever and it was still unconvincing
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
i admire this film's dedication to being really annoying
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
imo aronofsky packed all of his good ideas into the fountain
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 July 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
^^ My exact reaction to every Aronofsky movie I've seen lol
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Monday, 13 July 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
she was hot (joke about darren aronofsky's mother!)
― carin' (map), Monday, 13 July 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link