What was so objectionable about The Biggest Little Farm to put it on a worst of list?
Speaking for myself -- as muttered on the Alamo Drafthouse thread, the SF one is my actual local theater, so I see a lot of films there. This meant I saw the trailer...a lot. It was annoying the first time I saw it; by the tenth time or whatever I was pondering how to burn the screen down.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 06:20 (four years ago) link
I'd much recommend the poem Aniara, it's pretty incredible. And the film is quite clever in how it adapts it. Still don't really think it's enough, it doesn't really work.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:44 (four years ago) link
Shazam, IT Chapter Two and Doctor Sleep were all terrible.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
the arthouse elephant in the room:
An Elephant Sitting Still
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
a good 2018 film
― devvvine, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
The worst thing I saw this year, by a *huge* distance, was the Netflix movie Polar directed by Jonas Akerlund. Those of you who thought John Wick sucked should see what a bad movie really looks like.
Tbh though I don't think I saw anything bad in theaters this year!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
bad astra
― devvvine, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
Her SmellBiggest Little FarmThem That Follow
these sound like made-up titles
― fetter, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
Spiderman: Far From Home
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
worst movie i saw in the theater was the new child's play. second-worst was joker.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
The bad guy in Shazam murdering his terrible family didn't bother me at all?
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
http://www.tcj.com/the-shame-of-shazam-its-present-debacle-and-abuse/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
I left Shazam early. didn't think it was terrible, but I was bored and they hadn't even gotten to the final boss battle or w/e. felt like it hit its one note too hard too often.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
Can't wait to finally see the Rock tear some people in half in the pseudo-sequel.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Walking Tall 2?
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
Tallest Walking
https://www.screengeek.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dwayne-johnson-black-adam.jpghttps://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_small/0/8190/251820-193465-black-adam.jpg
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
Rock be nimbleRock be quickRock rip off the bad guy's dick
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
lol
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
I will gladly defend Jojo Rabbit, Arctic, the Art of Self-Defense, John Wick 3 and especially the Dead Don't Die.
Right now worst for me is Hagazussa
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Real talk, I never heard of Shazam until this thread, and for a short time I thought it was a remake of the Shaq genie movie but then I remembered that was Kazaam not Shazam
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
alright whiney you clearly wanna argue, so tell me what's good about mumblecore fight club
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
You talmbout Art of Self Defense?
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
What a weird thing to call Jojo Rabbit
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
What was I supposed to get out of that TCJ article other than the original Shazam was super goofy?
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 6, 2019 10:16 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
explain yourself
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Xpost a lot of text
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
v confusing that Mads starred in two different movies called Arctic and Polar this year
― Simon H., Friday, 6 December 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
8 billion xposts wow holy fuck slow down y'all
Fun fact: the Shazam! film (aka the film about the DC superhero named Captain Marvel) was in theaters at the same time as the Captain Marvel film which, as I learned, may have created a great deal of confusion among those old enough to remember when the DC version was more casually referred to as Captain Marvel. I have to assume something about those overlapping releases was intentional but I don't know to what end.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, December 6, 2019 12:21 PM (six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
idk, it's that Lars Von Trier shit where its an art film with all the the totally unnecessary blood and totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation cinema but its there to "make you think." Plus theres like tons of "folk horror" that's better with allegories and better with story and not just a laundry list of gross shit/weird vibes
I also have a natural aversion to anything in 2019 that treats human sexuality as something S O S E R I O U S. real will ferrell and rachel dratch in the hot tub vibes
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Sounds like every slow Metal album from the last decade
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
haven't seen / don't care about Jojo but for a sense of the case against:
https://letterboxd.com/estheronfilm/film/jojo-rabbit/
― Simon H., Friday, 6 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
There's totally a place for lolling at Nazis but that place is not tweecore
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
I will probably regret this in about 15 minutes
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
many xps, yes aka the antisocial network
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
other xp to djp: just that the film takes everything that made captain marvel/shazam great and roundfiles it in favor of sadism and marvel-meets-Big attitude
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, December 6, 2019 10:32 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
damn, nv otm
i didn't get any of that from hagazussa whiney but this wouldn't be the first time i've talked about this film with someone and felt like they watched something different
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
edit: before you yell at me in the comments, consider this: i am right, and you're actually wrong
yeah not reading that review
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Haven't/won't see that film, but review is almost certainly right.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
ulysses, I mean, I think "Art of Self-Defense" is a good send-up/critique of modern machismo/getting redpilled
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
xpost those two things don't go together
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
Obviously, I understand ppl taking a hardline stance against the Nazi hahas movie, but if you're at all into Great Dictator/To Be or Not to Be/Blazing Saddles vibes then it's p good
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
also not the greatest look that Esther only responded to the people in the comments who were complete morons and ignored some of the more nuanced comments, including by other Jews who reminded Esther that "we aren't a monolith and you don't speak for me".
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
which, tbf, she never suggested in the review itself, but it came up in the thread
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
is this the thread to pile on some Letterboxd rando
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
(also I didn't even like the movie that much!)
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
Genuine hooray for humorless murder in films.
Brad - yeah, I think Whiney might have actually watched a completely different film. I'd get if some find it boring, but too serious? Too much nudity? Too much blood?
Glad I avoided anything Marvel, Ken Loach, bad looking zombie films and I know Ocean's Eight was last year but fuck films about getting off a plane and walking through sliding doors into a foyer in a swanky swishy suit, fuck them forever.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 December 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
Lol have you seen the last Rick and Morty ep?
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
i wouldn't say hagazussa was one of the worst films of the year but yeah i didn't enjoy it. i certainly didn't love it as much as the horror thread did.
― na (NA), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
I've barely seen any Rick & Morty, but I gather from the synopsis that it makes fun of heist stories in the recent episode.
I think those Hustle tv shows, Gone In 60 Seconds, and Confidence (2003) possibly fit into this niche. Do some people really love these?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
Those two really really stupid ones with Woody Harrelson et al are the absolute worstest
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
Richard Jewell was so inspired by vajazzling that he created a similar line of genital adornments for men. Guess what the company was called. Just guess.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
The Mule quietly made over $100 million in America last week, so I won't count this fucker out yet.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
er last year
The new Michael Bay thing, 6 Underground, definitely belongs on this list. I'm not anti-Bay (I own Pain & Gain and respect the Criterion people for picking up on The Rock and Armageddon) but this thing is fucking garbage.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
Richard Jewell crucially lacking Baby Yoda
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
I watched The Fanatic and it's not a "fun" bad movie. Deeply misanthropic.
― Chris L, Monday, 16 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
seriously though, it's not too hard to figure out why a historical drama focused on a little remembered 90's catastrophe starring an unknown guy and titled "guy whose name you don't know" didn't clean up at the box office; the "it's the media stupid" subtext and imaginary honeypot journalist scandal probably muscled out the small sliver of the audience who would otherwise be curious enough to try it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
I liked Aniara a lot, btw. Still plan on getting around to Hagazussa.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link