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Magnetic North posted:I don't know music, but on The Lobster's soundtrack page two songs are listed as performed by the actors playing the characters who play the music. One of them appears to be an original composition, so that leaves something called Jeux Interdit. Something called that is on YouTube. It sounds like what I remember. That's it, thanks!
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I saw this last night with my boyfriend, and while I got what the movie was going for, it became one of those 'watch glancing' movies, where I was constantly checking the time, hoping it was almost over. I thought the start/beginning concept was good, but right around 'I kicked your brother to death' the shift of the plot/storyline just became overly long and overly dull. The pointless narration, like Colin Farrell says/does something, then the narrator goes 'He said...'. The thing that may have bothered me the most was the constant repetition of that 'DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN' musical stinger. It didn't even come up at overly dramatic parts. I thought it was plodding and boring, and felt like it just meandered from vague half-explored plot to vague half-explored plot. Like what's the animal 'nobody wants to become'? What's the 'red intercourse'?. I also felt like some scenes went on far too long like the woman that jumped out the window, and was moaning wailing got on my nerves really fast, but just kept going. My boyfriend liked it, but even he said he felt it went on for maybe 45 minutes too long.
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LadyPictureShow posted:what's the animal 'nobody wants to become'? What's the 'red intercourse'?. It's pretty obvious what the latter is.
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Puppy Galaxy posted:It's pretty obvious what the latter is. Yeah, kinda true, but at the same time, it seemed like such a throwaway line in retrospect considering I expected it was going to happen to them, considering they were breaking the rules, rather than just blinding the woman. Maybe the mention of it was just to see the one punishment and let your mind run amok filling in for itself what the other could entail.
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Jul 4, 2016 23:41
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MisterBibs posted:I loved the little side-story between the Nosebleed Girl and her best friend. It was obvious to me that Best Friend was totally in love with Nosebleed Girl and either never told her or felt they didn't have anything in common. They had a preexisting relationship before the hotel, nosebleed girl mentions how her other girlfriends will never be quite as good as her. Likely, since bi isn't an option, Nosebleed girl considers herself hetero and thus needs a male partner.
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This movie is fantastic and hilarious though it does drag in the second half, it's true. Still easily in the top 5 movies I've seen in the past year or so.
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Finally got to seeing this. I loved it to pieces. Yeah, the second half drags a bit but I think that was okay. I would have preferred 25% more hotel and maybe someone violently refusing their time being up.
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Finally got caught up with this. I don't have too much to add as far as the experience and style of the movie is concerned (except maybe question if they really thought simply putting a bit of a gut and a moustache on Colin Farrel was going to be enough to keep him from looking like Movie Star compared to the rest of the cast). Honestly I don't even think the movie's necessarily about personal relationships specifically, I got that it was more generally about society's unwritten rules and assumptions and how easy it is to fall into petty tribalism and demanding ideological purity about the Right Way To Live. I think mixed-race/multi-ethnic folks, bisexuals, pretty much anyone that doesn't fit into a box will find a lot to relate to here. I'm not sure what the whole animal transformation thing is meant to evoke other than being a colorful conceptual hook. I almost wonder if it's even real (of course I mean 'real' in-universe) or if it's all a hoax, but it doesn't even seem to matter. I feel like you could cut that out entirely and replace it with something like "you'll eventually get shipped off to a deserted island somewhere" and it wouldn't effect anything. (Edited for better word choices) lizardman fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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Like a few people in this thread I really enjoyed the first half of the film, but ten or so minutes after the action transitions to the loner camp it became a bit of a slog. It's not unwatchable by any means, but I had to fight the urge to check my email.
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It doesn't really make much difference, but did anybody else get the impression that the turning people into animals thing was bullshit?
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General Dog posted:It doesn't really make much difference, but did anybody else get the impression that the turning people into animals thing was bullshit? You mean they just kill the person and act like some animal they found used to be that person?
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:You mean they just kill the person and act like some animal they found used to be that person? Yes
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I don't think that's the case as you see more and more exotic animals in the woods towards the end of the movie.
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lizardman posted:I feel like you could cut that out entirely and replace it with something like "you'll eventually get shipped off to a deserted island somewhere" and it wouldn't effect anything. I disagree. I really loved all those little pieces intentionally left for the audience to chew on, and changing the great hook and red herring of the movie would remove a whole lot of them.
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mysterious frankie posted:Like a few people in this thread I really enjoyed the first half of the film, but ten or so minutes after the action transitions to the loner camp it became a bit of a slog. It's not unwatchable by any means, but I had to fight the urge to check my email. "Satire turns dull after characters wind up in a commune" is probably common enough to be its own trope, Fahrenheit 451 and Weekend both hit a roadblock there, too.
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I enjoyed the movie all the way through, but I do think the woods part could have been about 15 minutes shorter.
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lizardman posted:I'm not sure what the whole animal transformation thing is meant to evoke other than being a colorful conceptual hook. I almost wonder if it's even real (of course I mean 'real' in-universe) or if it's all a hoax, but it doesn't even seem to matter. I feel like you could cut that out entirely and replace it with something like "you'll eventually get shipped off to a deserted island somewhere" and it wouldn't effect anything. yeah it'd be better if the movie cut all the satire and metaphor (if you can't get a stable relationship you're literally failing out of humanity) and just followed a couple people browsing OKCupid for 90 minutes.
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Inzombiac posted:Finally got to seeing this. Ya I think pretty much everyone in this thread has something to say about the length or the latter half of the movie. Just watched it and though the same thing. The hotel parts were done so well. Really got that creepy dystopian feel right. The presentations of single Man and single Woman were hilarious. The first half felt like a hosed up Wes Anderson movie but then the cast dissapeared and it became a bizarre romance story.
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I finally caught this on Amazon Prime. The premise sounds like it's way up my alley. But goddamn, did I hate this movie. My best assessment of it is that someone brained Wes Anderson with a hammer and tasked him with directing a really lovely, self-satisfied episode of Black Mirror. It was two hours of listless, flat-affect non-characters exhibiting no more than one defining trait, punctuated by the same repeated music cue about 30 times. I get that a lot of people liked it, and that something about its intended satire landed. I was definitely not one of those people. gently caress this movie.
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sorry about your bad taste bud
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Xealot posted:My best assessment of it is that someone brained Wes Anderson with a hammer and tasked him with directing a really lovely, self-satisfied episode of Black Mirror. your assessment is real fucken bad
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I would kill for a Wes Anderson episode of Black Mirror tho
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In this case, Lanthimos’ movie would be better described as a take on white, heterosexual, upper-middle class dating. Two people of color appear in the movie, both in minor roles, for a total of three scenes. After the check-in scene that shows homosexuality and heterosexuality as options on equal bureaucratic footing, we see a gay couple for a few seconds out of the entire movie, blurred out in the corner of the screen. On the other hand, the explicit erasure of bisexuality is the movie’s sole strong societal criticism. The check-in scene wryly repeats the doubts and disqualifications that lead to a belief that bisexuality is less real than homosexuality and heterosexuality, and to biphobia. lol I saw the first 60 min or so of this on the plane; what happens in the end, after they raid the hotel? I liked it, but I am glad to hear my feeling that I'd seen the best of it is supported.
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Are you saying bisexual erasure and biphobia aren't real because uhhhh they very much are.
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Finally watched this film since it was on Amazon Prime. I laughed my rear end off. It's wonderfully hosed up. The ending is great and I think it's up there next to The Witch in being unexpected and forcing me to mull it over for a bit. Regarding bisexuals being forgotten in our society, I laughed at them having size 44 shoes and size 45 shoes, but not the 44.5 shoes he asks for.
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This may be obvious but I thought the shoe line was to illustrate how there was no recognized bisexuality. In such a grey, prescribed world it stands to reason that people could not handle more than two options at a time. It's not biologically accurate, of course, but it seemed like a way for the writer to take a jab at the premise.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:My girlfriend nearly broke up with me because of an argument this movie caused. She said my enjoyment of it proved that I had a deeply hosed up idea of what love is. your girlfriend sucks lol
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But seriously this is a poor choice for a date movie. You pretty much have to break up.
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Cliff posted:But seriously this is a poor choice for a date movie. You pretty much have to break up. Choose a better date. My SO loves the movie. Still my favorite movie of the year behind moonlight.
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Though there were plenty of good jokes and the movie had a great sense of humor, I feel like a lot of them were kind of cliche. Like something a highschooler would write and thing it was the bleeding edge of dark comedy. They weren't very intelligent I guess. I don't know, I think I'm being pretentious but I'm just going off how I felt watching it.
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Saw this recently. My take is the world in the film is a reflection on dating and marriage in the real world boiled down to the most basic elements. The focus on superficial matches, sex is just the physical, the societal pressures to be married/have a mate and stay together at very great costs, the counter-pressures from those who don't want to conform these standards and so on. The animal bit for failure aligns with the idea that if you don't find a mate you are cast out of society at large but it's a stretch. I liked it but as an art house film that is different from most of what we watch. It sticks with you a bit. That said no way I'd want to see a movie like it regularly.
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