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Posted on 09/16/2017 7:09:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
From the idiotic drug-addict hokum Requiem for a Dream to the overrated, overwrought and over-hyped Black Swan.....the films of wack job Darren Aronofsky have shown a dark passion for exploring twisted souls in torment. But nothing he’s done before to poison the ozone layer prepared me for mother!, an exercise in torture and hysteria so over the top that I didn’t know whether to scream or laugh out loud.
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[F]reak show is two hours of pretentious twaddle that tackles religion, paranoia, lust, rebellion, and a thirst for blood in a circus of grotesque debauchery to prove that being a woman requires emotional sacrifice and physical agony at the cost of everything else in life, including life itself. That may or may not be what Aronofsky had in mind, but it comes as close to a logical interpretation as any of the other lunk-headed ideas I’ve read or heard.
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. A baby is born amidst blood-curdling screams of childbirth as Lawrence crawls over piles of corpses in labor, and unruly mobs carrying torches arrive in a scene that looks based on the Charlottesville riots. In the ultimate destruction of the female gender, Lawrence tries to save the baby she has always dreamed of to make life complete, but Fellini grotesques in preposterous Halloween costumes fill the screen and burn the house down. The New York Times critic arrogantly warns in his review: “Don’t listen to anyone who natters on about how intense or disturbing it is.” Sorry, pal, but a mob that burns a screaming baby and its mother alive, then turns cannibal, eats the baby and rips its heart out to flush down the toilet while Patti Smith sings about the end of the world pretty much fits my definition of both “intense” and “disturbing.” What’s yours?
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Sweet!
I remember a Rex Reed book about movies on TV and him agonizing over the TV showing of ZULU back in 1968.
Academy Award material for sure. Two thumbs up!!!Up where, don’t even think but it.
Guess I’ll have to choose another movie to take my family to this weekend, LOL.
Thanks for the review.
is it really that bad?
Or do we just hate that stupid movie ‘star’ that much...
Never even heard of it.
On the other hand, I might have the perfect movie to take my mother-in-law to! If it works out as planned, she’ll never want to come see a movie with us again.
I won’t be seeing it. When visiting talk shows, Jennifer seems to get a thrill out of being disgusting. She’s stuck in that offensive humor mode.
I think the worst movie I ever saw was: “Surf Nazis Must Die”.
Fortunately I saw it for free. Also fortunate is they clearly didn’t waste much money making it.
I think the worst movie I ever saw was: “Surf Nazis Must Die”.
ANTIFA’s favorite movie....
Have faith. Hollywood has the capacity to exceed your expectations. The century is still so very young.
It’s the 21st century now. Mission to Moscow was from the 20th.
Gosh, from the title I would think that would be a great movie.
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