Posted on 09/14/2017 1:12:06 PM PDT by Lorianne
Mother, an exercise in torture porn, may be the vilest movie ever released by a major Hollywood studio.
Ordinarily when a filmmaker goes trampling all over your senses with an eye toward maximizing disgust, it’s for the purpose of producing some cheap scares. In Mother, though, the aim is a macabre pastiche of people’s most cherished and deeply held beliefs. Deliberately grotesque and nauseating, and seemingly engineered to outrage Christians, especially Catholics, Mother represents a stain on the reputation of Paramount Pictures, which once produced Going My Way. It may be the most vile and contemptible motion picture ever released by one of the major Hollywood studios.
The first half of the movie plays like the world’s longest Saturday Night Live sketch about unwelcome houseguests, but Aronofsky is just warming up. It turns out that he is versed in the Bible, though not particularly well versed: A few years ago he made Noah, in which the Old Testament patriarch was reimagined as an unlikely superhero doing battle with monsters made out of boulders. In Mother, the Bible parallels emerge as sophomoric and sloppy — was the Virgin Mary actually present at the murder of Abel? I don’t think she was. But then again Aronofsky wrote, or spat out, the script in only five days.
The film reboots for a second half whose even more egregious lack of appeal can scarcely be overstated. To call it “Better Homes and Gardens meets Apocalypse Now, with a soupçon of Rosembary’s Baby” would probably make it sound much more fun than it actually is. To experience the final half-hour is to understand what it must feel like to be a clump of broccoli in a Cuisinart
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You don’t just like the Ben-Hur with Charlton Heston. You love it or you are insane. :) I liked the new one too.
But you don’t remake Ben-Hur after Charlton Heston, All About Eve, The Godfather and Gone with the Wind, among others.
She’s cute, but not nearly as “hot” as all the gay men who drive Hollywood media want us to believe.
I’ve never gotten her appeal.
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I haven’t seen the new one yet, but I have been meaning to. My favorite version of Ben-Hur is the Focus on the Family Radio Theater version.
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