Posted on 09/15/2017 4:26:57 PM PDT by Haiku Guy
From the idiotic drug-addict hokum Requiem for a Dream to the overrated, overwrought and over-hyped Black Swan, which I called a lavishly staged Repulsion in toe shoes, the films of wack job Darren Aronofsky have shown a dark passion for exploring twisted souls in torment. But nothing hes done before to poison the ozone layer prepared me for mother!, an exercise in torture and hysteria so over the top that I didnt know whether to scream or laugh out loud. Stealing ideas from Polanski, Fellini and Kubrick, hes jerrybuilt an absurd Freudian nightmare that is more wet dream than bad dream, with the subtlety of a chainsaw.
This delusional freak 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.
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bad reviews are fun to read.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mother_2017/
But 125 liked it , 50 Rotten
Generally, I like Aronofsky's films. Reed seems to take issue here with his pretentiousness.
Aronofsky makes films for people who want something a little deeper than the typical Hollywood comic book movie that is about as memorable as the last can of Pepsi you drank.
Black Swan was entertaining, but I don’t know if it was objectively good.
Bad reviews are fun
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mother_2017/reviews/?sort=rotten
Praise is such BS
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mother_2017/reviews/?sort=fresh
Can't be much of a critic. The script would have been written long before Donald Trump was elected. Shooting began in June 2016 and concluded August 28, 2017 according to Wikipedia. Which I find hard to believe. That was a little over a month and a half ago. I can't imagine a movie going from last scene shot to theaters in a little over a month and a half. As to it being a satire on chaos caused by Donald Trump, no way. Obama is the one that brought chaos and dysfunction to the world.
” I love the review that compares the movie to the lancing of a boil.
Oh that’s a good one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother!
National Review film critic Kyle Smith called the film “a Biblically-infused version of torture porn”, saying “it may be the most vile and contemptible motion picture ever released by one of the major Hollywood studios”.
Jennifer Lawrences Grotesque Spoof of the Nativity
Jennifer Lawrence film ‘Mother!’ assailed as a ‘grotesque and nauseating’ attack on Christians
The perception is strong in this one.
Oh my, not seen it yet but I guess it’s in the same league as the Joan Collins 1982 clunker “Homework” or Jacqueline Bisset’s “Class” or the all time 1978 Travolta classic “Moment By Moment”, lol.
After the past month of her self-loving, Trump-hating bullsnot, the only film of hers I’d watch is a snuff film.
Hey now, I liked “Class”. I don’t think there was a red-blooded teenage boy that wouldn’t have loved to have traded places with Andrew McCarthy then.
Another film critic said that at the end of the movie, he knew what it felt like to be a chunk of broccoli in a Cuisinart. LMAO!!!
reading the details of the plot hoping to never see this trash on TV
I have to admit “Class” was one of those movies that I wanted very much to see when it was new in the theatres but was too young. And I do agree with your idea about many young guys who would have loved to have traded places with Andrew McCarthy (as I rented it on VHS some years later), so perhaps I was a little too harsh in my original comment, lol.
The ‘Charlottesville riots’ were handbags at 20 paces.
I seriously doubt that an actress who makes several million bucks a movie has to give sex for movie parts any more. I think that Ingrid Bergman commented on that when she got an Academy Award.
Jennifer Lawrence who literally auditioned on the casting couch for this flick
Yeah. She’s not unattractive but I could point out a few far more attractive women just where I work.
century? not until 101 years after little nicky was made. or anything by seth rogen, or liberal tampon boy will feral (sic)
And those are its good points.
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