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‘Mother!’ Is the Worst Movie of the Year, Maybe Century
Observer ^ | 9/15/17 | Rex Reed

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 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. Stealing ideas from Polanski, Fellini and Kubrick, he’s 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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TOPICS: Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; darrenaronofsky; edharris; film; javierbardem; jenniferlawrence; michellepfeiffer; mother; movies; rexreed; zerostars
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To: henkster

someone let me know if she and michelle pfieffer get naked otherwise I’ll stay home.


41 posted on 09/15/2017 5:36:52 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Carlucci

???


42 posted on 09/15/2017 5:38:48 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: AlaskaErik

The editing ended in Aug one week before its premiered at film festival


43 posted on 09/15/2017 5:39:07 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Did she sell her soul to Satan to be famous, and Lucifer himself come to collect and stayed to make movies?


44 posted on 09/15/2017 5:39:22 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Don’t forget Diane Keaton’s “Looking For Mr. Goodbar.” Easily the worst movie I’ve ever seen in the theater, it made Robin Williams’ “World According to Garp” look like Casablanca.


45 posted on 09/15/2017 5:39:54 PM PDT by henkster (We are living in an Orwellian era.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Little Nicky, and Oceans 12...two of the worst I have ever tried to watch.


46 posted on 09/15/2017 5:42:08 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Haiku Guy

I dunno. I think he really dug it.


47 posted on 09/15/2017 5:47:15 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“I thought Aronofsky’s Pi and Requiem for a Dream were both very well done”

I didn’t hate Requiem, well, I hated that Jennifer Connelly wasn’t her usual gorgeous self, but c’mon. Rex has a point. It’s like film school threw up.


48 posted on 09/15/2017 5:51:21 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: henkster

How about the 1978 Joan Collins classic “The Stud”. I did a bad movie VHS rental fest one night and rented that one as well as Kevin Costner’s “The Gunrunner”, which makes “The Postman” look like “Citizen Kane” by comparison, lol.


49 posted on 09/15/2017 5:51:50 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I thought Aronofsky’s Pi and Requiem for a Dream were both very well done.


Liked Pi (& own the DVD). Requiem for a Dream was just depressing though. This one sounds much, much worse.


50 posted on 09/15/2017 5:52:54 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: sam_whiskey

It’s fun to tell folks Wynona Ryder was in that movie. Yes, she was!


51 posted on 09/15/2017 5:53:42 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: morphing libertarian

michelle pfieffer get naked otherwise


She gets naked very briefly in “Into the Night” — a very obscure movie from the 1980s (w/Jeff Goldblum). I actually liked it.


52 posted on 09/15/2017 5:54:33 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: chris37

“...but that is how addiction is.”

OK, now that’s a good point. The chaotic and Dali-esque feel does convey being part of the party pretty well.


53 posted on 09/15/2017 5:57:03 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: rbg81

I love that movie. Classic Landis action-comedy. Very underrated.


54 posted on 09/15/2017 6:00:31 PM PDT by hout8475
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To: Haiku Guy

Aranofsky and his paramour are such *artistes*.... lol


55 posted on 09/15/2017 6:00:32 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Seruzawa

“She’s not unattractive but I could point out a few far more attractive women just where I work.”

Man would I love to have that Silver Linings Playbook girl ruin my life.

That is unless I get a shot at Mona Lisa Vito first.


56 posted on 09/15/2017 6:01:53 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: rbg81

for a few years she was naked in my bed every night. In a dream that was.


57 posted on 09/15/2017 6:03:05 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: moehoward

I first saw that movie back when I was doing drugs in New Orleans.

That movie ensured that I never tried and never will try heroin for one, and it’s portrayal of the madness caused by pill addiction is spot on.

Unfortunately the movie did not dissuade me from taking pills. Wish I had been smarter then.


58 posted on 09/15/2017 6:04:06 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Seruzawa

Looks have nothing to do with acting ability-———she’s a great actress.

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59 posted on 09/15/2017 6:04:39 PM PDT by Mears
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To: OttawaFreeper

Which Joan Collins movie was worse? The Stud or Empire of the Ants?


60 posted on 09/15/2017 6:06:22 PM PDT by henkster (We are living in an Orwellian era.)
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