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‘Mother!’ Is the Worst Movie of the Year, Maybe Century
observer.com ^ | 09/15/17 3:00pm | Rex Reed •

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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TOPICS: Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; darrenaronofsky; edharris; film; javierbardem; jenniferlawrence; michellepfeiffer; mother; movies; rexreed
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1 posted on 09/16/2017 7:09:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 09/16/2017 7:14:29 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: BenLurkin
If it's the worst movie of the century, that means it's worse than Mission to Moscow, so it must really be bad.
3 posted on 09/16/2017 7:15:02 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: humblegunner

Sweet!


4 posted on 09/16/2017 7:16:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Fiji Hill

I remember a Rex Reed book about movies on TV and him agonizing over the TV showing of ZULU back in 1968.


5 posted on 09/16/2017 7:18:12 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BenLurkin

Academy Award material for sure. Two thumbs up!!!Up where, don’t even think but it.


6 posted on 09/16/2017 7:20:46 AM PDT by shadeaud ( Keep the front sight focused and the rear a bit cloudy. Breathe and execute slowly.)
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To: BenLurkin

Guess I’ll have to choose another movie to take my family to this weekend, LOL.

Thanks for the review.


7 posted on 09/16/2017 7:21:41 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!!)
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To: BenLurkin; All

is it really that bad?
Or do we just hate that stupid movie ‘star’ that much...


8 posted on 09/16/2017 7:22:08 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: BenLurkin

Never even heard of it.


9 posted on 09/16/2017 7:24:45 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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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.


10 posted on 09/16/2017 7:25:14 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: BenLurkin

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.


11 posted on 09/16/2017 7:26:46 AM PDT by lee martell
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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.


12 posted on 09/16/2017 7:27:11 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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I think the worst movie I ever saw was: “Surf Nazis Must Die”.

ANTIFA’s favorite movie....


13 posted on 09/16/2017 7:33:36 AM PDT by ak267
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...maybe the century.

Have faith. Hollywood has the capacity to exceed your expectations. The century is still so very young.

14 posted on 09/16/2017 7:37:43 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Fiji Hill

It’s the 21st century now. Mission to Moscow was from the 20th.


15 posted on 09/16/2017 7:40:19 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: yarddog

Gosh, from the title I would think that would be a great movie.


16 posted on 09/16/2017 7:42:21 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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