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Really weird movie to start with, but have patience and stick with it, it gets a lot better.
Two points subtracted for being one of those egotistical directors who forces us to watch with two black bars on the side of our TV's.
I didn't like the movie. It looked and sounded great with beautiful costumes and settings, and the story and characters were interesting. But the plot was boring, like other stories about someone discovering society. It talked about socialism and worker unions, but not in detail. Even when it talked about prostitution, it didn't say much. Overall, it felt like the writers didn't try hard enough. It's not worth watching because it doesn't say anything meaningful about the topics it brings up.
This exact same thing happened to my cousin
This is your newspaper movie critic's favourite movie. It also is incredibly mediocre. Emma Stone plays well and Mark Ruffalo absolutely tries his best to save this weird piece of cinema. But ultimately it is probably the most blatantly Oscar grabbing, pretentious and in a very annoying way macabre movie I have ever seen. It tries desperately to be artsy and special when in reality there is absolutely nothing of substance behind the whole masquerade of b/w, crazy camera angles and overacting.
Go and watch it if you like fish eye effects and cool face prosthetics. If those two aren't the most important parts of your cinema experience, then it isn't worth to sit through what felt like four hours of repeating sex scenes starring a mentally five year old "woman" mixed with odd, mistimed tries to halfheartedly swoop in some moral messaging.
I had high expectations, but clearly I had the wrong ones, because I was disappointed by the overall movie. The actors on their own give stellar performances, but I guess it just wasn't the story I thought it was gonna be.
The overall story of Bella I like, but the storytelling of it to get from beginning to end does drag on. Costumes were amazing, the scenes and colors great.
I'm a fan of Yorgos Lanthimos, especially "Dogtooth." I also like Wes Anderson's fantasy movies, but "Poor Things" didn't quite click for me. Despite its impressive acting and visuals, I found its story too complicated and focused more on style than substance. Plus, it felt too long, and its attempt at deep philosophy seemed to miss the mark.
I could say that it is a very psychological film, obviously it is not for everyone,... I can't say that I liked it but I don't dislike it either, it's difficult to explain, I could say that it is a strange film.
This film would be more aptly titled "Poor Ending." Essentially, it endeavors to present a modern, loosely interpreted version of Frankenstein, yet falls short in execution. The narrative seems directionless, lacking a coherent plot and overall story structure. It's surprising that this film has garnered ratings around 80%, as the storyline did not resonate with me. While I admire Mark Ruffalo's work, his role in this film seems ill-suited. Emma's performance, however, was a standout. Unfortunately, the remainder of the film is marred by an overemphasis on cringe-inducing elements, gratuitous sex scenes, and excessive nudity. It caters to an audience that appreciates abundant profanity and nudity. Departing the cinema, I couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration over the three hours spent watching this film.
How can all these critics ignore the fact that this movie depicts a child in a woman's body having sex with older men?!
I can't help but feel this movie is for snobs who get off on "you missed the point" comments as they sit on their high horse.
I'm not saying that's how it is... I'm saying that that's how it feels like to me when I read praise of this movie.
Well enough said really... I think it's terrible. I felt like I'd have a good time with this movie if I was still 15...that's the emotional maturity this movie seems to have.
4/10.
Wow, just wow! It took a few attempts to get through this movie. I just stopped watching at annoying She was in the Black and White scenes (screaming and not making sense the entire time). Then I read the reviews and tried again, but even the amazing graphics, mind provoking ideas, and good acting from Mark couldn’t get me to watch it in 1 sitting.
Emma Stone’s character was so irritatingly annoying, the movie itself was crude just for crude sake, and the writing was just trying too hard.
Honestly, had they toned down everything and gave Emma’s character more of a “voice” (as in a stronger willed personality), this movie could’ve been great. Could’ve matched Clockwork Orange or The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Aside from the visuals and some of the performances, I didn’t enjoy the film. The story did not pull at my interest and was slow moving.
Feminism in Surrealistic World
Imagine Alice in Wonderland meets The Story of O with neo feministic philosophy spreaded heavily throughout the film.
Good acting
Weird movie. Not for me.
Characters 7/10
Story 4/10
Pacing 5/10
Visuals 7/10
Rewatchability Factor 1/10
Enjoyment or Emotional Value 3/10
Average Score 4.5/10
Poor Things is very pretty, I’ll give it that much. Colors pop, and the watercolor, blurry sky and the scaling but condensed environments of Lisbon and Alexandria both convey the miasma of Bella’s mind quite well. How the background blurs in our young memories and how we remember all the buildings and places that looked large over us but so rarely the walks to them. Those work for me. So much of the rest of the film doesn’t.
I see what it’s going for- it’s hard not to. A journey of womanhood through the conceit of a child’s brain in a woman’s body, when women are treated as children and property to begin with. But it’s so fucking weird, with that conceit, to devote so much time to sex. Sex is an important part of being human for many people, I’m not denying that. But the attention it gets here throughout compared to brief, paltry scenes of Bella reading, seeking knowledge, having an interest in medical science and surgery is disproportional. Especially when the film wants to play her coming home and following in Godwin’s footstep as a culmination of her journey when it’s a facet of the film that barely gets any play in comparison. Angelica Jade Bastien, whose Variety review you should all read, brings up how in a film ostensibly about a cis woman and her relationship with her body menstruation does not come up once. It’s so telling where the film’s true focus lies.
And yes, sex can be beautiful, and conversely so can sex scenes. But the ones here are done dispassionately yet voyueristically. There’s no interiority, no sensuality, no sense of emotion and character felt through them. Compared to films like The Handmaiden they are sterile in heart if not content. It’s a big swing to go from black and white to color, and I can see sex being the impetus for it, sure, but when it’s done like this I don’t buy it. It’s interesting to me that her first time having sex is portrayed like this, with penetration until the man comes, thrice over, and yet her first time with cunnilingus is off screen. I feel like all the sex in this film is similarly narrow and lifeless.
None of what this film is trying to say is new, but much of it is muddled. It wants to rail against the entitlement of men, how they see women as property, how they want them to be exciting and adventurous but only in service of them. And yet it gives Max no grief at all for falling in love with. A child. Literal child, this is not a metaphor, it’s a child’s brain. And marrying her but refusing to have sex with her until marriage because that would be taking advantage, as if marriage would not be taking advantage and has not been used as the ultimate control. On some level the film condemns this, but only in the opposite direction, as part of Emily leaving Max is her frustration over not having sex. It’s baffling that the film seems to take the viewpoint that we ought to let children consent to sex with adults, that it is part of their development and journey to personhood. The film is similarly forgiving to Godwin, who used a woman’s body in a way she would very likely not have consented to all while the film extols a woman’s choice and ownership of her body.
Everything the film has to say about the nature of man and people, about women’s place in society, about sex work, etc, is rote. Nothing here is new, and nothing is heightened by the core conceit. It’s so surface level. And the cast is game enough. Dafoe is Dafoe and that’s always a good time, but I wouldn’t call this one of his greatest roles. Carmichael, much as I love his standup, just is not working here. Stone and Ruffalo are acting for the back seats, and while that has its moments of charm, it’s too much for most of the runtime. And Stone is just. She’s playing into ableist stereotypes for so much of this performance. The film drops the r slur and we’re just gonna pretend that Stone isn’t doing an insulting caricature at the same time? I don’t even want to delve into all the questions raised by the mental disability angle, others could do that better than me, but it’s another level of thoughtlessness and surface level depth.
The score is similarly cloying and overbearing. It insists on a scene rather than being a part of it. It doesn’t enhance it or complement it, it beats you over the head with how the scene is meant to make you feel. I could enjoy the sound of it in isolation, but as a score it’s distracting more than anything else. It’s a bit surprising to me how much this film has been praised as outside of the production design, I don’t see it. I just don’t. For me, this is as much a misfire as Barbie, if not more. Poor things.
I don't know if I'm too dumb to this type of movies, but I thought it was shit. It is esentially a 2-hour-long artsy porn movie of Emma Stone. The plot is meh, the music is at times dissonant and badly balanced, the random scenes with fish lense felt out of character. Acting is ok, because there are some big names involved; and costumes and locations are well put and wimsy; although again, sometimes feels belonging to a different movie. Also, don't quite understood the message behind it: If you are a woman, you have to empower yourself and be a prostitute? and if you are a man, you have to be a simp like Max and let her "fly"? Maybe I'm a oversimplistic person but didn't like it
Very disturbing, unpleasant to watch movie in many aspects of it. Even naked & having sex Emma Stone is mostly repulsive. Couldn't watch it through. The whole thing looks like some typical cheap arthouse porn.
Very good performances, charming set design and beautiful cinematography, but I can't get over the plot. They tell the story of the sexual awakening of a woman with the mind of a child.
It seems that now they have to write films as strange as possible to bring people to the cinema. Lantimos is no exception, with this work of his that terribly shakes the consciences of conventional wisdom and emphasizes both human brutality and the capacity for compassion. Frankly, I know both very well, and this film didn't give me any further insights. I'll leave the 3 stars for the monumental interpretation of Emma Stone, a well-deserved Oscar.
I never thought they could make a 2 hour movie with Emma Stone in multiple sex scene's this bad, but they did.
If you're looking for a cure for horniness then you've found it with this stunningly boring nonsense. Not even Emma Stone can save it.
Definitely the weirdest movies in terms of visuals and the plot. Couldn’t even judge the Oscar worthy acting very well because of how strange the plot was. I really don’t know what the point of the movie was cause if it was women empowerment then it was terribly executed. Like whose idea was to have a bunch of sex scenes with a kid in a woman’s body. The movie made me feel nothing except for cringe, don’t know if it was even trying to be funny or emotional.
Great example of a highly polished turd of a film
So many people are so amazed by the polish here they fail to recognize this movie is just plain stupid.
I'm disappointed. The movie looks and sounds beautiful - the costumes and the world both are very intricate. I enjoy the language that is used, how the dialogues are written and I especially love the concept of the movie. It's not something new, plenty of books cover basically the same idea of a "clean" human, who grew up without societies influence, discovering the world. Nontheless, I was intrigued. Sadly since Bella is a woman, clearly the only way for her to explore the world is through having sex with men, because how else. And that could have been fine, talking about sex and sexuality is important, but this movie just uses it as a way to make jokes and show her tits. It is shown as something great and liberating, even when grown man assault her as a child or when she works at a brothel. Besides this weird portrayal of sex, there is not much substance. A few buzz words are thrown around like socialism, worker unions etc., but the writers were happy with just mentioning this stuff. Even when talking about prostitution, the commentary is restricted to "what if the prostitues would choose who they have sex with" - what a great, elaborate thought. This shows just how little thought went into the writing. Overall there is nothing worthwhile to be found here - at best you will get an ignorant commentary about topics they clearly have never engaged with.
It's really hard to make a bad movie with Emma Stone naked for half the film. But, wow, here we are.
It is true that Emma is a good actress (however she is a shitty character with dubious ethics), the production design, costumes and cinematography are great. But that's all, an empty shell as one of the quirky characters says.
No, it is not an smart or surreal film. The brief message (repeated once again at the end, in case you are stupid) is interspersed with long cheap porn scenes that do not provoke in the sense it is intended. It's a terrible movie, no matter how many independent film awards it wins.
THIS IS THE SHITTIEST MOVIE. Cannot believe this garbage was nominated, let alone won, any Oscars.
Fifteen minutes in and I was disgusted already. A great cast, kinda cool cinematography, but clearly a shitty stpryline that makes a very sorry attempt to look profound...a NEON sign it won't be.
HTF Stone won the Oscar for best actor for this tripe is beyond me, especially with movies like Oppenheimer and Flowers to compete.
Don't waste you time unless you like being spoon fed the surreal which ironically goes against the whole idea of surreal at in the first place.
I'd give it a 0 if it let me. 0.5 out of 10 at best.
Extremely boring and its just porn basically.
People in the future are going to study this movie as an example of how much things have gone wrong in our time.
"We can see the theme of the movie encapsulates the societal norms of the time, in short, "it is never too soon to be a whore". We see Bella, a preschool girl in a grown up body, endlessly indulging in the pleasures of the flesh, free of all moral limitations and shielded from all real world consequences by the feeble and innocents minds of the naive writers".
I know I have to write some words before you can post, but holy crap after 25 minutes I was done, this is really bad silly weaklings movie! Waisted my time but go ahead and waist your time
This is the film that cinema snobs will describe as a "masterpiece", a "piece of art", etc...
Truth is the cinematography is great, the acting superb but where is the f*cking story? I'm not one for a complex plot or twists but at least make the characters interesting. Even the superb acting all round didn't save this. Everything falls flat even the 'message'. "Heey it's exploring sexuality and women's independence blablabla ". I don't think people need this message in 2023.
If I would summarize this movie in one sentence it's this : Someone really had a fantasy about Emma Stone in 10+ different positions and this movie was it. The only problem is NONE of the scenes felt sexy just gross.
Gross, not interesting, revolves too much around sex
Sorry, I could not watch 1 minute of this movie. It is simply repellent to me. Fans: Go and enjoy it!
Visually bold, linguistically rich, and utterly infuriating. Falls on the wrong side of self indulgence. I hated it!
One of the worst halfway-through movies I have ever watched. Emma Stone's cast was horrible, she was not fit for the role, she was overdoing it way too much I could not keep watching. The movie as a whole is such a bore, story is so bad. I swear if it wasn't for the big budget and big names, no one would have heard of this monstrosity of a movie.
Tried and survived about 20mins. I’m sure this is very ‘artsy’. The black and white style killed the movie for me. I know it goes back to colour but I had no patience for it. Should I try again?
This movie absolutely SUCKED. I tried 4x to watch it. All it is a more perverse Edward Scissorhands and they sure as hell didn't give that Best Picture.
0 but it won't let you give a 0.
This movie can be explained in one word. WTF
I get the point. Emma Stone was great. But have to say, it was awful. Apparently you love it or hate it. Alice in wonderlandesque. Dreadful.
All the awards nominations are going to bring in the casuals and puritans but audiences familiar with the director's previous "weird" films know what they are in for. It's his most visually stunning film.
weird ass movie ... uppity and crass all at once
Weird, strange, and inspiring. So many neat details. What a great ride.
The only reason this movie wasn't a perfect 10 is because it made me DEEPLY uncomfortable. This is intentional, but makes it hard for me to rate a perfect 10 because at times I was so uncomfortable I wasn't able to enjoy my watch time. That being said, this film was stunning. The story was unique and unhinged, the cinematography was entrancing, and Emma Stone gave the best performance of her career thus far (she deserved the Oscar hands down and had she not won I would have rioted). I do truly believe it is best to go into this one completely blind so I won't be going into the specifics of the plot, but if you are a Frankenstein fan and/or have a strong investment in the growth and success of women, this movie is for you.
Visually stunning, but there's too many filler scenes I find. It could've been shorter.
Watched the movie yesterday evening at a cinema.
If I wanted to be mean, I would call this movie an artistical porn. But I'll be good and say that everything in the movie is "beautiful" exceptr the horible music and in general sound. Oh my god, it was just noise.
Aside those aspected, the idea of the movie is great and innovative. The world created is somehow different but let's be honest, it's just normal fictional world without something really fancy. It also looks like a rip off from some schience fiction during the mid period of industrial revolution. Still, the world as it is present is a work of art. Looks like a constant painting, though it is not too much liking because actually it is HDRed 1000 times and I don't like the HDR effect.
The movie lost my interest quite early around the 1/4th. Maybe it was the music, which I still find horrible. What I didn't like about the movie is that it was trying to hard, it was unnecessarily slow and repeatative. Worst of all, was the unnecessary volume of nudity and sex, interupted with gross scenes. When it happened way too much, I was mentally off to be honest and the greatness of the idea was just lost. I trully believe that the art of a director is to imply the emotion to the audience, instead of bombarding with the actual raw footage.
if the movie tried less to show itself, it might have been the excellence that they are promoting it to be. It has the script nailed anyhow. It has been a long time since I last watched a bad "cultural" movie, not because it was bad and pretentious but because it would stretch everything so much, it would try so hard innevitably killing the excellent ideas.
What a waste? Who made the music score really?
The thing about Poor Things is that sometimes is just a bit too much about everything and nothing at once. But in a way, that is what director Yorgos Lanthimos knows how to do best. Emma Stone delivers, without question, one of the best performances of her career by bringing Bella Baxter to life. Her colorful and visually stunning journey through the gorgeous and surrealist versions of London, Lisbon, Alexandria and Paris is every bit funny, nasty, grotesque, dark, sad and emotional. I love the structure of the entire story, how it evolves with color, by development and world building through Bella’s experiences. As the main character discovers hard truths about the world, we get to know fascinating and bizarre characters all around her, with truly remarkable perfomances of the entire cast. At the very end, is a film about female liberation, sex, love, obssesion and science that may not be everyone’s cup of tea but that is ok for me.
Shout by KiddusBlockedParent2024-06-23T12:16:46Z
I like it but don't like it at the same time.
Intriguing modern coming of age film.
I did not get emotional but the story was interesting. It got better towards the end. (chuckles per minute increased substantially)