(Initial, and final, Impression) For someone who "discovered" the school library in sixth grade and then read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys novels they had in that same year, I was hoping for more. The writing for this series is bad. Aging up Nancy and her crew may have opened the door for the gratuitous sexual content but there was no reciprocal mature dialogue or adult social dynamics in this series. The interactions are juvenile. Just a big disappointment. Because I don't hold out hope that this series will get any better than this premiere, I'm giving it a 3 (bad) out of 10 and abandoning the series. [Mystery]
Why did it have to turn supernatural...?
The Nancy Drew names bared the potential of a good detective story... Instead we got a poorly written ghost story!
So far im really enjoying it although the guy is a bit of a loser, he should have put a bottle over the rapists head and pushed fat arse into the canal.
Easily one of the most uncomfortable watches of the year. A test on your patience, empathy and digestion capabilities. Such a personal story, straddling a very red line that divides trauma and unnerving the viewer. Undecisive about whether liking it or not, but I applaud the boldness.
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.
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.
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.
I never thought they could make a 2 hour movie with Emma Stone in multiple sex scene's this bad, but they did.
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.
The biggest waste of time of all my life
OK, what the hell have i just watched? And why did I see it through to the end? And how did Annie not die, given what happens to everyone else? At one point I was rooting for Angela to kill her!. Such a waste of a potentially good premise.
my head hurts. what was that? loud, annoying, without any sense. yikes.
I like tons of films with low IMDb ratings, especially easy bloomhouse horrors but this movie is junk
5/10
First without that piece of crap this movie would have been that bad it actually would have been good
Yes it's a rare one of those....
"BUT"
Oh..my..God
How fcuking annoying was Annie, she just wouldn't shut the fcuk up, I never ever wanted anyone to get got in a horror movie as much as her.
Disrespectful, disgusting,damn right deluded and a complete and utter tool.
She couldn't rap for shit and she was nowhere near as cool and badass as she thought she was.
She pissed me off and stressed me out that much it took my attention well away from actually
what was a decent messy pretty
awesome horror movie.
I just couldn't take anymore shit from Annie so I just wasn't engaged enough to enjoy the
cool messy going-on's.
If this was any other production other than BlumHouse this would definitely be a hard pass for me
without a doubt.
BlumHouse not like you to fcuk up like this and higher an annoying unbearable piece of shit like that,
but you did, and you got it so wrong this time.
Don't ever do that again to me with her.
What a waste of what could have been a decent flick
And a solid BlumHouse entry.
This probably would have got a better rating from me(2 out of 10) but that Annie character was too much. Someone thought to make the.most obnoxious character ever and it was going to work but she took everything away from the movie. She shouldn't get another acting job.....ever.
Such an annoying and disrespectful protagonist which made this physically painful to watch. Shame on Blumhouse.
Woman has a terrible night after her period starts
It puts the lotion on its skin or the family goes in the pit again
What a waste of my life.....
Hell Camp (2023) was a netflix documentary about this same issue but it only focused on 80s and tried to show abusers as good guys.
This one is really well made and shows how much victims are still suffering AND these evil people getting away with all. It was so genuine and real. I feel sorry for all the victims and once again mad at american justice system. Keep fighting!
Justin Long using the rape dungeon as an opportunity to boost his listing square footage is the most realistic portrayal of an AirBnB host I’ve ever seen.
This made me laugh out loud multiple times. Soundtrack is a banger and the cast is entirely endearing. Yeah, the characters have moments where they're not perfect but the show would be completely irresponsible and sugar coated if these women were written as perfect beings. The girl power and female friendship dynamics that are rooted in childhood and trauma is so real. I can't wait for season 2.
"Violent night. Gory night. All is calm. If all doesn't want to get shot in the fucking head."
Dumb, violent, and lots of fun. It's a mixture of Die Hard 1 & 2, Home Alone, and a little bit of Bad Santa. So, with all of those examples in mind, you have some idea of what type of movie you're getting.
Really enjoyed this one. The soundtrack is fire :fire:. Would like to see a sequel with the girls.
Mostly an homage to homages like Shaun of the Dead. Fun enough, but also another sad reminder of all the 2019 content that was cut short in 2020.
It was alright, predictable and jumpscarey but didn't really have an ending. I was expecting them to do a kind of viral meta ending where she kills herself (alone) at the end, but she smiles directly into the camera, so now it's like we are the cursed. But it just ends...
Want a good review? Nope.
This is surprisingly good - it does take a bit of time to follow the timeline jumps but well worth the effort.
