Movie What's the last movie you saw? (7)

[rumply]

The Substance

Its a pretty full on body horror fable which on the surface all plays pretty well and the narrative and themes are all pretty well constructed and considered.

Im not sure the final act worked for me completely. It was super gross and i think went into the comical rather than the gross, which isnt an issue in and of itself but i lost the thread a bit with it.

Demi and Margaret are great and Denis Quaid is TRULY disgusting.

WTF did I just watch Loved it though, all 3 main leads were outstanding.

Felt a bit the same about the ending but I assume it was some sort of not so subtle commentary on beauty standards in Hollywood etc, dunno I'm still in a weird type of shock at what I witnessed the last couple of hours, best movie I've seen in sometime.

 

[dumb]

the not very great 'troll'

Troll (2022) ⭐ 5.8 | Action, Adventure, Drama

1h 41m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

you've kind of seen it before. giant creature, plucky scientist with a dead misunderstood dad, disagrees with the government on how to deal with it.

 

[worbod]

In relation to The Substance, I too was bemused with the final act. I couldn't understand the set-up for the New Year's Eve show. Why were there women with bare boobs on a family-friendly NYE telecast?

 

[Madas]

Civil War

Yeh nah
Could have been an interesting concept kind of ruined by not delving into why and how
Just ended up another Hollywood shoot em up

5/10