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ChileG said:
Watched “The Substance” last night. The one Demi Moore won Golden Globe for best actress.
I am admittedly not their target audience, but I did not like this movie at all.
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Ah that’s too bad. It goes way over the top with the Cronenberg/body horror aspects, but there was so much that I liked about it. Demi should win for her role, and it looks like she will. Plus it was really artfully done and had lots of homages to Kubrick, Cronenberg, De Palma/Stephen King, plenty others… And the message is obviously a hugely important one.

I got way more out of it than I’d anticipated, and was blown away by Demi.
 
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After *loving* Poor Things and being discouraged by mixed reception and long runtime on this one… finally got around to Kinds of Kindness —
Yorgos is back in dark and creepy form with this one. Not quite as creepy or twisted as Killing of a Sacred Deer and not as darkly funny as The Lobster but close. The lowered expectations helped, but I enjoyed it.

But it’s definitely not for everyone, very non linear and twisted.
 
nycfan said:
I watched Wicked last night. Had never read the book or seen the play, so came at it de novo.

It was visually ravishing and overall enjoyable, though you could feel that it was stretched thin by making two films out of a single play, I guess. Probably heretical, but I thought the songs, while extremely well performed by the two leads, are just solid Broadway fare. Like nothing stuck with me afterward.

But it did overall feel like a throwback in someways to old Hollywood entertainment for the senses, and I don't know if you can call something that obvious subversive, but at least it has some brains in its head.
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My daughters made me watch Wicked. Musicals are not my genre. But, I really enjoyed it. I wish we had paid the extra $10 to purchase it instead of just rented.

I'll probably buy it later for my daughter.
 
duluoz said:
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After *loving* Poor Things and being discouraged by mixed reception and long runtime on this one… finally got around to Kinds of Kindness —
Yorgos is back in dark and creepy form with this one. Not quite as creepy or twisted as Killing of a Sacred Deer and not as darkly funny as The Lobster but close. The lowered expectations helped, but I enjoyed it.

But it’s definitely not for everyone, very non linear and twisted.
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Non linear and twisted....

Sounds great. I'll have to check it out.
 
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