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Post by Mouse on Jan 16, 2018 16:47:21 GMT -4
I just saw "The Phantom Thread," Daniel Day-Lewis' swan song as an actor. It got glowing reviews and has a 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I HATED it. Horribly boring storyline. Horrible characters. I mean, utterly unlikable characters. But the costumes are pretty and the photography is nice, so...why is this getting such good reviews? It's a rancid bore!
Can you tell I hate this movie?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 17:55:16 GMT -4
I just saw "The Phantom Thread," Daniel Day-Lewis' swan song as an actor. It got glowing reviews and has a 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I HATED it. Horribly boring storyline. Horrible characters. I mean, utterly unlikable characters. But the costumes are pretty and the photography is nice, so...why is this getting such good reviews? It's a rancid bore! Because it is an unwritten Hollywood law that critics must fawn over everything Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson do. I've been hating on them since There Will Be Blood, which I still to this day do not understand why it was so lauded, particularly DDL's performance. Viggo Mortensen was robbed. |
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Post by Ginger on Jan 16, 2018 19:51:42 GMT -4
To me, Daniel Day-Lewis really is the the most brilliant actor ever and there aren't enough superlatives to describe his abilities. I just don't want to see the movies he's in most of the time. PT Anderson's movies are turgid, insufferable garbage.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 19:58:51 GMT -4
Method actors by and large just rub me the wrong way, and DDL is one of the worst examples to me. I did like him in Lincoln though. That Oscar was deserved.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 20:25:28 GMT -4
Ah, here you are.  I love Casablanca, though only about once a year. But speaking of older movies, I could watch The Third Man on a loop, and I have been trying for over 5 years to find it on a DVD that doesn't cost 300 dollars on Ebay. As I said on the Hollywood Bad Behaviour thread, I despise Gone With the Wind, because of the scene of Scarlett waking up in ecstasy after Rhett dragged her upstairs against her will. I was a 15-year-old reading Germaine Greer's Female Eunuch around the time I saw that for the first and last time, and the hate, it is strong. I've never read Harry Potter books or seen the movies, unless one is playing on the TV at my local video store. On line several years ago, I was surrounded by people who obsessed over every book as it came out, discussed it like mad. I never took the bait. I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's on Netflix last fall for the first time, and I was shocked at how dull it was, and how annoying Holly was. Was there supposed to be a point where I fell madly in love with her?? Because I didn't. I LOVE the movie Rocky, to my surprise, because I'm certainly not necessarily a fan of Sly. I just adore it, no reservations. |
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Post by Auroranorth on Jan 17, 2018 15:13:39 GMT -4
I quit watching the Harry Potter films after the fourth one.
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Post by chonies on Jan 17, 2018 16:39:26 GMT -4
I quit watching the Harry Potter films after the fourth one. I've never seen them, and honestly I resent how much of popular culture is built around the Potterverse, but I know it's not for me, so I'll just back away. |
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Post by Alexis Machine on Jan 17, 2018 16:57:38 GMT -4
I quit watching the Harry Potter films after the fourth one. I've never seen them, and honestly I resent how much of popular culture is built around the Potterverse, but I know it's not for me, so I'll just back away. I'm in the same boat. I like movies and books about magic, I will watch some of the actors in awful movies, and some of the characters sound interesting, but the series seemed inescapable at one point and it made me avoid all of it. |
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Post by Auroranorth on Jan 17, 2018 23:46:29 GMT -4
I liked the series, but it's not a passion of mine. I haven't read the books in years and I'm ok with that, and I don't know that I'll ever watch the movies again.
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Post by Ladybug on Jan 18, 2018 16:07:16 GMT -4
Phantom Thread looks interesting to me, but the last PTA movie I enjoyed was Magnolia, and even parts of that had me rolling my eyes (my opinion that Julianne Moore is WAY overrated stems from this film). I know I saw There Will Be Blood, but all I remember is the "I'm gonna drink your milkshake!" part.
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