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The Substance movie
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Anonymous
| Surprised there's not a thread about this? I just watched it last night. It started out fairly promising, good premise, etc. But my god - the last 20 min. or so were just painful and waaaaaay too much. WTH? How on earth was this an Oscar contender? |
Anonymous
| I think there was a thread? I could not physically watch the last part and had to stop. I did enjoy the rest of the movie. |
Anonymous
| I was just talking to my husband about this. I am so over all of the Oscar contender movies these days. They are all so dark and unwatchable. I tried to watch the Substance and just had to stop because I just could not visually handle all the nonsense. Same thing happened to me when I tried to watch Anora. I could not finish that movie either and was angry watching it until I turned it off. Why is everything so twisted and dark these days? I do not know what it says about the state of our society and culture. I would love to see a non-weird and heartwarming movie. |
Anonymous
| I remember when Oscar nominees were (for the most part) beautifully shot, sweeping sagas or small, extremely well-done indie films. Certainly, no soft porn or silly horror flicks. I'm so disgusted with both Anora and The Substance. Were there any nominated films that were actually good? |
Anonymous
| I liked it. I thought it was visually interesting and bold in its own way. I went in with very low expectations, which helped. |
Anonymous
| Audacious film. I loved it. |
Anonymous
Look at where we are. Look at who is POTUS. We are living in the era of the lowest common denominator when people get off on watching real people/strangers lives and our very country destroyed by a chainsaw-wielding megalomaniac. Of course current pop culture is dark and twisted. A huge portion of our population has gone dark and twisted. |
Anonymous
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Right.
Remember Musk says the fundamental problem in our society is empathy. The media have trained us to consider the murder of women prime time entertainment. |