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Yes, I’ve seen the entire trilogy and I would rank it exactly the same! This one is my favourite, followed by 1 and then 2. Tilda is a truly great, remarkable actress.

She really is. She was lovely as her mother. Did you know the dog is Tilda’s dog?

The hotel receptionist was hilarious!

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I did think the mother rôle was more nuanced, but she was just great overall. And indeed, I discovered it after my first watch, and this time around I could tell she really got along with the dog.

Need a classic after the spider ordeal.

Respect Sydney, and finally, a nighttime horror screening (starts at 23.20 not accounting for ads).

Needed more Schrader.

The scores the man uses are incredible. Also hilarious opening section with the kids. What a genius this man is.

Oh, this is absurd. I get it we’re still in the woke phase and showing naked young women is a big no-no, but the female character is taking a shower to warm up while wearing her bra (and, apparently, knickers). Then she emerges wearing the same and proceeds to attempt to warm up/dry off by putting a dry, warm jumper over her (presumably soaked) bra. I mean, come on, people. This is beyond absurd. Why do the shower scene at all, it could have been skipped instead of this idiocy.

Other than that — relatively engaging.

I know this will be awful, but really want to go to the movies on this gorgeous summer day.
It wasn’t even that awful. I do find it funny how critics/audiences take issue with films about, for lack of a better word, upper class problems/upper class women feeling unhappy. I’m the first to admit I often find these nauseating, and this one was definitely a little melodramatic, but the mere fact the women are rich doesn’t really invalidate any of it. But hell, who am I kidding, I remember a creative writing workshop by a posh British author in London who said there’s no excuse to writing about upper-class female lawyers because ‘most people can’t relate to them’. There it is, relating again.
Other than that, I felt Chastain was definitely a little wasted on this, not sure about Hathaway, but it oscillated between oddly saccharine and kind of self-serious…
On the other hand, it validates my father’s paranoid viewpoint that .
Also, I don’t know, maybe it’s my self-imposed celibacy talking, but as usual, I cannot imagine why any of these people would sleep with each other, get married and slave away in their kids’ service. Some character development would help, I guess. Not sure, though.
I’d seen Bradshaw’s review by chance before I even watched the film, and this in particular seemed ridiculous: ‘Thriller about rich suburban housewives whose picture-perfect lives belie past traumas lacks the self-awareness needed to prevent it from being utterly absurd.’ I mean, what else do you expect from The Guardian, but this feels off to me; I’m all for self-aware meta-art, but in a film where What in tarnation is this crap?

Wanted to see this, but I couldn't find it. Till now.

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A “gorgeous summer day” in England on April 1? Gee, times sure have changed since I lived there.

I’m a huge fan.

Hey, look, I have a realistic view of British weather. But yes, it’s very warm and very sunny, and that, ladies and gents, is good enough for me! Global warming and all, you know.

I wish we had anything like you have today. Totally bundled up today.

Repeat for the 33rd HoF

First rewatch.

Only just picked up on a Candide reference in the courtroom.

Its a difficult choice so I will settle with this:



Maybe its a dramedy but really how can you take a clown seriously.

I am going to watch my first Buster Keaton movie and its a talkie

Parlour, Bedrooom and Bath (1931)



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