The MoFo Top 100 of the 2010s Countdown

I'm getting the impression that there's a lot of dislike for I'm Thinking of Ending Things.

I'm getting the impression that there's a lot of dislike for I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I'm wondering what the general mood is towards Synecdoche, New York, in terms of the people who feel they're generally Kaufman fans

Like, all of this for me in theory, yes.

But the CGI of it all and the never-ending nature of the fight just totally loses me. It was the most frustrating thing about Civil War---there WERE all of these complex relationships and genuine moments of emotional conflict and places where people had their philosophies challenged when push came to shove.

But for me it somehow drowns in spectacle and cute little quips and reaction shots and special effects and the humanity of the characters gets trapped under a layer of stupid-movie jello.

This might make it sound like I disliked the film. I didn't. It's probably a + film for me. But while my initial viewing was mostly positive, my feelings about it now are mostly frustration at the way that the good stuff gets crowded out by the overwhelming sameness (in how the action is shot, in how the dialogue flows, all of it) of every Marvel movie.

Civil War: haven't seen. But I'm going to lol anyway.


It Follows - the concept is great, the presentation is great, the acting and characters are great, the scares are great, the soundtrack is great and for the most part the execution of the story is great. But this is one of the exceptionally rare instances where the logic and execution of a plot point was almost the movies death for me. The plan at the pool is just so dumb, not only on the part of the characters, but in the dreadful way it is handled by the film itself, that it just tore me from believing in the film. Normally this shouldn't happen to me. I'm not entirely even sure why it did. Sure, it being an extraordinarily dumb concept is part of it. But I've excused that before. So I think it has something to do with how important believing in these characters is for this film to work and having them execute a plan that miiight make sense of they were seven years old, or miiight be excusable if they were the Scooby Doo gang, turned them all into pure constructs of the film. And once the happened, the curtain was down. I started to think about the logistics of the curse, and it totally fell apart. And while I cant remember what the logical fallacy of it was, trust me in that it breaks your brain once you think about it. And I became distracted by the genesis of such a thing, and was no longer even thinking about the movie anymore or how good it was up until that point


So maybe a criticism I would grill someone else for, since everything else was great, and story is rarely the most important thing in a film,. But here we are. Didnt make my list

I wasn't bothered much by that, but I can understand that.

I'm with you.
I was really liking the movie and then the pool scene. Yikes.
For me, the pool scene is like watching Helen Mirren walking across a party toward you and then tripping over a lawn-chair and breaking her hip.
I actually have never re-watched the movie because I didn't want to face that disappointment again, not that I never would or even that I wouldn't recommend the film, but I just don't wanna see that part happen again. It kinda makes me cringe.

But I guess part of that is because I mostly liked the movies up to that point and had become emotionally invested in these characters myself and seeing them come to this point was powerful.

All that said, it did not make my list, by the way.

It feels like a cast off idea from The Lost Boys as they are boobytrapping their house, but even Corey Feldman was 'nah dog, that's totally dumb' so didn't make the cut. But at least in Lost Boys it would fit its gloriously 80s tacky and goofy mood. It just does not belong in the sober It Follows. Just a mindbogglingly bad decision.

92. Anomalisa
91. The Vvitch

The same here: I've heard none of these...

See you later...