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Poor Things

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  • #32
    Lucca White Elevator
    Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭ Lucca White Elevator


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121871168#Comment_121871168

    Better off not watching it. A phone is for phone calls



  • #33
    Fysh
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    Regardless of where you found the stream, if you watched this on a 5" phone screen you were doing yourself out of some of the things it does well, the visuals were great as seen on an actual cinema screen.

    The story not being for you is down to personal taste, but I don't think most films are on their best footing when watched on a screen that small.



  • #34
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Whatever about the plot or one's taste for the story, the idea a movie this obviously visually inventive, or any movie really, would or should be watched on a smart phone is absurd.

    It's like saying you prefer to listen to music through... I dunno, airline ear buds; or reading a book written in crayon.



  • #35
    _H80_GHT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭_H80_GHT


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121871206#Comment_121871206

    You must be old to list the thing that people use them for least these days.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #36
    AMKC
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    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121871206#Comment_121871206

    Lol. I used to think like that. A phone these days do is a pocket computer. You can do anything on it.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • #37
    AMKC
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    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121871746#Comment_121871746

    Still glad I did not see it in the Cinema. The only sex scenes I want to see are ones that I am involved in lol.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #38
    StevenToast
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121872710#Comment_121872710

    So none then!

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • #39
    AMKC
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    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121872738#Comment_121872738

    None for now but I will in the future all going well 😉

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #40
    pixelburp
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121872710#Comment_121872710

    You hated the movie cos it had sex? Uh, ok. If you're not Gen Z that's an even more baffling bit of prudishness.



  • #41
    FrancieBrady
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    Interestingly made film but strangely unengaging. Much too long as well. You should want to watch a visually brilliant film like this is again but I'd be hard pressed to press play tbh.

    I'd argue too that Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of A Fall was more deserving of the gong than Stone. Haven't seen the other performances. A role with no boundaries or restraints (she could basically do anything and you had to go with it) in terms of making actions believable is easy work for any actor.



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  • #42
    buried
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    Yeah I got tired of this too, well around the one hour thirty mark. The visual style of this is very reminiscent of the Indigo Prime comic book series from the late 80's/early 90's that was published in the British comic 2000AD. Both historically set, yet stylishly futuristic, incorporating elements of sci fi. There was one collection set in the Victorian era about the Jack the Ripper that was very visually reminiscent of this. Also a lot of visual shades of Alan Moore's 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' work in this too.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #43
    El Duda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 946 ✭✭✭El Duda


    If you watched Poor Things on your phone, or any film for that matter, you did not see it.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAsKyyS-LA&ab_channel=nicky




  • #44
    dulpit
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    Saw this (in the cinema for the snobs here) and really disliked it. The acting was obviously great, but the story did nothing for me and I just didn't see the point. It struck me as as movie that "film buffs" will love, but normies not so much.

    I saw Lisa Frankenstein the other day and I enjoyed that way way way more than Poor Things.



  • #45
    micks_address
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    watched on Disney plus over the weekend.. its visually distinct.. quite funny and an interesting plot. An incredible amount revolves around sex which is fine.. but there might have been more interesting experiences to explore as Bella's brain caught up with her body..



  • #46
    bodhrandude
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    Loved this, visually beautiful, quirky and funny too.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #47
    gym_imposter
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    Watched this last night, excellent, so quirky and funny and inherently strange in a wonderful way

    Kind of movie you don't need to see twice though



  • #48
    SCOOP 64
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    Certainly wouldn't watch again surprised me and my wife finished it, did watch half one night went back to it next night thinking maybe it gets better,it didn't.



  • #49
    brianc27
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    Watched tonight, thought it was pretty good, probably a bit too long, didn't know a whole lot about it before watching, visually it was like a cross between Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam



  • #50
    gym_imposter
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121915067#Comment_121915067

    It is too long,great description btw



  • #51
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Great kind of theme/sets, lots of nice decisions there but I didn't really enjoy the film at all. You get what it's going to say immediately but there is two more hours of it. My girlfriend watched half of it and I wish I had too.



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  • #52
    cena
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    2 hr and 16 mins I'll never get back



  • #53
    Damien360
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121932129#Comment_121932129

    Agree with you. I failed to see the point or the entertainment in the movie.



  • #54
    nomdeboardie
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121613732#Comment_121613732

    Pretty similar to my reaction.

    On the ending, I really wanted the reciprocal transplantation as well - Alfie's mind trapped in a goat's body, looking at his body eating the bushes



  • #55
    Hooked
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121932129#Comment_121932129

    I'm 45 and by no means a prude or averse to strange plots or sex scenes…

    But, for the first time in my LIFE, I turned off a movie (30/40 mins in).

    Having sex with the infant-powered body of a suicide victim, reincarnate…

    Utter Tripe!



  • #56
    murpho999
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121992157#Comment_121992157

    Strange reasoning to me as her partner had no idea of this and she did not have a juvenile body or appearance.



  • #57
    Man Vs ManUre
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121992157#Comment_121992157

    Ah come on now a bit of harmless furious jumping never did anyone any damage!!



  • #58
    PhiloCypher
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    What was the story with the 2nd girl.

    Did Willem Defoe happen across a 2nd pregnant suicidal woman . Or is she just simple because her Brain was starved of oxygen when she died ,not because she has baby brain ?



  • #59
    bnt
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121998980#Comment_121998980

    It was never specified, and it hardly matters, since the result was the same. She doesn't seem to be developing as quickly as Bella did, but the time scale is vague and a lot happens quickly towards the end.

    I just watched this over two evenings, since I felt I needed a break, so I resumed tonight at the start of the Paris segment. I wasn't sure if I wanted to carry on, but it was worth it in the end. I didn't read anything about the book before seeing this, but now I have, I really think I need to read it. It appears that the movie only tells one side of the story, and our narrator is unreliable.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #60
    wandererz
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    Jeepers!

    I cannot believe that this is on Disney+ of all services.

    I hope parents have proper control of their kids accounts.



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  • #61
    eightieschewbaccy
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123145418#Comment_123145418

    They make plenty of movies for adults or own companies that do so I wouldn't consider it to be that weird.



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