Is that unpopular? Every review I read was very negative.
I don't read normie sites though so maybe basic bitches loved it idk.
A lot of Oscar buzz for the film. Emma Stone may win Best Actress for it. The director's previous film
The Favourite won Olivia Coleman it. Not that means anything to the public anymore.
I can't finish any of the director's, Yorgos Lanthimos, films.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer was weird for its own sake and said nothing.
The Favourite was a poor man's
Barry Lyndon. I imagine a few here will defend
Dogtooth and I know a few good defences already so I'll leave it at that.
To parapharse Armond White, a Hitchcock knock-off like
Charade,
Wait Until Dark, and
Disturbia are still usually fun to watch. Kubrick knock-offs like Yorgos' work are never fun. What all of them lack is the humanity that Kubrick does have beyond his negative exterior: Lyndon's complexity during the duel. The betrayal George Peatty's feels from his wife in
The Killing. The sing-along in
Paths of Glory. The dying Vietnamese woman in
Full Metal Jacket. Whilst his films are often sterile, Kubrick was able to stir emotions beyond cynical mockery. There was a man behind the aloof director. The humour in Lanthimos is so distasteful that I wish every character was dead, like a poorly written horror film.
Dr Strangelove, more or less an Ealing comedy, is funny enough to want me to ask for more of Ripper or Turgidson talk and argue. It is dark but I enjoy being in that world and always feel it ends prematurely.
Frankenhooker is seriously a good film, one of the best Frankenstein films.
