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Not sure if I'm just old and bitter now or movies have gotten worse Humor (discuss.online)
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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (11 children)

I feel this way about Synecdoche, New York, with the caveat that I understand it but just think it's hot garbage.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I recently watched it for the first time and loved it. The disjointed flow of it worked for me as a mechanism to immerse in an experience of a person's life. Like a speedrun. The themes - including never really launching into life, seeking to but never really connecting with others except post-facto, struggling to understand and metabolize losses, breaching out of the self - all resonated with me so that helped.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    I watched a trailer that seemed to pitch it as an absurd comedy, which on reflection is an extremely weird approach.

    The themes made sense to me, I just had no desire to endure the repeated misery and alienation of it. I mean, it's definitely art, I simply find it very ugly. It can be ugly on purpose all it likes, I still find it repulsive.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    So you didn't even finish the movie? Or did I misread

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I watched the trailer before watching the film.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I was referring to the part about having "no desire to endure "

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I've sat through a lot of things that I didn't enjoy in my life!

    In this case it was my optimistic nature hoping that eventually there would be something I felt was worthwhile. Alas, no, it was just a post-modern miseryfest, from my perspective.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I've got very little time for Charlie Kaufman. I quite liked Eternal Sunshine, but I generally find his stuff pretentious and get a vibe of smugness. That might be unfair -- I guess I'm just not the target audience.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I think his films are just very specific in taste. If you fall into his specific target demographoc the movie is amazing. But it can also depend on the day or it depends strongly on things one has heard about it beforehand. When I first watched Eternal Sunshine I was incredibly awake. There were so many things and strange details that didn't make sense that my brain was working hard to make sense of it. Later everything clicked and fell into place in an awesome way. I absolutely loved it.

    But I know so many people who didn't like it one bit.

    His other movies are also that way. My other favourite: Adaptation. I didn't like the Netflix one. Or didn't understand it or didn't care. Don't know.

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