I so strongly agree on the majority percentage of your takes on everything (those that I've seen anyhow) that I'm mildly bummed, but not judgmental, that Poor Things didn't resonate with you. I may have been kinder and more open to its quirks because I'm a genre guy at heart, but I thought it was every bit as much a pop feminist child-woman-comes-into-her-own journey as Barbie, just on a slightly darker, less audience-friendly field of play. Frankenstein itself being so deserving of a feminist reevaluation (how Mary Shelley goes so largely uncredited as the years-ahead-of-her-time creator of science fiction is beyond me), I think there's a bit of reclamation here (though of course both author and director are male). I thought Emma Stone was every bit as committed and in her own way luminous as Margot Robbie (Robbie deserved a nomination, as did Greta, even more than the film as a whole). It's a bold film with some wild tonal swings, but very literate and full of real heart and an unexpected sweetness in the end. A story about identity and chosen family as much as anything. Maybe you'll be up for a revisit some day?
Agee totally on Nyad, loved it. And thanks for this, I was contemplating watching Poor Things but you saved me! I turned off Maestro, too depressing but Cooper could win for Best Actor I think. Cheers!!
I so strongly agree on the majority percentage of your takes on everything (those that I've seen anyhow) that I'm mildly bummed, but not judgmental, that Poor Things didn't resonate with you. I may have been kinder and more open to its quirks because I'm a genre guy at heart, but I thought it was every bit as much a pop feminist child-woman-comes-into-her-own journey as Barbie, just on a slightly darker, less audience-friendly field of play. Frankenstein itself being so deserving of a feminist reevaluation (how Mary Shelley goes so largely uncredited as the years-ahead-of-her-time creator of science fiction is beyond me), I think there's a bit of reclamation here (though of course both author and director are male). I thought Emma Stone was every bit as committed and in her own way luminous as Margot Robbie (Robbie deserved a nomination, as did Greta, even more than the film as a whole). It's a bold film with some wild tonal swings, but very literate and full of real heart and an unexpected sweetness in the end. A story about identity and chosen family as much as anything. Maybe you'll be up for a revisit some day?
Agee totally on Nyad, loved it. And thanks for this, I was contemplating watching Poor Things but you saved me! I turned off Maestro, too depressing but Cooper could win for Best Actor I think. Cheers!!