• ThoGot@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I couldn’t even finish that movie and had to stop after about 30 min (not because it was bad, but just way too depressing lol)

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      I hated just about everyone in The Whale. Everyone who was enabling him was an accomplice to a murder, in my opinion. I also found the main character to be so revolting that I couldn’t muster much sympathy beyond my aforementioned blame towards his enablers.

      I love challenging media, but that one had nearly nothing redeemable about it. I’d rather have a crack problem than a food problem after seeing that movie.

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        I wondering if I should just never see that movie. I know a whole household of co-enablers that I’m trying to distance myself from. Three people have died from being overweight so far since I’ve met them and a fourth collapsed and shit himself while at my place in what looked like a diabetic shock. He then had the nerve to criticize my home.

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          1 day ago

          Then you’ve already lived the whole plot. There should be a way to report people like that so the court can put a restraining order on them.

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            1 day ago

            Maybe I should make them watch it then. They’ll either fix themselves or stop talking to me. Win-Win.

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              But look at the downsides. You’ll have to hire huge people to collapse and shit in your home. Who would want that? What the fuck dude?

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        I honestly get where they were coming from. My “I couldn’t finish it because it made me too sad” was oyasumi punpun

        I only finished the second of 13 total volumes and I wasn’t tearing up or anything, but I developed a sense of… dysphoric dread, I guess, from reading it

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        1 day ago

        I mean I don’t really want to spend my free time feeling like absolute shit because I chose to watch a movie

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      Had the same thing happen to me with the movie Hereditary (although I later finished watching it, because of the praise it was getting). I thought “Yeah it’s good, but why would people watch this, why would they do this to themselves?”.

      I never understood miseryporn and honestly MFW people are enjoying it:

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        1 day ago

        Midsommar left me depressed for about a week, so I emotionally detached myself while watching Hereditary by playing on my phone lol. I totally skipped Beau is Afraid.

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          I’m gonna spoil something but literally at the end of Beau is Afraid, the audience just disconnects and leaves uncaringly at his misery.

          Like that movie is a layer of meta meta meta commentary about the people watching his films and also the misery of existence itself. It’s not good but it’s definitely art.

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          Oof, not the best movies to watch after another.

          That was also a movie I wanted to see, but after Hereditary I thought “nah, I’m good”. Probably won’t watch another Ari Aster film, ever.

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      I often eat my dinner while watching a movie.

      This is not a movie I’d recommend for that.