'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[swo17]

See again the bit about the woman in Le cercle rouge : it's pointed out, and then ? Nothing. Why pointing it out then ?

Her point here is self-evident, and hammers home her earlier comment about the film being dominated by men.

[MichaelB]

Well, personally I don’t have a problem with you finding her uninteresting anymore than I do with her finding the Melville boring. But the implication that she’s doing something wrong kinda bristles, I guess. I feel like you’re doing the same thing to her that you’re accusing her of doing with these films, e.g., not evaluating the context in which it appears.

Not every piece of film writing has to be a deep dive! This piece exists mostly, it seems, to give fans of the band some idea of what the event was like. It’s not a submission to Film Comment.

We are not the target audience (massive understatement), and the author has made absolutely no secret of where she's coming from: she's not pretending to be any kind of 1970s film expert. I suspect if I were to review the same event, I'd focus much more on the films and skip over the music in a couple of sentences, which I imagine would be the preferred approach here... but presumably not there.

[domino harvey]

Very hot and raunchy, the lead actress was stunning. She basically has a series of sexual encounters. She is pumped numerous times, but she takes it very well. It is very sexual.

[DarkImbecile]

So Book Club is even steamier than the trailers suggest?

[Brian C]

Verhoeven’s Elle? Seems like a description some internet creep would bestow on that film.

[domino harvey]

It's for Q (Not the winged serpent one)

[John Shade]

Boring---We went because we had free entry after visiting the Louvre. They claimed it was a15 minute walk away - it wasn't, it took a lot longer but as we enjoy walking we didn't mind. However, the visit was a waste of time and we would have demanded our money back if we'd paid.

This is a review of the Eugene Delacroix Museum near the Louvre.

[Michael Kerpan]

This is a review of the Eugene Delacroix Museum near the Louvre.

[Gregory]

This, Silence and Cry, has got to be one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. I watched the whole thing asking myself, "So, what's the point? What's the point? Where is this movie going?" And at the end of the movie, I was still asking myself, "What was the point?"

Only after I read the editorial review on Amazon.com, which provided the necessary background to understand the movie, did it make sense. Unfortunately, the movie provided none of that background. A good movie would have.

The so-called editorial review that this person is complaining about not being somehow part of the film itself is in fact Second Run's brief description printed right on the back cover of the DVD that he's supposed to be reviewing.

[soundchaser]

One could easily level the same accusation at, say, Gone With the Wind, were one from a foreign country and not familiar with the US Civil War.

[MichaelB]

Exactly. Miklós Jancsó made films primarily for Hungarian audiences who could reasonably be expected to be familiar with the background history. Non-Hungarian viewers have to do a bit more work... but ample context is provided in Second Run’s typically comprehensive booklet, so it’s not as though this is an insuperable challenge.

[All the Best People]

One could easily level the same accusation at, say, Gone With the Wind, were one from a foreign country and not familiar with the US Civil War.

No, no, the opening text gives us plenty of context by mourning the glory of the fallen South!

[mfunk9786]

Glenn Kenny's review of Tag, where he spends one-and-a-half paragraphs criticizing the film's use of "White Male American Dumbness." What does race have anything to do with this movie?!

The film was made for a certain demographic, the same fratty one that is now married with kids but still would prefer to see something like this than most films. I don't think he's far off here.

[bottled spider]

Vegan alert:
-In the beginning, a teenage boy is wearing a leather watch.
-Also, there is fresh fish being cut and prepared. Someone notes that "fish cheeks" taste good.
-There is also blood and a lot of violence toward humans.

Vegan alert:
-Someone asks Tye Sheridan to eat a burger to put “more meat” on his “bones”.
-A deer is hit by a car.
-Someone brings a family a tuna noodle casserole

[Grand Wazoo]

Uh oh, bottled spider found my favorite reviewer on letterboxd

[goblinfootballs]

These vegan alert reviews are hilariously awful - and I'm vegan. My favorite one is something like "a character walks by a hot dog stand."

[Boosmahn]

A user from Blu-ray.com has somehow never owned a third-party Blu-ray

Is this the right thread?

[KJones77]

The vegan alert reviewer has a great one for Cinderella:

Vegan alert:
-The royals are trying to hunt a buck in the forest.
-The fairy godmother asks for a tub of milk.

[Grand Wazoo]

The Out of Towners (1970)

Vegan alert:
Jack Lemmon orders chicken and cheese.

One of my favorites....The Other Woman (2018)

Vegan alert:
-I doubt the chocolate is vegan.

[tenia]

A user from Blu-ray.com has somehow never owned a third-party Blu-ray

When you think about it, depending on your tastes on movies, I suppose you could have enough stuff through the studios, especially in the US with the WAC.
However, it seems crazy to think people interested in them would stay aside at least from Criterion, since that'd mean not seeing Kurosawa, Truffaut, Godard, Fellini etc classic movies.

[DarkImbecile]

The Out of Towners (1970)

Vegan alert:
Jack Lemmon orders chicken and cheese.

One of my favorites....The Other Woman (2018)

Vegan alert:
-I doubt the chocolate is vegan.

I’d like to see one of these for, like, Cannibal Holocaust.

[Grand Wazoo]

I’d like to see one of these for, like, Cannibal Holocaust.

She has no review but did give it a half-star rating.

Ok last one: The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Vegan alert:
-In the beginning, a teenage boy is wearing a leather watch.
-Also, there is fresh fish being cut and prepared. Someone notes that "fish cheeks" taste good.
-There is also blood and a lot of violence toward humans.

[Feego]

Wow, I just looked up the reviewer you guys have been quoting, and some of these are gold!

Mad Monster Party

Vegan alerts:
-Chopped liver and pickled salmon references
-A dish that is marinated in mice
-Octopus soup (the animal is shown coming out of the pot)
-There's a pig's head on a plate
-Hyena casserole
-Reference to a cheese sandwich

Belle de Jour

Vegan alert:
There is a song. In French, it refers to "ham" and "sausage". The English subtitles refer to "ham" and "eggs" (the translation differed in order to make the song rhyme).

Savage Streets

Vegan alerts:
-Linda Blair's character, Brenda, says she's going to slaughter a bad guy just like pigs are slaughtered. She takes into consideration how they feel.
-I just read on IMDB that Linda Blair is indeed vegan, so brownie points for that.

The Cat Returns

Vegan alerts:
-A girl tries to feed a cat fish
-A girl says “stupid cats”
-A mouse offers raw fish to eat

[DarkImbecile]

-A girl says “stupid cats”

Clearly I’ve been misunderstanding what Veganism entails for many years

[Brian C]

Clearly I’ve been misunderstanding what Veganism entails for many years

Vegan alert:
-Used a word with “tails” in it