The Substance (2024)
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Rajaah
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Same here, went on a bit long, but damn, that was a real impactful movie. I'd say it's this generation's version of The Fly.
Dennis Quaid really needs to play Vince McMahon in something, pronto.
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It made no sense how the young version and the old version seemed to hate each other. Why wouldn't you just stop switching if you hate the young version? Especially if the young version is literally killing you. Made no sense but if you were one and it was "you" in the younger version, you wouldn't be working against yourself and the plot wouldn't work. Bad writing.
The last 30 minutes or so were really completely unnecessary body horror/gore, and the finale where she walks out as a complete beast was obvious for at least 10 minutes. The little paper mask was pretty hilarious though.
Also apparently the younger version was wearing prosthetic tits for her nude scenes.
The last 30 minutes or so were really completely unnecessary body horror/gore, and the finale where she walks out as a complete beast was obvious for at least 10 minutes. The little paper mask was pretty hilarious though.
Also apparently the younger version was wearing prosthetic tits for her nude scenes.
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Arbitrary
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I believe it was a stunt butt also.
[spoilers] If it's a better you I assume that includes somewhat different neural chemistry. You would feel/think differently and thus disassociate from your other self. Combine that with a person sporting some dark triad personality traits and the stress of going from your best self back to old I could see people, especially celebs, especially women, ending up on the same road.
Of course for me and I'm sure for you the idea of leaving your secondary meat on a cold tile floor is fucking crazy. I want a safe, comfortable bed or cot with regular turning to prevent bedsores. I'd make sure to close my other meat's fucking eyes. The premise itself is zero temptation whatsoever. Easiest monkey paw hard pass of my life. The guy version of this is something to closer to Limitless with Bradley Cooper but he's the dumbest ultra genius ever.
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Rajaah
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Weird how the actress needed prosthetic boobs. Are hers really small or something?
As for the stunt butt, I did notice that she looked dramatically hotter from behind when she wasn't wearing much. I.e. when you couldn't see her face. I'm fairly certain that was a different woman standing in for her in the shots from behind, one with a significantly better bod.
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When's the last time you saw a good movie with good nudity. It's basically been eliminated from Hollywood.
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She was the hitchhiker in 'Once Upon a time in Hollywood'. You can see in that movie that's she's cute but pretty flat chested.
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I couldn't agree more. The level of retarded exhibited by every main and secondary character is off the charts.
Compounding that, this starts with the message of how terrible Quaid is for getting rid of someone who makes her money using her body(good looks) but is well past that prime. She jumps right to doing the same thing. This is the female version of the hero's journey. The big bad is self image. She has a revelation and realizes that she was right all along and continues on to her destruction.
I did like the dude from 300 making a cameo. My favorite character was the cleaning lady.
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spronk
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we watched half of the movie on Halloween night, goddamn there is some great ass and titties in here. i know the movie gets much grosser in the back half so i'm sorta tempted to never finish, as it stands its a great movie about how chicks like being hot and what a nice life it is when you are super hot. i can't relate.
the only real bummer is no version has HDR encoding as far as I can tell, even people who bought it on amazon say the amazon version doesn't do HDR or Dolby Vision encoding. Honestly I don't really notice a difference but wonder why it is that way, is it cuz the director is female and HDR/DV is too complicated for her
it is super popular though, the plex server i share with some friends had like 6 people watching this the past 2 nights
she is super hot, crazy that she is the daughter of Andie MacDowell (groundhog day)
the only real bummer is no version has HDR encoding as far as I can tell, even people who bought it on amazon say the amazon version doesn't do HDR or Dolby Vision encoding. Honestly I don't really notice a difference but wonder why it is that way, is it cuz the director is female and HDR/DV is too complicated for her
it is super popular though, the plex server i share with some friends had like 6 people watching this the past 2 nights
she is super hot, crazy that she is the daughter of Andie MacDowell (groundhog day)
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Mist
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This is literally the central metaphor.
I'm actually shocked so many people don't get this given all the rhetoric here about women burning themselves up in their youth in exchange for sex and/or money.
This is a very red-pilled movie if you actually think about it.
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They should have shown it differently if thats what they wanted to show. They could have shown that each time she transforms to the young one, it takes a little off her life, but she loves being the young one so she keeps doing it. That would explain the characters motivation to keep switching. But she hates the fuck out of the young one and the young one hates her, and they seem to be adversarial. If that is the case, the old one would just be like fuck off I'm stopping this. If you have to make your characters do stuff that makes no sense in order to advance your story its just bad writing, plain and simple.
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Noodleface
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I just watched this high and it was WILD. Laughed my ass off at the end too
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cabbitcabbit
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Loved this. By the end I felt like I was watching a Gwar show.
This has been such a great year for horror.
This has been such a great year for horror.
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Compared to the other movies in recent years, this is a 8/10. Based on my expectations from the trailers and reviews, 6/10. I love the idea, not a fan of the caricatural style but it was ok until the last part of the movie which was useless torture for the viewer.
