Comments on: Antichrist and Uncle Jesse

By: Lefty01

Lefty01 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:21:50 +0000

Antichrist was a very good, but extremely difficult film. It was interesting if you could get through the misogyny and mutilation (I covered my eyes more than a few times during this movie) which leads me to conclude that Antichrist is an excellent film to “watch” but not to “experience.” The photography is beautiful but how can one endure a film so, dare I say it, seemingly nihilistic?
If we’re going to talk about entropy than Antichrist is a system of a highly complex form; it is difficult to initially discern ideas on first viewings and it may make you vomit more than once. Therefore for being so complex a “system,” as it were, it is also the most grueling. Likewise Fullhouse is stupid, predictable and oddly enough, still nauseating. It is a very uncomplicated system but always remains at a state of very low energy. Antichrist is very “complicated” (in terms of physics and cinema) and so when it starts to hit entropy it hits it hard. The fall to disorder is from much higher and so disorder effective It is a film for people who wish to understand destruction on multiple levels.

By: callot

callot — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:01:40 +0000

Of the films mentioned above, only The Departed, No Country for Old Men and Return of the King won Best Picture Oscars. None of the films nominated for Best Picture in 2000, 2004, 2005 or 2008 are on the list.

If the Lord of the Rings movies weren’t included, then none of the films nominated in 2001 or 2003 would be on the list either.

Six of the films mentioned are documentaries, while no documentaries have ever been nominated for Best Picture.

Five of the films are Pixar features. Three films were directed by Peter Jackson and two (The Dark Knight and Memento) were directed by Christopher Nolan.

None of the films on the list feature female protagonists.

By: callot

callot — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:01:50 +0000

In case anyone was curious, here are the next twelve movies on the list:

11. Memento = (8.6, 93%) 89.5
12. Finding Nemo = (8.2, 98%) 89.5
13. Anvil! The Story of Anvil = (8.1, 98%) 89.5

14. No Country for Old Men = (8.3, 95%) 89
15. Bowling for Columbine = (8.2, 96%) 89
16. Ratatouille = (8.2, 96%) 89
17. The Incredibles = (8.1, 97%) 89

18. The Departed = (8.5, 92%) 88.5
19. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind = (8.4, 93%) 88.5
20. (tie) Capturing the Friedmans = (8.0, 97%) 88.5
20. (tie) The Hurt Locker = (8.0, 97%) 88.5
22. Murderball = (7.9, 98%) 88.5

By: Oolf

Oolf — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:02:55 +0000

i see antichrist as one of the byproducts of psychoanalysis going main-stream, its kinda the same thing as avatar, something pretty with a dull narative, both are movies that could be something cool but couldn’t deliver, because of the presumptuousness of their directors