Really? Isn't booing just a kind of public, gut version of the trash-talking everyone does with whoever is listening after a bad movie? How is that indefensible?hearthesilence wrote:Agree about the booing, unless it's in response to someone doing something reprehensibly offensive, I can't defend it.
I myself don't boo movies. Seems a bit silly to me to boo or to applaud, for that matter, an inanimate object. But if you're OK with the latter, then ...
For me though, wasting 15 million USD (or however much) on a piece of garbage, along with wasting a couple hours of my time, feels pretty "reprehensibly offensive". Much more problematic than my booing ... were I the booing type ... which I'm not ... at least not usually ... ah, wtf ... boo.
Anyway. I missed the Dolan tonight, though I'm not surprised by the reaction. I'll try to catch it tomorrow.
The Kore'eda, unfortunately, was another waste of time. Worse, even, than that one about the two boys and the bullet train. In this one we learn that we should try to be what we want to be, given our talents or lack there of. Revelatory, huh? It's super-low key, even relative to recent Kore'eda. To the point where the critics on both sides of me actually slept through more than half the film. Brief polite applause (Kore'eda and his cast were there) as the credits rolled. I refrained from booing. C-
Ah Distance. Ah After Life. Ah Maboroshi.