The Lobster, you guys. Anyone else see it? That was some weird shit, and either the perfect or the worst movie to see alone.

I've been debating. Based on my boyfriend's description, I didn't think I'd like it, but I feel I'll regret not seeing it.

Yeah, I was interested, but a friend said she found it deeply unpleasant and upsetting.

I did not find it upsetting, but maybe equally enjoyable and unpleasant? I don't know, I laughed and also gasped with WTF. I would say I liked it, but that's such a milquetoast word to use for such a wild experience!

But I think I only find real-life stuff actually upsetting, for what that's worth.

ION, I don't understand why they would need to make a gender-swapped Splash remake with Channing Tatum, when Ryan Lochte exists? [link]

I saw a drive-in double feasture of Jason Bourne and Star Trek Beyond Friday night. A group of us sat in lawn chairs in front of the speakers up near the screen, so we had a great view of the mess that was Jason Bourne. At the end of it, my friend's 17 year-old son turned to me and asked "Did you understand any of that?" Now granted the neither he nor I had seen any of the previous Bournes, but when even your target audience is wondering what the hell just happened...

We had gone for Star Trek , and it was okay. Liked the character stuff, and unlike the first two it actually felt like Star Trek. But I kept losing my suspension of disbelief in the action scenes. There was some stunningly bad science and logic holes, even for Trek, and it kept throwing me out of the experience.

It's not looking good for Suicide Squad.

Suicide Squad is bad. Not fun bad. Not redeemable bad. Not the kind of bad that is the unfortunate result of artists honorably striving for something ambitious and falling short. Suicide Squad is just bad. It's ugly and boring, a toxic combination that means the film's highly fetishized violence doesn't even have the exciting tingle of the wicked or the taboo. (Oh, how the movie wants to be both of those things.) It's simply a dull chore steeped in flaccid machismo, a shapeless, poorly edited trudge that adds some mildly appalling sexism and even a soupçon of racism to its abundant, hideously timed gun worship. But, perhaps worst of all, Suicide Squad is ultimately too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting. At least revolting would have been something.

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If you can believe it, Suicide Squad is even worse than Fantastic Four.

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Slightly more positive review: [link]

I mean, at least the got The Wall right.

I was uneasy when I saw their version of The Joker, then heard about how the actor was getting into character. I like my Joker to be the witty, intelligent, bat(heh)shit crazy guy in the natty purple suit.

"Look at this rain! I could just kill the weather man. Hm, that's a thought."

I mean, at least the got The Wall right.

I would see it just for The Wall, except...no. I'd rather see Ghostbusters again. And I still need to see Star Trek.