The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) • Page 4

As far as Elisabeth and Sue go, Isn’t it kind of the Id Vs. Ego. Sue is definitely an Id, an unconscious, selfish desire for pleasure above everything, including her other half?

 

That’s a better movie

 

The Neon Demon is another masterpiece.

 

Neon Demon is so fucking good. The Substance is so fucking good.

 

I want to see this so badly but that is a greatest hits of things I really hate seeing in a movie.

 

If it helps like 80% of the movie is fine

 

Once you get through the first hour or so, the medical stuff slows way down and it becomes regular gore/absurd body horror

 

Weirdly this is kind of a crowd pleaser

 

Guess I need to watch Neon Demon finally, can’t be worse than Only God Forgives

 

I have a Neon Demon poster in my dining room.

 

Neon Demon rocks and is Refns best film (sorry Drive fans)

 

What a film.

 

Is it the eye? Do you position seats so your guests have to look at it?

 

It's this one. It's mostly my wife that has to look at it. I sit facing the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me poster.

 

Man, i want a cool wife

 

on a whim i decided to check this out last night without having watched any trailers. fucking loved every bonkers minute of it.

at times people in the audience were like, "that's fucked up" or "that's fucking sick" and i was squirming now and then at some fucked up scenes. by then we all couldn't help but give an applause when the credits started rolling. such a rad crowd of moviegoers to watch this with.

 

I have a strong stomach and have subjected myself to just about every "worst" thing that extreme cinema has to offer over the years. I'm not sure that anything has given me quite the visceral, physical reaction this did. I'm talking gagging in the theater, then nauseous and lightheaded as I walked into the late afternoon daylight. I could feel the color drained from my face.

The world-building and plot are barebones and the subtlety is non-existent, but that bluntness is wielded with such a brutal precision. The dizzying jumps between those wide angles and extreme close-up body horror, the relentless and suffocating sound design, Moore's wildly brave and unnerving performance.

God damn, man. Second favorite of the year behind Dune: Part Two, and something that feels destined to become a classic within the genre.

 

To piggyback on what they said on The Big Picture pod, it is hilarious that the New Year’s Eve show is the most-watched show of the year and it apparently takes place on a community theater-sized stage with topless women.

Also, I thought it was hilarious that the billboard outside Elizabeth’s apartment was seemingly a physical, not electronic, billboard that apparently replaces billboards daily because it had individual ones leading up to the big new year’s show.

 

Saw this tonight and had a fucking blast. I genuinely cannot believe we have a movie like this in theaters in 2024.

I echo so much of what’s been sad before about the bluntness of the messaging being overwhelming, but that is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a feature, not a bug. I hope to see this nominated for Sound Design, Mixing and Editing. My god was that a horrifying treat throughout.

 

So glad I saw this in the theater. I had to look away or squint several times because god damn. My theater was about 75% full and everyone was having a good time except the 2 people that walked out when the younger Demi popped out of her back.

 

They couldn’t handle Margaret Qualley having a butt you could bounce a quarter off of.

EDIT: I apologize for this David-ass post.