I'm smart enough to know that 100% on Rotten Tomatoes doesn't guarantee a perfect movie, but I fully expected to at the very least enjoy myself watching it tonight.
I hated this movie. I actually hated this movie. If I hadn't been with friends, I would have walked out after ~40 minutes. I'm sort of glad I had to stick around though, because at least now I'm certain that no, the movie doesn't get any better by the end. I was bored, I was angry, I was confused, and I was genuinely trying to find what exactly people like so much about it. I have no answer to that question. Am I taking crazy pills? Why is this being rated so highly? Why did four of my friends like it while only one friend hated it as much as me? What am I not seeing? WHAT IS THIS FUCKING MOVIE ABOUT? Is it about growing up? Then why does the main character literally not change at all until the very final few minutes? Is it about Catholicism or religion? Then why could nearly every location and character relating to religion be completely swapped out with a secular counterpart without losing any sort of message? Is it a love letter to Sacramento? Then why does almost the entirety of the movie take place in standard looking interiors and roads, until the very last scene where they flash images of Sacramento landmarks that never appeared in the film to trick you into thinking Sacramento played any role in the movie at all?
Owen Thompson
>entire thing is one long, drawling, never-ending act >completely unlikable main character that I felt no attachment to, and not in any sort of interesting way. She's just annoying and has barely any character >no sort of goal is set up at any point in the movie. Things just aimlessly happen. Having a movie that isn't plot-driven can be a perfectly fine decision, but the photography is flat, the acting is inconsistent, the characters are uninteresting, the dialogue ranges from shaky to downright infuriating with a couple clever jokes thrown in. So what, then, AM I supposed to be enjoying about the movie? >pointless scenes existed just for the sake of some incredibly forced "deep" "quirky" dialogue line at the end >constant awkward exposition in dialogue, sometimes explaining things the audience doesn't need to hear at all >MC's relationship with her mom was terrible. It seems like they wanted some Gilmore Girl-esque mother-daughter banter, but then remembered that they're supposed to have a strained relationship, so every scene ricochets between the two tones as you watch both characters just be horrible human beings to each other. You can claim that's just how they're relationship is, but you can't expect the audience to go along with the emotional changes at such a rapid-fire pace without eventually tuning out. >you know exactly how every new element and scene is going to end up (except for when the movie just awkwardly ends a scene early or completely forgets about a loose end) >the film just completely forgets about the fat priest and nothing ever comes of his subplot >the film throws 9/11 in your face to trick you into thinking it has anything to say about 9/11 >the film throws Sacramento in your face to trick you into thinking it has anything to say about Sacramento >the film throws Catholicism in your face to trick you into thinking it has anything to say about Catholicism
Nicholas Allen
So there's no plot? It's just another dyed hair, rebellious, quirky, teenage coming of age indie shitfest? I should've been tipped off upon finding that the title was the main characters name.
Thomas Watson
At the end of the day, I just think you need to be more of an intellectual to really enjoy this movie. If you don't have a certain level of intelligence, you won't "get" Lady Bird. It's an acquired taste.
John Wilson
Hey user here's a fun thought experiment: The movie clumsily establishes in the first scene that her name is Christina but she wants to be called Lady Bird because she doesn't want to use a name her parents chose for her Can you guess what happens at the end of the movie when she Comes Of Age?
Henry Foster
Does she decide to keep the name Christina?
Brandon Bell
Copypasta faggot
It was a good film that people liked - DMY GUY
Nathaniel Sanchez
She kills her family and exploding dropkicks a dog
Oliver Gonzalez
YOU DID IT, user! BRAVO!
Carson Russell
>it's puhdictible
Ryder Morris
YES GOY ABANDON CHRISTIANITY HERE'S ANOTHER MOVIE PROPAGANDIZING AGAINST IT
Why don't we get 20 anti-Jewish films every year?
Nathan Allen
Credits roll?
Zachary King
>i'm supposed to enjoy a movie in which i could predict how every single plot element and scene would end up, with the exception of the plot elements they just completely forget to get back to
Oliver Lee
It's not anti-christianity, though. The movie ends with her going to church and calling her parents to tell them she loves them
Samuel Ortiz
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Elijah Morgan
Can I have a tl;dr and what's good about this movie? I hate being meme'd into a shitty flick
Ryan Edwards
I liked this more than Die Hard
Zachary Baker
Nice repeated thread SHILL
Benjamin Nelson
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Jaxon Gomez
FUCKING RAD
Juan Jenkins
I knew it'd be a piece of shit when my twitter feed was full on shill mode
Hunter Johnson
I genuinely don't know. I can imagine finding some aspects charming if I didn't know so much about how novice high school and college girls write, but I picked up on every single trope and emulation of that tone (snarky sarcasm and pop culture references, sudden emotional flip-flops mid-scene, quirky awkward nothings, matter-of-fact oh-how-quaint moments) and could see just how unoriginal it was.
Nicholas Wright
what did expect of a coming-off-age movie?
Nathaniel Cook
This was unironically my favorite movie this year.
Gabriel Jenkins
is there a leak yet?
Henry Taylor
A character that isn't an irredeemable dick for most of the movie would be nice. Or maybe actually watching her come of age instead of just suddenly flipping an "I'm an adult now" switch five minutes before the movie ends.
Watch that Brazilian movie The Way He Looks for a genuinely cute and well-crafted coming-of-age movie
Anthony Johnson
YOU MUST STOP POSTING THIS GIRL WITH HAIR EXPOSED FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE OR THE VENGEANCE OF ALLAH SHALL BE SWIFT AND FIERCE
TAKBIR
Aaron Moore
Also, the lead actress was way too pretty and thin for the role. At the beginning of the movie her friend and her are admiring a popular girl and calling her beautiful, yet Lady Bird is leagues ahead of her. Later when Lady Bird becomes friends with the popular girl, she starts trying to lose weight, except she's way more thin than the popular girl already.
Benjamin Thompson
CAN'T SMERSH THE SERSH
Christopher Powell
Nice trips. Thin is the only way to go
Juan Roberts
The other chick is way hotter. She was in the Goosebumps movie with Jack Black and is the only reason I watched it.
Asher Rivera
How can you possibly find anything interesting at all about the way this woman looks? More actual qts for me, I suppose
Oliver Myers
Beans Feldstein is too cute for a fat chick
Would wife
Daniel Martinez
>its a fa/tv/irgin has ridiculous standards episode at the very least you can admit she has pretty eyes and nice lips
Michael Price
I'm from Sacramento and apparently everyone is telling me I need to see this movie because it's a "love letter to Sacramento" - I have literally heard that exact phrase 10 times from different people.
why would someone make a love letter to Sacramento of all places. Also my cousin graduated from the all-girls catholic school this story is based on and apparently the girls lezzed out all the time according to her
Evan Mitchell
There's no talking to these poor taste faggots
Asher Wood
Bean, Sersha, Odesha, all good friends
Grayson Lopez
is this playing in baltimore?
Carson Miller
>apparently the girls lezzed out all the time
Fuck, go and contact your cousin and come back with more detailed and very lewd if possible stories
Cameron Miller
>Is it a love letter to Sacramento? Then why does almost the entirety of the movie take place in standard looking interiors and roads, until the very last scene where they flash images of Sacramento landmarks that never appeared in the film to trick you into thinking Sacramento played any role in the movie at all?