16 thoughts on “SNARK WEEK: Top 5 Movies I’m Probably Never Going to Get Around to Watching

  1. Don’t come at me, but I just couldn’t get into “Hail, Caesar!” I wanted to love it, but wound up turning it off after about 20 minutes.

  2. I just watched “Killers of the flower moon”. It’s good, but my god it is too long. Ever since “The Irishman” (which was also too long) did so well, nobody has told Scorsese to get a grip and get an efficient editor. And they should, ’cause fuck, it was a chore to sit through. Same with “Oppenheimer”. m

  3. I get that Scorsese has actors he likes to work with – De Niro and DiCaprio for this film – but Killers of the Flower Moon was a let down after reading the original book. Too much focus on the characters who ultimately were the villains of both the fictionalized and real story (and really minor characters in the grand scheme of things) and not enough on how the Osage were the ones to really try and take matters into their own hands to put a stop to the murders. That being said, the Osage women’s costumes were gorgeous and clearly a lot of work went into researching them, so I will give Jacqueline West and Julie O’Keefe applause for that.

  4. I’m absolutely watching Gladiator II because the Roman empire is, well, my Roman Empire. Gladiator I is deeply flawed but inspired a lifelong love of Rome. The Severans are my period of expertise so I’m eager to see all the ways they eff it up.

    Killers of the Flower Moon was soooo dark. It inspired me to read the book, however, which was fascinating and horrifying and better than the movie. I loved the Osange costumes.

  5. I’ve seen and much appreciated both MACBETH (2015) and KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – both hit me square in the feelings, which I count as a point in their favour.

    The latter is particular lingers with me, as something almost as much a horror movie as a crime film: a hideously fascinating study in the smallness of the criminal soul, of stubborn resolution in the face of crime and (one must admit) a film with one of the more satisfying “As it turns out, these boys will NOT keep getting away with it” moments in cinema.

    It possibly helps that, having not yet read the original book, I was able to appreciate the film purely on it’s own terms (Rather than seeing the plot developments coming and pondering how I might have executed an adaptation).

  6. We tried to watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” but after 2 hours of brutality toward women, and learning we were only half done, we quit.

  7. I’ve seen Killers of a Flower Moon, and I was basically annoyed through the whole thing (at the white people, not the Natives). I’m slowly watching Gladiator II, and I’ll never watch Oppenheimer.

  8. I read the book on which Killers of the Flower Moon is based. It’s such a sad, painful story for the victims that I don’t think I can sit through it a second time in movie form, no matter how good the movie.

  9. Most of the “new” costume drama shows… which are just modern chicks in terrible clothes pretending it’s 2025 when really it should be 1803.

  10. Re: Oppenheimer. It was pretty awesome to see Pence’s wife do a reenactment of Emily Blount declining to shake RDJ’s hand at President Carter’s memorial recently.

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