re: The Substance

Wish I would've watched this while at the theater to see general public's collective minds blown.

Pretty fun watch. As mentioned already in this thread, the movie is a total Frankenstein of film, tv, and literary classics stitched together. I noticed allusions to The Fly, The Birthmark, Cinderella, Black Mirror, the Suspiria remake, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas without trying. I'm sure there were more embedded.

My biggest issue with the movie, among quite a few minor quibbles, is that the movie/story never connects the lived experiences of the two leads. It's best to not think about things too deeply, however, less the narrative fall apart pretty quickly. The ending is clearly the pièce de résistance that has everyone talking (and gagging) at the expense of turning the movie into a geek show.

Probably the ultimate irony of the movie is the way movie "critics" have come out in force to gush over the movie, desperate to appear en vogue when this sort of thing has been done before and much better even decades ago. This movie is their Sue.

I…. Didn’t like it