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Post by hi224 on Jul 21, 2019 4:27:07 GMT
saw both, and invariably both would make a solid double feature as they deal with toxic masculinity and how it also tends to upend and destroy our lives as well. Now that all said, Stuber at times lacked funny wry sardonic humor, and Self Defense felt like it riffed on Fight Club way too much and could've gone in several other directions as well.
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Post by Nora on Jul 21, 2019 6:21:05 GMT
I really liked Art of Self Defende. Felt more like a Wes Anderson movie to me than a Fight Club rip off.
Stuber deserved a better script.
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Post by hi224 on Jul 21, 2019 17:12:04 GMT
I really liked Art of Self Defende. Felt more like a Wes Anderson movie to me than a Fight Club rip off. Stuber deserved a better script. I don't know like the trajectory of Self Defense felt like everything we encounter in Fight Club. Leader who has a cultlike following, use of guns, women figure with a maternal complex, toxic masculinity, the main character reneging against the leader.
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Post by Nora on Jul 21, 2019 17:56:09 GMT
I really liked Art of Self Defende. Felt more like a Wes Anderson movie to me than a Fight Club rip off. Stuber deserved a better script. I don't know like the trajectory of Self Defense felt like everything we encounter in Fight Club. Leader who has a cultlike following, use of guns, women figure with a maternal complex, toxic masculinity, the main character reneging against the leader. to me both movies are ultimately about very different things (and very different genres) so it didnt bother me at all and i dont really see the similarities you describe (woman with a maternal complex?? ) I thought it was a really good dark comedy, whereas Fight Club to me was more of a philosophical thriller with a deeply valid social commentary.
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Post by hi224 on Jul 21, 2019 18:56:04 GMT
I don't know like the trajectory of Self Defense felt like everything we encounter in Fight Club. Leader who has a cultlike following, use of guns, women figure with a maternal complex, toxic masculinity, the main character reneging against the leader. to me both movies are ultimately about very different things (and very different genres) so it didnt bother me at all and i dont really see the similarities you describe (woman with a maternal complex?? ) I thought it was a really good dark comedy, whereas Fight Club to me was more of a philosophical thriller with a deeply valid social commentary. Fight club was a dark satiracal comedy. And both Marla Singer and Imogen Poots characters can be described as Maternal figures for the other male characters in both respective movies as well. Difference being that Poots character subverts those very ideas and ends up in a much better place. But right down to the Sensai being directly responsible for how the main character decides to take up self defense felt directly lifted from Fight Club.
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Post by Vits on Oct 14, 2019 12:02:07 GMT
STUBER - 1/10
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Post by RobotTheLiving on Oct 15, 2019 5:34:21 GMT
I really liked Art of Self Defende. Felt more like a Wes Anderson movie to me than a Fight Club rip off. Stuber deserved a better script. You had me at Wes Anderson. Really want to check out The Art of Self Defense.
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