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The Substance

Anyone else excited for this? Could get Demi Moore her first Oscar nomination. She seems really grounded and normal in this interview with the guardian. I’m rooting for her!

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by Anonymousreply 234December 3, 2024 12:56 PM

She’s never been nominated for an Oscar. Wow. I thought she got one for GI Jane.

by Anonymousreply 1September 14, 2024 9:34 PM

I think she's tremendous!

by Anonymousreply 2September 14, 2024 9:49 PM

I am beyond excited for this film- this is probably the film I am most excited about this year

And she is on many of the critics at Goldderby's lists as a Best Actress contender

We know how that worked out for Toni Colette (Hereditary), but she was generally 10th or 11th at Goldderby, and these critics have Demi in the Top 5

by Anonymousreply 3September 14, 2024 10:45 PM

She's had upper blepharoplasty. Bottom half of face looks different, as well.

by Anonymousreply 4September 14, 2024 10:47 PM

Her work looks good. And she got her shit together, mental health wise. for a long while it was looking dicey.

Reportedly that douche Asston did quite the number on her. I have her book, it's on my to-read pile.

by Anonymousreply 5September 15, 2024 1:37 PM

Has she ever said if she supports Trump? I seem to recall her being right-wing just like Bruce back when they were married.

by Anonymousreply 6September 15, 2024 2:52 PM

Who would have thought there’d be a time when Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson would be considered as serious Oscar contenders?

I love it.

by Anonymousreply 7September 15, 2024 3:21 PM

R7- Me too-- I suspect Pam gets in-

by Anonymousreply 8September 15, 2024 3:43 PM

Has any actress aged better than Demi?

by Anonymousreply 9September 17, 2024 8:30 PM

R9- I mean she has had TONS of surgery- (Yes, more than Nicole) but she looks otherwordly beautiful

by Anonymousreply 10September 17, 2024 9:23 PM

[quote] Has she ever said if she supports Trump? I seem to recall her being right-wing just like Bruce back when they were married.

Would you fuck off already. Jesus.

by Anonymousreply 11September 17, 2024 9:25 PM

[quote]She's had upper blepharoplasty.

What has she *not* had?

by Anonymousreply 12September 17, 2024 9:27 PM

Everyone ought to go to her doctors. They are superb!

by Anonymousreply 13September 17, 2024 9:28 PM

All this talk about body image and her entire body and face were made in a science lab.

by Anonymousreply 14September 17, 2024 9:37 PM

R13- Agreed- other than the cheek/nabio area there (she pushed it- but stopped just in time) she looks UNREAL- stunning.

by Anonymousreply 15September 17, 2024 9:42 PM

She was very pretty to begin with and probably didn't need a lot of the surgery she had.

by Anonymousreply 16September 17, 2024 9:51 PM

No one asked for this but this film makes more sense and has more relevance than the CGI version of "Snow White".

by Anonymousreply 17September 17, 2024 10:39 PM

I think she looks different and not for the better- so weird. And the film hasn’t even been released so how can you talk Oscar?

by Anonymousreply 18September 17, 2024 10:45 PM

It was the hit of Cannes r18

by Anonymousreply 19September 17, 2024 10:47 PM

Her sucked in cheeks look ridiculous in many pics.

by Anonymousreply 20September 17, 2024 10:48 PM

[quote]Her sucked in cheeks look ridiculous in many pics

Some of that is shadow.

by Anonymousreply 21September 17, 2024 11:04 PM

Scrolling down to the pic of her in that tan camisole, it does not look like her. She looks like one of the dolls she collects.

by Anonymousreply 22September 17, 2024 11:09 PM

She looks great.

by Anonymousreply 23September 17, 2024 11:12 PM

New York Times critics pick.

But be warned: This is a very gory and often bombastic movie.

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by Anonymousreply 24September 20, 2024 1:39 AM

I just got back from seeing this. I like body horror films but am certainly not an aficionado—I did love this film, though. Very stylistic and hyperreal. I never in a million years could have envisioned Demi Moore doing something like this. If you've seen Brian Yuzna's "Society" (1989), you'll get an idea of what some of film's special effects are like. It is outrageous and disgusting, but I also at times was very moved by it. It really is a story about hating yourself.

There is a brutal sequence in which the two halves of Moore's character (Moore, who at that point has been completely physically degraded to the point of looking like one of the hags in Ken Russell's "The Witches", and Qualley, her younger spawn) come face to face. Qualley beats Moore to a literal bloody pulp. The scene goes on and on and it almost made me feel sick, but it also brought a huge wave of sadness over me because it physicalized just how much this woman hated herself. I expected a lot of gruesome spectacles and nasty shit (which it delivers--trust me), but I didn't expect to be so moved.

by Anonymousreply 25September 20, 2024 7:30 AM

R19 Which is no guarantee it will be well sold in this country!

by Anonymousreply 26September 20, 2024 7:40 AM

Remember that pic (for W?) where they edited out half her waist? And she was already thin.

by Anonymousreply 27September 20, 2024 7:42 AM

[quote]R10 she looks otherwordly beautiful

I wouldn’t go THAT far…

by Anonymousreply 28September 20, 2024 7:43 AM

I don’t think I can ever feel really okay about Moore, as she was supposed to be a real meltdown of a demanding cunt around the time of STRIPTEASE. I lived in L.A. at the time, and everyone hated her.

Just a ruthlessly unpleasant person.

by Anonymousreply 29September 20, 2024 7:47 AM

[quote] It was the hit of Cannes [R18]

That doesn't automatically mean it will be well sold in this country.

by Anonymousreply 30September 20, 2024 7:53 AM

Demi's book was good. It was several years ago. Many of you hyperbolic Helen Kellers have never heard of photoshop. She doesn't look hypnotically beautiful in real life. Ashton did not destroy Demi. Demi has fought demons her entire life. She is interesting but very superficial. Demi has been a lesbian for years.

by Anonymousreply 31September 20, 2024 7:54 AM

If she's a lesbian what does that make Ashton?

by Anonymousreply 32September 20, 2024 7:57 AM

This film has across the board critical acclaim. Moore will definitely get an Oscar nomination.

by Anonymousreply 33September 20, 2024 8:02 AM

Disgusting

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by Anonymousreply 34September 20, 2024 8:05 AM

[quote] She seems really grounded and normal

She's never been either one of those.

by Anonymousreply 35September 20, 2024 8:05 AM

I thought this was a fun interview with Demi and Margaret that reveals some of their personality quirks for sure. I had no idea Demi had a massive doll collection or a collection of oversized items and miniatures. Margaret has always come off as a little quirky in interviews I've seen of hers, but genuine and sweet. She doesn't put on airs and is always polite and seems happy to be there. The world frankly needs more Margaret Qualleys and less Blake-condescending-horse-faced-cunt-Livelys.

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by Anonymousreply 36September 20, 2024 8:37 AM

Demi was hetero but now she's had a girlfriend for years. I guess I shouldn't say lesbian, rather, bi.

by Anonymousreply 37September 20, 2024 8:42 AM

I really like Qually and it would be the reason I'd see this movie.

by Anonymousreply 38September 20, 2024 8:43 AM

Demi keeps giving the same spiel about the meaning of the film like Faye Dunaway gave during the press junket she did for Mommie Dearest (“Only his knows what really happened between those two souls.”)

by Anonymousreply 39September 20, 2024 9:02 AM

A lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 40September 20, 2024 2:42 PM

USA Today.

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by Anonymousreply 41September 20, 2024 3:17 PM

I’ve booked to see it this weekend. Going to go to the evening show on Sunday as that audience always seems to be the best for this kind of thing.

Going to try to keep my eyes and ears open throughout but this just sounds like the most interesting film to emerge from this year’s Cannes and fall film festivals. By far.

by Anonymousreply 42September 20, 2024 3:30 PM

Fun fact: Margaret’s mom dated Dennis Quaid in the early 2000s.

by Anonymousreply 43September 20, 2024 4:28 PM

It’s an interesting film but also a bit silly in execution. The first half is softcore porn and the second half is body horror. My theater laughed A LOT during that final act, especially when the monster was born.

Demi is great but goes full camp once Elisabeth’s beauty is drained because Sue takes a few extra days (not when her finger ages but when half her body ages). That scene where Elisabeth is cooking tons of dishes while Sue’s interview airs on tv was really ridiculous and Demi was pretty cringy.

by Anonymousreply 44September 22, 2024 12:49 AM

I don't think Demi will be nominated. It would take a track record of "She should have been nominated for XYZ" and that doesn't exist IMO. I'm guessing she's never come close in the nomination process. The opposite was true of Emily Blunt and Jennifer Jason Leigh, who were probably 6th place a few times. Or, in the case of JLC, in a hugely loved film that got nominations across the board and won Best Picture.

I say this as a Demi fan. Maybe she was on the cusp for A Few Good Men and GI Jane?

by Anonymousreply 45September 22, 2024 1:24 AM

JLC won as a career Oscar. Demi COULD get a nomination as a thank you for her being a big star in the 90s but her fame stayed there pretty much. By choice mostly, as she stepped back from acting in the 00s onwards. She ended up becoming more a celeb than an actress once she married Ashton.

Jennifer Jason Leigh has been nominated for two Oscars.

The Hateful Eight wasn’t a horror either. Neither was EEAAO. One was one of Tarantino’s western tales and the latter was a sci-fi flick.

The film as a whole will be mostly ignored by Oscar. They rarely acknowledge horror, if ever, yet alone a hip body horror story that had very little dialogue and where half the film is softcore porn, with tons of gratuitous body shots from both Demi and Margaret, but mostly the latter.

by Anonymousreply 46September 22, 2024 1:34 AM

The film looks like an homage to other horror films including THE SHINING, (men's bathroom scene, Kubrick used a red bathroom in the shining to chilling affect), CARRIE, (the ending) and another film I can't place.

by Anonymousreply 47September 22, 2024 1:51 AM

Nothing about this film is like The Shining.

by Anonymousreply 48September 22, 2024 2:08 AM

The mens bathroom scenes are similar

by Anonymousreply 49September 22, 2024 2:09 AM

There was ONE mens bathroom scene. A woman going into the bathroom and overhearing her boss talking shit about her on the phone was like The Shining?

by Anonymousreply 50September 22, 2024 2:10 AM

The red mens room scenes stood out for me in both films. if you don't see a similarity, this is not worth arguing with you about. You're unnaturally touchy about an inconsequential topic.

by Anonymousreply 51September 22, 2024 2:16 AM

While I wasn’t grossed out by it (it’s a horror movie, folks), a large segment of the film played more like a long, highly stylized music video rather than a narrative- driven feature film. There wasn’t much ‘substance’. Old white men prey on and are obsessed with young white women. We all know this. Women obsess with maintaining their youthful glow, especially in Hollywood. We know this. The movie had NOTHING to say about facts we know. It just was an exercise in stylized horror. The acting as across the board average.

I cannot comprehend how this film won ‘ Best Screenplay’ at Cannes. There is practically no dialogue in this film, and what’s there is hardly award-worthy.

by Anonymousreply 52September 22, 2024 2:23 AM

R51 there was ONE mens room scene in this

by Anonymousreply 53September 22, 2024 2:23 AM

The bathrooms at the TV studio were all very reminiscent of the famous men's room scene in "The Shining". The hallway and carpeting is also a blatantly obvious nod, as is the hallway being drenched in a torrent of blood at the end.

by Anonymousreply 54September 22, 2024 2:55 AM

I was shocked by the extent of prosthetics and monster makeup that both Demi and Margaret had to don in this movie. I didn't envision it going that far. It is very much redolent of what you see in "Society" (1989).

In addition to donning that grotesque monster suit for the finale, Margaret also had to wear prosthetic tits throughout the movie so that she'd have the "rack of a lifetime" (her words).

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by Anonymousreply 55September 22, 2024 3:03 AM

R54 the hallway? That isn’t the bathroom. The bathroom is seen ONCE and it isn’t red. It’s white.

by Anonymousreply 56September 22, 2024 3:45 AM

Margaret shows her tits in this and yes her tits are amazing and perky and small. She wore something under her shirts to make them look bigger and even perkier.

by Anonymousreply 57September 22, 2024 3:46 AM

Dennis Quaid give the best performance in the film.

by Anonymousreply 58September 22, 2024 3:47 AM

I don't know whether Demi Moore will get an Oscar nomination, but whoever that actress is starring in The Substance might have a shot.

by Anonymousreply 59September 22, 2024 3:55 AM

R56 you must be acting pedantic just for the sake of trolling here. Yes, the bathroom is white, but the stalls are bright red, and the framing/layout is very similar to the bathroom set in The Shining. Anyone with two eyes and a functioning cerebral cortex could recognize the similarity. The fact that the carpet in the hallway just outside that bathroom resembles the famous carpet pattern seen in The Shining would suggest the director knows/admires that movie, therefore any other similar visual motifs (i.e. the bathroom layout and choice of red stalls) are not a coincidence.

by Anonymousreply 60September 22, 2024 4:21 AM

Her surgery looks pretty good but only because we’ve all been conditioned by the monstrosities of Meg Ryan, Nicole Kidman and the rest. Compared to those it’s great. But it still looks fake

by Anonymousreply 61September 22, 2024 4:33 AM

[quote] Has she ever said if she supports Trump

Oh FFS.

Why would Demi Moore support Trump?

by Anonymousreply 62September 22, 2024 4:36 AM

Hagsplotation is back!! I saw it last night and laughed so hard!

by Anonymousreply 63September 22, 2024 5:04 AM

This should have been Madonna’s comeback vehicle.

by Anonymousreply 64September 22, 2024 8:12 AM

r56 I think that poster might be brain damaged or something, I got zero The Shining vibes from that pretty generic-looking bathroom. And yes, there was only one short scene in it, I don't know why he's fixating on it so much.

It's the hallways that seem like they're from The Shining.

by Anonymousreply 65September 22, 2024 11:34 AM

[quote]That scene where Elisabeth is cooking tons of dishes while Sue’s interview airs on tv was really ridiculous and Demi was pretty cringy.

I agree, that whole segment was painful to watch. Demi is most certainly not a comedic actress, let's just put it that way.

by Anonymousreply 66September 22, 2024 11:35 AM

This film has many similarities with Au hasard Balthazar and Goldfinger.

by Anonymousreply 67September 22, 2024 2:11 PM

The Elephant Man, David Lynch's version is another reference..

by Anonymousreply 68September 22, 2024 2:24 PM

Did the unknown Demi appear in Hustler magazine… or was it Oui?

by Anonymousreply 69September 22, 2024 2:27 PM

Quaid was so happy to have a job. He's on the outs after aligning himself with maga.

by Anonymousreply 70September 22, 2024 2:36 PM

Enjoyed watching her being interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning

by Anonymousreply 71September 22, 2024 5:34 PM

Oui, I believe.

by Anonymousreply 72September 22, 2024 5:40 PM

Margaret has a really goofy personality which is clear from the video at R36. She really vamped it up for her role in this movie, but it's obvious that she couldn't be more different in real life. I think she's beautiful but my inkling is that most boring hetero males would not classify her as attractive.

by Anonymousreply 73September 22, 2024 5:56 PM

Demi is older and more attractive than Margaret, who is certainly pretty, but kinda basic. She resembles hot dad Paul more than mama Andie.

by Anonymousreply 74September 22, 2024 8:14 PM

[quote]R73 Margaret has a really goofy personality which is clear from the video

I think she was raised on a rural, clothing optional (seriously) farm in N. Carolina. Her mom is kind of dippy.

by Anonymousreply 75September 22, 2024 8:45 PM

Wikipedia says she was a debutante, so that would be an odd combination.

by Anonymousreply 76September 22, 2024 10:14 PM

Let’s say “debutante” does not mean what it once did.

by Anonymousreply 77September 22, 2024 10:57 PM

It’s kind of a shame that this goes so far off the rails and the writer/director completely loses control of the film in the last 20 minutes. I thought the first two hours were an absolute masterpiece.

But once you start so obviously referencing THE SHINING, THE THING and CARRIE all at once, it was really time to reign in it. Tim Bevan at Working Title is quite an experienced film producer. I’m surprised they weren’t able to convince the writer/director to show some restraint. The only thing it achieved in the end was very quickly convincing the audience not to take this film at all seriously.

It owes a lot to Aronofsky’s REQUIEM FOR A DREAM as well.

I thought Demi was great. As much as Notting Hill needed Julia Roberts, The Substance needed an actress of Moore’s stature to work. (I do wonder if this was offered to Madonna, as she, of course, is living it. Madonna probably said she wanted to play both Elisabeth AND Sue.) I thought Moore’s participation was quite canny of her because, for a while, it seemed like this could be a cult film favourite for the ages, a career topper that would lead future generations back to some of her biggest hits in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Unfortunately, given writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s determination to demolish her film - the end sequence really is the equivalent of a punk band destroying their instruments and equipment - I think if this film has any legacy at all it will be as a cinematic curio rather than a masterpiece on par with Cronenberg’s best work.

For those going on about the lack of dialogue in the screenplay, film is a visual medium. The Substance communicated a lot through its concept, action, imagery; the way the actresses treated each other, etc. Lack of dialogue was not the problem. Lack of restraint was.

I also don’t get the “soft porn” comments; obviously some people don’t see many films or understand “the gaze” of the camera. Just because there is nudity, it doesn’t make something porn. Fargeat was daring anybody to find the film at all erotic and the depiction of the network executive and the neighbour made it clear what she thought of that kind of attention and objectification of women. Even the two men Sue brought home were completely gormless and stupid; there was nothing erotic about her pursuits; she wasn’t even in pursuit of pleasure, she was seeking possession and an ego boost. The film’s point of view was pretty clear; Sue herself was a one-dimensional doll-like object rendered in pink and flesh tones. She was a blow up doll. I suppose the film was as critical of some women’s aspirations - ultimately diminishing themselves for men and the masses - as it was of men objectifying and hating women, especially mature women.

I felt a lot of empathy for Elisabeth and felt like the film had come to a full circle resolution once she decided to terminate the experience. I felt like it was sufficiently provocative and gave audiences a lot to think about up to that point. Everything that came after was just overkill, completely unfocused and was detrimental to the film. It just made everybody involved look like fools.

There was something about the relationship between Elisabeth and Sue - as two halves of a whole - that needed more attention. Elisabeth seemed quite accomplished at the film’s start, quite confident. I suppose, if anything, it was mostly a parable but she seemed quite warm and kind, and seemed to be helping women, generally. I didn’t see any of the appetites in her that Sue depicted later in the film. (And I LOVED the “Demi Cooking” scene and thought she was great. I imagine the Cannes audience must’ve been roaring with laughter throughout that sequence.) See a screenplay can be about ideas as well and this film certainly had a lot of them that were illustrated through imagery and action.

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by Anonymousreply 78September 22, 2024 11:22 PM

Maybe The Substance will be one of those films that you see once but think about forever. I still think it’s quite sad what Elisabeth did to herself when she was so accomplished before she took the substance. Ironically, I think just viewing this film has aged me. I’ve already caught sight of myself in the mirror a few times and I do not see myself the same way I did before I saw the film. I used to see my younger self. Now I just look old.

by Anonymousreply 79September 22, 2024 11:22 PM

As for Oscars, there’s definitely a possibility if not a win for Hair & Makeup.

If the narrative were more restrained, I would’ve thought Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay might’ve been possibilities. For those who remember Demi from the ‘90s and the Vanity Fair cover when she was pregnant, there is something so powerful about watching her assess herself nude in the mirror and it really made me think that there’d always been a kind of intelligence and daring in her work that led up to this moment. Unfortunately, that’s kind of squelched out by the film’s end but it certainly felt like there could be a viable awards narrative there. But no more.

I do think the LAFC will give her Best Actress though. She might get a GG nomination as well. She is the film. Without her participation, the film wouldn’t have any substance at all. She’s as good as Goldblum was in The Fly, in terms of asserting and maintaining a personality under all those prosthetics and stuff. But probably not an Oscar nom, certainly not after the way MUBI has fucked up the release.

by Anonymousreply 80September 22, 2024 11:30 PM

I enjoyed Glenn’s cameo in the third act - maybe she’ll finally get her Oscar?

by Anonymousreply 81September 23, 2024 3:43 PM

The more I read on DL about this movie, the less I want to see it.

Besides, I hate her plastic surgery. If I hadn't read/heard that was Demi Moore, I wouldn't have believed it.

Maybe she has a double...

by Anonymousreply 82September 23, 2024 3:54 PM

One of the best movies of the year—it builds and builds to a wild climax. Definitely see it in a theater if you can.

by Anonymousreply 83September 23, 2024 3:58 PM

If you’re uncertain, R82, I would avoid it. It would just be a grating experience for you.

There’s a lot to appreciate about it but if what you’ve heard makes you want to know less, it’s probably not for you.

by Anonymousreply 84September 23, 2024 4:42 PM

Saw it over the weekend and LOVED it. All three main actors gave bravura performances. Demi straddled the line of drama and comedy so impressively, Margaret was radiantly bitchy and Quaid was disgustingly over the top (in a good way). A+ rating for sure. I really want to check out Fargeat’s “Revenge” now.

by Anonymousreply 85September 23, 2024 9:48 PM

Is this a film it’s okay to bring my 8- year-old daughter to?

by Anonymousreply 86September 24, 2024 4:35 AM

No..

by Anonymousreply 87September 24, 2024 4:46 AM

Of course r86!

by Anonymousreply 88September 24, 2024 4:55 AM

I liked this film much better when it was funny and called [italic]Death Becomes Her.[/italic]

by Anonymousreply 89September 24, 2024 4:56 AM

If you want to scar your 8 year old for life, take her!

by Anonymousreply 90September 24, 2024 5:06 AM

Her sunken in cheeks work doesn't become her.

by Anonymousreply 91September 24, 2024 6:29 AM

Plastics.

by Anonymousreply 92September 24, 2024 6:32 AM

[quote]r91 Her sunken in cheeks work doesn't become her.

Dr. Gary would like a word.

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by Anonymousreply 93September 24, 2024 6:37 AM

My favorite film of 2024 so far. I left the theater walking to my car giddy and laughing to myself. What a wild ride

by Anonymousreply 94September 24, 2024 2:54 PM

I saw this movie this past Sunday . My first impression is this was a modern rendering of the plot line of Wasp Woman starring Susan Cabot. The old story line vanity/narcissism=death. It turned out to be much more intense and much more psychological. Demi was cast perfectly for this movie. It's been a while since a plot line has kept my attention throughout an entire 2 hour movie. Plotline spoke to fear of aging, misogyny in the Hollywood culture. I highly recommend this movie. However if you are squeamish just be warned the last 30 minutes of the film are rather intense from a "gore "perspective. She deserves an Oscar for her portrayal.

by Anonymousreply 95September 24, 2024 3:11 PM

A lot of people, in other places, seem to automatically overlook the fact that in the film, Elisabeth Sparkle is turned onto “the substance” by a man. And though it isn’t specified, that young man looks very much like an Eastern European special the likes of which Kevin Spacey could never resist and is sort of coded as gay (he’s definitely wearing make up). Elisabeth meets his primary being, possibly an elder gay man, later in a cafe.

Dennis Quaid, who IRL is 70 and on screen, arguably looks about 70, but even if we give him the benefit of the doubt and say, like Moore (and a lot of actors), he’s playing 10 years younger and his character is 60, we never hear him voice concern about age at all.

So it could be read that there’s an entire gay male culture that is also taking the substance - and that is certainly a film I’d like to see.

I mention it because, while there’s a lot of discourse about external forces being the cause of the characters insecurities and extreme anxieties about age and beauty, Fargeat seems to be saying that, at their core, these myths become self-perpetuating, I guess like any internalised phobia or hate. You don’t have to look very far on this board (how tall can a bottom be?) to see that gay men, like Elisabeth in the film, perpetuate their own insecurities and self-hatred.

It’s such an incisive little inclusion in the film to meet that old man and having already encountered his pretty boy toy DNA double, to imagine what his life once was. I would imagine the middle of his life was very rough.

by Anonymousreply 96September 24, 2024 5:49 PM

[quote] I don't know whether Demi Moore will get an Oscar nomination, but whoever that actress is starring in The Substance might have a shot.

That’s Demi Moore, hon.

by Anonymousreply 97September 24, 2024 8:34 PM

Who plays that dishy doctor/nurse that gets her hooked on ‘the substance’?

by Anonymousreply 98September 25, 2024 12:08 AM

A little known actor named Robin Greer. Made up to be very pretty in the movie.

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by Anonymousreply 99September 25, 2024 12:11 AM

R25, are there worms, maggots, or other wriggly writh-y things in it?

If not, I'll watch when it comes to one of my streamers.

by Anonymousreply 100September 25, 2024 12:23 AM

[quote][R25], are there worms, maggots, or other wriggly writh-y things in it?

No, r100...much worse.

by Anonymousreply 101September 25, 2024 3:10 AM

Mmmmmm, I'm gon' say that ain't possible, R101.

The Documenting Reality website doesn't even faze me, but anything vermiform activates something truly atavistic in me that decades of therapy have never been able touch.

by Anonymousreply 102September 25, 2024 3:39 AM

Doesn't it always come back to...

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by Anonymousreply 103September 25, 2024 5:06 AM

R100, it’s like The Fly and The Thing, drenched in blood.

by Anonymousreply 104September 25, 2024 7:17 AM

Did the hot doctor at the hospital who turned her onto “the substance” have AIDS? Or was that purplish mark on his hand supposed to be a birthmark. I thought it looked like KS. I think that character was definitely supposed to be gay (including the elder-queen version of him Elizabeth encountering the diner).

by Anonymousreply 105September 25, 2024 1:25 PM

R105, Demi’s character has the same mark.

by Anonymousreply 106September 25, 2024 1:33 PM

R106, not exactly. Elizabeth had a grouping of three brown moles that Sue also had (albeit on a different part of her body). The gay doctor/elderqueen had a purplish birthmark (or Kapoai sarcoma?) on his hand.

by Anonymousreply 107September 25, 2024 2:01 PM

OMG. Give Demi Moore an Oscar!

by Anonymousreply 108September 27, 2024 2:57 AM

They'll have to nominate her, r108, but will she win?I don't think I've seen an actress so fearless in a role...maybe Bette in Baby Jane. I watched this and it looks a bit...boring...sorry Angelina.

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by Anonymousreply 109September 27, 2024 6:42 AM

R46 JJL has only been Oscar nominated once.

by Anonymousreply 110September 27, 2024 7:11 AM

This is easily the best movie I've seen this year. I think some people felt it went too far in the last act, but I applaud the gall the writer/director had. Everybody here went all in and committed to everything. While there's commentary on female beauty standards for sure, the base of the story is universally human. It is a story about self-loathing and how we pay the price for hating and abusing ourselves. Anyone can relate to this. I too found it strangely moving.

by Anonymousreply 111September 27, 2024 7:17 AM

Yes, r111, how we kick ourselves...and kick and kick...

by Anonymousreply 112September 27, 2024 7:21 AM

It’s been 5 days since I’ve seen it and I feel like I might go again this weekend. It really stays with you.

I was concerned that the final 20 minutes kind of eclipses the rest of it but I’m still thinking about the whole thing. The ending might be even more funny the 2nd time around because it really is unhinged. It would’ve been funny if the Monstro waded out into the studio audience and tried to kiss Dennis Quaid. lol

by Anonymousreply 113September 27, 2024 12:12 PM

Your reviews here have given me a 756 inch movie boner!!!!

Shit- I KNEW that this was THE film of 2024...

by Anonymousreply 114September 27, 2024 2:12 PM

I’m definitely going to see it again tomorrow.

by Anonymousreply 115September 27, 2024 3:47 PM

I’m seeing it tomorrow

by Anonymousreply 116September 27, 2024 9:08 PM

Just saw it again. It's an amazing movie. Other people in the theater were very vocal in their reactions to the last fifteen minutes. It's a wild ride. Not to be a spoiler, but I felt such pathos for the "third version" of the character toward the end.

by Anonymousreply 117September 28, 2024 11:29 PM

[quote]but I felt such pathos for the "third version" of the character toward the end.

I think you're supposed to, r117. After all, she didn't ask to be "born".

by Anonymousreply 118September 28, 2024 11:32 PM

^Exactly.

by Anonymousreply 119September 28, 2024 11:41 PM

It's too disturbing to be enjoyed

by Anonymousreply 120September 28, 2024 11:45 PM

It's being called a Body Horror film. No thanks.

by Anonymousreply 121September 29, 2024 12:51 AM

That description is accurate. It ain't a feel good experience

by Anonymousreply 122September 29, 2024 12:54 AM

It takes you on a roller coaster of disgust, anxiety, fear, laughter and pathos.

by Anonymousreply 123September 29, 2024 3:00 AM

I loved it but it was a lot more gory than I expected. I’d say it was gorier than Terrifier 2 but there was a point to it.

by Anonymousreply 124September 29, 2024 4:46 AM

Demi Moore Is Done With the Male Gaze

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by Anonymousreply 125September 29, 2024 4:49 AM

I want Elizabeth Spankle’s apartment. It’s a cross between the 70s and the future.

by Anonymousreply 126September 29, 2024 4:55 AM

I can’t wait to buy this film. I hope he doesn’t take long to at least come to streaming. I wonder if Demi will become a future scream queen. She had a tv series coming up. Her photoshoot for Interview magazine is wild.

by Anonymousreply 127September 29, 2024 4:56 AM

I wanted to do this, but Gary talked me out of it.

by Anonymousreply 128September 29, 2024 4:59 AM

The New York Times articles now have moving images for the top image. Same as for the interview with Natasha Lyonne.

by Anonymousreply 129September 29, 2024 4:59 AM

[quote]I loved it but it was a lot more gory than I expected. I’d say it was gorier than Terrifier 2 but there was a point to it.

Yes, r124, but will the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences see it that way?

by Anonymousreply 130September 29, 2024 4:59 AM

[quote]I wonder if Demi will become a future scream queen

I hope she has more varied opportunities, r127. I'd like to think that this film transcends the genre. Actresses of this age deserve better than the actresses of yore got. Hags!

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by Anonymousreply 131September 29, 2024 5:07 AM

[QUOTE]Demi Moore Is Done With the Male Gaze

I read her Guardian interview and I understand the point of the film. But is the headline subtly out her, too?

by Anonymousreply 132September 29, 2024 5:16 AM

^outing

by Anonymousreply 133September 29, 2024 5:30 AM

I could see Demi being a big ol lez. She has always had dykey truck driver energy.

by Anonymousreply 134September 29, 2024 5:37 AM

Demi is a hardscrabbke girl. They all have butch energy.

by Anonymousreply 135September 29, 2024 7:04 AM

Hardscrabble

by Anonymousreply 136September 29, 2024 7:04 AM

It’s not credible that Moore is done with the male gaze while she’s had lots of visible surgery on her face, is acting even now in a movie in which she’s naked or barely clothed a lot of the time, is pictured in a revealing leotard, and is obsessing about how her butt looks. Why didn’t she instead do a movie that has nothing to do with her body or looks, but is about something substantive instead?

Contrast - Frances McDormand has made (and is still making) a brilliant career in roles that don’t pander an ounce to looks or sexiness. One can’t take one’s eyes off McDormand, she’s such a compelling actor, and one can’t forget her movies or her roles. In my opinion, McDormand is the true role model for women in film.

British TV & film feature women and men of all ages, types of looks and bodies and builds, and races. We see their wrinkles, crooked teeth and love handles. This is also true of TV/cinema in several European countries. It’s actually a relief to watch normal-looking people so we can focus on the story and the acting.

by Anonymousreply 137September 29, 2024 7:26 AM

Genius alert at R137

by Anonymousreply 138September 29, 2024 1:53 PM

[quote]but is about something substantive instead?

You haven't seen The Substance, have you, r137?

by Anonymousreply 139September 29, 2024 4:21 PM

Massive eyeroll at R137. And we can all tell you haven’t actually seen The Substance.

by Anonymousreply 140September 29, 2024 4:32 PM

The whole post is actually giving FRAU also.

by Anonymousreply 141September 29, 2024 4:32 PM

It totally deserves Oscar noms for Demi, screenplay and the special effects.

by Anonymousreply 142September 29, 2024 5:37 PM

At Goldderby, despite the film having very weak notices from that festival- they all have Amy Adams in the Top 5 for Nightbitch- I do not see this happening once the film releases--- Demi was only in 2 lists the other day, and is now in 4 or so-- They have around 16 critics over there. I hope that she makes it, as well as Pam Andersen- if that film releases in time

by Anonymousreply 143September 29, 2024 5:52 PM

Pamela Anderson is not going to be nominated for an Oscar. While the film is an obvious departure for her and the “Oscar hopeful” line helps with promotion, the real word out of Toronto was the film looks cheap and the script really wasn’t very good. There’s probably an audience for it but it’s not really an awards worthy film.

by Anonymousreply 144September 29, 2024 7:08 PM

Sounds like this Mikey Madison chick i. a real frontrunner for Anora-

by Anonymousreply 145September 29, 2024 7:32 PM

Jennifer Connelly could have played this lead too. I really wish she would be utilised better since her Oscar win ages ago.

This is Demi’s version of Seconds - the old Rock Hudson movie

by Anonymousreply 146September 29, 2024 8:42 PM

It was shot in France and a film reviewer I listen to regularly noted that the stalls in the bathroom were French because the doors went all the way down to the floor, which isn't a thing in the US.

by Anonymousreply 147September 29, 2024 9:04 PM

Demi said in an interview that she's often mistaken for either Jennifer Connelly or Courtney Cox.

by Anonymousreply 148September 29, 2024 9:05 PM

It's amazing how they got France to look like LA. The scenes of Demi and Margaret walking along the sun-soaked, palm tree-lines streets look just like LA.

by Anonymousreply 149September 29, 2024 9:12 PM

*lined streets.

by Anonymousreply 150September 29, 2024 9:13 PM

The stitches around/under her areola look hideous. However ... they are better than others I have seen before. The amount of money she has spent on cosmetic surgeries has to be nothing less than shocking. What an ego, WOW.

by Anonymousreply 151September 29, 2024 9:15 PM

Ray Liotta was supposed to be in this but he, like, died.

by Anonymousreply 152September 29, 2024 9:17 PM

Ray would have been equally amazing in the role. He was the type of actor who was born to play sleazebags. Plus, the amount of work he had done to his own face would have ironically lent itself to the film and the part.

by Anonymousreply 153September 29, 2024 9:39 PM

Someone I know saw the movie and hated it. She said the whole movie made her feel anxious and nauseated that another human would present a view on an obviously mentally ill individual as some kind of normal way of being.

by Anonymousreply 154September 29, 2024 9:46 PM

R154 that’s what films should do. Provoke feeling and thought.

by Anonymousreply 155September 29, 2024 9:56 PM

It’s not presented as a normal way of being. Elisabeth Sparkle is simply a deeply insecure woman who is willing to go to extreme lengths to be young and “beautiful” again.

by Anonymousreply 156September 29, 2024 9:58 PM

I hate to tell you this but It is pure shit and will be forgotten by next Friday.

by Anonymousreply 157September 29, 2024 10:02 PM

[quote]I hate to tell you this but It is pure shit and will be forgotten by next Friday.

I hate to tell you this, r157, but...no.

by Anonymousreply 158September 29, 2024 11:21 PM

[quote]made her feel anxious and nauseated that another human would present a view on an obviously mentally ill individual as some kind of normal way of being.

I don't know what she saw, r154, but it wasn't The Substance.

by Anonymousreply 159September 29, 2024 11:24 PM

I got the impression Sparkle was seduced in a moment of weakness by a predatory type who saw her break down crying in the Dr's examination room. Elizabeth resisted then got drunk (alone) on her birthday. Drunk, lonely and depressed on her birthday, she called the dealer.

by Anonymousreply 160September 29, 2024 11:30 PM

The Substance cost Elizabeth and ultimately her surrogate a lot. But the price is never discussed.

by Anonymousreply 161September 29, 2024 11:32 PM

EliSabeth!!!!

by Anonymousreply 162September 29, 2024 11:34 PM

I love how present-day Elisabeth keeps checking for the 7 days as herself to be over so younger her can go have fun. It’s so tragic.

by Anonymousreply 163September 29, 2024 11:36 PM

I wonder if Demi had concerns about the thematic overlap with “Death Becomes Her” considering Bruce was in DBH.

by Anonymousreply 164September 29, 2024 11:44 PM

[quote]R152 Ray Liotta was supposed to be in this but he, like, died.

Untrue.

Gary talked him out of it.

by Anonymousreply 165September 29, 2024 11:46 PM

This doesn’t normalise insecurity at all.

The sequence I keep returning to is when she’s getting ready for her date. I think it hits so hard because it’s that moment in the film where you feel like, this could be me. And also, it’s shocking, how low her self-esteem is - but given the comparison she’s now making to her younger, synthetic self, completely understandable.

The entire texture of the film is so rich with meaning and implication.

by Anonymousreply 166September 29, 2024 11:49 PM

It’s so sad when ElisaSue Monstro says “It’s me! It’s Elisabeth! It’s Sue!” Naturally, we’re appalled as viewers because of the way it looks, but the whole thing is just so tragic.

by Anonymousreply 167September 29, 2024 11:53 PM

It says I AM NOT A MONSTER, just like the Elephant Man

by Anonymousreply 168September 29, 2024 11:54 PM

I’m reminded of the Proust quote, “Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination." This explains my lifelong hot crush on Salome Jens.

by Anonymousreply 169September 30, 2024 1:44 AM

I love the look of this.

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by Anonymousreply 170September 30, 2024 1:48 AM

It should be said that Elisabeth isn’t a victim, not someone you root for. She’s a victim of her own narcissism and lack of self-worth. A lot of films would keep beating the drum about the dreaded man or patriarchy making her feel shame but in the end it’s clear that it’s her. She values nothing but her looks. She has no family and no friends. It was all about her job and her ego. Unfortunately that’s how most people are living their lives today.

by Anonymousreply 171September 30, 2024 1:51 AM

[quote]Nothing about this film is like The Shining.

Long-ass blood-red hallway with graphic carpet? Like, hellloooo.

Big nod to "Carrie" as well.

by Anonymousreply 172September 30, 2024 1:59 AM

The shadow on her face while on the phone is an homage to another film too.

by Anonymousreply 173September 30, 2024 2:02 AM

What film?

Mary Poppins, Rose!

by Anonymousreply 174September 30, 2024 2:03 AM

R172 that account is deliberately obtuse and contrarian

by Anonymousreply 175September 30, 2024 2:36 AM

[quote] British TV & film feature women and men of all ages, types of looks and bodies and builds, and races. We see their wrinkles, crooked teeth and love handles.

That’s why I love Midsomer Murders.

by Anonymousreply 176September 30, 2024 2:37 AM

I'm not going to root for Sparkle. I emphasize with her. She got herself in real trouble hating herself and using a substance to add meaning to her empty life.

by Anonymousreply 177September 30, 2024 2:38 AM

[quote]r177 = I emphasize with her

What do the two of you emphasize?

by Anonymousreply 178September 30, 2024 2:45 AM

Empathize. Cunt

by Anonymousreply 179September 30, 2024 2:48 AM

We share in your emphasis, R179.

by Anonymousreply 180September 30, 2024 3:54 AM

Where is the proof of this alleged lesbianing?

by Anonymousreply 181September 30, 2024 4:06 AM

Moore's rumored partner, stylist Masha Mandzuka

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by Anonymousreply 182September 30, 2024 4:30 AM

Lezzies like bush, hence why Demi sports one now.

by Anonymousreply 183September 30, 2024 10:57 AM

Bush hides canyon gash.

by Anonymousreply 184October 1, 2024 3:01 AM

Reports are that people are throwing up and walking out of screenings!

by Anonymousreply 185October 2, 2024 2:13 AM

Really? Is it that gory?

by Anonymousreply 186October 2, 2024 3:11 AM

It’s maybe the goriest film I’ve ever seen. Gorier than Terrifier 2

by Anonymousreply 187October 2, 2024 3:39 AM

R187-- are you fucking kidding me?? Gorier than Terrifier 2????? THE BEDROOM SCENE??

by Anonymousreply 188October 2, 2024 3:40 AM

I thought it was

by Anonymousreply 189October 2, 2024 3:42 AM

Well holy shit. I have not seen this film yet-

by Anonymousreply 190October 2, 2024 3:44 AM

^See it!

by Anonymousreply 191October 2, 2024 3:45 AM

I'm scared.

by Anonymousreply 192October 2, 2024 4:49 AM

^Be brave.

by Anonymousreply 193October 2, 2024 11:31 AM

[quote] are you fucking kidding me?? Gorier than Terrifier 2????? THE BEDROOM SCENE??

Oh, hell yes!

by Anonymousreply 194October 2, 2024 2:46 PM

R32 BEAST!? How dare you!

by Anonymousreply 195October 4, 2024 1:27 AM

Someone has triggered Eileen Davidson R195 and I don't know why or if she is even in the correct thread.

by Anonymousreply 196October 4, 2024 1:31 AM

Sub.

Stance.

by Anonymousreply 197October 4, 2024 1:37 AM

I'm thinking of going again (third time). It's that good.

by Anonymousreply 198October 4, 2024 6:48 AM

My date wouldn’t let me drive him home after The Substance because we haven’t been seeing each other long enough for him to throw up in front of me. He literally just walked home in the rain to vomit with dignity.

by Anonymousreply 199October 4, 2024 7:03 AM

Some of you guys are too squeamish. It's just a movie.

by Anonymousreply 200October 4, 2024 7:17 AM

R198 is killing me. This film is so good that this bitch keeps going back for more!!!

(I was in love with this film when I saw the trailer) I am planning to watch at Christmastime to get me in the spirit! :)

by Anonymousreply 201October 4, 2024 6:23 PM

I was once in a band called “Vomit with Dignity.”

by Anonymousreply 202October 5, 2024 2:43 AM

Hold my hair, r202.

by Anonymousreply 203October 5, 2024 2:46 AM

If people walked out of our screening as far as I’m concerned we don’t have enough movies where that might happen.

by Anonymousreply 204October 5, 2024 7:00 AM

I don't know if I can wait. Terrifier 3 and The Substance are my "Wait until Christmas" films- I do this every year. And my binge series I have never seen will be The Bear- Babygirl looks like a great Christmas film too-

Strange Darling is my Thanksgiving film. (This one sounds amazing)

And I am watching Longlegs for Halloween-

by Anonymousreply 205October 5, 2024 1:41 PM

Fargeat always knew her movie would end with a monster — a “Picasso of male expectations,” as she calls it. The rejection that motivates Elisabeth to consume the Substance also fosters Sue’s addiction to remaining young, which is why Sue defies the mandate to switch bodies with Elisabeth every seven days. Elisasue is the product of minds and bodies stalked by external valuations.

Like many great movie monsters, Elisasue wants only to be loved. Fargeat drew inspiration from The Elephant Man, David Lynch’s 1980 tragedy about a deformed 19th-century Englishman who is treated as a freak-show spectacle until a sympathetic doctor takes him in. “He’s monstrous, but you want to hug him,” Fargeat says, and the same applies to Elisasue.

Fargeat made mood boards featuring stills from Lynch’s movie as well as various human-animal sculptures she found online and the work of Colombian artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures often feature women with exaggerated proportions. In her eyes, Elisasue is to The Substance what Quasimodo is to Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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by Anonymousreply 206October 8, 2024 1:12 AM

This thing is probably the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen. I honestly don't remember ever seeing a worse movie. It's at least in the top 3. I would call it a style over substance except the style was beyond terrible too. The whole extreme close-ups, plastic fake look, loud sound effects was already done a million times and million times better. And it dragged on and on. This should have been an hour and 45 minutes movie tops. Can't imagine someone filming this crap, thinking they did something clever, original, shocking or provocative. At least not someone over the age of 15.

by Anonymousreply 207October 31, 2024 9:10 PM

The queens at awards watch want the Spanish tranny to win best actress

by Anonymousreply 208October 31, 2024 9:19 PM

R58 He played a cartoon villain. And not an original one. The one that we have already seen hundreds times before.

by Anonymousreply 209October 31, 2024 9:23 PM

R207, a party of one.

by Anonymousreply 210November 1, 2024 12:40 AM

I hated the last 20 minutes - the director tried waaay too hard to shock the audience with the whole monster sequence. I wasn't even grossed out by it because it felt so cartoonish.

When Margaret Qualley started spitting out teeth I thought the movie would end with her body falling apart live onstage and I'd much prefer to see an ending like that one.

by Anonymousreply 211November 1, 2024 2:18 AM

OTT for sure but I was intrigued and interested with this film.

by Anonymousreply 212November 1, 2024 4:37 AM

She needs to stop with the plastic surgery. But good luck to her.

by Anonymousreply 213November 1, 2024 4:47 AM

R211 I kind of agree. I thought the scene with the blood in the studio was preposterous and tedious. The ending you thought would happen was kind of what I was suspecting too, but we just have to get the “big Hollywood effects ending.”

However, all that said, I did like the final scene, at her star. I thought it was a funny coda.

by Anonymousreply 214November 1, 2024 4:52 AM

R154 Yes, we all live in glass condos overlooking our billboards in Beverly Hills, that's a totally normal way of being. We all have made millions off our looks and bodies over the years and now are willing to give away half of our lives and sleep for 26 weeks a year. Totally normal way of being. Your friend is not smart and perhaps a shallow person herself? No one fucking thinks this is a normal way of being, it's why it's such balls out movie.

by Anonymousreply 215November 2, 2024 3:25 PM

It was gory but not in a torture porn way and not in a way to make anyone puke, for fuck's sake. Or actually, I did almost puke at the beginning with the close up of Quaid eating shrimp, that was fucking gross and so is shrimp. It was more making me look away at her getting that shit injected into her scabby spine. The last scene wasn't gross, it was ridiculous. The fight scene though...damn, I haven't seen a beatdown like that, and been so uncomfortable with a movie beating since Gandolfini fucked Patricia Arquette's shit up in "True Romance". My boyfriend put this in our shared file on my laptop so I literally watched it on my lap, if I had been further away, it may not have made me so squeamish.

R205 He also put "Longlegs", "Strange Darling", and "Maxxxine" on it. I watched "Longlegs" so far, meh. A little too Cage-y for me, and kind of ridiculous, it defies belief, but I digress. I've heard really good things about "Strange Darling" though, I really look forward to it. I was a Kyle Gallner non fan until "Dinner in America" which is an overlooked but great little film. If you like Gallner, you should watch it now, you don't have to wait for a holiday.

by Anonymousreply 216November 2, 2024 3:38 PM

I love you, R207!!!

I made it though half the movie. Boring!! And so fake looking! And if I'm going to watch Margaret Qualley naked (or not), there sure are a lot better contexts within which to do it.

And it was sooooooooooo streeeeeetched out!! This could/should have been 1/2 hour on YouTube.

It's a pity none of you read. I cut my teeth on science fiction stories (some of which pretty much came true). The 40s and the 50s (and I guess the 60s as well) were full of quite prolific sci-fi writers with uncanny imaginations. And as far as I'm concerned, my head creates a better movie while I'm reading than I could ever see on the big screen --especially now.

Crack a book sometime. I've attached a short story from the 1940s (scroll down at link) for your enjoyment. And remember, the original Twilight Zone was for the most part written by those same sci-fi writers. That's why it was/is still so good.

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by Anonymousreply 217November 2, 2024 6:14 PM

I heard from a lot of friends. The movie starts out really good then gets ridiculous.

by Anonymousreply 218November 8, 2024 3:41 AM

Why don’t you watch it for yourself and then form your own opinion, R218?

by Anonymousreply 219November 8, 2024 4:17 PM

But R218 is right. Though you should still watch it!

by Anonymousreply 220November 8, 2024 5:01 PM

It’s currently at $66.5 mill box office on a $17.5 mill budget and got rave reviews. Critical and commercial success may equal Oscar gold for Demi.

by Anonymousreply 221November 28, 2024 9:59 PM

Demi Moore is fantastic in this and it's far and away her best performance. The scene where is she is getting ready for her date was so perfectly done and Moore didn't say a single word the entire scene but you knew exactly what Elisabeth was thinking.

I too felt the film should have ended with Sue's body falling apart on stage...

by Anonymousreply 222November 29, 2024 7:19 AM

R221 meaning the majority of the human race has no taste whatsoever

by Anonymousreply 223November 29, 2024 8:10 PM

r223- Karla Sofia Gascon

by Anonymousreply 224November 30, 2024 1:03 AM

I liked it. But I feel like it could have been better. It’s a great idea for a movie. Maybe it’s focused on body horror and I was looking for more of a psychological thriller. .

by Anonymousreply 225November 30, 2024 12:03 PM

R215 = Demi's slightly-tipsy publicist who REALLY needs this film to do well critically and at the box office for personal financial reasons who'll be damned if he'll allow an armchair critic's message-board comment trying to ruin everything sit there uncontested.

by Anonymousreply 226November 30, 2024 12:38 PM

R223 is a vulgarian.

by Anonymousreply 227December 1, 2024 3:51 PM

R154, your “friend” sounds retarded.

by Anonymousreply 228December 1, 2024 3:52 PM

Your friend is correct, this ain't a feel good experience. It is ugly in most ways.

by Anonymousreply 229December 1, 2024 4:07 PM

R228 She really does. It's like she's never seen psychological horror or any type or documentary. I guess she likes movies about happy and normal people, i.e chick flicks.

by Anonymousreply 230December 1, 2024 4:42 PM

[quote]Jennifer Jason Leigh has been nominated for two Oscars.

Just the one, R46.

by Anonymousreply 231December 1, 2024 6:19 PM

I have seen The Substance four times and it gets better each time. My favorite movie of the year. Demi deserves a nomination for this (and I would vote for her to win if I was in the Academy).

by Anonymousreply 232December 2, 2024 8:50 PM

Hi Substance troll

by Anonymousreply 233December 2, 2024 10:34 PM

R233

by Anonymousreply 234December 3, 2024 12:56 PM
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