Kinds of Kindess (new Yorgos Lanthimos).

[Glebe]

Enjoyed (if that's the right word) Poor Things, admittedly the only other Lanthimos film I've seen besides is The Killing of a Sacred Deer which was alright. Emma Stone returning, fresh from her Poor Things Oscar success, alonside Willem Dafoe. Jesse Plemons and Margaret Qualley in there too. High hopes for this I guess, looking forward too it. Must give Lanthimos' other films a watch, The Lobster et al.

[Pink Gregory]

Kinda hope Stone and Dafoe aren't the mainstays in this, but I'm always on board for Yorgos at this point.

[druss]

Sad that this isn't a Derek film.

[George White]

My big crush Hunter Schafer too.

[Glebe]

Sad that this isn't a Derek film.

That robot dog wouldn't have been amiss in Poor Things.

[Mister Six]

Loved Poor Things and the Favourite - unfortunately this one is written by Yorgs and his mate who did Lobster and Sacred Deer, and I didn't much like either of them, so I'm curbing my enthusiasm hard.

[Armin Meiwes]

And Dogtooth tbf which was great! (Although I also enjoyed KoaSD and to an extent TL).

[Glebe]

the Favourite

Fucks sake, I forgot about that! It's on both Netflix and Disney+ at the mo and I've been meaning to give it a look.

[Mister Six]

Fucks sake, I forgot about that! It's on both Netflix and Disney+ at the mo and I've been meaning to give it a look.

Written by the same bloke as Poor Things. It's excellent!

[Steve Faeces]

Bit of a treat this. Had no idea he had another film out so soon after Poor Things which I loved. I like all Lanthimos' films but think Killing of a Sacred Deer is probably my favourite just for how unsettling it is and how simple and almost pure a horror it is.

[Mister Six]

I really didn't get along with Sacred Deer. The tone was too arch and the characters to unbelievable for me to give a shit about their plight. Nobody seemed to act like a real human, which is fine in some genres, but it rarely works for me in horror, especially one where the mechanics are fantastical but the stakes are so human.

[greenman]

I really didn't get along with Sacred Deer. The tone was too arch and the characters to unbelievable for me to give a shit about their plight. Nobody seemed to act like a real human, which is fine in some genres, but it rarely works for me in horror, especially one where the mechanics are fantastical but the stakes are so human.

I think it maybe isnt as exact a fit as the Lobster which more obviously takes place in an alternate world were the characters being "trapped" in only conversing in an innane ingenuine fashion makes more sense but I think it still works effectively. I don't think the intension is really to make a conventional horror film, you have the characters react in the opposite way to what you'd expect being selfish and I think there also being unnable to really express themselves genuinely is also part of that takedown.

I don't think the films are entirely arch though, Farrell especially I think plays those characters very effectively giving you the sense that there is a real person there, again just one trapped in a world were he can never express his feelings openly.

This film does actually seem like it maybe something a bit different to anything he's done before, coming back to a real contemporary setting but not with that older style.