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Antichrist (2009)
Don't believe anyone who puts this film in the top ten of anything
This film is boring! It's not disturbing, it's not thought-provoking, it's not deep, it's not ironically funny... it feels like two hours of nothing, complete with uncomfortable sound design(the sloppy kissing sounds made my stomach churn harder than any of the "disturbing" scenes) and obnoxious visual editing. Your life will be complete without having seen it.
Climax (2018)
So boring, it hurts.
As other reviewers have mentioned, this is less of a movie and more of an experience. Unfortunately, that experience should be a third as long as it is. There simply isn't enough of anything in this movie to justify it being feature length; you'll quickly become adjusted to whatever run-of-the-mill depravity has been put onscreen and find yourself waiting for something new to happen.
The worst part? The disturbing imagery isn't very disturbing.
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Atrocious and wonderful at the same time
This film contains some of the most obnoxiously groan-worthy "jokes" you'll ever hear, for minutes upon minutes at a time before finally breaking into a nonsensical musical sequence. Every line of dialogue uttered by a Beatle is physically painful.
However, the animation and the characters aside from the Beatles/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are a lot of fun, with the visuals being absolutely gorgeous and uniquely 70s. The plot is irrelevant to the experience, but the movie insists on having the Beatles shove it along with their half-assed banter up to the conclusion.
Basically, whenever it's just the Beatles onscreen, feel free to skip it. You won't miss anything.
Le magasin des suicides (2012)
Illogical and immoral in very annoying ways
Had this abandoned morals altogether and ended in a tragedy the family considers a success, like Alan dying/becoming depressed; or had consistent morals and punished the greedy adults who made their living off of misery while also criticising the capitlist system that allowed them to thrive in the first place, it would've been a far better movie. The first option is more fun, and the second option has better lessons.
Even without tweaking the morals, one could've made the movie just... generally make more sense by having the parents NOT be near suicidal themselves. As a person with major depression, just watching this movie made me consider suicide much more heavily as a result of just pondering the subject. I can't imagine running a shop with every possible way to kill oneself, many of which are unbelievably quick and seemingly painless, and not giving in to the temptation of testing one's own merchandise. A cognitive dissonance of the shopkeepers being convinced that life IS worth living, while running a business that sold the opposite idea, would be much more interesting.
It's too middling: not dark enough or kind enough. It hovers between the two concepts and ultimately remains unsatisfactory.
Cheap (1974)
A mixed bag of fun trash and stupid trash
The soundtrack is fun and the movie feels self aware for the most part, but there is an underlying sense that it may not be smart enough for that. Add to that the deeply unsatisfying ending and it's difficult to tell what this movie wants to be.