 Since 2023 was hellbent on putting every movie in a canon and shooting it out at the same time at the end of the year, I'm still playing catch-up with a lot of films, one of which is poor things. An almost two and a half hour R-rated dark comedy drama, silly, crazy, kooky, weird, wild, awesome film. And so I thought I would spend the next few minutes talking about it, so let's talk about it. I think I made it painfully obvious at the onset that I really liked this film. I wasn't sure going in what it was going to be about. These are my favorite kind of movies. You see a bizarre trailer, it peaks your interest, but it doesn't quite take you all the way to full-blown excitement, so you go in a little trepidious, a little on edge, a little curious George, and you leave with a big smile on your face. Now, it's not going to be for everyone. Oh, it's going to be very far from for everyone, but it is for me. And if you like honest reviews, I highly suggest you subscribe to the channel, Adam Does Movies. I post tons of movie reviews, rants, roasts, live streams, all on movies. I'm having a good time, I'm keeping it light, I'm keeping it fun. They're movies, they're subjective, it's entertainment, and I understand that. I don't think my opinion is better than anyone else's. And when it comes to poor things, I think what we have to deal with here is a movie that's very much catered to a specific audience that likes things that are different. Against the norm, bucking the trend, you have Emma Stone here acting her little heart out as she always does, she's somehow always charming, even when playing weird, demented creatures of the night. In this movie, she plays a character named Bella, an out-of-sorts woman, young woman in a way. Her mind isn't that of a grown adult, she's not fully functioning in society. In fact, her caretaker, her god, as she refers to him, William Defoe, William Defoe, I would say William, William Defoe, a mad scientist of sorts, basically a Frankenstein's monster operating on people, wants to keep Bella within his purview, he wants to keep her as an experiment to test subject inside the house. Well, as this character grows older, she's going to want to see the world. She's going to get more curious about things going on outside those front doors. This is going to lead to some amazing moments, some amazing cross-country shenanigans. She's going to come into contact with some very bizarre individuals, one of which is a man named Duncan, a very eccentric character played by Mark Ruffalo. Mark Ruffalo in this movie really surprised me. I always looked at him as a very solid, competent actor who was in a certain lane, you know, kind of your every man, stock hero, some, I haven't really seen him play a villain or anything. He always gets the job done, a good supporting actor. Here, he's playing something completely different. Think Jason Bateman in Dodgeball, like just an off-the-wall character I was not expecting from him. And I was very pleasantly surprised, making me think, much like Jason Bateman. It'd be nice to see these guys show some of that range again in the future. I had a ton of fun with this movie. It's completely different than anything else out there, which I already appreciate. I mentioned this is very much not going to be for everyone, though. Cinematography alone is going to put some people off. And it definitely took a few minutes for me to adjust to what was happening. There are these weird people, points of view, fish angle lenses going on, black and white, switching to colors, switching back to black and white. It's all over the place. And at first I thought, oh man, I don't know, this might be too artsy for me. I might not be able to get on board with what the director wants me to. It only took a few minutes, though. And then I was completely hooked. I was captivated by these characters, by the setting, by the premise. And I'm not going to go into detail on this at all. Because I went in fresh, and I think a movie like this begs to be seen with fresh eyes. That's what this movie is at the end of the day. It was a surprise. It was a treat. And it is, of course, up for a bunch of awards as it should be. Emma Stone, as always, is so dependably good. And she can play such a wide range of characters. Here is absolutely no exception. She steals every scene she's in from the odd way she walks to the funny way she talks. And yeah, I rhyme that on purpose. Why not? We can do things like that here from time to time. I really don't have any notes outside of, I am a stickler for runtime. And I do think time is important. Two hours and 20 some minutes long for this eerie comedy. It is a little long. If I have to really be a stickler about things, it's a little long. I think they could have cut it about 15 minutes short. That said, I really don't have any real complaints. That's just me being a little bitch. This is a movie that's going to be for movie buffs, big time movie lovers that see a lot of films every year. It's definitely not going to be for mom and dad who go to two or three movies a year. They like the notebook. And there's nothing wrong with the notebook. Don't get me wrong. But they like more traditional type movies and you might be one of those people. So yeah, I would not recommend this if you get queasy by some blood or by a lot of sexual activity or a lot of nudity or swearing. This movie is chock full of all of it. All of it. And I'm here for it. All right, let me know. I know I'm late to the party on poor things, but there's so many movies that come out nowadays. And I just don't have the time. I'm a one man operation over here. And I have to pick and choose also poor things. I feel like wasn't playing at the regal right away. And I only have access to one or two theaters in my neighborhood. And here we are seeing poor things. I loved it. I absolutely would have put it on a top 10 movie of 2023 would have pushed something out of there for it. But this is where we're at in life. And that's how it goes. Let me know if you saw poor things, leave a comment that that's what people do on YouTube. They comment, they give their opinions. You can say, Adam, you're wrong. This movie sucks on every single level. We're to call someone out as being wrong though. I always found that odd when someone says a movie sucks or movies amazing and they think you're wrong for liking or disliking. That seems weird to me because there is a little bit of objectivity in film, but for the most part it's subjective. So telling someone they're wrong about how they feel is a little bizarre. 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