The Lobster (2016)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply A Masterpiece

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. So Lobster, well this movie was nowhere near as great as everyone seemed to make it sound, it was very long, boring and perhaps quite stupid. Fat Colin Farrell's belly was very distracting and so was his sex scene or the point where he couldn't even remove his pants. Plus people turn into animals? if they don't mate? Just Horrible. (0/10)

"The Lobster" is a creative idea that could potentially have examined human connection in an intimate, heart-breaking way, but instead takes terrible direction. Not one minute of this film is interesting or comforting. In a film dealing with unique idnivudals and conflicts, this film is surprisingly dull and passionless. Yorgos Lanthimos is a horrible director in the film, having no artistic vision and instead getting carried away in the awkwardness of his garbage script. This is a film that should be completely avoided, yet had the potential to be a strong film worth seeing.

Okay, in the forest, she's explaining their conversational body signals... raise this hand and it's "I love you more than anything", raise that hand and it's "we're in danger", we have to be careful not to mix those two up at first...Then, he's in the bathroom, steading himself...Then, she's thanking the waiter for filling her glass though she's been sitting without touching her glass, so she must have been drinking it over a while...The way she said "thank you very much" to the waiter was strange - either she's up set like she was when he hadn't brought her rabbits for a while, or she's thanking the watier not for the first time...I swear, I swear, I think I see some sort of construction vehicle - a front end loader? drive behind her from right to left... and as it goes off camera on the left I swear the driver has his right arm all the way up in the air (palm facing the camera)... which signal was the right arm again??Or I could be imagining the 'arm up' part at the end. You tell me!Either way, I thought this movie was brilliant. And the casting was phenomenal !!

The premise of this movie was actually appealing and it seemed to have potential as a quirky satire. However, this movie is so bad in so many ways that I stopped it about halfway through. The writing is confused; the acting is robotic, the humor isn't very funny and the tone is depressing.I have watched and enjoyed numerous futuristic and post apocalyptic stories. In the good ones, the story revolves around real people struggling with difficult situations. But in this one, based on their reactions to various ridiculous situations, every character in this story behaved as though borderline insane or deranged or drugged. I rated this a 2 instead of 1 for the nice scenery and for Rachel Weiss who is always a pleasure to watch. Both were wasted on this nonsense.A week after watching the first hour, I watched the balance to see if there was anything interesting or thought provoking to take away from this. There was not. My best summary for this is: boring, disturbing, sick, and a waste of time.