The Worst Film Ever

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Nothing happens. The ending is terrible. Wasted time. Really the trailer is all you need, way better than the 2 hrs of waiting for something to happen and nothing does. Don't waste your time. Idk how people can give it a 10, honestly.

The Lobster is a revolting, dull and unfunny film that attempts to be funny (in a blatantly ironic & satirical way) by employing deliberately stilted dialogue delivery and awkward scenes that sometimes present outright disgusting cruelty/gore. As the main theme of the film is to make a mockery out of modern human forms of communications & relationships this is understandable, but it falls like a limp, smelly half-dead fish that flops hopelessly on the sand in the hopes of trying to elicit attention from it's audience.The idea that this is a film about the social conformity and the pressures of marriage and monogamous relationships is typical of a postmodern mindset that arrogantly rejects any kind of stability whatsoever. Besides, is this really a critique of the modern world? Is this really a film about how suffocating monogamous relationships are? If so, it seems to be a film about the pressures of the 20th century rather than the 21st since an increasing amount of people live alone than ever. The question is then: Why does The Lobster seek to satirise such a thing? One answer is partly because it is a film devoted to a specifically air-headed sort of person who lives a fairly modest if not boring state of existence, both in their social and "professional" lives. Of course, you can debate as much as you want about what "The Lobster" is about, which really shows how completely pretentious and, at the same time, vacuous it really is.Of course, all this is seen by people who admire the film as very intelligent and daring because, as well all know, laughing at modern existential suffering of humans in the form of presenting scenes full of crude and violent symbology is apparently hilarious - if you're someone with an anti-social, psychopathic or sociopathic mindset, that is. All the scenes are typical of the symbology of an arm-chair psychologist. It seems to make the overall point that people do irrational things - out of fear of loneliness - to belong in society. It screams out: "This is what we all do."Ultimately, it is a film that presents a presumptuous and misanthropic view of "all" human beings with the exception of the arrogant admirations of the "one" person watching and lapping up the self-indulgent narrative of the film. The fact that this is categorised as "comedy" only reflects the overall sadomasochistic nature of The Lobster.

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.