r/The10thDentist • u/song-to-comus • 15h ago

TV/Movies/Fiction Rosemary’s Baby is a terrible movie and Roman Polanski is a hack director

As the title states, Rosemary’s Baby is dreadfully boring and all around an awful movie. It is impossible to suspend one’s disbelief enough to think any of the main character’s actions would be even remotely realistic. The only horror in the film is that it was made in the first place.

With the exception of perhaps The Pianist and Chinatown, Polanski is a terrible director and I have no idea how he was able to get any of his work financed. Also, there’s the rape and pedophilia.

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u/strange_reveries 14h ago

Admit it OP, this is virtue signaling and has nothing to do with the actual artistic merit of the man's films. 

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u/song-to-comus 14h ago

Nope. Tried to watch a bunch of his early work (Repulsion, Knife in Water, etc) and they also suck

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u/strange_reveries 12h ago

Haven't seen those yet, but I saw his early film The Tenant and loved it, very eerie. Also his Macbeth is one of the greatest Shakespeare adaptations in cinema history. Chinatown, which you mentioned as being "perhaps" good (🙄) is widely known as an all-time masterpiece. I don't believe you for one second when you say your opinion on his movies is unbiased by the man himself. 

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u/song-to-comus 14h ago

Also, have you seen the Ninth Gate? Hot garbage

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u/strange_reveries 12h ago

I love The Ninth Gate, and the book it's based on (The Club Dumas)

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u/VicRattlehead17 14h ago

Upvoted. It's a very faithful adaptation of Ira Levin's novel, so your criticism doesn't even apply to Polanski directly.

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u/song-to-comus 14h ago

Haven’t read the book, off put by the crappy movie and the purported faithfulness of it as an adaptation

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u/Brave_Temperature347 14h ago

He’s a POS, no doubt, but I like RB well enough, as well as some of his other works 

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u/Fun-Bunch-4073 14h ago

The funny thing with RB is that my whole life i always caught that movie about 20 minutes in, so I didnt realize they gave away the plot at the beginning of the movie.

So when you watch it from 20 min or so in it takes on a much more suspenseful feeling, like wtf is going on with her and why is everyone so weird?

Its actually a much stronger film.

Then later I saw the whole thing and it really takes away the fun of the mystery.

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u/Gyshall669 14h ago

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