The Lobster
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
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 animals and sent off into The Woods. From TMDB
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Viewers praise the film's unique and bizarre premise. [1][2][3] Some viewers dislike the film's tone or find it upsetting. [4][5][6]
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The Lobster is the most awkward love story I have ever watched, but despite how off putting it was it touched me in ways I did not quite expect. The plot of this film is incredibly unique. The idea of being turned into an animal if you cannot find love is so weird in the best kind of way. I found the entire movie to be very sinister in nature, always keeping me on edge about what was to come next, and that was …
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This was an odd experience, as I just recently ended a self-imposed 12-year moratorium on relationships, due to a couple of bad ones I had within a short period of time in the early 2000's. It was very intriguing to see a type of dystopia exist in which 'singledom' was so vilified to the point of actually being against the law. I would never have previously thought that such a state of events was possible, but …
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This was Yorgos Lanthimos' English language debut. It was really funny. All of the actors had to perform their lines straight-faced and with no emotion which is very strange at first. The screenplay and direction of the film was very intelligent and perfectly highlights the themes of the film. This film was very quirky and unique and so I really enjoyed it. ★★★★
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> Another peculiar dystopian tale set in the future. From the director of the Oscars nominated movie 'Dogtooth'. If you are familiar with his signature movie, you will find it so good. This is not the best movie I had seen that set in the future, but like any other it was another dystopian tale. A black comedy-romance with a decent storyline, performances and overall a nice entertainer. The pace was very depressing, …
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Shortly after his wife has left him, "David" (Colin Farrell) finds himself sent to a luxury hotel where he has precisely forty five days to hook up, meaningfully, with another person else he will be transferred into a beastie of his choice (i.e. a lobster with it's virility and legendary long-life) and released into the wild. He is not alone in this oddly sterile environment presided over by a prim and proper …
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Critics, per Wikipedia
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88% based on reviews from 268 critics, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "As strange as it is thrillingly ambitious, The Lobster is definitely an acquired taste — but for viewers with the fortitude to crack through Yorgos Lanthimos' offbeat sensibilities, it should prove a savory cinematic treat". On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 82, based on 44 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Oliver Lyttelton of The Playlist awarded the film an "A" grade and described it as "an atypically rich and…
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60 of 201 · most liked firstTonight's film The Lobster (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →You could read this article, or just watch the movie "The Lobster." Same vibes.
neutral · AI labelView post →watching The Lobster (2015) for the first time in around a decade and fuck i forgot how funny this movie is
positive · AI labelView post →Hands down, THE LOBSTER. It was so bad that several people left the theater mid-movie and one woman yelled at the film like it was sentient enough to hear her complaints. Luckily my date night movie pick didn't scare him off because it turns out we both love riffing bad movies (we're now married).
negative · AI labelView post →Tonights movie, The Lobster. Collins Farrell has to fall in love, or get turned in to a lobster. Hoping for the latter tbh.
negative · AI labelView post →Now rewatching The Lobster (2015)! 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →best of the century, no order HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (2018) FIRST REFORMED (2017) MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY I: TRAPS (2024) THE MASTER (2012) CENTER JENNY (2013) THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017) SHOPLIFTERS (2018) THE LOBSTER (2015) THE PIANO TEACHER (2001)
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been single since 2020. Where is my animal tf >:C Also the movie is called The Lobster
neutral · AI labelView post →Well tonight’s film I have never seen before is The Lobster so let’s see how this goes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Family let me pick the holiday movie again so now they are all watching The Lobster.
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking for a film to watch on Valentine's Day? Try watching "The Lobster" (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie is The Lobster (2015).
neutral · AI labelView post →Another “must get round to it” film tonight… The Lobster (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #filmsky THE LOBSTER (2017) 🦞🎬🎞️🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Between Last Night at the Lobster and the (very good) movie Support The Girls, there's a whole mini-genre of "stories about shitty chain restaurants on their last day of business"
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! A particularly fun week with three movies in theaters 🎬🍿🎞️ MANDOLORIAN AND GROGU IS GOD IS & I LOVE BOOSTERS. 🤩 also watched THE LOBSTER 🦞 at home. Score tbd #LastFourWatched #filmsky #movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't let me down, Yorgos! Poor Things and The Favourite are two of my favorite movies. The Lobster and Dogtooth are great. Kinds of Kindness... was a movie (sort of).
positive · AI labelView post →The Lobster was a better movie with a similar premise, folks should watch that instead.
positive · AI labelView post →Another not obscure film, but it's one I haven't met anyone else who has seen it: The Lobster. It's by that director who does all the films with Emma Stone nowadays, but it is before his Emma Stone phase.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ Finally watched THE LOBSTER tonight. I liked it a lot. I found the ending darkly hilarious; I called it right as I began waiting and when it ended, I laughed and laughed. Another unique film from Mr. Lanthimos.
positive · AI labelView post →OK but the thing is: if you’re going to see one Lanthimos movie, please please make it The Lobster. For God’s sake, if you’ve ever dated, or if you were ever single for more than 4 weeks after age 20. If you’re going to see two, add on The Favourite. After that, fine, do what you like. 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞
positive · AI labelView post →watched The Lobster… pretty good, and the deadpan style actually works well, unlike any recent Wes Anderson movie
positive · AI labelView post →Our film editor @jacoboller.bsky.social saw me venting on here about The Lobster amid the Horny Jail Movie discourse this week and asked me to flesh out my thoughts. www.avclub.com/the-lobster-...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lobster. It was billed as a black comedy in whatever I read before watching it and I watched for far too long waiting for the comedy part to happen before stopping about halfway thorough. I hate that movie so much, I have decided that director is not for me and simply eschew his work.
negative · AI labelView post →vibe in film is so important because well no I don't remember anything specific happening on The Lobster but I do remember the vibe
neutral · AI labelView post →if i was in the movie the Lobster i hope i would get turned into something with a really nice fur coat
neutral · AI labelView post →We are watching The Lobster. What a weird film (complimentary, so far).
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watched Poor Things and really liked it! I wasn't sure how I'd feel, I wasn't crazy about The Lobster (though I think a revisit is in order). I will say, the way people have discoursed about the film made me think it'd be more fucked up!
neutral · AI labelView post →a student in class just brought up The Lobster as an example of an upsetting movie. correct! it is an upsetting movie! “i’ve seen it three times," she said, "and i wish i’d never seen it once” why did you see it three times, then? “oh, i made other people watch it” 😈
neutral · AI labelView post →Read this 8x before I realized it wasn't about the Lobster movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Movie Wednesday, this weeks movie poster design goes to The Lobster designed by Vasilis Marmatakis. The way he uses negative space perfectly captures the profound loneliness and societal pressure of the story. A true modern classic. #filmsky #TheLobster #VasilisMarmatakis
neutral · AI labelView post →Any of the Avatar movies. If that's too obvious I harbor an unhealthy hatred of the film The Lobster. Thinking about it spikes my blood pressure.
negative · AI labelView post →watching THE LOBSTER. enjoying how Colin Farrell’s version of a schlubby middle-aged guy is basically me at my absolute physical peak. (Also, it is immediately obvious why this movie rules.)
positive · AI labelView post →our double feature tonight is The Lobster (my boyfriends suggestion) and Steamed Hams, But It’s A Critically Acclaimed Feature Length Film (my suggestion)
neutral · AI labelView post →O problema de ver um filme de 2015 é não estar nas trends e não ter com quem debater a não ser com a cara metade. Vi o The Lobster e achei genial, surrealista mas genial. E surgiram-me várias questões que não me têm saído da cabeça:
positive · AI labelView post →NW: The Lobster My Mother's Day movie choice 🦞
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lobster. Great film but once was E N O U G H
neutral · AI labelView post →For no particular reason thinking about Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster movie. Protagonist and characters being fucked up aside, I bet a lot people on this website would totally go celibate on purpose just so they can be transformed into animals and escape a superficial human society.
neutral · AI labelView post →Was it you or Cousin Josh who spoke highly of the movie The Lobster? I might finally watch it over Thanksgiving.
neutral · AI labelView post →A friend and I watched a movie (The Lobster, 2015) on HBOMax last night, and there were about seven commercial breaks over the two-hour film. Wildly disruptive of the flow of the film. Yet another corporation degrading their product for a bit more as revenue.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a new piece up at The Battleground EU comparing Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film Poor Things to his 2015 English-language debut The Lobster: thebattleground.eu/2024/02/28/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Jesus, The Lobster is a terrible film. It’s radically altering downwards the likelihood of my going to see Poor Things.
negative · AI labelView post →Surely if there is anything good or meaningful said by this movie it will have already been said better by The Lobster
neutral · AI labelView post →Not even sure how that'd work, unless it's like the Lobster movie where you're mandated by the state to be partnered and fucking.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching "The Lobster" on Netflix. It has a slow, ambiguous ending. The credits start up. I prepare to sit with my thoughts for a while. This is part of the movie experience. Netflix immediately replace the credits with THIS image for the show "Sex Education". I hate the show forever.
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a Bond movie academic Consider the Lobster As Dr No
neutral · AI labelView post →Wagner Moura, currently getting Oscar acting buzz for THE SECRET AGENT, in pre-production to direct, LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, which he calls an, "anti-capitalist Christmas movie." Set to star Elisabeth Moss, Brian Tyree Henry and Sofia Carson it's set in a Red Lobster during a holiday snowstorm.
neutral · AI labelView post →We finished watching The Lobster. What a weird film (complimentary, but slightly less so).
neutral · AI labelView post →5 faves/5 tags: Weather: Sunny 🌞 Bird: Pigeon 🐦 Cake: Carrot or coffee ☕️ Holiday: Christmas 🎄 Movie: The Lobster 🦞 @mildlyrosy.bsky.social @selxi.bsky.social @tinkletime.bsky.social @strawbrrymochi.bsky.social @daintytoad.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve wanted to draw Erdmann and Jonathan based on the movie poster for The Lobster for a long time. It’s been stuck in my head for a while. Plus, this perfectly fitting quote from Weige by Vivinos. Title: Roofroom #blmanhwa #blmanga #blwebtoon #yaoi
neutral · AI labelView post →Looks like I’ve accidentally done a male pain film trifecta by watching Pig, Friendship, and The Lobster all in a row. My previous accidental female pain trifectas this year were Anora, the Last Showgirl, and Welcome to the Dollhouse as well as Priscilla, Companion, and The Ugly Stepsister.
neutral · AI labelView post →I also watched Love Lies Bleeding, which is not a horror movie but probably awakened something in me. And the Lobster, which is not really a horror movie, and probably caused me to further repress some things.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes you have a rip-roaring Friday night full of laughter and fun with pals, and sometimes you roll a die and watch a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. Anyway, The Lobster...
neutral · AI labelView post →Do you think the Lobster became a movie because the scriptwriter saw a single Oreo cookie become a chocolate Teddy Graham?
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★ review of The Lobster on Letterboxd boxd.it/6bafn7 #FilmSky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →I decided not to see it on the ‘strength’ of watching The Lobster, which was the most soulless and depressing film I’d seen in years. I just thought, this man’s ethos is so alien to mine; nothing he has to say will have any meaning for me.
negative · AI labelView post →The movie The Lobster dealt with this really well (I thought) . The punishment for being single is brutal and inescapable in that society.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nach der SoFi schaue ich vielleicht noch die zweite Hälfte von The Lobster (2015). Alter, was'n Film.
positive · AI labelView post →I do not know why you would watch the new "government mandates sex and romance" movie when you could just watch The Lobster for the 20th time instead
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lobster aka the one film that your husband stays awake for😂
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