2018's "Mapplethorpe" gets a Director's Cut reissue

[diocharl]

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The 2018 biopic of infamous gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith is now getting a Director's Cut reissue following the tepid response the studio cut got in its original release

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[anterrabre]

I've always had a love-hate relationship with him and his work. One one hand, he fetished Black men in an extremely disgusting way, on the other he turned the salacious into art- I've seen prints of his work and he has a beautiful way with composition and framing a shot.

[anterrabre]

Not that I've seen.

[turtleisland]

This movie was excruciating to watch, as in awful.

[iheartweasleys]

The wig in that still hurts my soul.
I can't even give this movie a chance with that thing looking at me tbh.

[diocharl]

The fact that they got Matt Smith and made him uglier it's like what?

[raffriff]

I’ve watched two docs on Mapplethorpe, the movie and a doc on Patti Smith was also a mini Mapplethorpe doc and .... meh

[raffriff]

Also Dig! was a shit documentary, so it comes as NO surprise that Ondi Timoner was behind this

[gloeden2]

*whisper* I liked it.
Maybe just because I'd never seen anything like it. And parts of it were hilarious.
When I think of that guy in his John Philips drag, trying to drunkenly roller skate with his guitar...hilarious.

[raffriff]

It was entertaining for sure but I found the whole glorifying the chaos and dysfunction of BJM as somehow being the pinnacle of artistic integrity and authentic incredibly irritating.