Simply Boring

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2017)

I think it took me 5 or 6 times to force myself to see it to the end. He lost the thread and momentum quite early and then went to fake "drama". Disconnected patches of affectations. Attempts to fake continuity long lost. A lot of way too obvious fake "developments" and quotes but really nothing.
When you start noticing that it's forced and not once but X times you are completely out of the "flow" (in part because it stopped existing long time age) and you have to force yourself do continue watching just to be able to say that you saw it. In between you read and answer a lot of e-mails, go to eat, go to online chat, catch yourself actually procrastinating but you know that you have to finish it for the sake of finishing it. Becomes a chore.
I'm sure that in his mind he was doing something "mythical" and probably wouldn't listen to anyone at all. Ended up with Aronofsky himself repeating a variation of "it's controversial" in attempt to sell a few more tickets, betraying that he's fully aware that even that is fake.
The reason why it tanked at the box-office is not that it's "controversial" but simply boring.