What I Watched -- The Master

I wanted to see The Master.  The cast is impressive: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Rami Malek (who broke through this year starring as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody).  To be fair, I did not know what to expect when this movie started.  I was watching it mostly on the strength of the cast.  I didn't know it was a reference to L. Ron Hubbard and the start of Scientology.

With or without that knowledge, I hated it.  It was weird and confusing and not in one of those "well that's an interesting move that I'll think about for days" ways.  Just weird.

Bottom line: skip it.