The Sin City movie (which I like) contains many many slavish recreations of Sin City panels (which I am ambivalent about)
The Watchmen movie (which is atrocious) does as well
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Yeah I almost mentioned those are the good and bad examples. Watchmenâs big triumph is all the formalistic stuff that a movie absolutely cannot do, so that always seemed like a doofus endeavor.
I was thinking strictly the big money Marvel ones.
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Their lack of involvement in actual comic imagery coupled with the cult of Stan Lee they helped to foster amongst regular folks always felt kind of unsettling.
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i remember seeing comparisons years back between i think either an avengers or thor film and existing comic panels and it was pretty much the same except for the movieâs color grading
Hundreds of Beavers was astounding. Lots of very funny jokes, and the production quality and look of the film constantly wowed me.
I thought it was really funny to see the inevitable Minecraft automated death factory logic show up at some points.
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I watched Longlegs and ended up wondering what exactly the confluence of puffy-faced Satanist dollmaker glam rock fan was supposed to be. Writing it out like that makes it sound awesome and if you havenât seen Longlegs you might picture something like a serial killer in a Sion Sono movie but in practice it just made me think âAt some point this meant something to somebody.â
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hopefully this will quiet some of the people who kept insisting a24 is âa company not a styleâ
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I just saw Longlegs. The first quarter of the movie was very Alan Wake 2 in a good way, but after that it really rapidly lost its appeal for me. Vibes were immaculate for most of it until the last third or so, but then it went downhill SO hard.
For a while I thought, âdamn, this is evoking some real dreadâ⌠until very rapidly it wasnât. Occasionally youâd get a really good ineffable, creepy line of dialog, but otherwise the writing is super clunky.
Itâs Satanic horror but most effective horror of that sort stems from actual, like, deep-seated religious/cultural anxieties and actual religious imagery/mythology, but in this movie the horror stems from this comic-book-ass contrived situation involving a fake nun going door to door delivering magic dolls that make families kill each other. Thatâs nothing!
The movie also trades hard on that shitty old 90âs trope of the gender-nonconforming psycho-killer. Plus it commits the most grievous sin a 2020âs horror movie can commit â the final shot self-consciously, non-diegetically memes on Nicholas Cage.
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What heâs talking about is actually really common when independent filmmakers move up to the tier where they can seek outside financing. Investors see an experienced cinematographer as a hedge to ensure the production against a director who might be unproven to them, for instance Rian Johnsonâs DP Steve Yedlin talked about how Johnsonâs first feature took so long to get going that Yedlinâs career had time to âcatch upâ in a way where they were able to avoid this and none of the producers questioned him being on the movie. It reads as âA24 has a house styleâ because thatâs a common criticism of the company but I donât think thatâs the dynamic at play
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â[The Omen] uses religion but not seriously. In the same way that Longlegs uses religion but not seriously. Like, I donât give a shit about the Bible. The Bible has really weird words in it, you know? Like, The Bible has really trippy words and sentences in it. And thatâs what the Bible does for me.â
Turns out it actually meant nothing to anybody at any point
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Another quote from the director:
A Martinez: How much of an influence was Silence of the Lambs really?
Osgood Perkins: I ripped it off. Iâm not going to pretend like I didnât. Thatâs the fun of it. Itâs meant to be sort of pop art, right? That invites the audience in to sort of say, you remember Silence of the Lambs. That made you feel good. So itâs sort of like doing a little bit of a magic trick, right? With the left hand, youâre saying itâs Silence of the Lambs. And then you let the right hand take a right-hand turn, and itâs not Silence of the Lambs at all.
This guy seems like kind of an idiot.
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saw trap.
another wasted premise by shyamalan.
the big pitch of silence of the lambs at a t swift show doesnât really pan out to much cat and mouse tension and even shyamalan realized he couldnât squeeze enough juice out of it so he abandons the location a little over halfway through the movie. has about five endings and i was very bored by around the third one. i can understand a rich and loving dad making a $30 million vanity project for his daughter but wowzers is she awful in this.
I am super stoked to see it. I love his movies, heâs my favorite auteur.
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i keep watching his movies trying to see what other people do but it never clicks for me
Late Night with the Devil was ultimately disappointing. In the last third they figure everyone is already invested enough in the found footage premise that they will forgive going off those particular rails. Result is that it gets really weak when the film makers choose the climax to stop comitting to the bit. Also the extensive voiceover exposition at the start goes on too long and doesn[t get any real payoff.
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Itâs only through implication but it may be that Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has finally given us the gay male orangutan representation weâve been waiting for all these years.
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I regret to inform the thread that the gay monkey has died.
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