Smile’s just a bad it follows knockoff
Hereditary is not Ari Aster’s worst film (Midsommar is)
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I don’t think I’ve had a worse whiplash from “hey this trailer is pretty good” to “the fuck is this shit” as I did with Smile.
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Smile’s problem is that the first girl who dies quick to kick off the plot was like 7 times more compelling than the uptight and very boring main character.
I spent the whole movie thinking “this woman is not reacting to this situation at all like any doctor I know.” If she had been like even more uptight and coldly rational that would have been an interesting angle on the “I swear I’m not going crazy” plot. But she reacts about the same as you imagine her awful wine-swilling suburban Hillary supporting sister would, aka same as any default lady.
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In general my problem with both movies is how predictable they were and how weirdly proud of their revelations they seemed given how obviously they had been foreshadowed, but then I guess I feel that way about a lot of movies these days, horror or otherwise. Maybe I’ve just watched too many movies.
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im still thinking about willem dafoes uneven eyeliner and 2010s experimental rock hair, and of course his giant package in that little speedo. i think the constant dick teasing in that movie was way better than showing dafoes giant wang that everyones heard about
like the thing but for dicks
sorry i dont even know what smile is im still talking about kinds of kindness
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I was surprised the main actress is the daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (you can kinda see it, knowing that - her last name being Bacon helps, too, I guess).
As freaky as the trailer was, it wound up just being pretty dull, and for all the “oh my god the final monster is so scary” I’d heard…nah.
I think the point where it lost me was her somehow having boxed up her dead cat as a birthday present for her nephew. Like at that point it was a real “so is this an It Follows thing or a possession thing or what, you gotta pick, you can’t make this all over the place.”
I had a better time with The Empty Man, as kinda OK horror movies I watched around the same time go.
I thought this was a ton of fun. This, Barbarian, and The VVitch are modern horror movies I’d like to see inspire imitators, in contrast to these more boring ones.
Hereditary’s big twist (which is very good and definitely the best thing about it) happens about 40 minutes in, and I looked at the time bar and went “holy shit there’s like an hour and a half left” and reader, it did not have enough left in the tank to justify that hour and a half.
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OH AND ONE MORE THING ABOUT KINDS OF KINDESS
the dog island! where the dogs are in charge!!! AND THEN THE CREDITS PLAYED A DOG MONTAGE WITH DOGS DOING THINGS LIKE PEOPLE
JUST FOR ME
but like the story about how there was so much chocolate on the desert island where dogs were in charge, where she was stranded, you know cuz dogs cant eat that so she ended up eating chocolate every day even though she hated it and lamb was her favorite, but the dogs ate all teh lamb every morning, and i mean every morning, anyroad, the moral of the story is to enjoy eating something thats always around instead of constnatly missing something that runs out in the morning and thats why women settle in their relationships with mediocre men that make their wives prepare their own fingers for dinner was so well delivered!
maybe this movie was made for only me
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The more time passes, the more I think this movie has the juice. The director did an episode of guillermo’s extremely mid horror anthology series and it was by far the best one. Highly recommend watching that episode, “the autopsy”, which is based on a short story by @wourme approved writer Michael Shea.
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I had to hear it so I watched outrage coda and ryuzo and the seven henchmen.
I really like the soundtracks to the outrage movies, by keiichi suzuki who did music on earthbound and real sound, kenji eno’s game for blind people
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So I did indeed watch Gangster Number One with the cover that Suda clearly rippedoff for Killer7.
It was mostly a period piece in 1968 and went it gets back to 1999 you’re like “1999 sucks.”
Paul Betany plays a sociopath young Malcom Macdonald who is closeted gay in love with his gangster boss. There are lots of him being very very gay for his boss and a complete unlikable sociopath the rest of the time. I can’t tell if the movie knows he’s gay. There is also a line about men drinking wine was gay and I had never heard that one.
There are a few points where it is extremely weird and that was cool. And hey it’s the hotel from Killer 7!
Anyways Malcom and Paul’s character is extremely unlikable and unsympathetic and I spent the back half in apprehension of what horrible murder he’d inflict on others. He’s just so upset he couldn’t be gay he had to kill and torture.
Anyways I don’t recommend it but this and I Come With The Rain closed some circles in my brain.
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new dungeons and dragons movie: ok. fight scenes unexpectedly restrained and readable, no garish CGI or fast-cuts. the plot is a nothing plot, but better than Rebel Moon: Part 1
Michelle Rodriguez did a great job selling her role, I enjoyed the surprising amount of practical FX
the locations had me bugging “where did they find a preserved keep and village? built a set?? extremely convincing CGI???” now from the screenshot it looks fake as hell, but in motion I was 100% sold
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Okay one more thing watching it with Japanese subtitles and seeing the 50 different ways they translated “cunt.”
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I thought the Beetlejuice sequel was fun
some cultures have 50 different words for this… like the inuit with snow…
actually come to think of it I think most cultures do. that’s a fun anthropology hypothesis. some people have to spend an awful lot of time talking about snow but just about everyone loves pussy
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sapir whorfussy
I guess that sounds too much like “whore fussy”
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Sapir whorf hypothesussy
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It’s not as inventive as that you can just feel the translator going “well I can’t just say Yarou 10 times in a row. I’ll call him a Dog Yarou and a Pig Yarou and a Pig shit.” Meanwhile Malcom McDonaowel is just going C C C C C C C C.
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watched ryuzo movie this weekend due to this post, now i only want to watch movies about old people
