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Post by Nikan on Mar 1, 2024 0:46:25 GMT
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Post by tylosaur on Mar 1, 2024 1:03:33 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 1, 2024 1:10:26 GMT
8 / 10 - One of the best things I've written in the last year and a half - see below - while sober anyway - when I'm drunk or hungover or short-tempered though I've written better stuff....... I mean some of that mean pacinoyes shit is just pure gold tbh  Sept 22, 2022 15:47:42 GMT -5 pacinoyes said:
The first mainstream US movie this year - unless I'm forgetting something (?) - not Maverick ffs, or Nope, not The Northman or The Batman or whatever other nonsense MAR has been praising all year while I bang my head against a wall......that has genuine greatness in it - that I've seen anyway.......and I mean that......"greatness"
What makes this movie so good - and it is really good - is the setting which always matters a lot - and here provides all kind of cross-connects on the page - the horror of war, and the birth of the movies, the sex and horror linkage of the movies too, the "death" that's always around the farm, the disease and plague "in the air" as well (that Covid-like mask at the movies was scary in an incidental way).
The lush way the movies told lies, 24 times a second to quote De Palma's rearranging of the earlier quote - dovetails with everything underneath the "surface".
This movie implies that horrible murder(s) came out of WW I - the murderous mindset anyway, and our Modern Age - and that after this era, that the "connection" of events would lead to even more gruesome horrors - the Depression, WW II, Manson, Ed Gein, Vietnam, and on and on. The fact that this is pared down and "simple" as an origin story makes it lean, propulsive and ruthlessly efficient where X was just ok - a series of incidents - big deal - but Pearl is focused and unrelenting and specific .....everyone who dies needs to - and their death has a precise meaning.....related to the plot but also outside of it.
Goth is riveting here but for the first time ever Ti West is too - consistently anyway - and this movie has many references to what horror cinema would give us - not just TCM, but also some Expressionistic shots, De Palma split screens and several other movie referencing nods as well.
Must see horror....************************************ So.....wanna go out sometime? 
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Post by finniussnrub on Mar 1, 2024 1:11:28 GMT
Goth is a 10...the film is more like a 6.
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Mar 1, 2024 2:09:58 GMT
6.5
Goth is fantastic and she continues to prove she's one of the best genre actresses working today. Unfortunately the film around her doesn't completely come together.
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Post by Joaquim on Mar 1, 2024 2:38:05 GMT
8/10
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Mar 1, 2024 5:30:42 GMT
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Post by thomasjerome on Mar 1, 2024 7:17:17 GMT
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Post by ibbi on Mar 1, 2024 13:05:56 GMT
6, I think, and Mia carries it up to that level. The thing is a grounding for her performance. x achieves basically the same thing better.
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Post by Archie on Mar 1, 2024 13:08:40 GMT
3/10. More Ti West trash. I very much regret watching it and X.
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 1, 2024 13:35:12 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 1, 2024 20:06:07 GMT
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Post by Nikan on Mar 2, 2024 0:38:54 GMT
6... I usually don't make this complaint (even about some of my faves in horror; cause I have a soft spot for drama even within this genre I guess)...but this just wasn't scary and I couldn't take the script (with those lines) as seriously as it wanted me to (however the amount you think it wanted)... Goth is the only reason it stays in memory; followed by a noteworthy use of red and yellow.
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