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Post by jakesully on Sept 30, 2018 3:07:39 GMT
Thoughts ? (Its currently streaming on Netflix ) . I LOVED both Blue Ruin & Green Room so my hopes were very high for this one but I can't help but be a bit disappointed with Hold the Dark .
1. Blue Ruin 8.5/10 2. Green Room 8/10 3. Hold the Dark 6/10
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Sept 30, 2018 3:49:06 GMT
My local theater is playing it right now, which I'm super happy about because I was expecting to have to watch it on Netflix. Will try and see it next week because it's one of my most anticipated films of the year.
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Post by DeepArcher on Sept 30, 2018 5:14:27 GMT
Watched it tonight ... Godawful movie. What made Blue Ruin and Green Room work so damn well is that they were deceptively simple and didn't think too much of themselves, and Hold the Dark is exactly the opposite. Everything about it is excruciatingly overbearing and wrapped in pointless misery. The plot is of course nonsensical (don't even wanna bother talking about it), and the dialogue is teeerrrrrible. It's embarrassing to see great actors try to work with this shit. Jeffrey Wright once again is squandered because of a shitty script. Keough and Skarsgard are legitimately horrible, but it's all because of the material they had to work with & how they were directed. James Badge Dale was actually kinda good here, he was the one thing that snugly fit Saulnier's (misguided) vision.
I almost kinda liked the last scene in terms of what it was trying to go for, but everything that led to it made that sort of conclusion not earned AT ALL. A last-minute attempt at pathos and meaning that doesn't land because the rest of it was just too shitty. Bleh. Huge misfire from Saulnier.
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Sept 30, 2018 5:23:40 GMT
Ooh, Jeffrey Wright in a cross between Wind River and The Grey? Count me in!
Oops, must have sat on the remote and accidentally changed it to this war movie. I'll just-
Oh, naked Riley Keough in a sinister mask. What cult-themed horror movie is this now-?
Oops, changed it again to some action movie with an all-too-lengthy shootout.
...What the fuck is wrong with this remote?
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 2, 2018 6:58:19 GMT
God, I wish I listened to Stephen.
Decided I'd do a full-on horror month and started with this. God, what a fucking mess. With all this talent involved there's no excuse for it being this god damn bad. Generally when a movie has me going, "WHAT?!" more than twice, it's a bad sign. This had me doing it every few minutes.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 2, 2018 7:33:57 GMT
I totally wasn't even going to watch this, but I'm so in. It even came up in conversation with my parents yesterday and they were railing against it too . It seems like this could be the new Only God Forgives.
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Post by JangoB on Oct 2, 2018 11:11:07 GMT
Welp, guess I was the only one here who thought this was pretty damn good and actually consistent. I didn't think it veered off into numerous different directions - the film takes the Homo homini lupus est principle and just runs with it all the way up to the end. Not a profound idea by any means but its execution was engrossing enough for me. Some thrilling setpieces, some macabre imagery and a cold bleak mood all blended together in an atmospheric ride.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 2, 2018 11:46:48 GMT
My thoughts are that it's a massive piece of shit. Tonally inconsistent garbage, screenplay is a mess. I struggle to think of the last time I saw such a passive character in a lead role -- what the hell was up with Wright? He just walked around watching everything happen. Waste of my life.
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Post by stephen on Oct 2, 2018 15:04:07 GMT
I totally wasn't even going to watch this, but I'm so in. It even came up in conversation with my parents yesterday and they were railing against it too . It seems like this could be the new Only God Forgives. Don't badmouth Only God Forgives around these parts, man.
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Post by mhynson27 on Oct 3, 2018 15:18:56 GMT
Well, my 2 biggest disappointments of the year so far have both been Netflix films. 22 July and Apostle please come through next week.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 4, 2018 1:39:49 GMT
well I've heard negative things about this almost exclusively, so I'll probably pass. The trailer was a huge red flag for me. The movie looks all the place and that's what a lot of the feedback is confirming. Oh well...
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 4, 2018 3:45:33 GMT
*sigh* well this the second Netflix film this year (along with Mute) that was high on my most anticipated list, but ended by being yet another crushing disappointment. Not sure what to make of this other than it feels like a film that was edited down from something significantly longer. It just seems haphazardly put together, with extreme pacing issues, and events happening that aren't properly motivated, explained, or followed up on... and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why it spent so much time following around Skarsgard's character when almost none of the scenes that involve him add anything substantial, and they're just a colossal bore. I wish the film actually spent more time with Wright and JBD's characters especially because the former gets so little to do here.
I actually thought it started off well, but then it became incoherent with what seemed like too many ideas on its plate, and ultimately didn't do much of anything. Glad I decided to stay in and watch it on Netflix instead of paying to see it at my local theater...
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Post by alexanderblanchett on Nov 8, 2018 0:00:05 GMT
A very dark and bleak crime thriller with many disturbing elements and quite brutal moments. The acting was quite solid. Good to see Jeffrey Wright in a leading role and quite an unusual role for him. Alexander Skarsgard was pretty good. I did not like Riley Keough. She had a good character to work with but her performance was too over the place and constructed. You could truly see her acting wheels turning. Usually a good actress, here she was not too good. The true star of the film is the fantastic cinematography and a adequate score. The problem the film had was the screenplay. It had a great story and a great start but then it lost steam when the film concentrated too much on its violence and graphics. Those moments were very well executed but overshadowed the pace of the story. Also the fact that the symbolic made sense it was a bit lazy not to have a true final resolution at the end. Still I appreciate it for what it was and respect the decent and good qualities of it.
Nominations for:
Best Cinematography
Rating: 7/10
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