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Post by Viced on Sept 21, 2022 20:54:44 GMT
X was mostly fun but a little too meandering and didn't add up to much. Pearl, on the other hand, is the real deal. It's mere existence probably makes X better as well. Carrie for the 2̶0̶2̶0̶s̶ 1910s... minus the religion and telekinesis and with a decent dose of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which was to be X-pected) blended in. Many moments where you don't know whether to laugh or scream... or both. Mia Goth, in nearly every frame, gives one of the best performances of the 2020s thus far. Believe the hype of the monologue scene... totally transfixing. Unnerving naivety at its finest.
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Post by thomasjerome on Sept 21, 2022 21:22:06 GMT
That dance sequence, dinner scene, scarecrow scene, end credits, that monologue... I mean, that monologue!! The film just rocked. I usually like everything Ti West offers and I like how he doesn't like to repeat himself much. "X" was perhaps my favorite by him to date. It was fun, the killings were cool, Goth was sensational (as she is here), the themes were interesting and it just felt good to watch a film that celebrates " wildly ambitious entrepreneurial spirit" of the filmmakers who made these type of movies back in time. This one is even better and it's a great achievement that the same director makes two wildly entertaining films in the same year alone. While they share the same setting and similar themes, their style and tone are different. Yet somehow, they complete each other perfectly. I felt scared and horrified by Pearl and strangely felt so much empathy as well. I don't find the right words to describe how great Mia Goth is in this and how she makes every scene work. Just give her a goddamn Oscar!
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 22, 2022 20:47:42 GMT
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....
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Post by DeepArcher on Sept 28, 2022 4:17:26 GMT
A horror movie completely and bafflingly squeamish of its own horror. Complete cinematic blueballs, and this is coming from someone who had pretty low expectations after being underwhelmed by X. But X looks like a masterpiece of fundamentals like characterization and structure in comparison to this. It's basically a beat-for-beat variation on Joker and while maybe not as actively cringeworthy arguably even more boring because of how little it feels like it's even trying. I'm really rooting for Mia Goth and her apparent dedication to becoming the scream queen of her generation, I just hope she can get away from Ti West as soon as possible.
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Post by JangoB on Oct 21, 2022 21:30:37 GMT
Mia Goth? More like Mamma Mia, Oh My Goth What a performance. Best screaming of 2022 too and I'm not being facetious - one often feels that actors somewhat hold back and don't quite give it their all in the screaming scenes but whenever Goth screams in this one (and she does quite a bit of that) it seems to come purely from within, from some black pool hidden in the core of her being. She's dynamite. The movie's damn solid too. Immensely better than the lame X flick on pretty much all fronts. And I don't know about you but to me all the pandemic stuff was quite amusing - an interesting way to insert a current reference in the context of a 1918-set story.
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Nov 5, 2022 3:44:54 GMT
Post by PromNightCarrie on Nov 5, 2022 3:44:54 GMT
I got word that Mia Goth in Pearl is the best female horror performance since Kathy Bates in Misery. Is that bullshit or nah?
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Post by mhynson27 on Nov 5, 2022 3:49:10 GMT
I got word that Mia Goth in Pearl is the best female horror performance since Kathy Bates in Misery. Is that bullshit or nah? I think at the very least Collette in Hereditary is better, but she is right up there for sure.
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Pearl
Nov 5, 2022 6:36:36 GMT
Post by pacinoyes on Nov 5, 2022 6:36:36 GMT
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Nov 24, 2022 8:33:07 GMT
So dumb. It was just yet another exercise of directorial masturbation where they think they're making something more than it isn't and thinking it's clever when it's really just taking bits and pieces of far superior movies and masking it as your own ideas. The attempts to keep it modern despite its old timey flair (which it only does when I guess it suited the director) were also incredibly laughable.
This is a far cry from The Innkeepers.
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Post by Allenism on Nov 24, 2022 19:07:40 GMT
I enjoyed this a lot more than X, which to my disillusionment just ended up being about evil horny old people . Mia Goth is an absolute smash here - not Collette-in- Hereditary great, but she successfully toes that exceedingly tricky line between operatic and overwrought. Very nice production values all around, especially given the genre.
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Pearl
Dec 1, 2022 18:55:16 GMT
Post by Ryan_MYeah on Dec 1, 2022 18:55:16 GMT
I like this a lot more than X. I don’t think it’s great, but it certainly flirts with greatness.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 6, 2022 4:52:32 GMT
well, I guess I'm having nightmares tonight and Mia Goth's smiling face is gonna be all over them.
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 19, 2022 1:38:54 GMT
To be clear that is a list of films that Scorsese has praised, not a list of his favorite films.
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Dec 19, 2022 1:40:06 GMT
Post by JangoB on Dec 19, 2022 1:40:06 GMT
Wellllllll, Indiewire is funny that way - they've published articles like this about numerous filmmakers but those aren't really Marty's all time favorites, it's just a compilation of tidbits about movies that he's admired over the years. I don't think he'd put it on his Sight & Sound list or anything
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2022 1:52:27 GMT
Wellllllll, Indiewire is funny that way - they've published articles like this about numerous filmmakers but those aren't really Marty's all time favorites, it's just a compilation of tidbits about movies that he's admired over the years. I don't think he'd put it on his Sight & Sound list or anything
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Post by Pasquale on Mar 19, 2023 13:56:32 GMT
Impactful. The mother - daughter relationship was shredding.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Mar 21, 2023 13:51:20 GMT
Impactful. The mother - daughter relationship was shredding. That scene was incredible! Goth was extraordinary throughout, but let's clap for Tandi Wright too because she really brought it there.
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