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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 28, 2020 14:11:05 GMT -5
The Swerve
Holy shit that was upsetting.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 28, 2020 18:59:58 GMT -5
We just finally watched But I'm A Cheerleader for the first time the other day, and adored it - very sweet and very, very gay. Gave my wife and I big lesbian emotions as expected, and now we plan to watch with my partner, too. Also, my friend's band is on the soundtrack, twice, underscoring two different scenes, which I already knew about but was very, very cool to actually experience! Are you friends with Go Sailor or Dressy Bessy or is there some third band that had multiple songs on the soundtrack? Either way it's cool and it's a pretty great movie with a tremendous aesthetics and cool-ass 90s twee soundtrack.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Sept 28, 2020 21:13:24 GMT -5
Cuties - pretty similar to Welcome to the Dollhouse or Thirteen. Awkward preteen tries to be cool. But the cool kids want to try out for a dance competition and watch way to many hyper sexualized music videos.
The close ups of kid bums and the awkward sexy "finger in the mouth" look were uncomfortable, but I guess that was the point.
It was still an interesting story about being a preteen and trying to figure stuff out.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 28, 2020 22:25:54 GMT -5
Watched most of Trollhunter again last night when I couldn’t sleep; it’s a nifty little Norwegian movie, exactly what it says on the tin. No gore, if you’re sensitive to that; not quite horror IMO, but sorta horror-adjacent. Also found footage, which I still don’t mind, if done properly.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 1:52:23 GMT -5
Are you friends with Go Sailor or Dressy Bessy or is there some third band that had multiple songs on the soundtrack? Either way it's cool and it's a pretty great movie with a tremendous aesthetics and cool-ass 90s twee soundtrack. We are actually friends with Dressy Bessy, yeah! Our band The Crystal Furs played a show with them back when we still lived in Texas and they were on tour coming through Dallas and we’ve been friends ever since.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 29, 2020 7:31:34 GMT -5
Are you friends with Go Sailor or Dressy Bessy or is there some third band that had multiple songs on the soundtrack? Either way it's cool and it's a pretty great movie with a tremendous aesthetics and cool-ass 90s twee soundtrack. We are actually friends with Dressy Bessy, yeah! Our band The Crystal Furs played a show with them back when we still lived in Texas and they were on tour coming through Dallas and we’ve been friends ever since. That’s really cool. They’re a terrific band and for my money the songs that they’ve got on that soundtrack are among their best.
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Post by sarapen on Sept 29, 2020 8:17:41 GMT -5
Quantum of Solace (2008): Okay, it's better than the first one. James Bond is making a nominal effort to subdue rather than eliminate potential leads here. He even does some really slick spy work at one point. And the narrative is a less mechanical than 'kill lead, steal his phone, kill lead, steal his phone, kill lead, steal his phone, play poker, have the main bad guy killed in front of you before you can steal his phone, discover mole, have the mole killed in front of you, steal her phone'. Plus, 100 minute runtime. It's not that long movies are bad, but it's a virtue to close before the audience gets tired of you. I was fascinated by the movie's attempts to reconcile the Bond frachise's structural misogyny with 'wait shit we're releasing this movie in the 21st century'. That's not to say it was effective, of course. Making literally every man in your movie a creepy monster who abuses and exploits women may make James Bond the character look better in comparison (and is also realistic), but it also means every woman in your movie is defined by being abused and exploited. Judi Dench as the only female non-Bond Girl character remains a step in the right direction. It sure would be terrible if something were to happen to her and she was replaced by, say, a white man and a secretary. The movie does get points for identifying that the true enemy is multinational capitalism. I like how the movie kind of tried to show the UK as brutish imperialists but it didn't really go anywhere with it. I blame in part the writer's strike for not giving more opportunity to polish up the script, but it's a Hollywood blockbuster so the fully-formed movie probably would have been disappointing in its politics anyway.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 29, 2020 9:16:59 GMT -5
Quantum of Solace (2008): Okay, it's better than the first one. James Bond is making a nominal effort to subdue rather than eliminate potential leads here. He even does some really slick spy work at one point. And the narrative is a less mechanical than 'kill lead, steal his phone, kill lead, steal his phone, kill lead, steal his phone, play poker, have the main bad guy killed in front of you before you can steal his phone, discover mole, have the mole killed in front of you, steal her phone'. Plus, 100 minute runtime. It's not that long movies are bad, but it's a virtue to close before the audience gets tired of you. I was fascinated by the movie's attempts to reconcile the Bond frachise's structural misogyny with 'wait shit we're releasing this movie in the 21st century'. That's not to say it was effective, of course. Making literally every man in your movie a creepy monster who abuses and exploits women may make James Bond the character look better in comparison (and is also realistic), but it also means every woman in your movie is defined by being abused and exploited. Judi Dench as the only female non-Bond Girl character remains a step in the right direction. It sure would be terrible if something were to happen to her and she was replaced by, say, a white man and a secretary. The movie does get points for identifying that the true enemy is multinational capitalism. QOS has the best theme song tho.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 29, 2020 21:57:50 GMT -5
Mulan (1998) - Drank some beers and watched Mulan the cartoon with my child.
Cats (2019) - I don’t know how this exists. Even ignoring the horror of what the cats look like the songs suck and the story sucks too. I have no idea how the musical survived long enough to become this terrible, terrible movie.
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 30, 2020 10:36:15 GMT -5
Class Action Park (2020)
Kind of rough but entertaining documentary about the infamous water park in the 70's and 80's. The interviews with guests and employees do their thing, leaving the viewer with their mouth open, aghast at the safety violations and subsequent atrocities. The archival clips make it look like a pretty cool, if wild place to visit. The tone shifts quite a bit as the documentary turns from mythology and legend to the real life people who were hurt or killed there and I don't think the documentary handles that very well. It does better with the myth-making aspect and how our childhoods are idealized.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 30, 2020 10:39:33 GMT -5
Cats (2019) - I don’t know how this exists. Even ignoring the horror of what the cats look like the songs suck and the story sucks too. I have no idea how the musical survived long enough to become this terrible, terrible movie. I saw it live as a kid (London, 1986) and really enjoyed it, then, but I'm not going to credit my ten-year-old self with the most refined critical capabilities. I've also pointedly avoided ever re-experiencing it in any form because I'm fairly certain it would not hold up in any way shape or form. I have occasionally idly wondered if there was anyone in the cast who I'd recognize now, though, though I have no idea whether or not there's a way to look that up.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 30, 2020 22:42:02 GMT -5
I watched Enola Holmes (2020) this weekend and found it delightful. I have no interest in Stranger Things whatsoever, so this was my first exposure to Millie Bobby Brown. She was absolutely charming, and I look forward to seeing where her career will take her. The movie could have trimmed about half an hour and ditched the love interest, though. It suffered a bit from "this young lady in olden times isn't 100% gender-conforming, quick, give her a male love interest so everyone knows she's normal!" syndrome. Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin wouldn't have been my first choices for Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, respectively, but they did fine. I'd like to see their relationship with Enola develop over the next few movies. Helena Bonham Carter was also fine, as she always is. I do love a suffragette willing to just bomb the shit out of everything.
It was enjoyable, and MUCH less Mary Sue than I was fearing. Also it’s so nice to see Helena Bonham-Carter getting back to her period piece roots. You know, and not all all Tim Burtoned up. Ok, I will never buy a)Sam Clafin as older than Cavill, or b) Cavill as Sherlock Holmes. He really leans too far towards himbo, and sorry, that type of ripped physique just does not work for a 19th century gentleman.
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 1, 2020 6:15:19 GMT -5
Class Action Park (2020)Kind of rough but entertaining documentary about the infamous water park in the 70's and 80's. The interviews with guests and employees do their thing, leaving the viewer with their mouth open, aghast at the safety violations and subsequent atrocities. The archival clips make it look like a pretty cool, if wild place to visit. The tone shifts quite a bit as the documentary turns from mythology and legend to the real life people who were hurt or killed there and I don't think the documentary handles that very well. It does better with the myth-making aspect and how our childhoods are idealized. Yeah the tonal whiplash was a bit much at times when you'd go from Chris Gethard bellowing, "FUCK YEAH ACTION PARK KAYAK EXPERIENCE~!!!!!" and then smash cut to an interview with someone's son that died on whatever ride he was bellowing about. I also thought it was weird how at the very end they kind of imply some mob ties or something but never really go into it.
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 2, 2020 7:38:48 GMT -5
Solo: A Star Wars Story About a Guy Name Han Solo, A Character From Star Wars, The Movie Franchise You Are Watching Right Now! (2018) - Saw Solo again today. My daughter who is now approximately the age I was when I saw the first Star Wars watched it with me and is now drawing pictures of “that bear...Chewbacca,” so thanks Solo for getting my child into movies about bullshit robots and space wizards.
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) - John Mulaney and a bunch of kids do a parody of a 1980s PBS show for kids in which they do science with David Byrne and talk about death...mostly talk about death. I absolutely love that Netflix allows for completely bonkers bullshit like this to exist. Each and every segment gets wilder and wilder until we get Jake Gyllenhaal dressed in a xylophone jacket manically threatening you swing a cat around by its tail in order to teach children about how there’s music everywhere. More of this please.
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 2, 2020 20:31:53 GMT -5
Solo: A Star Wars Story About a Guy Name Han Solo, A Character From Star Wars, The Movie Franchise You Are Watching Right Now! (2018) - Saw Solo again today. My daughter who is now approximately the age I was when I saw the first Star Wars watched it with me and is now drawing pictures of “that bear...Chewbacca,” so thanks Solo for getting my child into movies about bullshit robots and space wizards. John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) - John Mulaney and a bunch of kids do a parody of a 1980s PBS show for kids in which they do science with David Byrne and talk about death...mostly talk about death. I absolutely love that Netflix allows for completely bonkers bullshit like this to exist. Each and every segment gets wilder and wilder until we get Jake Gyllenhaal dressed in a xylophone jacket manically threatening you swing a cat around by its tail in order to teach children about how there’s music everywhere. More of this please. Here's the Chewbacca drawing that my daughter did for me. The thing with "I love you Mom" written near it is apparently one of the cats from Cats: The Musical: The Movie which she also recently watched.
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Post by ganews on Oct 2, 2020 20:47:19 GMT -5
Solo: A Star Wars Story About a Guy Name Han Solo, A Character From Star Wars, The Movie Franchise You Are Watching Right Now! (2018) - Saw Solo again today. My daughter who is now approximately the age I was when I saw the first Star Wars watched it with me and is now drawing pictures of “that bear...Chewbacca,” so thanks Solo for getting my child into movies about bullshit robots and space wizards. John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) - John Mulaney and a bunch of kids do a parody of a 1980s PBS show for kids in which they do science with David Byrne and talk about death...mostly talk about death. I absolutely love that Netflix allows for completely bonkers bullshit like this to exist. Each and every segment gets wilder and wilder until we get Jake Gyllenhaal dressed in a xylophone jacket manically threatening you swing a cat around by its tail in order to teach children about how there’s music everywhere. More of this please. Here's the Chewbacca drawing that my daughter did for me. The thing with "I love you Mom" written near it is apparently one of the cats from Cats: The Musical: The Movie which she also recently watched. That second drawing is at least as good a rendering as what appeared in the movie.
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Post by oppy all along on Oct 3, 2020 1:12:13 GMT -5
Playing with Fire (2019): Sometimes, when I want to feel sad, I look at the original 2020 release schedule before Covid-19 hit. We were going to get Venom 2 this week. Not that Venom 1 was particularly great, but I still totally would have gone to see Tom Hardy be all Tom Hardy again. Nothing against this movie in particular, it's just sadly reflective of the times that I ended up staying home and watching something stupid on Amazon Prime than going to see the latest big release.
This movie is weirdly glib about extremely serious events. Those kids were this far away from dying horribly in a burning building and rather than acknowledge that in any way the movie has John Cena do physical comedy. Everyone seemed like they were having fun though.
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020): When I want to feel marginally better about 2020, I think about the theatrical experiences that I wouldn't have had if the movie industry and the world in general proceeded as normal. The Broken Hearts Gallery is pretty far out of my usual beat - I don't do romcoms because my heart is an inert lump of rubber. But nothing else was on and I was still seething from having watched Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace FOR NO REASON AT ALL so why not?
And it was real cute! John Cena's daughter from Blockers, the older girl from Good Boys, Eliza Hamilton from Hamilton, the slacker dude from Brittany Runs A Marathon, it's a strong cast in a nice and cute romcom about movie-20 somethings in New York. Almost nice and cute enough that I didn't have some nits to pick.
Lord give me the confidence of a white guy explaining 'in medias res' to a presumably university educated woman of colour.
Okay, I had to pick one nit. It was a cute movie though.
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Post by pairesta on Oct 3, 2020 9:00:03 GMT -5
We're breaking out horror movies for our 13 year old daughter for October. Well, *I'm* breaking out horror movies, because my wife was caught off guard when I abruptly announced it for our movie theme last night. Both of them were very nervous about what I would pick. "It's not something like Saw is it?" My daughter fretted. "It better not be Blair Witch Project." My wife threatened.
Nope! Alien. She's seen Jaws already and honestly Alien's only a couple notches past that in my book. "It's not Alien is it?" She asked nervously over the opening credits as the title slowly spelled out. "Oh nooooooo . . ." She sank into her seat as the final letters completed themselves.
My daughter watched the entire movie with a blanket wrapped around her head, ready to tug it over her face at the slightest provocation. "Auuugh! Slow burn STOP!" She cried at one point during another stiflingly quiet scene of steady tracking shots and mounting dread. Even though she's a horror newbie she knows the tropes, even if she got them wrong. "Oh he's acting weird. He's infected." "Oh I hope that cat isn't infected." She was more worried about Jonesy than any human character.
"So wait. There's an egg that hatches one kind of alien, and then that alien puts an egg in you and it hatches a completely different alien? Why doesn't the first egg just hatch the baby alien?" She asked when the movie was over. I've never quite understood the morphology there either.
Anyways. She immediately said "That was great!!!" after it was over, mission accomplished. She's braver than I am: I avoided Alien until I was 17 or so.
Next is of course Aliens. (I know, not technically a horror movie. Stop.) I seem to be one of the few people who likes it more than the original. She's gonna love Hudson.
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 3, 2020 10:31:37 GMT -5
We're breaking out horror movies for our 13 year old daughter for October. Well, *I'm* breaking out horror movies, because my wife was caught off guard when I abruptly announced it for our movie theme last night. Both of them were very nervous about what I would pick. "It's not something like Saw is it?" My daughter fretted. "It better not be Blair Witch Project." My wife threatened. Nope! Alien. She's seen Jaws already and honestly Alien's only a couple notches past that in my book. "It's not Alien is it?" She asked nervously over the opening credits as the title slowly spelled out. "Oh nooooooo . . ." She sank into her seat as the final letters completed themselves. My daughter watched the entire movie with a blanket wrapped around her head, ready to tug it over her face at the slightest provocation. "Auuugh! Slow burn STOP!" She cried at one point during another stiflingly quiet scene of steady tracking shots and mounting dread. Even though she's a horror newbie she knows the tropes, even if she got them wrong. "Oh he's acting weird. He's infected." "Oh I hope that cat isn't infected." She was more worried about Jonesy than any human character. "So wait. There's an egg that hatches one kind of alien, and then that alien puts an egg in you and it hatches a completely different alien? Why doesn't the first egg just hatch the baby alien?" She asked when the movie was over. I've never quite understood the morphology there either. Anyways. She immediately said "That was great!!!" after it was over, mission accomplished. She's braver than I am: I avoided Alien until I was 17 or so. Next is of course Aliens. (I know, not technically a horror movie. Stop.) I seem to be one of the few people who likes it more than the original. She's gonna love Hudson. Among people I know in real life it seems to be split pretty evenly between Alien and Aliens as to which one is better (and it's generally phrased as "They're both great but I like X more than Y because in Y you got Vasquez and dudes imploring people to, and I quote, 'Stay frosty.'") As for Alien, how much of the movie had been spoiled for her due to parodies and spoofs. I never saw the original one until way later in my life (late 20s maybe even early 30s) so a lot of the big plot stuff had been spoiled by Space Balls and various Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors gags which probably decreased the overall terror that I might otherwise had felt had I not known that a chestburster was going to happen...and probably not do a song and dance routine. Also what was your daughter's take on the alien hand in the ventilation shafts? That alien hand creeped me out more than anything else in that movie.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Oct 4, 2020 0:12:12 GMT -5
Stranger Than Fiction
Will Ferrell has done so many comedies about stupid characters that it's often overlooked that he can play serious roles. Stranger Than Fiction is an odd little movie about an IRS agent, living a dull life, who starts hearing a woman's voice narrating his life. At first, he naturally assumes he might be having a breakdown, but with no new stress factors, and the fact that nothing else in his life is affected, he doesn't accept a diagnosis of schizophrenia. He looks up a professor of literature, played by Dustin Hoffman, who slowly begins to accept that Ferrell might actually be a character in someone else's story. Along the way, he audits a baker, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who begins to fall in love with him, as so often happens during IRS audits. Eventually he tracks down the author of the story he is living, played by Emma Thompson.
I really like this movie. It isn't exactly a comedy, it isn't a thriller, it isn't an action movie. It's a quiet, contemplative piece about how people are interconnected and how minor events can have big consequences, and it's charming as hell. As much as I enjoy his comedies, this might be my favorite Farrell movie.
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Post by pairesta on Oct 4, 2020 7:11:51 GMT -5
Among people I know in real life it seems to be split pretty evenly between Alien and Aliens as to which one is better (and it's generally phrased as "They're both great but I like X more than Y because in Y you got Vasquez and dudes imploring people to, and I quote, 'Stay frosty.'") As for Alien, how much of the movie had been spoiled for her due to parodies and spoofs. I never saw the original one until way later in my life (late 20s maybe even early 30s) so a lot of the big plot stuff had been spoiled by Space Balls and various Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors gags which probably decreased the overall terror that I might otherwise had felt had I not known that a chestburster was going to happen...and probably not do a song and dance routine. Also what was your daughter's take on the alien hand in the ventilation shafts? That alien hand creeped me out more than anything else in that movie. She knew going in that an alien would come out of someone but didn't know the specifics of the scene. Blanket and pillow went up over her head when Kane started convulsing. I too came to the movie late, and pretty much knew all the beats, which I think is why it was a letdown for me at the time. What's the alien hand in the ventilation shafts?
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 4, 2020 7:20:50 GMT -5
Among people I know in real life it seems to be split pretty evenly between Alien and Aliens as to which one is better (and it's generally phrased as "They're both great but I like X more than Y because in Y you got Vasquez and dudes imploring people to, and I quote, 'Stay frosty.'") As for Alien, how much of the movie had been spoiled for her due to parodies and spoofs. I never saw the original one until way later in my life (late 20s maybe even early 30s) so a lot of the big plot stuff had been spoiled by Space Balls and various Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors gags which probably decreased the overall terror that I might otherwise had felt had I not known that a chestburster was going to happen...and probably not do a song and dance routine. Also what was your daughter's take on the alien hand in the ventilation shafts? That alien hand creeped me out more than anything else in that movie. She knew going in that an alien would come out of someone but didn't know the specifics of the scene. Blanket and pillow went up over her head when Kane started convulsing. I too came to the movie late, and pretty much knew all the beats, which I think is why it was a letdown for me at the time. What's the alien hand in the ventilation shafts? When they're crawling around in some sort of ventilation shafts there's a shot of just the alien's costume hand popping out of the murky darkness and even as a late-20s early-30s dude I was thoroughly unnerved by it. It just looks so weird and wrong.
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Post by Prole Hole on Oct 4, 2020 13:58:09 GMT -5
Bill & Ted Face The Music
I liked it. It hit me square in the Gen-X feels. It's lightweight, daft and silly. Good. The two daughters deserve their own movie/series. I appreciate a movie that's 90 minutes long and doesn't fuck about. When it ends, it ends. No big family hugs, or lessons, or anything. And... done! Lots of movies can and should learn from this. Station! Rufus! *tears up a little* Ah, it's just darned charming. It's nice. Not cynical, or graphic, or dystopian, or miserable or "important". Just... nice.
Non-heinous.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Oct 4, 2020 15:38:44 GMT -5
Stranger Than Fiction
Will Ferrell has done so many comedies about stupid characters that it's often overlooked that he can play serious roles. Stranger Than Fiction is an odd little movie about an IRS agent, living a dull life, who starts hearing a woman's voice narrating his life. At first, he naturally assumes he might be having a breakdown, but with no new stress factors, and the fact that nothing else in his life is affected, he doesn't accept a diagnosis of schizophrenia. He looks up a professor of literature, played by Dustin Hoffman, who slowly begins to accept that Ferrell might actually be a character in someone else's story. Along the way, he audits a baker, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who begins to fall in love with him, as so often happens during IRS audits. Eventually he tracks down the author of the story he is living, played by Emma Thompson.
I really like this movie. It isn't exactly a comedy, it isn't a thriller, it isn't an action movie. It's a quiet, contemplative piece about how people are interconnected and how minor events can have big consequences, and it's charming as hell. As much as I enjoy his comedies, this might be my favorite Farrell movie.
I love this movie too and it also has perhaps the most (only?) romantic pun in movies?
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 4, 2020 21:42:15 GMT -5
No Holds Barred (1989) - For some reason this is now on basic cable all the time and for some reason if I see that it’s on basic cable I end up watching it. My daughter watched it with me and is now doing the "Rip 'Em" hand motion at me and bellowing, "HAAAAAAAAAA!" at random which seems like a parenting win. This but a small Eurasian girlchild with pigtails.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Oct 6, 2020 23:19:51 GMT -5
Found a list of the "best" horror movies on Netflix for 2020, and watched Apostle. Not bad for a small release. Always a fan of movies involving insane cults where the supernatural aspect is sort of a twist.
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Post by nowimnothing on Oct 7, 2020 8:26:33 GMT -5
Found a list of the "best" horror movies on Netflix for 2020, and watched Apostle. Not bad for a small release. Always a fan of movies involving insane cults where the supernatural aspect is sort of a twist. Have you seen The Endless? It is a little slow to build, but gets weirder and weirder as it goes along.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Oct 7, 2020 9:09:30 GMT -5
Found a list of the "best" horror movies on Netflix for 2020, and watched Apostle. Not bad for a small release. Always a fan of movies involving insane cults where the supernatural aspect is sort of a twist. Have you seen The Endless? It is a little slow to build, but gets weirder and weirder as it goes along. That's on the list! I'll check it out soon.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Oct 7, 2020 10:56:08 GMT -5
Have you seen The Endless? It is a little slow to build, but gets weirder and weirder as it goes along. That's on the list! I'll check it out soon. I can second the recommendation for The Endless. I'll also add The Ritual as a good Netflix horror movie. Good "creepy stuff in the woods" flick.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 7, 2020 12:15:26 GMT -5
The Lodge (2019) - I thought it was really good. Riley Keogh puts in a great performance as a former cult member trapped in a winter lodge during a snowstorm with her boyfriend's children. Creepy horror antics ensue. The main critiques of the film seem to be that the plot is a bit unbelievable for the level of realism the film is aiming for and that it's a bit predictable. I think that's probably true, but it's still a deeply unsettling bit of psychological horror. It's also really nicely shot, the cinematographer has worked with Lanthimos on most of his films, the architecture of the buildings (the lodge itself, but also the characters' primary homes and in one scene a church) all have a sleek modern design aesthetic which contrasts with the expected setting for this kind of movie in a visually interesting way (I also think it lends to the film's critique of the normative notion of the well-off nuclear family), and there's also a cool recurring visual motif of characters and things viewed through various semi-transparent screens and windows (probably a reference to "For now we see through a glass darkly"). Anyway, it's not like an all-time classic, but I thought it was really good. Also, apparently this is a Hammer film? It's the only one I've seen. A-
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