Jake Gittes

No lazy writing in those.

I hope it has a Prince of Persia/Pirates 5-esque sub-20% hold against its own June Pixar release. Movie gets some money, we get some meltdowns maybe

Migraine blows sorry to hear that, especially that you had to get it in the theater. When it happens to me it's at least when I'm home and not long before I go to sleep.

they're all good-to-great and available online. recommend 'em. and yeah I'm in a similar boat, really love The Witch and Babadook, like but don't love It Follows, thought ICAN was pretty lacking. even if one doesn't dismiss them on principle it's still just as reductive and dumb to assume that they're all the same movie.

Get outta here with this condescending bullshit.

The head stayed at the site of the accident Mr. I Watched More Horror Movies Than Anyone On This Site. It is logical and realistic. Again, he's a stoned immature teenager whose little sister just died in a horrific accident partially because of him. He is NOT prepared for the weight of that shit. He is NOT gonna behave like a calm, rational human being. Do you realize just what kind of an effect something like that can have on your mental state? It'd fuck you up for the rest of your life. It's almost as if the movie communicates that to you when it spends a full minute or two on a close-up of his face as he is very obviously failing to deal with what just happened.

oh. get well.

C'mon it's barely above 2.5

When you seeing it

This is one of the most fun movies ever made. Just people playing with the form and actually stretching the bounds of what a movie can be, without any of the crutches of narrative. I find it absolutely delightful.

What was there to say? She stuck her head out. He was speeding - for a good reason - and had to swerve to the side. It was a horrific accident. And he doesn't "casually" go home, the whole emotional point of the scene is that he's too devastated and terrified to deal with the situation like an adult - to even look at the body, or call the police to the site or whatever - and he shifts the burden of actually discovering the body onto his mother. He does not have it in him to own up to what happened, which is what she calls him out on ("Nobody admits anything they've done!"), while she resents both him and herself for making Charlie go to the party in the first place. I also thought it was pretty clear, from the extremely cautious way he first addresses her at dinner, that that was the first time he attempted to talk to her about this at all. Given their previous mutual history - that she didn't want to have him, that she almost torched him and herself in her sleep - it's easy to infer that, post-accident, the resentment must have been so strong that they wouldn't have been on speaking terms at all. As far as this part goes, the movie gives you everything you need to work with.

Yeah I know mother! is at least 4/5 and Hereditary is more like 3.5/5 oh well what can you do.

Is our living in a Marvel world making people think that just because a studio releases some vaguely similar horror films it actually makes them, like a conveyor belt or something? A24 doesn't "use tension" to elevate anything, it doesn't write and direct movies.

Futurist leave.

Sacred Deer is the movie from last year that I most wanted to like but didn't. I'll stick with Dogtooth and The Lobster.

Good thing objectivity doesn't exist

How do you know the way he eats spaghetti if you've never seen it?

To everyone who dug this, or really looking forward to it: really recommend checking out all 6 of Aster's short films he made before this https://www.avclub.com/hooked-on-hereditary-s-spooky-power-check-out-director-1826571644 Some deeply twisted, pitch-black funny, very well-done stuff in there. Increased my appreciation of the guy. Basically and Munchausen are my favorites but they're all worth it.

I mean dramatically it makes little sense for this to focus on anything other than Armstrong's state of mind under the pressure of the mission. It should be about how he and everyone else deal with being a part of the event of this magnitude. Hard to believe the actual movie is gonna try to draw suspense out of whether he makes it to the moon or not.

Shit just got real

But the mental illness is tied in with the supernatural, Collette talks about how her brother accused their mother of trying to "put people inside him", we later realize that he was actually right and she was trying to use him as a vessel for Paimon. It just doesn't feel like something is off right away, which, yes, I had an issue with that but the horror is still present in that part even if you only realize it retroactively.

Well, 57m. Won't reach 60 till Thursday or next Friday.

I mean, yeah. Cooke is an actual sociopath and Taylor-Joy carries out a murder. There's a natural (imo) dark humor to their interactions with each other and other people (especially Yelchin) but this was never supposed to be a full-on satire or another Heathers, this is mean people doing mean shit. Understanding people is kind of a prerequisite if you want to be a good writer of anything. Doesn't mean it makes you sick in the head.

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