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Candyman (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a...

www.rottentomatoes.com

Sitting at 95% right now, anyone getting out to see it this weekend?

 

[DKehoe]

Nice, I hadn't been following it closely and horror isn't usually my thing but may check it out.

 

[poppabk]

The original is definitely top 10 horror movie for me, so I will likely go see this next week.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Is it a sequel? A remake? Reboot?

 

[Blond]

Is it a sequel? A remake? Reboot?

One of those sequel reboots. It takes place 20 years or so after the original but its following the same notes of Candyman fucking with people who demystify him.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Damn. That's awesome. Feels like it's been forever since we had a quality horror movie.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Damn. That's awesome. Feels like it's been forever since we had a quality horror movie.

Hereditary, The Lighthouse, Possessor, The Witch, Midsommar, Mandy, etc…

 

[Nobody_Important]

Hereditary, The Lighthouse, Possessor, The Witch, Midsommar, Mandy, etc…

Guess I should have added "that I enjoyed" to the end of my post.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Guess I should have added "that I enjoyed" to the end of my post.

The Ritual is the last one I can think of that I enjoyed. Did you try that one?

 

[Nobody_Important]

The Ritual is the last one I can think of that I enjoyed. Did you try that one?

I have not. I'll have to give it a look I guess.

 

[kittoo]

Some reviews (especially by African American reviewers) point out that its too preachy and message driven. I guess just another movie that has social justice themes so will get super good reviews but might not actually be good.

 

[HellforLeather]

Some reviews (especially by African American reviewers) point out that its too preachy and message driven. I guess just another movie that has social justice themes so will get super good reviews but might not actually be good.

I was afraid of this. Critics these days seem to fall over themselves for preachy woke movies these days. Lets see the audience score.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Critics reviews = 0 don't be ridiculous.

 

[Blond]

I was afraid of this. Critics these days seem to fall over themselves for preachy woke movies these days. Lets see the audience score.

Some reviews (especially by African American reviewers) point out that its too preachy and message driven. I guess just another movie that has social justice themes so will get super good reviews but might not actually be good.

Did anyone not catch any of the undertones of the original?

 

[HellforLeather]

Did anyone not catch any of the undertones of the original?

If its on par with the original I will rescind my reservations. Most movies these days are more than happy to beat their audiences over the head with their messaging.

I think its a matter of priorities. Are you trying to make a good movie with a message? or trying to get a message across and the movie is just a means to an end?

 

[Punished Miku]

I loved the first one. Saw it approximately 307 times.

 

[Cleared_Hot]

Can never trust rt especially nowadays when everyone desperately needs job security in that industry

 

[belmarduk]

I really can’t remember the last time I’ve been this excited for a movie. Yesterday, I watched Farewell to the Flesh (which is a solid movie despite what most say) and Day of the Dead (which is not.)

 

[mekes]

I don’t trust rotten tomato review scores in the slightest. I have watched so many shit movies after seeing high review scores from that website. Hope the movie is good, but all excitement left me the moment I saw the Rotten Tomato’s link!

 

[The Pleasure]

I really can’t remember the last time I’ve been this excited for a movie. Yesterday, I watched Farewell to the Flesh (which is a solid movie despite what most say) and Day of the Dead (which is not.)

Farewell to the flesh was a good sequel. It gave more depth to candyman and his curse. Day of the dead was gamepass tier though.

 

[Hari Seldon]

Nice! The original was excellent.

 

[SafeOrAlone]

Some reviews (especially by African American reviewers) point out that its too preachy and message driven. I guess just another movie that has social justice themes so will get super good reviews but might not actually be good.

I swear I can tell the quality of these things by Perri Nemiroff reviews.
She is just barely giving it a fresh review. Translation = I better not say I didn't like this movie. It's in the words she chooses.
I'm picking on her, but I used to watch Collider and sort of noticed it there.

For reference, she was one of those people calling out Lucas Film, for announcing Jon Favreau was The Mandalorian director, on "National Women's Day. Y'know, because he's not a woman, so the world should pause on any positive announcements regarding men.
But I got the impression she was going with the crowd and had no idea what she was talking about.

She's not African American btw, it just made me think of her.

 

[SidViscous]

I was afraid of this. Critics these days seem to fall over themselves for preachy woke movies these days. Lets see the audience score.

They make the Candyman a victim of racial social injustice, and it's a Peele movie. Deduct at least 20% off their score.

 

[T8SC]

Lets hope these are genuine reviews and we're not all coming out of the theatre saying ....

 

[carlosrox]

Hope it's better than Us. I don't usually tear a movie apart so viciously but I honestly thought Us was truly an awful movie.

The story and twist felt like the most high school level shit ever.

 

[SafeOrAlone]

The deceptive thing about Rotten Tomatoes is the fact that a high percentage just means a lot of the people think it's a "good" film.
So, it's definitely a good sign if the score is high, but it's not an indicator of a "must see" movie, if that makes sense. Like, you could achieve the almighty 100% score on RT, with a bunch of "3/5" review scores.

 

[Kenpachii]

i need to see this then

 

[EverydayBeast]

I’ll be honest it looked like a movie of the year contender

 

[FunkMiller]

I wonder how close this version will be to Clive Barker’s original story. Either way, certainly going to see this as soon as I can.

 

[Javthusiast]

Guess I should have added "that I enjoyed" to the end of my post.

 

[Cravis]

Tony Todd better be in it. His voiceover was used in the trailers but he better physically make an appearance. I can’t imagine anyone else playing Candyman but him

 

[Azurro]

Oh, it's a Peele movie? Is it going to be more "why be WhITe PEoPLe sO racisT?!" like his previous ones? At least Get Out was kind of fun, US was pretentious nonsense. Since it's a black director, most likely the reviews are going to be irrelevant since they will all be automatically good.

 

[AlteredForms]

Candyman (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a...

www.rottentomatoes.com

Sitting at 95% right now, anyone getting out to see it this weekend?

We need to stop using Rotten Tomatoes as a standard of movie criticism, pretty much every good film automatically enters the 80/90% zone. One of the reasons I browse Metacritic, (even though there are some morons in the user reviews) is because their scores are somewhat cohesive. A movie I watched recently called Reminiscence was a classic 5/10 and it scored 46 which was a reasonable score. Candyman is at 72 on Metacritic and 90 on Rotten Tomatoes, same with Marvel's Shang Chi.

Doesn't matter though as I'm checking out on Friday .

 

[belmarduk]

Hope it's better than Us. I don't usually tear a movie apart so viciously but I honestly thought Us was truly an awful movie.

The story and twist felt like the most high school level shit ever.

Its Jordan Peele's company which is producing the movie. He isn't the director. I didn't hate Us but I thought the only reason it did so well was because of the success of Get Out.

 

[belmarduk]

Tony Todd better be in it. His voiceover was used in the trailers but he better physically make an appearance. I can’t imagine anyone else playing Candyman but him

Do you remember when they made a Nightmare on Elm Street and some rando played Freddy Krueger and not Robert Englund? That was incredibly lame. Thankfully, this is not the case and Tony Todd is definitely playing Candyman.

Hell, I was pissed when I found out Tim Curry wouldn't be playing Pennywise in It. I guess there's a good reason for it but Bill Skarsgard is also a tremendous actor.

 

[belmarduk]

Farewell to the flesh was a good sequel. It gave more depth to candyman and his curse. Day of the dead was gamepass tier though.

Yeah it was good. I liked the slight retelling of the story because that's how urban legends spread from place to place. Its on Amazon Prime if anybody wants to see it.

Day of the Dead is on Hulu...

 

[20cent]

Oh, it's a Peele movie? Is it going to be more "why be WhITe PEoPLe sO racisT?!" like his previous ones? At least Get Out was kind of fun, US was pretentious nonsense. Since it's a black director, most likely the reviews are going to be irrelevant since they will all be automatically good.

I'm ok with his movies, his Twilight Zone crap was even worse on that theme, like every single episode without subtlety.

 

[SpiceRacz]

Been looking forward to this since before it was delayed last year. Hopefully it doesn't beat the audience over the head with wokeness and can live up to the quality of the original. Which is a great horror movie imo.

 

[belmarduk]

Been looking forward to this since before it was delayed last year. Hopefully it doesn't beat the audience over the head with wokeness and can live up to the quality of the original. Which is a great horror movie imo.

Racism is a very important component to the story of Candyman. I assume it will also be addressed in this new film. You shouldn't worry about it being woke.. just enjoy the movie!

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Noice pretty stoked

 

[Ionian]

Clive Barker has written nothing but rubbish in decades

His last was absolutely ghost written in parts. Dudes health is screwed. He has someone work for him

Source: my first viewing of the Nightbreed uncut in the cinema. Dude presented it an a Q@A. He wrote half of the last.


Awful book, don't bother. It's the death of Pinhead/ Who kills? Christ


After he kills the Devil of course. Only good bit.

His previous was worse. First of his I never finished

Look him up on YouTube, he's barely alive from his drug use. (obvious and he admits it,, led to a coma)

 

[M.W.]

Below 90% now. Trash.

 

[AlteredForms]

Clive Barker has written nothing but rubbish in decades

His last was absolutely ghost written in parts. Dudes health is screwed. He has someone work for him

Source: my first viewing of the Nightbreed uncut in the cinema. Dude presented it an a Q@A. He wrote half of the last.


Awful book, don't bother. It's the death of Pinhead/ Who kills? Christ


After he kills the Devil of course. Only good bit.

His previous was worse. First of his I never finished

Look him up on YouTube, he's barely alive from his drug use. (obvious and he admits it,, led to a coma)

Ok... Candyman, Clive Barker, Candyman Clive Barker. Hmm...

 

[Heart_Attack]

Ever since i saw the first trailer and you could see the "police are profiling black people" message i stopped caring about this movie. I'm sure it's full of preachy shit, and that's why critics love it. I'll wait for youtube reviews and impressions to laugh at this shit.

 

[Peggies]

Ever since i saw the first trailer and you could see the "police are profiling black people" message i stopped caring about this movie. I'm sure it's full of preachy shit, and that's why critics love it. I'll wait for youtube reviews and impressions to laugh at this shit.

That's something I observed with horror movies recently. If they have a high score on metacritic.com it's usually because there's a "strong, stunning and brave" female character. Or a "strong, stunning and brave" black female charcter, than it gets extra points.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Guess I better post about fiddling my cock.

 

[Enjay]

Of course it is. It would be an ism to not pretend like it's the greatest piece of cinema transcending its genre.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Some reviews (especially by African American reviewers) point out that its too preachy and message driven. I guess just another movie that has social justice themes so will get super good reviews but might not actually be good.

Yeah I've been worried about this given Jordan Peele is involved, and his Twilight Zone series had some apparently very preachy stuff in there. I liked Get Out even if it's a little outlandish a concept, and might've actually enjoyed Us more as a film even if it was weaker in ways than Get Out.

I hope this new Candyman isn't some overly socially preachy, pretentious type of thing but again, feels like that's where Peele has been trending since his film debut and you never know these days. We'll see. And FWIW, I know there will be BS arguments on both sides with this, so I'm coming at this like with everything these days: a born-again normie.

Racism is a very important component to the story of Candyman. I assume it will also be addressed in this new film. You shouldn't worry about it being woke.. just enjoy the movie!

This is a good point and it's something I've noticed with some claimed anti-SJW types where they try retroactively saying things with diversity in the past (well before current-era culture war BS) was also "woke"; sorry but you can't retroactively apply a modern buzzword to things of the past when the context of those things are wildly different.

Sometimes it feels like the Overton window has shifted so much that if some folks see even a single person who's not white, male or straight in something they're ready to call it "woke" or SJW trash and that's just the complete flip side of extreme stupidity as things SJWs believe. It's still extreme stupidity either way.

That said there's always a right and wrong way to go about things like diversification and making it so that it isn't denigrating other groups, or taking over the fun factor of a story or plot. Up until a few years ago it seemed like Hollywood, games, comics etc. had a pretty good balance on doing that, and had so for at least a couple decades tbh. But I think insincere types saw the opportunity where some of that could be respectfully improved, and they've leeched on that as a chance to screw everything up.

 

[Elpidio Valdés]

Jeremy Jahns didn't seem to like it too much! He gave it a "Good time if you're drunk" rating. Apparently the movie is as subtle with its social commentary as being bashed in the head with a hammer.

 

[AlteredForms]

Got back from watching it and they really went hard on the whole BLM angle and how white people need to stop gentrifying neighbourhoods in Chicago. There was even a message at the end of the movie highlighting a website for racial injustices lol. All in all it was a good movie, especially that dude from Skins playing the gay brother lol.