ForAcademicPurposes
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Wish it were a found footage movie.
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Werewolf Jones
Member
A Quiet Place: Day One.
Wait for streaming/10.
Wait for streaming/10.
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
To me it felt more like a good drama where the horror just kicks you in the taint the last 2 minutes.
Sorta like "Don't look now"
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Bottoms…
Don’t bother, I watched 10mins of it and it was just awful.
Don’t bother, I watched 10mins of it and it was just awful.
Fbh
Gold Member
Atlas: 4/10
Was feeling sick the other day so I just wanted to stay in bed and watch some dumb fun movie where you don't really have to think, so I guess in that sense it was just what I wanted.
But yeah, overall not very good, super generic, meh visuals, terrible acting. It has mechs though...I like mechs.
The first Slam Dunk 7/10
As a big fan of the anime/manga when I was growing up I really enjoyed this movie. Didn't expect it to focus on Ryota but overall I think it worked well and it was a great combination of a thrilling anime sports showdown and a compelling personal story about loss and grieving, you can tell this was written by a post Vagabond and Real Takehiko Inoue. Also overall a solid debut for Inoue himself as a director. Maybe he can make more movies in the future....if he ever actually finishes one of his other stories.
That said despite seeing praise online for the visuals I still think the low framerate CG animation is pretty ugly, I actually think some of the highlight moments from the match were more visually exciting in the manga than the movie.
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calistan
Member
Watched The Bikeriders yesterday. It's pretty good, and I liked the structure of it - Jodie Comer is interviewed by a photo journalist and narrates tales of the dashing biker who swept her off her feet in the late 1960s (Austin Butler), and his domineering motorcycle club leader (Tom Hardy, channelling Marlon Brando). What starts as a club for racing and drinking turns into an increasingly lawless gang as it grows out of control. Worth a watch if you like bikes, and unwashed men riding bikes.
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
Holy shit what a dumb movie
Protags are hot tho so I kept watching ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
When you have to write the dumbest characters imaginable to keep the plot moving and even then the dumbest people you could possibly imagine would never behave like this in a million years, you end up with a really dumb movie. People said this movie was good I don't understand???
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Vyse
Gold Member
Just going to post about this. Good film. Tom Hardy is a hell of an actor. This was 100% his movie.Watched The Bikeriders yesterday. It's pretty good, and I liked the structure of it - Jodie Comer is interviewed by a photo journalist and narrates tales of the dashing biker who swept her off her feet in the late 1960s (Austin Butler), and his domineering motorcycle club leader (Tom Hardy, channelling Marlon Brando). What starts as a club for racing and drinking turns into an increasingly lawless gang as it grows out of control. Worth a watch if you like bikes, and unwashed men riding bikes.
Vyse
Gold Member
I actually really liked it. Cool little Indy take on Friday the 13th. Super bloody.
Vyse
Gold Member
Watched the trailer for Speak No Evil. Haven’t seen it, but felt they gave way to much away in the trailer.
Holy shit what a dumb movie
Protags are hot tho so I kept watching ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
When you have to write the dumbest characters imaginable to keep the plot moving and even then the dumbest people you could possibly imagine would never behave like this in a million years, you end up with a really dumb movie. People said this movie was good I don't understand???
clarky
Gold Member
Admittedly me and the mrs drunk watched it last night, but i found there was zero tension. The idea of a film through the eyes of say Freddy or Jason is a cool idea just this missed the mark by a long way for me.
It was like watching Dr Disrespect on twitch playing Resident Evil with the run button disabled. All the teens in danger seemed to be just a slow walk away through a wooded area for no reason.
And the speech at the end was straight out of the happening.
Maybe i was just too pissed but "I spit on on your grave" this was not.
I love a low budget movie as long as the under lying idea is good :see Coherence, time crimes, Primer etc.
This was just shit, the script was terrible.
Each to their own of course, im glad you got something out of it.
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calistan
Member
Probably the best performance I’ve seen from him. He’s really imposing.
The whole film reminded me somehow of Goodfellas, although not exactly on that level. The flashbacks and narration, the good thing going bad theme. Having slept on it for a couple of days I get the urge to watch it again.
edit: Just remembered who Hardy reminds me of in this film! (Neal Cassady)
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clarky
Gold Member
Had this on the radar for a while, hype rising.Probably the best performance I’ve seen from him. He’s really imposing.
The whole film reminded me somehow of Goodfellas, although not exactly on that level. The flashbacks and narration, the good thing going bad theme. Having slept on it for a couple of days I get the urge to watch it again.
edit: Just remembered who Hardy reminds me of in this film! (Neal Cassady)
Musashipan
Member
The English Patient
Why did I take so long to watch it?
Why did I take so long to watch it?
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Felt entirely the opposite - definitely watch it in the cinema, imo.
Doom85
Gold Member
Hawking Radiation
Member
Yup.
I just don't know. This didn't do it for me as much as the first 2 movies. Also we don't know WTF these things are or where they come from.
Meh/10
Yeah about that. Because the movie is so quiet 90% of the time, all you hear is people snacking on stuff and whispering to each other. Could even hear a couple mobile phone notifications going off. Took me right out of the experience of the movie.
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Grildon Tundy
Gold Member
I know how a pizza is going to taste, but I still enjoy eating it!
I'm kicking myself that I read a synopsis on this movie during an insomnia spell because I heard it was good and had to know why. It is right up my alley.
Just watch it. Good stuff.
Agreed! It was a little too long, imo, but surprisingly nasty and well-done. More artistic and thoughtful than it needed to be, considering studios turn out cash-grab prequels like this all the time.
It was interesting to me nearly every review I read about The First Omen said it's an allegory about the Catholic Church and the patriarchy. Went right over my head. It works with or without reading it that way, imo.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
That could be a problem, I swore off going to the cinema because audiences are so awful. But happily I have found a place where people go to watch films, not have a chat and catch up on their Whatsapps.
In that sense, YMMV.
I thought it was the best film I've seen at the cinema this year.
I think your reservations about the film might mean we would always have a different point of view on the film, perfect viewing conditions or not though.
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Hawking Radiation
Member
That could be a problem, I swore off going to the cinema because audiences are so awful. But happily I have found a place where people go to watch films, not have a chat and catch up on their Whatsapps.
In that sense, YMMV.
I thought it was the best film I've seen at the cinema this year.
I think your reservations about the film might mean we would always have a different point of view on the film, perfect viewing conditions or not though.
I love these movies. I loved the first 2 and I like this one as well. Maybe the busy and noisy theatre environment ruined it for me. So far I'd put Dune 2 as the best theatre experience and then this one as 2nd.
Doom85
Gold Member
I think the only film (and mind you, I probably see 20-30 films per year in theaters) I’ve seen this decade so far where the audience was a bit out of control was Smile, and that’s more of I found myself in an audience with some people who clearly can’t handle horror given some of them screamed even at the most obvious of scares, but nobody was yelling at the screen or constantly talking.
I guess also Spider-man: No Way Home, in that there was like a decent amount of cheering and applause at certain appropriate moments, but that’s fitting for that movie, anyone complaining about that for certain films like that just seems silly to me.
Andyliini
Member
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Western is certainly not my genre, and while I have seen a few of them, none have become a mainstay for me. That's why I found it odd when I watched the trailer for the first time earlier this year. Something in it immediately grabbed my eye, I think it was the cinematography and gorgeous vistas. Yesterday I went to a theater to see it. I knew it has not gathered a lot of interest around the world, so I was a bit surprised when there were quite a few of other people in there watching the film. Not a full theater, but still.
Long story short, I loved this film. It follows on multiple storylines of different characters in the mid 1800's. Some of those stories tie together, but for the most part, the only common element is an advertising pamphlet of a new frontier called Horizon, where the characters are more or less trying to get to. While there are a lot of characters, I was able to identify with most of them, actors did a fine job all around. What I loved most was the scenery (terrain and colors reminded me of Breath of the Wild) and music. There was also one scene that almost brought a tear to my eye. And I'm not a type to get emotional easily. Because of all this, the three hours I sat in theater went by in an instant, and I found myself feeling hollow after leaving this world behind. That doesn't happen too often nowadays.
Certainly, this was the best film I have seen this year, and I'll definitely see Chapter 2, too when they show it. It's a shame that people have not found this film. Now I really hope it becomes a sleeper, or at least a cult classic, because that way Costner could finish the story. That is probably the only negative I can give, the story is cut short at the end. Thankfully, there is no uncertainty of the next part now, as it has already been completed. I just hope that doesn't leave too many unsolved plots.
Western is certainly not my genre, and while I have seen a few of them, none have become a mainstay for me. That's why I found it odd when I watched the trailer for the first time earlier this year. Something in it immediately grabbed my eye, I think it was the cinematography and gorgeous vistas. Yesterday I went to a theater to see it. I knew it has not gathered a lot of interest around the world, so I was a bit surprised when there were quite a few of other people in there watching the film. Not a full theater, but still.
Long story short, I loved this film. It follows on multiple storylines of different characters in the mid 1800's. Some of those stories tie together, but for the most part, the only common element is an advertising pamphlet of a new frontier called Horizon, where the characters are more or less trying to get to. While there are a lot of characters, I was able to identify with most of them, actors did a fine job all around. What I loved most was the scenery (terrain and colors reminded me of Breath of the Wild) and music. There was also one scene that almost brought a tear to my eye. And I'm not a type to get emotional easily. Because of all this, the three hours I sat in theater went by in an instant, and I found myself feeling hollow after leaving this world behind. That doesn't happen too often nowadays.
Certainly, this was the best film I have seen this year, and I'll definitely see Chapter 2, too when they show it. It's a shame that people have not found this film. Now I really hope it becomes a sleeper, or at least a cult classic, because that way Costner could finish the story. That is probably the only negative I can give, the story is cut short at the end. Thankfully, there is no uncertainty of the next part now, as it has already been completed. I just hope that doesn't leave too many unsolved plots.
RavenSan
Off-Site Inflammatory Member
I love a good western, so I'm now very interested in this -- thanks!
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Killers of the flower moon, leonardo dicaprio so good, the indian wife is certainly a big part of the move but when you have her sick it's a little bit of a let down but what a good movie, got boring a couple of times, needed to cut some fat.
What did gaf think of killers of the flower moon?
TheAtomicPile
Member
Been watching some of the Ghibli movies on Max. So far I've seen Nausica, Totoro, Porco, Kiki, Only Yesterday, Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl, and Ponyo.
I don't know how hot this take is, but so far I still like Nausica the best. Great characters, music, world building, etc.
I'd put this up with Scorsese's best work. It might even be his best. I just thought it was really sad reminder of what (real life) people are willing to do to others just for money.
I don't know how hot this take is, but so far I still like Nausica the best. Great characters, music, world building, etc.
Killers of the flower moon, leonardo dicaprio so good, the indian wife is certainly a big part of the move but when you have her sick it's a little bit of a let down but what a good movie, got boring a couple of times, needed to cut some fat.
What did gaf think of killers of the flower moon?
I'd put this up with Scorsese's best work. It might even be his best. I just thought it was really sad reminder of what (real life) people are willing to do to others just for money.
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Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Finally got around to watch Pearl. It hit a little to close to home but very impressive acting on Mia Goth's part.
kurisu_1974
is on perm warning for being a low level troll
Some of what I watched, it has been a while since I posted here!
Humane
Interesting first feature from David Cronenberg's daughter, about a future where people are encouraged to get themselves euthanized to combat overpopulation. A bit silly maybe but I was kind of entertained.
Shin Ultraman
I know very little of the Ultraman universe and this movie did very little to explain it. It had its moments and some interesting low budget special effects but I think it tried to do too much and the end result felt a bit messy and fragmented.
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
One that I have missed out on for years, and I really liked it a lot. Great natural acting and 90s atmosphere, very underrated movie in my opinion.
The Watchers
Another debut from another famous director's daughter. It felt very Shyamalan indeed, and while I liked some of cinematography, the movie never really landed for me. It was better than her dad's last two or three outings for sure.
A Family Affair
Weird Plastic Faces: The Movie. Also pretty lame and boring, the first 20 minutes were kind of funny but then it petered out.
Humane
Interesting first feature from David Cronenberg's daughter, about a future where people are encouraged to get themselves euthanized to combat overpopulation. A bit silly maybe but I was kind of entertained.
Shin Ultraman
I know very little of the Ultraman universe and this movie did very little to explain it. It had its moments and some interesting low budget special effects but I think it tried to do too much and the end result felt a bit messy and fragmented.
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
One that I have missed out on for years, and I really liked it a lot. Great natural acting and 90s atmosphere, very underrated movie in my opinion.
The Watchers
Another debut from another famous director's daughter. It felt very Shyamalan indeed, and while I liked some of cinematography, the movie never really landed for me. It was better than her dad's last two or three outings for sure.
A Family Affair
Weird Plastic Faces: The Movie. Also pretty lame and boring, the first 20 minutes were kind of funny but then it petered out.
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calistan
Member
I liked it but I didn't have much sympathy for the Osage. You don't really get to see anything about their culture, other than a few of them crying when they bury the family bong or whatever it was. Instead we're dropped straight into the present day, where they're a bunch of rich drunk idiots, flashing their cash around with predictable consequences. All those women with their servants and trophy husbands. File this under movies where I wanted the bad guys to win.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Eddie and the Cruisers (83) - I don't know if if was a great movie but it was a movie I enjoyed. About a rock band whose lead man dies. it goes back and forth from present to past reliving the story the band and catching up with the living members at the end. It foreshadows an ending that I thought there would be more resolutions on but I found it satisfying. They use Springsteen a lot in this movie.
Mr Hyde
Member
Martyrs
The French sure has a knack for making disturbing and gory horror movies. I don't know if it's something in the water or they just like to fuck people up beyond repair. They seem to have zero filtering or any kind of boundaries, they just produce some of the most extreme films in cinema history and their government censorship bureau is like
Martyrs is probably one of the most fucked up movies I've seen as of late, very intense, and honestly too fucking grim to watch. It's basically just torture porn, at least the last 50 minutes of it (while the previous 40 was two women blasting a whole family to death with a shotgun and dealing with the aftermath) and while I appreciate the effort, other than its violence and gore, the movie doesn't have any artistic merits to it. It becomes dull and tedious to sit through, with its basic editing, cinematography, camera works and overall directing. Martyrs is saved by the ending, which is the most macabre, shocking and thought provoking thing I've seen since probably Seven. That shit hits so hard it feels like a sledgehammer. So congratulations to that achievement, I guess, but the rest of the movie is pretty meh
The French sure has a knack for making disturbing and gory horror movies. I don't know if it's something in the water or they just like to fuck people up beyond repair. They seem to have zero filtering or any kind of boundaries, they just produce some of the most extreme films in cinema history and their government censorship bureau is like
Martyrs is probably one of the most fucked up movies I've seen as of late, very intense, and honestly too fucking grim to watch. It's basically just torture porn, at least the last 50 minutes of it (while the previous 40 was two women blasting a whole family to death with a shotgun and dealing with the aftermath) and while I appreciate the effort, other than its violence and gore, the movie doesn't have any artistic merits to it. It becomes dull and tedious to sit through, with its basic editing, cinematography, camera works and overall directing. Martyrs is saved by the ending, which is the most macabre, shocking and thought provoking thing I've seen since probably Seven. That shit hits so hard it feels like a sledgehammer. So congratulations to that achievement, I guess, but the rest of the movie is pretty meh
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calistan
Member
Just watched Kinds of Kindness. It's full-on Yorgos Lanthimos strangeness, but split into three bite-size stories. I didn't want it to end, it's sometimes really funny, always unsettling, and brilliantly acted. I have to see this one again to figure out the connection between the three parts (maybe there is none). Best film of the year so far, for me.
Mr Hyde
Member
Chronicle
Pretty awesome sci Fi that employs the found footage style of film, which makes it kinda unique because the genre is usually reserved for horror. Good acting from all three leads combined with a moving story and some neat special effects make for an intriguing experience that never lets up until the end credits roll. It also has a bombastic finale that seems to be a homage to Akira, or at least take some inspiration from it. Highly recommend.
Pretty awesome sci Fi that employs the found footage style of film, which makes it kinda unique because the genre is usually reserved for horror. Good acting from all three leads combined with a moving story and some neat special effects make for an intriguing experience that never lets up until the end credits roll. It also has a bombastic finale that seems to be a homage to Akira, or at least take some inspiration from it. Highly recommend.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
One of my favorite Superhero movies
Wish there was a sequel but at the same time glad it's a one off
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Horizon an American saga. It was interesting but it was all set up. There were a few times where I wasn't sure what character I was watching because some are similar looking.
if we get all 4 movies I will be surprised.
I enjoyed the set up and I can tell where the story is going in the future. All the paths will intersect.
overall a good movie.
if we get all 4 movies I will be surprised.
I enjoyed the set up and I can tell where the story is going in the future. All the paths will intersect.
overall a good movie.
Doom85
Gold Member
Rewatching the first two films in the X trilogy from A24 before seeing the third one in theaters tomorrow.
“Take it from me, letting outdated traditions control how you live your life will get you nowhere.”
The first film is quite great. Slasher films are usually filled with sex but this ups the ante by making the leads actors and workers in the porn industry who rent a guest house from an elderly couple on a farm to secretly shoot their newest film “The Farmer’s Daughters”. But this ties into the theme itself, as the elderly woman Pearl is envious of these young people, enjoying their youth and beauty while her husband Howard won’t be intimate with her out of fear of his weak heart condition.
This eventually escalated into slasher time, but while the couple look down on the leads with contempt (as well as a recurring televangelist on the TV condemning “sexual immorality”), but not only are the leads pretty decently fleshed out as far as slasher leads go but those that do get killed always is preceded by them trying to offer help to each other or the elderly couple. It shows that just because they chose a path in life others might not agree with doesn’t automatically make them bad people.
Add in great acting (Mia Goth playing both the female lead Maxine and the elderly Pearl, they’re not related rather it’s for thematic purposes), solid directing and cinematography, a great homage to the gritty style of horror of the 70’s, and some good suspense, and X is one hell of a ride, and it only gets better when enhanced with:
“You can’t keep your true self hidden forever, Pearl. They will notice eventually and they will be frightened, just as I am.”
Keeping this film’s existence a secret until X’s premiere, Pearl is the prequel set roughly 60 years prior to X and is a character study showing the moral downfall of the titular character into becoming the twisted murderer we see in X. Just as X is an homage to certain films of the 70’s, Pearl is one to the Technicolor era.
It truly enhances X, as when watching both together, we understand the elderly Pearl was driven not just by envy of the leads’ youth and beauty, but also their freedom to live their lives as they chose while she failed to obtain such freedom despite desperately wanting it. It also provides no simplification in her descent, as characters like her mother, her sister-in-law, and the charming theater projectionist could have been basic abusive parent, spoiled brat, and sleazeball archetypes, but the movie ultimately makes all of them pretty fleshed out characters and while some of them are flawed, especially her mother’s behavior is definitely not fully justified, but the movie makes it clear it is Pearl who ultimately causes her own descent, for as bad a hand as she was dealt, she chose to make it even worse.
And Mia Goth’s acting, holy shit. Everyone is great of course, Tandi Wright is excellent as Pearl’s mother, and the projectionist is well played by our new Superman, David Corenswet, but Mia is the clear MVP here. She’s fantastic throughout the whole film, but the final 15 minutes is definitely what made me and plenty of others frustrated she did not receive an Oscar nomination. I really hope she has a great career ahead of her, because damn does she deserve it based off these films.
Hoping the third film, MaXXXine, continues the winning streak!
X
“Take it from me, letting outdated traditions control how you live your life will get you nowhere.”
The first film is quite great. Slasher films are usually filled with sex but this ups the ante by making the leads actors and workers in the porn industry who rent a guest house from an elderly couple on a farm to secretly shoot their newest film “The Farmer’s Daughters”. But this ties into the theme itself, as the elderly woman Pearl is envious of these young people, enjoying their youth and beauty while her husband Howard won’t be intimate with her out of fear of his weak heart condition.
This eventually escalated into slasher time, but while the couple look down on the leads with contempt (as well as a recurring televangelist on the TV condemning “sexual immorality”), but not only are the leads pretty decently fleshed out as far as slasher leads go but those that do get killed always is preceded by them trying to offer help to each other or the elderly couple. It shows that just because they chose a path in life others might not agree with doesn’t automatically make them bad people.
Add in great acting (Mia Goth playing both the female lead Maxine and the elderly Pearl, they’re not related rather it’s for thematic purposes), solid directing and cinematography, a great homage to the gritty style of horror of the 70’s, and some good suspense, and X is one hell of a ride, and it only gets better when enhanced with:
Pearl
“You can’t keep your true self hidden forever, Pearl. They will notice eventually and they will be frightened, just as I am.”
Keeping this film’s existence a secret until X’s premiere, Pearl is the prequel set roughly 60 years prior to X and is a character study showing the moral downfall of the titular character into becoming the twisted murderer we see in X. Just as X is an homage to certain films of the 70’s, Pearl is one to the Technicolor era.
It truly enhances X, as when watching both together, we understand the elderly Pearl was driven not just by envy of the leads’ youth and beauty, but also their freedom to live their lives as they chose while she failed to obtain such freedom despite desperately wanting it. It also provides no simplification in her descent, as characters like her mother, her sister-in-law, and the charming theater projectionist could have been basic abusive parent, spoiled brat, and sleazeball archetypes, but the movie ultimately makes all of them pretty fleshed out characters and while some of them are flawed, especially her mother’s behavior is definitely not fully justified, but the movie makes it clear it is Pearl who ultimately causes her own descent, for as bad a hand as she was dealt, she chose to make it even worse.
And Mia Goth’s acting, holy shit. Everyone is great of course, Tandi Wright is excellent as Pearl’s mother, and the projectionist is well played by our new Superman, David Corenswet, but Mia is the clear MVP here. She’s fantastic throughout the whole film, but the final 15 minutes is definitely what made me and plenty of others frustrated she did not receive an Oscar nomination. I really hope she has a great career ahead of her, because damn does she deserve it based off these films.
Hoping the third film, MaXXXine, continues the winning streak!
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Andyliini
Member
The 6th Day
This an action thriller from 2000, where Arnold is cloned. That's the story in a nutshell. I guess people thought cloning would become more mainstream in a few years, but, as always in sci-fi, these thought are often wrong. The film offers a few interesting points about ethicality of cloning, but besides that, it's quite basic action film, with some really dated CGI and bluescreen effects. Not much else to say about his one.
This an action thriller from 2000, where Arnold is cloned. That's the story in a nutshell. I guess people thought cloning would become more mainstream in a few years, but, as always in sci-fi, these thought are often wrong. The film offers a few interesting points about ethicality of cloning, but besides that, it's quite basic action film, with some really dated CGI and bluescreen effects. Not much else to say about his one.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Rewatching the first two films in the X trilogy from A24 before seeing the third one in theaters tomorrow.
X
“Take it from me, letting outdated traditions control how you live your life will get you nowhere.”
The first film is quite great. Slasher films are usually filled with sex but this ups the ante by making the leads actors and workers in the porn industry who rent a guest house from an elderly couple on a farm to secretly shoot their newest film “The Farmer’s Daughters”. But this ties into the theme itself, as the elderly woman Pearl is envious of these young people, enjoying their youth and beauty while her husband Howard won’t be intimate with her out of fear of his weak heart condition.
This eventually escalated into slasher time, but while the couple look down on the leads with contempt (as well as a recurring televangelist on the TV condemning “sexual immorality”), but not only are the leads pretty decently fleshed out as far as slasher leads go but those that do get killed always is preceded by them trying to offer help to each other or the elderly couple. It shows that just because they chose a path in life others might not agree with doesn’t automatically make them bad people.
Add in great acting (Mia Goth playing both the female lead Maxine and the elderly Pearl, they’re not related rather it’s for thematic purposes), solid directing and cinematography, a great homage to the gritty style of horror of the 70’s, and some good suspense, and X is one hell of a ride, and it only gets better when enhanced with:
Pearl
“You can’t keep you true self hidden forever, Pearl. They will notice eventually and they will be frightened, just as I am.”
Keeping this film’s existence a secret until X’s premiere, Pearl is the prequel set roughly 60 years prior to X and is a character study showing the moral downfall of the titular character into becoming the twisted murderer we see in X. Just as X is an homage to certain films of the 70’s, Pearl is one to the Technicolor era.
It truly enhances X, as when watching both together, we understand the elderly Pearl was driven not just by envy of the leads’ youth and beauty, but also their freedom to live their lives as they chose while she failed to obtain such freedom despite desperately wanting it. It also provides no simplification in her descent, as characters like her mother, her sister-in-law, and the charming theater projectionist could have been basic abusive parent, spoiled brat, and sleazeball archetypes, but the movie ultimately makes all of them pretty fleshed out characters and while some of them are flawed, especially her mother’s behavior is definitely not fully justified, but the movie makes it clear it is Pearl who ultimately causes her own descent, for as bad a hand as she was dealt, she chose to make it even worse.
And Mia Goth’s acting, holy shit. Everyone is great of course, Tandi Wright is excellent as Pearl’s mother, and the projectionist is well played by our new Superman, David Corenswet, but Mia is the clear MVP here. She’s fantastic throughout the whole film, but the final 15 minutes is definitely what made me and plenty of others frustrated she did not receive an Oscar nomination. I really hope she has a great career ahead of her, because damn does she deserve it based off these films.
Hoping the third film, MaXXXine, continues the winning streak!
I prefer X way more than Pearl
Pearl was a good movie but it felt more like a slow burn character study which was way different from X
Werewolf Jones
Member
My friend lent me this on BR and said it's awful. I knew nothing of it so I kinda wish I never read you saying about the family getting blasted but that's my L. So it is trash then? My homie said he wanted to snap the disc after finishing it.
I saw horror goobers shitting on it on Twitter and I was shocked considering they soy off of anything. Right now they're gassing LONGLEGS as the second coming of Christ, like LONGLEGS crawls out the fucking screen and chases you.
Mr Hyde
Member
Sorry, didn't mean to spoil it for you. I wouldn't say it's trash, if you're a gorehound you're probably get something out of it. But the movie becomes tedious because the plot is so thin, but the ending saves it somewhat, so I'd say give it a shot. But the movie is ultra violent and disturbing so if you can't stomach it it's better to avoid it.
Fbh
Gold Member
6/10
Overall enjoyable but still a letdown because of the terrible visuals.
It's Mad Max, the setting and action are big part of the appeal and when they both look like shit it just bring the entire experience down. Everything looked extremely fake and plastic in a way that reminded me of Attack of the Clones at best....Spy kids at worst.
That said I did like the characters, Chris Hemsworth in particular did a great job and even Anya Taylor Joy didn't seem as miscast as I originally thought