Very possible the best thing this movie gave us was the Friday the 13th game back in 2017.
Which, hot take, that game was the only asymmetrical survival game that truly understood what made that genre enjoyable and I blame Dead by Daylight’s obsession with making the genre a competitive sweat fest as a major reason for the genre’s downfall.
Enough time has ed. I like MODOK and I’m angry they wasted him in this movie.
The establishing shot of Shawshank prison while the Thomas Newman score swells >>
Shortest 2 hours and 20 minutes of my life. Movies are the best.
Epitome of a contemporary update that intentionally abandons the thoughtfulness of the original in favor of “action and gore”, so it winds up feeling mostly empty at the end. BUT. I adore the way this looks, Pearl captures a very different grime of the Texas summer— everyone is doused in sweat and there’s some really great lighting in those big seat pieces. Plus, I am very pro-Jessica Biel as a final girl, great stuff from her.
Also, I find it…
Tired: the dialogue is bad, the twist is dumb.
Wired: poetic, devastatingly romantic.
One of Shyamalan’s best.
Park Chan-wook going God mode while flying his freak flag, truly one of our most ambitious directors today. Might suffer from one too many threads being pulled, but in classic Park Chan-wook fashion, the ending is bonkers good.
Maybe the epitome of all the shortcomings in phase 4. A directionless mess, a “He right behind me isn’t he” type movie. Actors mostly innocent here, they are doing their best to cook with the terrible ingredients provided by the unholy combo of Waititi x Feige.
Very few directors could make the devouring of a human simultaneously devastating and romantic. Maybe my favorite Luca movie, but I’ve realized my favorite Luca movie is whichever one I’ve watched most recently.
Uncompromising in its vision, which strangely puts the movie at odds with itself— to be an odyssey of whimsy or a grounded family drama? Regardless, the final shot and moment are so moving to me, I find myself forgiving many of its stumbles.
This pot is making you aggressive.
Call it an erotic thriller all you want, as long as you consider it a black comedy as well. Anyways, masterpiece and such.
God the McCallisters suck so bad. (Home Alone 2 still better)
We need to stop have “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie” discourse, because it very obviously is.