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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.137.109.102 |
Suspiria 2018. More on this later. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.137.109.102 |
Well, I have to say for a horror film it was pretty expansive and ambitious. It felt like proper film, art house even, and that important things were going on in it (I'm a muddlehead, so couldn't guess at what on this first viewing). You know, politics and stuff. It's certainly beautiful though in a non-glossy way. It felt lived in, genuine. It's two and a half hours long but to be honest I would have been glad for more as the finale felt rushed towards and puzzling. I like meanings in film, however slight, although today it dawned on me that films can be like trees, just 'exist', and that's OK. It is VERY horrific. I could hardly watch. I don't think much now even touches it for that. And yet...not traumatically so, I don't know why. If anything the movie reminded me of Polanski, who more or less only did horror movies exclusively when you think about it, but doesn't seem hugely loved by horror fans in the way some directors are. Again, I'm bad at reviews and hate starting threads, but these are more or less my thoughts on it (using a phone to write doesn't help). | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.137.109.102 |
That was clunky. I've lost it alright. Mark it down to phone brain, or early dementia.  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.147.104 |
I've been looking forward to this since I saw the review on RedLetterMedia. This only increases my desire to see it. I'm normally turned off by the almost pornographic use of nostaliga in fiction these days, but it feels like it might be authentic in this. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.137.109.102 |
Oh, there's no fake nostalgia in the technique. It's not like an Abrams kind of thing. It's just...'right'. I'd watch it again, easy. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.147.104 |
Great! And how often do we can that we'd like to see a modern film again? Remember that feeling when you used to want to see a film you loved again immediately? Sometimes stay seated in the cinema and let it run again. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.153.254.41 |
I don't know when I last felt like that, Proto... no modern movie at least. There are old movies that I've seen many times, and after seeing it yet again, I'll want to run right back to the beginning to re-watch! For me, the old Murder on the Orient Express is certainly that film. Dove-tailing into the subject of remakes - that recent one with Kenneth Brannagh was execrable. Aside from some beautiful scenery, it was like a movie populated by robots - it was (and this from someone who knows the plot) utterly confused and rushed and unsatisfying. Unlike that original... genius in almost every way, and one of those films (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Arc, etc.) where the soundtrack is a vital component. Far above the source material - Christie could be very good, but this was her early, almost Hemingway-lean phase - she got much better, later. I'm not sure much could be improved on Suspiria. The original is a very difficult movie to follow that makes sense only north by northwest - but that's part of its power, its strangeness and mystery. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.214.79 |
Just watched Midsommar and didn't like it. Really effective, beautifully made, stuffed with great images.... But it left me really cold. I wasn't scared, didn't feel any awe...or was really very troubled. I think a woman crying after getting some news at the beginning shook me a bit, but that's it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.214.79 |
Saw Yesterday. Made me cry. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 90.198.230.159 |
My reading of ‘Midsommar’ is that it’s a deliberately eccentric black comedy horror that works kind of like a very dark spoof of ‘The Wicker Man’ (1973). I found it creepy, shocking and often very funny. The whole treatment of the folk horror genre went so over the top, into the realms of the ridiculous, that the only rational response was to laugh and shake one’s head in bewilderment. I came out perplexed, have been thinking about it for days and now think the film was terrific. In its own weird way it’s just as impressive as ‘Heredtary’ (2018). Exceptionally well made and just gorgeous to look at. Destined for cult classic status, imho. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.214.79 |
You know, seen as a horrible spoof makes it better. I laughed a few times and I knew it was intentional humour. But what an odd thing to be. When I saw Hereditary the whole audience but me and one other woman laughed. I was furious, but seeing it since I think maybe the audience were right... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.214.79 |
Annabelle Comes Home. |