Probably also depends on what kind of movies you watch. Like I can barely name a non Twilight Stewart movie off the top of my head and I’ve never seen any of the Twilight stuff
I think Mandy is one of those films where the initial film experience can vary greatly with post analysis.
It’s a film of 2 halves. One in which in an enormous amount of mysticism is conjured up and one which completely undermines said mysticism.
Really liking Wait Until Dark, a suspense drama in which Audrey Hepburn is a blind woman and a team of con men try to steal a stash of stolen heroin from her apartment. It’s basically a mashup of a heist movie and a home invasion thriller, kind of like Panic Room.
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Do you mind expanding a bit on what you mean by this ? I don’t get the bolded (it’s been some time since I saw it so I may not remember super well)
My mom and sisters watched this when I was a kid and I guess I watched it too but I remember it quite well and yes it’s pretty good, Especially the end
It has been 5 years since I’ve seen it. Saw it in the theater with no idea what it was going in. “Completely undermine” is probably a little strong.
The movie builds on the energy of horror and revenge films to a fever pitch. When the demons are summoned by the horn, anything is possible. We have Phantasm level intrigue here that I’m hoping never gets solved.
Everything after that seems more like a dark comedy than the almost unexplainable fever dream I’m hoping for. Casting the guy from Law and Order was a mistake. That really brought me down. Would have preferred Cage just pick up some obvious LSD from his friend. Cult leader offering a blowjob to survive was a mistake. Way played out. It’s either trite or undermining film tropes in a way that is killing the vibe.
I still enjoyed the 2nd half. It’s still one of a kind even with that structure. I guess I would have preferred the latter part of the film to stay closer to the style of Beyond The Black Rainbow.
I do have Mandy as a top 5-7 film experience.This text will be blurred
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just watched the pelican brief for the first time. hated it. in the way so many old movies have their whole plot broken by cell phones, this just reminded me how nothing matters. the president could simply deny his involvement and half the country would just hate denzel washington. darby was smart, she left the country to live in seclusion with flowers. she knew the billionaire industrialist would incite morons on social media to harass her endlessly with death threats and assassination attempts, she knew. that’s why she unplugged from social media to focus on plants. so i guess i didn’t hate that part of the ending, it was really prescient, actually.
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home alone gets ruined so hard by cell phones
I sometimes wonder what the most efficient plot device of all time is. I’m going with single blunt strike to the head/neck area knockout.
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hackers pulling up some nonsense UI that has a single message like “Hacking the database………” and then 8 seconds later “I’m in.”
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Kinda. I had studied Japanese literature in college plus had four years of college Japanese under my belt, but discovered most of it was useless (or not yet fully jelled) once on actual Japanese soil. And no, I hadn’t met my Katagiri-san yet.
Lonely days indeed. But it all got a lot better quickly.
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Oh God, Battle Royale has the most infuriating hacking scene ever.
My technical knowledge of computers is way out of date but I remember watching it in the early 2000s saying bull-fucking-shit!
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OK, I’m in, this looks fun.
I’m stealing a take from Twitter here, but all you need for an awesome Predator movie is for the Predator to just show up in a random place on Earth and start killing people. Have him hunt Native Americans or medieval knights or samurai or whatever. No one cares about the Predator’s backstory or lore. Somehow Hollywood is only figuring this out now.
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Me before, during and after going to see Top Gun Maverick :
Felt like a perfect movie, had a smile on my face the whole time. Best time I’ve had in a theater since Fury Road. Tom Cruise purely a mythical creature at this point. (Jon Hamm was also great as his “superior” who makes a frowny face every time Maverick does a Maverick).
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Yeah I’m for this one
I care about lore a tad but yea, predator isn’t complicated. advanced alien species that hunts for honor and glory and is on an eternal quest for a worthy opponent.
hollywood’s tried to build that out in the same way they built out the Alien lore, but it never has felt the same, because it isn’t.
I’ll def watch this and just put on my ethnicity blinders because even from that trailer I kind of sense this movie’s gonna be massively insulting to native americans, but hey, we do that every day anyway
Have the Predator fight Vikings or dudes in WWII. I’m surprised Hollywood hasn’t made a dozen movies like that.
Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Brie Larson.
Going younger add Saoirse Ronan and Zendaya.
Yes you absolutely should ! I’m same as you with the first one, but loved every minute of the new one.
There’s two very different things :
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The plot is much more tightly written*, and the action scenes look absolutely amazing.
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More importantly: Tom Cruise in the 80s was a standard hotshot young actor, a pretty face with an annoying smile. Boring stuff. Tom Cruise now is a much more interesting character, a 60 yo with the face of a 35 yo who struggles to accept aging, the last movie star, a very weird but dedicated guy,etc…and the movie revolves around that.
The new film is kinda taking the first one as some kind of original myth. So if you hate the idea of it, it will be hard to make it work, but otherwise it’s not so hard to trick your brain into going along with it 
*example : (spoiler). towards the end there’s a moment where TC and his wingman have been struck down and are on foot near the enemy base. For a minute this seemed to slow down and I was afraid the movie would weaken in the last 20 mins. But no, they immediately steal a F14 from the enemy to go back in the air. That was kinda magical tbh.
Slightly different topic but I’m also really happy that a non franchise blockbuster like that can still be a major commercial hit. I went to see the Dr Strange movie a few weeks back and had really opposite feelings about it (actually feel that MCU movies are better on small screen, I was kinda shocked at the ugliness of it).
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