Thanks, threw it on my list for tomorrow. Love the concept and cast, so hoping the ending isnt too much of a letdown.
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Iām trying to break the habit of thinking āI donāt have time to watch a movie right nowā, only to spend the following 90 minutes mindlessly scrolling on the phone.
So I watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time since high school. 2 things stood out:
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I mildly disagreed with LKJ about his role in The Godfather, but I have to admit Sterling Hayden just does not seem to be a good actor.
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Boy oh boy, George C. Scott is basically Tim Robinson before Tim Robinson. Upon googling, I am apparently the billionth person to have this realization.
https://x.com/VinnieMancuso1/status/1569394095306719240
Anyway, good use of time.
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Itās not the worst sort of ending. It doesnāt retroactively make the rest of the movie worse or anything.
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I have similar sentiments to express about the 1986 Sylvester Stallone classic Cobra. Ninety straight minutes of Stallone making c h o i c e s. He is in full command of his powers and wields them with reckless abandon. Whether itās policing or eating pizza, Cobra simply refuses to play by a single rule. I dare you to watch the first 15 minutes of this movie and then not stick around. A+.
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That is amazing and I hope your friends appreciated it, and you.
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Twisters is a very strong genre pic. Donāt expect more than that and youāll have a great time
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Not so much lol
Holy shit, just read that the director of Twisters is the same guy who made Minari??? Now Iāve gotta see it.
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Longlegs
Style over substance with and incomprehensible plot and not in a good way. I am a huge horror wimp and didnāt find it scary at all.
Grade: C-
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Agreed but I hate the great small film to mega blockbuster pipeline so much.
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I just have a hard time seeing him as anything but distractingly bad in this scene. The scene works in spite of him.
I donāt mind the second sequence with him when they go to the restaurant.
Iām pretty sure the fact that I didnāt happen to see this one on opening night doomed the chances of me really ever being all that likely to see it. It looks like the type of movie that Iām probably only interested in if it had a really strong consensus, and Iāve seen too many reviews like this. Perhaps I would come out on the positive side, but Iām just far too pessimistic about the chances of that at this point.
So I guess what Iām saying is: thank you for your service.
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The more I think and read about it the more I hate it actually. Itās really a terrible script that makes zero sense. There isnāt even an attempt at telling a coherent story. It feels like he cared only about the mood and put zero effort into the plot or characters.
Itās more of D Iād say.
Yeah, it feels like the opposite of Barbarian to me which only upped my desire with each review of āread nothing about this movie but go see it.ā
Iām getting nothing of the sort from Longlegs
I admittedly still have to see Barbarian. Happily, all this time has passed and Iām still entirely unspoiled on it. Itās definitely on the list.
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I think youāll enjoy it. Its certainly one of the fresher horror movies to come out in the 2020s
Barbarian was awesome. Still has one of my single favorite moments Iāve ever seen in a film.
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I donāt think the plot is incoherent - itās just dumb.
To get into heavy spoilers:
The FBI has been tracking a string of killings for decades where whole families are killed by the father before the father kills himself. There are coded messages from Longlegs at each of the crime scenes, so the FBI thinks that Longlegs is making the families do this, but doesnāt know how.
It turns out he worships Satan and makes magical Satanic dolls that when given to the families make them do the murders. Also, the protagonist was visited by Longlegs as a child but she forgot all about it and he made a doll that controls her but also makes it psychic. Also, the protagonistās mom made a deal with Longlegs that she would be his accomplice by bringing the dolls to the family so that the protagonist could live.
So OK, kind of weird but the execution also left something to be desired. I think a better ending would have involved the protagonist assuming the role of accomplice to protect her bossās daughter. Maybe thatās actually what happened, but it wasnāt made clear.