OdysseusVA
Banned
This movie felt like leftover key and peele skits that were done in a serious tone
I give it a 1 out of 5
I give it a 1 out of 5
Excellent movie.I assume this is the alt ending.There is an alternate ending in which the cops actually come at the end. He gets locked up and taken away for slaughtering an entire family of white people and you know hes never getting out, if he doesnt get shot there on the spot.
Does anyone have the screenshot ofthe top ncaa prospects?
I thought it was ok but had serious problems with it. And honestly, the crowd reactions in the theater made me feel a little weird, laughing a bit too hard. IDK.
I guess the story was also really predictable for me. I figured it out very quickly. As a horror movie, it just didn't work.
I really wanted to love it especially given the social commentary. But I just don't think it was fleshed out very much.Like why were the post-operative black characters so robotic? It would have been more effective if they weren't robots. What's the commentary there? Why waste actors' performances on something that doesn't do anything for the story line?
And why at the end did the girlfriend act so robotic and alien... as if to be a racist you have to be one-dimensional? The scariest thing about racism is that seemingly normal people are racists (disgusting, yes, but not robots). And that's a more troubling truth. IDK, that transition didn't make much sense to me.
I didn't think "Andre" was robotic at all. He was awkward because he was a 60-something year-old out-of-touch white man in a young black man's body. Also, the surgery does not fully transport the person to the new body; there is still a part that remains of the original person that the invader needs to constantly fight back.
Also, Rose being robotic is her true self. She is a complete sociopath, which she pretty much has to be in order to repeatedly seduce men and bring them to her home (and therefore, their doom) with no remorse. There were plenty of examples of old-fashioned racism being in play; just look at her brother.
The grandparents / former lovers were definitely robotic. The groundskeeper was the inventor of the neurosurgical procedure and is a shell of a person - but this isn't addressed in any real way. The characters were just used as a way to make things creepy. I get that not every part is transplanted but these characters are really empty and I don't follow. Does it mean the former lovers were quiet, award, robotic etc. because the grandparents sure weren't?
Yep. I get it: Rose is a sociopath. But sociopaths aren't robots. It doesn't make sense.
It seems like it was a way to make it easier to hate an already hatable character...
as a way to detach her agency from her acts. It didn't add anything- in fact, I feel like it let the character off the hook (sure she has a gruesome death, but by that point she doesn't even seem human).
This movie felt like leftover key and peele skits that were done in a serious tone
I give it a 1 out of 5
? It's pretty straightforward to see the grandparents performance has been an off kilter, creepy result of the operation (In retrospect). And when you're watching the movie for the first time it helps create an atmosphere of strangeness and uncertainty ( as opposed to playing it straight).
And rose's performance was quite different from the grandparents. Yes, not all sociopaths are stoic, but some are. And in this case it was an excellent contrast to the warm and believable performance she gave throughout the rest of the movie. That contrast wouldn't be there nearly as much if she played it how you would've wanted her to. And for what it's worth, no one in my circle hated her less because of the end-of-movie performance.
If it's a result of the operation, then why are so many people so excited about undergoing it? They're going to end up like zombies? It would be creepier if there was a false sense of comfort, like how it is with the rest of the family- the glimpses of their true selves is scary.
If it's a result of the operation, then why are so many people so excited about undergoing it? They're going to end up like zombies? It would be creepier if there was a false sense of comfort, like how it is with the rest of the family- the glimpses of their true selves is scary. Using the grandparents to really drive home the creepiness is too easy. Again, with Andre it's creepier because he's an actual character, or two for that matter.
As for Rose, I just don't see the need for a sharp contrast of being lovable and dynamic to the wooden sociopath she later becomes. What does it add?
Same score I gave The Rocketeer.
This movie felt like leftover key and peele skits that were done in a serious tone
I give it a 1 out of 5
I don't think it's accurate to describe them as zombies, which are generally slow moving and dim, while the grandparents show agility and intelligence. Examples include the grandfather sprinting in the night and the grandmother assuring Chris that everything was okay with the cell phone situation. Andre is another example where there seems to have been a very successful operation all things considered. A small number of people would be excited to make this transition as it would mean prolonged life, restored abilities, etc. The reason the movie's approach to those performances worked for me is that it led me (and several others I've spoken to) to believe initially that their condition was a result of hypnosis -- it was a good misdirection.
What does Rose's transformation add? It adds a sharp contrast. And for me that sharp contrast makes her character all the more effectively heartless -- for her to be able to present such a simultaneously believable and false persona, when in reality she's so far removed from that, made me hate her all the more.
It had a more serious tone than a Key and Peele sketch, right?It really bothers me more that you think this film had a serious tone.
Like...on a scale of from Bugs Bunny to Martin Scorsese's Silence, this had a serious tone to you.
Just saw it today and thought it was great. Theater only had 4 other people though. Fun movie.
Lol I'm glad it's still playing. I've had no childcare since its debut until today.Well it's been out for like 6 years no surprise there weren't a ton of attendees
I generally find "Horror" movies incredibly boring and predictable.
And honestly, the crowd reactions in the theater made me feel a little weird, laughing a bit too hard.]
Finally out in Europe. Managed to watch it last night, not having seen any trailers, and found it incredible!
What a marvellous film. It's just extraordinary good at creating tension.
What I truly love is how the white people were not typical Hollywood racists but "good white people" who just love Obama.
Saw the movie today. Wow it was so good. The tightroping between horror and comedy isn't easy, but this movie somehow really nailed it.
Avoided everything about the film beforehand and man it hits you like a tonne of bricks.
Only ever perfected by Evil Dead 2 IMO.
I just got back from the movie and i enjoyed this one a great deal. Definitely one of those movies i wouldn't want to know too much about before watching it and i am glad i didn't. I also didn't watch any trailers beforehand. Now on to spoilers.
One scene i don't completely get though. Chris is in the chair and Jeremy comes to put him in the wheelchair, but Chris while set loose attacks him. And then we see him pulling out those ear plugs/things, clearly to not be hypnotized by Missy. Makes sense, but before all this happened we saw him falling asleep as soon as the TV showed the spoon in the teacup. So........what am i missing?
Also, near the end of the movie the gardener kills Rose and then himself. Why did he shoot himself?