SimpleG Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 My interest is piqued! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Yes please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69los Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Looks beautiful, great cast, and GDT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 I couldn't tell what on earth was happening in that trailer, but I'm down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 I got good creepy Carnivale like vibes from the trailer. So yeah, count me as interested too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Still have no idea what it's about, but sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 I hope this is good del Toro, aka Cronos, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, and The Shape of Water. I like his blockbuster work, but I think he's better in this realm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 I had to google it to even understand what the hell this is supposed to be about. Terrible trailer, cool looking film. I've never seen the original nor read the book but I'm actually a bit more interested in those than this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 This is a weird movie that, on my first impression, I think is bad. I don’t know if it’s just that my expectations were off because I only saw the first teaser, and so I was expecting more carnival. That was what I enjoyed the most, when the story moved beyond that I got a lot less interested, and there was still a lot of movie left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/4/2022 at 10:38 AM, TheLeon said: This is a weird movie that, on my first impression, I think is bad. I don’t know if it’s just that my expectations were off because I only saw the first teaser, and so I was expecting more carnival. That was what I enjoyed the most, when the story moved beyond that I got a lot less interested, and there was still a lot of movie left. I felt bad because I was so tired when I watched the movie, so I was in-and-out starting maybe 30 - 40 minutes into the movie to around 25 minutes prior, but I looked up its story and then saw pieces of the original. The scenes in this one were significantly more chilling. I was up straight through once Spoiler the judge's wife shot him and herself, and looking at how the original played out, this was the better-directed film, it seems. I think the original's issue was that Spoiler the woman came back to the guy. Here, he becomes the geek that he couldn't understand at the beginning of the movie, falling for the same drink ploy, and they have him on a train (of course), hiding behind chicken cages, an omen of things to come, and Rooney's character smacks him down and decides to leave him because he literally, actually deserves that. But that "ghost" reveal that backfired at the end? Look up the full original movie on Youtube and compare it to this one; it's such a splendidly haunting scene in the new one. I was also very impressed with the psychiatrist's scene at the end. What a lovely scene overall that Cate Blanchett commanded, giving him the speech he needed to hear -- you're not the genius you think you are. It's a slow movie at the start, though. Quite slow indeed, but the whole, "Don't do a spook show. Bad things happen," is done so much better in this one due to how the main character's arc ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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