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I don't think that's weird, Sebastian. Actually, lots of people feel the same. It's refreshing to see a family that is not just functional but actually great. The Addams don't fight, they love their children, they have an active sex life, their own hobbies, understand each other, etc. They support each other and do activies together. They are quite literally the opposite of the average fiction couple which exists to provide an excuse for two characters to be nasty to each other.SebastianBludd wrote: It's strange to say about this TV-show-turned-movie, but it was nice to see a mutually-devoted couple in a film without some bullshit contrivances in the script to make them fight or hate each other until the third act.
#RelationshipGoals man.
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Hereditary- I have extremely mixed feelings about this one.
The big decapitation thing was horrifying...I read where the reference was offing Janet Leigh early on in Psycho, and that was definitely what it put me in mind of. But there again, I kind of felt like it was leaning too heavily on its references. Wicker Man, Don't Look Now, etc.
Toni Collette was great it in it regardless- a tough, challenging performance.
A Quiet Place- Bad. A total gimmick horror movie. And it didn't work, because the gimmick introduced so many wildly illogical and implausible problems.
And what sort of chuckleheads decide to have a baby in the middle of all of this going on? It's a pretty damn hopeless situation. Let alone because of the sound a baby would make.
Wow, I did not like this film at all. I can't think of a single thing I actually liked about it. I was hoping that the filmmakers would use it as an opportunity to do something with really cool, really smart sound design...but they didn't bother. Contrived, boring, and much dumber than you'd expect.
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Mother! Is amazing. That’s a great point that it is so blunt...it’s not cryptic or obscure. It’s metaphors and semiology is very blunt and up-front.
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And yeah I don’t like the Tim Robbins stuff either.
I’m a really huge fan of the original so that should be taken into consideration. I think Cruise gets better at those types of roles later on, but I don’t think he ever makes for a convincing parent.
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Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: The ending is handled much better in the 50's version than in the this version, which is the only really weak part of the film.
I can't understand why a technologically advanced civilization would stage a full-on planetary assault without first conducting an environmental study.
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Hex Sinister wrote:
Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: The ending is handled much better in the 50's version than in the this version, which is the only really weak part of the film.
I can't understand why a technologically advanced civilization would stage a full-on planetary assault without first conducting an environmental study.
Don't watch Signs.
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I’m watching Ermenntari or whatever it is in Netflix. Spanish horror/dark fantasy. Like it quite a lot- reminds me of Jim Henson’s Storyteller. The demon in it is a full on demon with a pointy tail, pitchfork, the whole thing.
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