$3M production and a 7 mill marketing campaign and it shows. It look like trash. Terrible sets and production value. Super weak directing.
2/10
Same with a24 / Maxxxine however a better film.
It's an indie horror movie with an air of hipsterism.
The fact it made so much money is strange, I guess a testament to the good job the marketing team done.
We have similar taste, did you like it ?
shareIt was okay but I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Overrated.
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shareI saw it, thought it was unique, didn't like the gore---but I like the fact that it didn't look or feel like the usual generic slasher flicks that pass for horror films these days. It looked and felt different. Also this was not any kind of a "hipster film" whatsoever. It's a period thriller/horror drama set in the mid-'90s, which had some really good acting by the leads, and a few genuinely creepy moments. It could have cut down more on the gore, which it does use sparingly, at least. Even though you all hate it, it's become a huge international hit, regardless.
shareIt's 100% a hipster movie.
A true crime styled mystery thriller that descends into typical satanic supernatural horror mumbo jumbo. It would have worked better just going for a hardened mystery-thriller about a serial killer. Not much better than a 'generic slasher'.
Tone down the gore? It needed way more. It's a movie that lacks thrills and entertainment value. Not scary, not gory, not funny, not sexy, the pacing is plodding. It has some mystery which carries it but it will not hold up on a rewatch when you know everything that'll happen.
The acting wasn't great. The lead was a shy and awkward person whilst Nicolas Cage hammed it up.
Huge international hit? Are you joking? It's done well, has made $101 million with nearly 73% of the gross coming from the USA/Canada. It's a North American horror hit, not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. For reference last year the following horror movies grossed more than it;
- Five Nights at Freddy's ($291 million)
- The Nun II ($269 million)
- Insidious: The Red Door ($189 million)
- Scream VI ($168 million)
- Evil Dead Rise ($147 million)
- The Exorcist: Believer ($136 million)
- A Haunting in Venice ($122 million)
- Saw X ($111 million)
Longlegs is currently the third biggest horror of the year (behind A Quiet Place: Day One and Alien: Romulus) but Smile 2 will completely dick Longlegs at the box office in October. We're talking a severe thrashing. There are levels to this. Longlegs is the hipster darling that cinephiles are talking about, casuals audiences in the USA/Canada got sucked in by the marketing but it's not some monster hit.
Let me just say, i love how committed you are to backing up your claim with numbers lmao, and I completely agree, this is 100% horror for the A24 crowd. I think spending at least one murder spree with the family (that forces you to sit through it and it's a quick cut splice job) would have made this a bit better, but then they probably would have needed to introduce the twist way earlier. I don't know. I wanted this to be good.
share@TheHardSell:
You clearly have no taste in films---some of the best films I've seen from time to time are low-budget films. This is an indie film btw, not a typical predictable Hollywood horror flick. It still became one of this year's biggest box office hits, because it's different.
From what I've seen he has good taste. He likes well made movies that deliver on the entertainment, nothing wrong with that.
shareI suspect some of the hype is made by bots! This is the future of film, a lot of fake buzz and hype made by bots. It worked here but give it a year and the next project trying this will not be as successful... or the bots get better.
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