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I think it’d be quite difficult for any filmmaker to match someone like Lars von Trier on their first outing. I just mentioned those films because they all take a small-scale approach to an imminent global apocalypse.
Tonally, each of them vary, as will people’s enjoyment of them.
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Thanks! I thought the film was a little dry. However, it was still much better executed than something like ‘The Rhythm Section’.
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It’s definitely towards the bottom.
1) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2) Wonder Woman
3) Man of Steel
4) Shazam
5) Batman v Superman
6) Aquaman
7) Wonder Woman 1984
8) Suicide Squad
9) Justice League
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I was trying to remember who the sympathetic male characters were in this film and only came up with: the old homeless guy, Steve Trevor, and the unnamed man who Steve possesses.
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‘Searching’ is definitely worth a look.
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In the run-up to Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, J.D. Vance published 'Hillbilly Elegy', a book exploring the Appalachian values of his Kentucky-based family. As the subtitle indicates - “A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” - Vance had set out to describe the roots and consequences of a breakdown. At a time when many observers were puzzling over why downtrodden working-class whites would have embraced a candidate whose conduct and origins seemed so alien to their professed values, it provided some easy answers.
The book became a sensation and that sensation in turn generated a deep, slow-burning backlash. There was no way Ron Howard’s project wasn’t going to be greeted with fusillades of rhetorical buckshot from one side or the other, particularly while everyone's emotions were still churning after Trump's loss to Biden during a catastrophic year for Americans.
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Yes, I think releasing this film just after Trump lost his re-election bid contributed to a lot of the harsh criticism it received.
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It was implied that history would eventually repeat itself.
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Yes, I think it's a worthy inclusion to the Fox X-Men series.
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I agree that Reyes being the only agent from Essex Corporation at the facility felt... odd.
While her forcefield was essential for keeping the teenagers imprisoned on the hospital grounds, assigning just one person to monitor four powerful, psychologically disturbed mutants doesn’t make sense. Rhane, arguably the weakest, easily injured Reyes via ambush.
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I'm a massive fan of the original 'Black Christmas' and I agree that the creepy twist ending of the film - Jess is left at the mercy of Billy, who is still lurking in the attic - isn't misogynistic.
Yes, it does sound like Takal pitched a feminist horror movie remake and then tried to shoehorn that angle into the only intellectual property she was offered. It's a shame, because it seems like it's still quite difficult for filmmakers to get movies with feminist-themes green-lit by studios.
The bad ones (Paul Feig's 'Ghostbusters' reboot, for example) seem to impact the success of the good ones ('Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)' was surprisingly good).
Thanks! 'Triangle' is great. It's a shame that Christopher Smith doesn't make more films.
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It really is a wonderful genre that can capture your imagination when executed well.
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I think its good that directors do remind us about this kind of stuff. Personally, I knew nothing about Parkersburg before watching this film.
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One of the biggest issues for me was that by reducing the characters to such thin stereotypes, it made them difficult to empathise with.
The themes really overwhelmed every other aspect of the film.
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Thanks!
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'The Call of the Wild' was written by Jack London in 1903. Times and attitudes were vastly different to 2020. I love London's books, but I agree that it's almost impossible to film page-for-page adaptions of them today, considering the depictions of race, animal cruelty, etc.
To be honest, I'm okay with that. I can read the books whenever I want to - I don't need a film to validate the text to me.
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Universal's monsters come from the ideas and stories of authors and screenwriters such as Horace Walpole, Matthew G. Lewis, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley – and many others – who tapped into something pervasive, giving names and bodies to a universal emotion: fear.
The fictional monsters correspond to a deep seated anxiety about progress, the future and the human ability to achieve anything like control over the world.
For example, "Dracula" comes out of a pagan world and offers an alternative to ordinary Christianity with his promise of a blood feast that will confer immortality. Like a Nietzschean superman, he represents the fear that the ordinary consolations of religion are bankrupt and that the only answer to the chaos of modern life is the securing of power.
Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" delved into the concept of life, reflecting fears born of the various scientific experiments being done on cadavers at the time. Science of the era was reflected in the increasing obsession and madness of her protagonist, Victor Frankenstein.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" brought us to question the dueling nature of "good" and "evil," as well as the beast that sleeps within us all.
Each of these stories, as well as many other horror works around the 1800s, can serve as a mirror to the concerns of society. The fact that these works became so popular when they did, to the point of creating a lasting genre, indicates that they resonated with people’s fears and interests in a way that folklore didn’t.
With the rise of social media, fears and fads and fancies race instantly through entire populations. Our fears morph with the times, but they're ever-present - so it seems monsters won't be dying off any time soon, either.
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Your welcome :) To be honest, I doubt I could explain the entire film, either - it's an odd one.
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