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Good but needlessly goofy
Secret Gay Love Story
Flawed Masterpiece and Shockingly Anti-Hollywood
Disappointing
Season 3 Is A Masterpiece
Slower, But in Many Ways Better than the Original
Liked it but Ending...?
Hilarious
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I found it to be strangely sad. The first half to two-thirds, you're strangely sympathetic to the horrible homicidal monster. There's something very sad about how he lumbers about, not sure where to go, killing anyone he sees at random for no reason other than because they're there. The scene where he finds, stops, and momentarily plays with the toy car attached to the keychain was weirdly humanizing; it makes you realize that this is just an angry child in a monster's body lashing out at anyone he sees, regardless of who they are or whether or not they had any direct involvement with his death.
The kills here are similarly sad; none of these people deserve to die the way they did, and their murders are more depressing than horrifying, especially the girl drowned in the lake and the "hero" ranger. The ranger's in particular was so drawn out and unpleasant and slow, it's like, why? Why did he deserve such a fate? It felt so personal. The killer didn't just kill him, he paralyzed him, then slowly and meticulously showed how he would kill him before doing the deed. It felt extremely deliberate and planned.
The yoga girl, sure she was annoying, but the way she died was so sad, and the killer just kicks her body off the cliff like she was a piece of garbage, the film lingering on the shot of her body slowly falling and getting caught half way down. This was a deliberate filmmaking choice.
I was never horrified or scared while watching this. There are some creepy moments, but they're very few and fleeting. The overwhelming feeling I got for this film was sadness. Not sure if that was intentional or what it means exactly, if anything, but that's what the film conveyed to me.
I took it to be a story that her friend "Bobby" told because no one would believe that he actually encountered and survived an encounter with a homicidal supernatural killer. He too encountered the killer, who went on a spree 30 years ago or whatever, and survived, but he knew no one would believe him if he told the truth, so he told everyone it was a crazy killer bear instead. She's telling our main character this story because maybe she suspects the same thing just happened to her and she wants to reassure her that she, like him, can go through such an experience, survive, and be fine.
But I think the other theories here that "some wild creatures just go on rampages" could also apply, and maybe she was literally talking about a bear and there's no big hidden secret meaning here. It's very ambiguous unfortunately, too much so maybe.
I partially agree with you. All they had to do to figure out whether or not Aaron was faking it was to interview literally anyone who knew him at any point prior to the murder, assuming he hadn't been pretending for years, which would have been a stretch.
The film was mildly creepy at best. One of the least frightening horror films I've ever seen. It's more a drama trying to be horror.
It's woke in the sense that all the men in it are, of course, evil or moronic, or gay. It heavily implies that men's beauty standards are the reason older famous women suffer when they reach a certain age, despite the fact that audiences are made of up of both men and women and women tend to judge other women much more harshly than men do.
Demi Moore is incredibly attractive in this despite her age and the film's attempts to make her seem undesirable; the woman is super fit and sexy and, plastic surgery aside, still has a pretty face, yet we're made to believe that all the men in this universe think she's an old hag. There are no other female characters beyond the two leads, it's just Moore and Qualey vs. Quaid and every other male, and they're all slimy one dimensional pricks, or super flamboyantly gay.
Though I wouldn't say this has the trappings of a "typical" woke bullshit story (no shoehorned minorities or gay/tranny stuff or any other of that shit thank merciful God), it lays the blame for all the lead character's ills on men, which is pretty god damn woke to me, or feminist at least. Either way, utter bullshit, of course.
It was a modern day, moderately budgeted B-movie, nothing more. The film is not meant to be taken seriously, neither in story nor in style. It's so unbelievably over the top, from the acting to the editing to the writing to the cinematography to the story, that it's hard to really regard this as anything more than schlock, which would be fine if it weren't for the super on the nose anti-male holier than thou "OMG can you believe how hard aging female celebrities have it" bullshit it spews from beginning to end.
It's okay at best. AT BEST. The idea was interesting, and the ending was, uh, inspired, I guess, but it's ultimately a fairly shallow one dimensional film with the veneer of social importance. Absolute nonsense masquerading as something more. The director needs to go back to film school so maybe she can learn to hold a shot for longer than 5 seconds, and how to develop characters and write dialogue.
It has a really rough first act; it doesn't get going until about 25 or so minutes in, with the world and characters it paints just being way too off-putting at first. It's also really disjointed and seemingly poorly made initially. The film does get better, but you really have to power through. I almost turned it off.
I think the film is merely "good" with a few scenes that could be considered "great." It's too long by about a half hour, the story isn't too gripping or interesting, and some of the dialogue and how it's delivered is at times bad. But it's also very well shot and gets better as it goes along.
I can see what the film was going for, an examination of death and the paradise that we hope comes after under the guise of a WWII war film, but it doesn't quite get there. Maybe 50% of the way. 60% if I'm being generous. Still, it tries, and it definitely reaches something unique, so A for effort. This isn't the easiest thing to try to capture on film, it may even be impossible, but a lot like The Tree of Life, though it may fail, at least it's trying to say something that is rarely touched on by this medium.
I didn't love the show to begin with, but devoting an entire god damn episode to the main male lead's slow rape was way too much. A quick snippet would have sufficed, or maybe an implication, but a freaking hour long episode? Has any other piece of popular mainstream media depicted such a thing? And hardly any kind of attention or complaint about it when it came out. Imagine if the episode had devoted the full hour to a rape of a woman; you'd never have heard the end of it.
I went into the show not knowing much about it on the strength of Ronald Moore's previous show, Battlestar Galactica, and though I found this too long and plodding and not particularly engaging at times, it was the hour long rape scene that made me not continue.
I originally watched them in the theater sober, when I was a young lad, and loved them, but I've rewatched them over the decades a tad drunk, and you know what? They're brilliant either way. Maybe even more so. A brilliant trilogy of films this is, sober or drunk.
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