It alludes fairly hard to pagan I thought?

I mean there's the vagrant and sculpted imagery but it felt- idk- Wickerman s***? Not much to it in itself. That stuff is all Christian anxiety anyway and the film is clearly about western misogyny with organized religion in the plot. Honestly giving this film very much specific meaning feels misguided anyway. It's so general. The title says it all. The pagan is interchangeable with the priest

It's the first A24 film that reminded me more of Blumhouse...

That's a pretty good comparison, I guess I just wish Garland leaned into that. For example, the friend doesn't arrive until the film is over, we should have seen her either be killed or save Buckleys character, or something interesting instead she's just comic relief/a plot device for flashbacks

The real problem imo is that the film stops as soon as the protag/antag reach a new understanding which would've been something to explore. Ya know what if she did mortally wound that thing and then have to care for it or nurse it back to health or whatever. There are more interesting things to do with this premise than cat and mouse thrills. Also the film is surreal in its content but not it's form which is disappointing. It's just not weird or nebulous enough

I agree about the form and content; for me it all comes back to Garland not being a good director he can write scripts and make passable aesthetics but not put the whole package together

Annihilation might be his best movie and he didn't write that stuff. It's not exactly like the book though. Idk, I don't think Men is bad but it does feel like less than the sum of its parts and is already missing that something extra. Hope he rebounds

F*** me that was dense.

Flabberghasted is the only way to say it.

I liked it, definitely f***ing bizarre, and there is a lot to talk about for sure.

Edit: ill be back with... something. sometime. too much to dissect

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Annihilation he used a first draft of the book apparently, which is why it was different

this was my major gripe with the film

Whole trilogy is really good. Highly recommended

Greatest horror movie for me . Potent ending that in many ways does what Midsommar didn’t for me

It wasn’t trying to be pretty

This is ero guro manga like shintsro kago

I think some of you should rewatch @SegaDreamFlash

LMFAOOOOOOO

Ending was fire

If you think the themes were surface level I recommend a rewatch . They weren’t

Accurate

f***ed with this a good bit and only liked it more upon further dissection

I see this getting the Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me treatment where people look back at it a decade or two from now with new eyes (This is not me comparing those two movies)

yea this was interesting, definitely need another rewatch to unpack everything. rory kinnear & jessie buckley both killed it, especially rory. guy has range i didn’t expect at all haha

not sure i enjoyed this as much as his first two films but it’s still solid as hell, lots of great s*** in here

i liked this alot

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F*** yes!!!

Ight todays the day we do a double feature, this and crimes of the future. Let’s get weird