Dec 30, 2024·5 replies1. The Lighthouse (I don’t know if Egger’s will ever top this one)
2. The Witch & Nosferatu
(Can’t choose between these, both kino)3. The Northman (good movie but the characterization and plot is a little too straight forward for me)
Dec 30, 2024i liked this. saw it last thursday. gonna rewatch with my girl later this week. Babygirl first
Dec 30, 2024WHaaaT1. The Lighthouse (I don’t know if Egger’s will ever top this one)
2. The Witch & Nosferatu
(Can’t choose between these, both kino)3. The Northman (good movie but the characterization and plot is a little too straight forward for me)
Yea I felt like The Northman was missing that true Eggers “weirdness” , and like you said it was a little too straightforward
Gorgeous film though
Dec 30, 2024·edited·1 replyWHaaaT1. The Lighthouse (I don’t know if Egger’s will ever top this one)
2. The Witch & Nosferatu
(Can’t choose between these, both kino)3. The Northman (good movie but the characterization and plot is a little too straight forward for me)
Man, I gotta rewatch The Lighthouse. I thought it was a near masterpiece, but maybe a little too mean-spirited and lost in the depths of insanity to fully connect with. It does feel like his richest work in some ways.
Dec 30, 2024Jonboi· editedMan, I gotta rewatch The Lighthouse. I thought it was a near masterpiece, but maybe a little too mean-spirited and lost in the depths of insanity to fully connect with. It does feel like his richest work in some ways.
The Lighthouse is incredible. Definitely give it another shot
- Dec 30, 2024WHaaaT
1. The Lighthouse (I don’t know if Egger’s will ever top this one)
2. The Witch & Nosferatu
(Can’t choose between these, both kino)3. The Northman (good movie but the characterization and plot is a little too straight forward for me)
Yup i got the same ranking. I thought that The Northman, while gorgeous to look at, was painfully straightforward at times.
Dec 30, 2024
linnabaryI'd really love to hear you articulate how this movie is a "very very feminist story," could you please expand on that? What powerful message did you take away from this, that women can have carnal sexual desires and/or that sexual predators can have a lifelong influence? There was nothing profound or particularly interesting about the muddy themes.
It's hilarious to act like a film that uses a significant portion of its runtime lingering on Lily Rose-Depp making the O face while she softly moans like a modern p*** actress is in any way some kind of powerful feminist statement. It's just a dumb horror movie.
I'd also like to hear what thinking was required — Dafoe feeding the audience information is not an "epiphany moment," it's just hamfisted writing. I could've watched the first 45 minutes (the best part by far), fallen asleep like the guy you replied to, and woken up for the ending without being lost at all. Pretty easy to fill in the gaps.
You really think one of the most iconic stories of all time (with a dumb mustachioed twist — and don't you dare use the "but omg all royalty from that region and era looked like that" excuse every Eggers fanboy is spouting) requires some deep thinking to unpack?
You're criticizing mainstream flicks as if this is some artsy low-budget interpretation of the story. It's not. It's a mainstream horror movie, no better or worse than the dumb action movies you're deriding.
It was a 7/10 at best for me, but the reddit takes from #TrueCinemaHeads are really forcing down that rating
Come on wake up dumbass I want to catch one more body this year to reach quota
- Dec 30, 2024·edited·3 replies
Am I dumb if my read on this film is partly that women often desire masculinity, and men need to allow women to be honest about that because when they get jealous and try and repress it it never goes away?
- Dec 30, 2024WHaaaT
1. The Lighthouse (I don’t know if Egger’s will ever top this one)
2. The Witch & Nosferatu
(Can’t choose between these, both kino)3. The Northman (good movie but the characterization and plot is a little too straight forward for me)
I rewatched The Witch last week and mannnnn that film is wayyy better than I remember it being. tightly paced. great dialogue. great performances. all around really good stuff.
Dec 30, 2024WHaaaTThe fourth pic got me feeling some type of way
Yeah
that part had me a lil bricked can't front
Dec 30, 2024h**** ass movie
- Dec 30, 2024
all tom had to do was kill himself after the first night 🤷🏽♂️
- Dec 30, 2024
CutiePieHoleIs this leaving theatres already? Why are there no showtimes after thursday in brooklyn? Im trynn to see this again but with friends
saw it in lower manhattan, may have better luck at the amc’s n regals out there (don’t do angelika unless it’s a last resort, s*** like 24 a ticket
) - Dec 30, 2024·2 replies
It seems like some of the people taking issue with this are doing so because it’s not doing anything new but this is my first time seeing this story lol
- Dec 30, 2024·2 repliesJonboi
It seems like some of the people taking issue with this are doing so because it’s not doing anything new but this is my first time seeing this story lol
Prolly the folks who have seen the Francis Ford Coppola version and the Murnau original from the 1920's
Dec 30, 2024·1 replyCRACKASTEPPAVEGANProlly the folks who have seen the Francis Ford Coppola version and the Murnau original from the 1920's
ive seen Murnau and Herzogs versions three times each, Todd Brownings version at least a handful of times, the Hammer Studios version from 1958 a couple times, the Frank Langella version, the Mel Brooks parody version several times and Coppolas version probably 20 times. and probably some other version I cant think of rn. still pumped for this.
I think I was Dracula pretty much every halloween as a kid lol.
- Dec 30, 2024Elric
ive seen Murnau and Herzogs versions three times each, Todd Brownings version at least a handful of times, the Hammer Studios version from 1958 a couple times, the Frank Langella version, the Mel Brooks parody version several times and Coppolas version probably 20 times. and probably some other version I cant think of rn. still pumped for this.
I think I was Dracula pretty much every halloween as a kid lol.
Real af.
- Dec 30, 2024·1 reply
Interestingly I felt the same way about this one that a lot of people feel about The Northman.
People say that The Northman was too straightforward and lacking Egger’s trademark weirdness, but I thought that climax was absolutely bonkers. Mind-blowing intensity and a perfect infusion of Norse mythology.
For this one I felt a little disappointed that he pretty much went with the standard Dracula story. I was waiting for the weirdness & insanity to ramp up in the climax and I don’t feel like I ever got that. Was more of an “oh s*** this is it huh? Not bad.” feeling for me.
- Dec 30, 2024·editedJonboi
It seems like some of the people taking issue with this are doing so because it’s not doing anything new but this is my first time seeing this story lol
long as u have some familiarity w dracula u know where this was going, which isn’t a bad thing, u don’t always have to switch a story up too much
Dec 30, 2024·2 repliesrussianbot23Interestingly I felt the same way about this one that a lot of people feel about The Northman.
People say that The Northman was too straightforward and lacking Egger’s trademark weirdness, but I thought that climax was absolutely bonkers. Mind-blowing intensity and a perfect infusion of Norse mythology.
For this one I felt a little disappointed that he pretty much went with the standard Dracula story. I was waiting for the weirdness & insanity to ramp up in the climax and I don’t feel like I ever got that. Was more of an “oh s*** this is it huh? Not bad.” feeling for me.
Yeah during the last act when oh boy and Willem lit they fire to head out I was like oh s*** it’s about to go down! Then basically nothing really happened and Lily and Dracula have s\*\*\*and die? Idk it felt like a plot device to get Lily alone so Dracula could pull up with the d\*\*\*s like Young Thug
- Dec 30, 2024·1 replyOscar Winner
Yeah during the last act when oh boy and Willem lit they fire to head out I was like oh s*** it’s about to go down! Then basically nothing really happened and Lily and Dracula have s\*\*\*and die? Idk it felt like a plot device to get Lily alone so Dracula could pull up with the d\*\*\*s like Young Thug
Yeah exactly. when it feels like s\*\*\* is really about to hit the fan it just kinda ends very quickly and a bit too easily…
- Dec 30, 2024·1 reply
Wayyyy too easily. But I’m not big on Dracula so maybe that’s true to the story?
Dec 30, 2024THERES A NOT SUPER LATE DOLBY SHOWING TONIGHT
Going
- Dec 30, 2024·1 replyOscar Winner
Yeah during the last act when oh boy and Willem lit they fire to head out I was like oh s*** it’s about to go down! Then basically nothing really happened and Lily and Dracula have s\*\*\*and die? Idk it felt like a plot device to get Lily alone so Dracula could pull up with the d\*\*\*s like Young Thug
That's literally what he did tho, it was a ruse. Thats what he said
But yeah, definitely a switch up from the OG story. I don't think he wanted to show any sort of true confrontation with Orlok
Dec 30, 2024CRACKASTEPPAVEGANProlly the folks who have seen the Francis Ford Coppola version and the Murnau original from the 1920's
I definitely loved this less than a lot of folks due to this despite it being f***ing awesome