had my first watch in dolby and did round 2 again this saturday, the sound design is one of the standout parts of the film to me

I love when you hear the bats screech & echo across the castle, after the count takes his contract & locks hoult in for another night. incredible little moment

this was the first time I've gone to rewatch something again since Furiousa last year, I've been indifferent to all the bigger releases lately but this restored the feeling for me

feel like grabbing and shaking all the folks I see online downplaying how good this was. I never let hyperbole get to me when gassing a film up but we finally got some good f***ing food with this. It's personal for me tho, have big soft spot for anything authentically gothic

Solid 8/10

Hilarious moments as per usual

The goat strikes again

I love this so much for him man

Tears in my eyes. Ass in my face. Beautiful

Lily ass?

Shiiet Why not

He said he'd never do a contemporary film.

Oh wow, I respect it. He’s still very young as far as directors go, we’ll see. Did he say what his cutoff was?

Or was you talking Hoult

Oh word?

8.5

Just when I think my taste couldn't possibly be more aligned with this dude

I wanna see a western from him

Yeeee hawwww

He’d have an amazing frontier story

Dafoe is the living GOAT btw, he’s gotta be. I understand Denzel but Dafoe is in like his third prime

Orlock's minion stole the show for me. He was in the running to be the Prince of Rats and took one for the team Eggers direction always shines when it's one person getting the floor to freak out.

@atthepyramids would kill me, so Nah

The way so many shots were perfectly centered is amazing work.

He said in a recent interview, and I'm paraphrasing:

"I hate the thought of me directing a scene with a cellphone in it..."

His reasoning was that for him film is medium of pure escapism. He is already living a contemporary life, so he doesn't wanna bring that into his filmmaking as well.

Based on interviews I've seen of him, I lowkey think dude is seriously into occultism and believes in magic/spirits in his personal life etc. He doesn't wanna outright say it because I think Hollywood might brand him as a weirdo.

this was so boring man, beautifully shot but boring

eggers has stagnated as a director, this felt like an amalgamation of all his previous films but with worse dialogue

dafoe, hoult and corin were great

my mans ATJ didn’t have much to work with