babylon sherm

2y

The movie should’ve used disco instead of glam rock tbh. Way more f***ing disco. Just make it all disco s***

proper

2y

he shoulda had some brotha lynch hung posters instead of lou reed

proper

2y

he shoulda had some brotha lynch hung posters instead of lou reed

babylon sherm

2y

I think he’s a pretty smart and truly pretentious guy who will waffle between “well I’m not just gonna make a horror movie and put (blank) in it, that’s just so pat and boring” and “of course I’m gonna do (blank), it’s a horror film!” depending on who asks, like a lot of writers. One interview the serial killer thriller is the best thing that happened to the horror genre, the next interview he’s saying he didn’t want to make one 🤷‍♂️

The name gets explained in like the second line of the movie though, Cage says something like My, you’re so small! But it seems I wore my long legs today. Just some inspired pedo banter

flootures

2y

That doesn't really explain it tho, he just said the movie's title in the first couple minutes of the film

BUT yes. Not true kino lovers is the take away here, and that sometimes TWEETS ARE PR MARKETING AS WELL. Can't take every voice you hear on the web as genuine cuz it's prolly an intern

babylon sherm

2y

I liked it! Lmao

I get it though, it’s schlock, I agree with a lot of the complaints. Most of what I disliked about the movie becomes forgivable the longer it sticks in my brain, thats kinda all I ask out of a movie now

babylon sherm

2y

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Anybody else assuming from the negative space in the movie that Longlegs is kinda inferred to be Harker’s dad? The killings start the year she’s born, she’s the only one who’s spared, IMO that’s the real “triangle” being completed: Mother, father, child. Most english speakers first verbal association with “longlegs” is gonna be the word Daddy. Ruth has a little bit of a reverse-Virgin Mary thing going on too, Longlegs is a craftsmen like Joseph and her child has abilities given to them by a spiritual superior

Plus there’s a fair amount of humor to be drawn from that, like having your villain tell the protagonist “Why don’t you go ask your mother about that?” or “You know you got the psychic stuff from *my* side of the family goddamnit!”

Edit: Oop! The upside-down pyramid image in Harker’s ESP test is assigned a meaning of “father” 👀

rustcohlestan

2y

again you can’t be serious, these two scenes alone destroy your argument

TheInstigator

2y

Dune 2 was empty spectacle. Visually looked nice but it had no emotion and no soul. Just plot being regurgitated at you for 2.5 hours. Literally felt like the book was fed through ChatGPT and spit that movie out.

I do love Blade Runner 2049 but Denis generally is an empty calories filmmaker

flootures

2y

That doesn't really explain it tho, he just said the movie's title in the first couple minutes of the film

BUT yes. Not true kino lovers is the take away here, and that sometimes TWEETS ARE PR MARKETING AS WELL. Can't take every voice you hear on the web as genuine cuz it's prolly an intern

Ava

2y

Just finished my first rewatch and I’m glad to say my feelings about it were left unchanged. There’s a lot to appreciate about the movie stylistically and visually that can be missed on first watch, especially as you are anticipated the unexpected to happen. I noticed from the very beginning that the presence of Longlegs himself leaves the viewer so distracted that the imagery of Satan throughout can be missed easily. Some are more prominent then others, and like many I thought the shift into the supernatural was something that only started from the third act on, but it’s there so much more clearly when you’ve seen it already. || I still believe Longlegs is inherently suppose to be pathetic but through being a vessel for true evil his switch in emotion is just as terrifying to see play out. His mere presence is eerie and unsettling on many levels. I could also see that || Harker was very much the same as a kid (even before she met Longlegs) as when she is an adult, very subdued emotionally and displaying tendencies of someone socially inept. But as the film goes on it’s almost like seeing her trauma unravel and seeing her vulnerabilities bleed through as her obsession grows. And it all culminates in that moment she sees her mother commit murder. That visceral shock that she displays is probably some of my favorite acting of the year, it completely breaks her and all she has left is that inherent nature to stop that horror from continuing. I also really appreciated Blair Underwood’s presence in the film, his parental nature gives a great balance to Harkers indifference to the bleak details. Seeing his switch in nature at the end was wild to see, that indifference we got used to with Harker now being used by the empathetic Carter makes it all the more unsettling. There’s alot of details that go way deeper then “scariest movie of the year”. It’s both a pro and con that Neon marketed it the way they did, as it’s great to see how successful it’s been but opening it to audiences that are expecting a jumpscare fest or expecting something life changing really soured what could’ve been a more normalized reaction. Nonetheless, I still think everyone should go in with their own expectations in check and not let others influence how they feel. Horror itself can be so divisive nowadays, but a slow burn horror and with the marketing it had just made the audience reception inevitable. I’m just glad to be on the positive side and to see the movie for what it is.

Block Muteson

2y

So bad

proper

2y

what’s ur letterboxd? i can change that for you

atthepyramids

2y

what’s YOURS

proper

2y

https://boxd.it/1blSZ

atthepyramids

2y

the reception to this has people interested in the movie Cure. who knows where i can watch it for free?

babylon sherm

2y

Yerp https://archive.org/details/cure_20211214

Quas

2y

"Blade Runner" runs laps around "Dune" (imo)