For Shyamalan not only does he land another A-lister to lead his family as so many are always looking to work with him, this also marks the first time he will collaborate with a high-profile writer on an idea, something to surely excite fans of the master storyteller.
Holy moly did Shyamalan write this himself? Is that the twist?
I think he expected it to be just more slapstick, allergy included, and then suddenly the move grinds back to reality. But I guess an allergy that kills a person is pretty dark. It’s definitely a sudden turn from the comedy movie Robin William’s character treats it like until it isn’t.
This is the movie after the one where Mater becomes an international spy that pisses on a stage in public?
Man the writing for those movies really skip a generation cause the first one was good too about respecting your time and place in history but adapting it to not just be forgotten and using the lessons learned to better those that follow.
Really good choice. There is also the interesting fact that nature does bend for them and the whirlpool for donations actually spits the religious zealot leader out a side path as if rejected by his own gods for using their name and power for control instead of to protect the citizens which is the point of the hidden city in the first place.
There is a lot of complex relationships in that movie that are more incredible to witness when you can look at them them through a more lived lens.
I feel like there are movies where you just get more of it when older but I’m trying to think of a movie that when viewed through a lense of an adult instead of a kid makes it a sadder story.
A Goofy Movie.
Top of the list. You have 2 main characters to follow and it’s absolutely different based on your age.
Also Breakfast club.
Not OP and I think they are a bit wrong to call it being dark but it is shockingly more grounded an ending than the slapstick would imply the ending would be.
Williams character gets caught pretending to be an old British hip hop granny, and the judge at the divorce custody hearings is rightfully disgusted at the idea of it and grants full custody to the mother and requests a psych eval.
However, the mother realizes that her kids need the more fun aspects of their father in their life and William’s character realizes that he needs to be more careful with what he does, as he is expected to be a role model even if it is ok to be silly.
It ends on the note that neither the mother or father were right for each and being back together is not possible with their different lives but that they are connected by a shared love of their children and being together and honest with what they can and can’t do for each other will make them all better. And they share custody every day after school.
“anticipated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Heck I didn’t even remember Snow White until I saw this.
This sounds like it was an awards run and they just wanted to get some money back.
I do think Amazon is trying to mark themselves as the home for Lord of the Rings which is only slightly funny since it’s literally everything around it that they were actually able to buy the rights to.
I will counter that there has been plenty of 2D animation on the big screen lately and a lot of it Japanese in origin. Thisnt isn’t that unique and I think the crossover isn’t as big as once hoped.
We are talking a similar audience as to that The Boy and the Heron.
Not a good excuse
You are weirdly petty about this and came back 15 hours later to try and get a response.
Weird.
Because they are upset that people like a movie and are blaming Disney for it.
It’s silly and ignores others feelings for personal held beliefs.
I liked it a lot.
Felt very Lovecraft in that the idea of winning against it should never have been considered.
The horror feels visceral and the uncomfortable nature of the moment by moment is awful if you empathize with the protagonist.
I like the Fall of the House of Usher and there is no happy ending for any of those characters. They have things happen and then they die.
This was more about spectacle, no grand story just a visceral and loud one of watching a poor person be fucked by trauma.
I think it is weird that you are upset that other people like this movie and are blaming studio meddling.
People could like peanut butter sandwiches I won’t make a post saying I’m weirded out that people are eating them and that George Washington Carver must be behind it somehow.
I know, I was so disappointed. But hey there is not a shortage of other fun games to play!
Another Crabs Treasure.
Oof. Wanted to love it. Wanted it to be SpongeBob like but with dark souls but timing is weird. The game is buggy. Fights don’t feel satisfying and it’s somehow too fast and too slow but people keep telling me to just turn on God mode and it will be fun… But then it’s not a game it’s a power trip.
I would skip it. I think it got hyped up the way that Stray did without being a great game just a great concept to talk about.
Well that’s interesting…
Been a while since I’ve seen anything compared to Kung Fu Hustle
I worry the movie won’t be able to have staying power.
It was so good and I enjoyed the movie greatly but it’s clearly and very much for the moment film. Touching on the nostalgia and emotions of the end of an entire collective universe and shared history of media that won’t be for people moving forward.
So can it be movie if the year if it’s only valid for this year?
Not a judgement but a question. I’d say yes, but understand it can’t be easily recommended later.
Man this was a rough year where even the big movies that we hoped for were mostly middling at best and lots more were outright bad.
But to support something I did like
Smile 2
I actually hadn’t seen Smile 1 before seeing this but it had a really great classic horror movie vibe of tension and uncomfortableness leading up to a payoff of just downright hard horror in the style of Edgar Allen Poe or Hereditary. And a second watch is actually great for picking up a lot of clever writing.
You know what’s almost guaranteed to be a bad movie? Any movies specifically written to be a Christmas movie.
Seriously it’s like wading through waist high sewage till something good drifts along.
So in likelihood of me to watch them:
We are deeply past anyone currently in charge of the franchise understanding it and now they are just pushing all the generic buttons for scifi movies hoping to get a mass audience appeal blockbuster.
It’s a travesty full of lens flairs and absolutely horrible anti-human dialogue. Not non-human as that would imply the filmmakers realized there are supposed to be interesting aliens in Star Trek, anti, cause it makes you less human if you try to think about it.
Fuxking gag me with an omega level super weapon bio agent apocalypse device.