Talk about overhyped. After reading reviews and comments of people leaving the theaters shaking, emotionally disturbed to their core, or just overall not knowing WTF happened with the ending....I expected a lot more. Not saying it was a bad movie, because it wasn't, but it could've been 20 minutes shorter.
There's way too much hype surrounding this film. It was creepy and visually stunning, but from the reaction it's been getting you'd think it would be up there with The Shining, Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist. The film doesn't break new ground.
Too deep 4 u
Spoiler:I knew how the movie would end, because of the way Charlie decapitated the bird, then drew that picture with the bird's head wearing a crown. I pieced it together shortly after Charlie's decapitation, figuring there was significance to the fact that the mother sheltered her son from the grandmother. I thought it was going to involve Satan, but otherwise... The picture with the bird's head wearing a crown spoiled the ending for me.
The whole movie was arguably perfect. I'm not sure I would want anything changed other than a couple of lines that didn't fit perfectly.
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Spoiler:As I mentioned in my last post, the decapitated bird, and the picture of the bird's head wearing a crown gave away the ending. Also, the mother's turn at the end of the film was unaccounted for. She went from trying to sacrifice herself to save her family, to literally climbing the walls as a sadistic demon ready to sacrifice her son. What happened? Did I miss something? Her change of character wasn't caused by anything. "Madness" isn't a good enough account for her motivation. If she was possessed, it happened off camera.
There are a couple of things about the film that didn't work for me:
Spoiler:As I mentioned in my last post, the decapitated bird, and the picture of the bird's head wearing a crown gave away the ending. Also, the mother's turn at the end of the film was unaccounted for. She went from trying to sacrifice herself to save her family, to literally climbing the walls as a sadistic demon ready to sacrifice her son. What happened? Did I miss something? Her change of character wasn't caused by anything. "Madness" isn't a good enough account for her motivation. If she was possessed, it happened off camera.
She was posessed... it has been confirmed. Happens off camera.
Spoiler:They should have revealed that the mother's sleep-walking was posession, by showing the naked cult performing some kind of ritual while she was unconscious. Would've tied the entire film together with only 20 seconds worth of film.
Its a small nitpick
The movie works as is
Spoiler:The entire movie is hinged on the mother's motivation. We spend the entire film wondering how crazy the protagonist actually is. Then, at the very end we never see the mechanics responsible for the mother's involuntary behavior, as a reveal for her innocence, but we see the mother's character turn from protective to supernaturally sadistic. Again, no explanation for the turn within the film. It's a huge narrative problem.
Much like how Rian Johnson shouldn't explain the puzzling aspects of TLJ within dictionaries and other external literature, we shouldn't have to read explanations from the writer in interviews to clarify what he was doing.
The movie was pretty good. However, the ending was problematic.
The mother was possessed. I think if you rewatch it a little less cynically with the "overhype" out of mind you might enjoy it a bit more. Figuring out something satanic was going on early hardly ruins the the effect of the rest of the movie
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Hmmm is this scary? Cause I’ll be honest . All these horror movies that get high praise in the last years have t scared me much. I’m no horror fan but when a scary movie gets high praise I get interested.
But babadook I thought was stupid
The first paranormal activity was meh
Veronica was ok
And the witch was just an unsettling movie. Wonder what makes this stand out. Saw a review that says it takes awhile for anything to happen
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