Longlegs (Oz Perkins, July 12, 2024) • Page 15

I don't see this as trying to do too much at all. knows exactly what it's doing from the outset and does it well imo

then again I always seem to be in the minority in loving messy-ass, nightmare logic horrors that just throw the entire kitchen sink at you and let you deal with it. to go back to the Suspiria 2018 comparison that movie's an absolute classic for me. so what do I know lol

 

man, i love Suspiria 2018

 

This was a lot more bizarre than I thought it would be and I’m not surprised the general audience is not feeling it. But also if you laid out the premise of the movie to me (dolls??) I probably wouldn’t have seen it, so shout out to the marketing lol.

 

hell yeah!

also, I'm really glad this didn't go the "kids being controlled to kill the families" route like I've seen suggested, cos like... that's literally just Sinister lol. love it or hate it, magic orbs inside satanic dolls at least is unique

 

hot take: i really didn't like Sinister. a cool idea in theory that was just really poorly executed

 

Ah man, Sinister is fun!

 

I watched Sinister for the first the time the day after I saw Longlegs, and I was so into the first half, thinking it would be more of a procedural and maybe a similar vibe as Prisoners. The supernatural stuff in Sinister just really didn't land for me.

 

i'm the opposite. i thought the atmosphere cultivated by the film reels was spectacular (even though i think the plot resolution/twist was too tropey, i didn't mind the supernatural element), but was just poorly balanced by an uninteresting A plot. i love Ethan Hawke in most things i've seen (First Reformed is one of my favorite movies), but Sinister felt like it kept hitting you over the head with how much of an asshole his character is that any attempts to care about the other characters fell flat. to be fair, he did a good job with what he was given, but it felt really predictable.

will give props to Vincent D'Onofrio making a guest appearance, lol.

 

This is a wild post to read just because I would never seemingly connect these two movies in my mind, lol. SInister and Prisoners, I mean. I feel like I would have to not know what the former was about at all to think I was getting a non-supernatural psychological crime thriller.

 

I actually didn't know much about Sinister going in, haha. I probably had some idea that it was a supernatural thing, but the basic setup of a true crime writer moving into a murder house and finding a bunch of snuff films is so great and totally could be a grisly crime thriller with no demons.

 

part of me thinks this could've worked really well as two separate films with no connection to one another, because the final product felt like two half-films poorly stitched together. again, not a bad idea in theory, but the execution left little to be desired, imo.

 

Saw someone say Longlegs looked like he was in White Chicks and it made me lol

 

The Johnny Rzeznik comparisons are also pretty apt.

 

Has anyone mentioned:

How convenient it is that the little girl at the end had no friends at her birthday party? Lmao.[/spoilers]

 

Lmao

 

Any theories on why Longlegs targeted Lee and her mom without a father in the picture?

 

Longlegs only targets unpopular kids

 

It's possible he saw them and wanted to assume the father role in some way maybe? Idr this for certain, but someone pointed out that when Lee takes that association test, she says "Father" when the triangle appears.

 

I do like that Neon is kind of the anti-A24 by selling merch that’s relatively affordable.

 

Sinister is so great up until the last 10 minutes imo, where it just royally shits the bed. the shot of Hawke walking through the house with the dead kids dancing around him is comically bad

 

Maybe I'll watch Sinister this weekend (probably won't)

 

I watched Longlegs after work earlier on and it is intense and the performances were excellent but I gotta give a speical shout out to Blair Underwood because I had not seen him in anything for years as far as I know but he was really good and I hope he does more high profile films because of this plus I read he's about to turn 60 soon.. dude hasn't aged a bit since the 2000's!!