Interesting that this went over to Paramount instead of staying with NEON... I guess the diminishing returns on Perkins' quantity over quality approach finally caught up to him.
Haha, no I definitely do — fucking love them. That probably came out or read wrong. Those type of characters make sense for a franchise, IMO, was my point.
It also totally misinterprets what made Longlegs a success - it had incredible marketing and huge buzz.
Well shot, creative premise, dumb Nic Cage character, some solid scares. I enjoyed myself. Maybe I will do The Monkey tomorrow
Hahhaa the ending is dumb as hell I love it. I really like how tonally inconsistent it is, some genuinely scary, evil feeling stuff and then killer dolls with devil balls in their heads. Best not think too deeply on this one
I think the marketing and the ensuing memes of Longlegs affected me more than the character in the movie (who might be a bad performance??), but that’s after seeing him out of context for 2 years.
for someone who has been legitimately great in performances in recent years, it is offensive to cage's career that the performance from this was discussed like it was one of his best
Yeah compared to something like Mandy that really harnessed his powers, this felt (relatively) anonymous
not going to keep railing on the guy since some people around here like his movies and perkins might just not be for me but he gets terrible performances out of good actors in every one of his movies ive seen
I think a lot of the bad performances here fit with how insane and stupid the movie becomes, but I cannot speak on his other ones.
I’ll forever wish Longlegs lived up to the hype and wonder how that got Neon to just continuously greenlight movie after movie for Oz.
I read the gist and then the analysis that it’s his reflection on the randomness of violence and death and the reverberations on a family after his mom died in 9/11 and I am curious to watch it under that lens.
I’d say it kinda did, for me. The promotion was great but it cannot exist from the world that Perkins built here. Most of the movie matches the unrelenting dread that I was promised from marketing, and the unexpected rugpull to something very stupid was honestly refreshing.
To situate yourself in any sort of movie analysis that I may have: I did just watch Las Vegas Bloodbath, where a dude kills his cheating wife, carries her severed head around with him, turns full Elliot Rodger incel and tears a fetus out of a pregnant woman’s stomach. Most of the movie is a competitive bikini oil wrestling league hanging out at the baby shower. 3 stars, a bit too mean