I forgot about this until I saw a poster for it at the theater today. Had no idea that a release date was set.
it had the opposite effect for me. knowing Pearl's backstory makes her moments in X hit so much harder and the parallels between her dreams and Maxine's really made the whole thing click for me in a way that it didn't when I first saw it. That said Pearl is still easily the better film but I think that's one of the best of the decade. I'm hoping the new one can at least come close to it.
X just has some really tonally bizarre moments. It's a good film, but Pearl is great and so unique. Agreed with @trevorshmevor. I kind of think Pearl works best as a standalone.
Pearl is one of my all time favorites and X would probably hardly even register as a movie I’ve seen if it weren’t for that one kill. Edit: that sounds harsher than I intended. I enjoyed X, but Pearl is on an entirely different level.
Pretty cool, they surprised fans that thought they were seeing X and Pearl with the first screening of this last night.
someone posted the first 6 minutes on TikTok a few days ago, and seeing it had me incredibly excited.