Strange Darling (JT Mollner, August 23, 2024)

Made a thread so Aaron doesn't get spoiled. This is one of my favorites of the year. Just a really fun time and Fitzgerald's performance is excellent. Hope to see her in a lot more things.

 

Just gonna copy my post from the horror thread here - still spoiler tagging since it’s only the second post. Also bear in my mind this was partially in response to some debate about the ethics of this movie earlier in that thread

Saw Strange Darling last night, didn’t really care much for it.

Similar to another movie from last year that this site absolutely hated, I think the dots are there if you want to connect them re: problematic messaging, but my personal view is that it’s just another movie that put style and performances head and shoulders above any substance. And that’s fine - not all movies need, or are trying, to “say” something. The difference is at least that other movie gave us a lot of humor and memorable (wish-you-could-forgettable) moments, where this one failed to do anything significant at all beyond its non-chronological storytelling device. It couldn’t even make the twist that it telegraphs from the very beginning any more interesting. We already assume she’s the killer, so we’re left to ask “okay then why is he chasing her”, and this movie’s best reveal is “because he’s a police officer and he wants to arrest her” - come on, we couldn’t punch that up at all?

That all said I think it does the style part very well. It was very pretty to watch. Fitzgerald was great and Gallner was Gallner. You can never go wrong with Ed Begley Jr. (okay - “I’m a motorcycle guy” did make me laugh) It wasn’t bad, just kind of boring.

 

The way the opening credits really want to drill in from that start that our character names are The Lady and The Demon, while withholding the fact that the serial killer’s name is The Electric Lady until we’re like 80% into the movie, really felt like a “the doctor is his mother! tada!” moment

 

I enjoyed this film.

 

I will say that I wish they didn't put the go in blind because there's a twist thing in the trailer and such. All thrillers have twists you don't have to tell us

 

thought this lost a little steam once they reach the epilogue but god this delivered on the tension. willa and kyle both smashed it

 

I loved the epilogue and the long shot on her slowly dying

 

that part was great, i concede

 

“He has a gun!”
“And so do I!”

 

Loved this but I do think a lot of it had to do with me knowing literally nothing about it going in.

 

Yeah I think I saw like one poster beforehand and didn’t really know the premise at all.

 

I saw a teaser months ago but there really wasn’t anything to take away from it. Pretty sure it was just the clip from the start of this where they’re sitting in the car and she asks if he’s a serial killer

 

Still thinking about that breakfast tho

 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8JdnNpL/

 

honestly, I was all in until the jam/jelly got involved

 

celebrity deathmatch Electric Lady vs The Butcher

 

Thought this ruled
looked awesome, really great performances, loved the misdirection, the out of order editing

 

didn't know there was a thread, also had a blast and trying to see it again with my wife

 

Just remembered, on The Big Picture podcast Sean Fennessey mentioned that the text/prologue stuff at the beginning was narrated by Jason Patric when he saw it. Did anyone else get that? I didn’t

 

i only saw it on wiki driving home

 

Pat don’t learn and drive man

 

i wasn't driving i was being driven

 

get what? The narration? Yes

 

For me it was just text on screen

 

Ok my wife says it was definitely narrated. What’s wrong with me.