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This is astounding to me. If I didn't know better I would swear we are not talking about the same movie.

 

A friendly reminder that horror is subjective as a genre

 

I mean, I guess everything is. Except for wrong opinions about The Witch

 

Spoiler alert: Nothing comes.

 

It Comes At Nights sucks imo

 

I like The Witch a lot, but I don’t think it’s even meant to be truly scary. It’s more of a mood piece than horror, imo.

The ending rules.

 

Sounds like somebody wouldst NOT like to live deliciously.

 

Same. Hereditary is like that for me too. Everyone loves it and I was incredibly underwhelmed by it. It's technically outstanding, but as the story develops, the less engaging I found it to be.

 

Can anyone tell me what is on screen towards the beginning of The VVitch after the baby is killed coming out of the woods with the very loud evocative music playing, when it's all blue with the big full moon in the background...? I couldn't make out what I was seeing, I tried a couple of times.

I'm gonna have this in mind on my rewatch.

 

The Witch has some great unsettling parts but is too boring in some parts. Too much a slow burn.

After playing God of War, Spiderman, Horizon and anything Naughty Dog (The Uncharted series, Last of Us)..... that is 100% correct.

 

lines like that one are exactly why The VVitch is my most quoted horror movie

 

my spicy take is that horror movies don't have to be actively scary to be a part of the genre

 

I'd agree with that. And to take it further saying that genres are generally good for a quick snapshot of what to expect but that most movies are 2, 3, or more different genres at once: horror comedy, thriller mystery, action drama, sci-fi horror mystery, etc...

 

I think the sun will swallow the earth before A24 releases a horror film that’s embraced by a mainstream audience. The closest one they’ve had to a conventional scary film is “Green Room.”

 

While it's a great movie, I think Blade Runner 2049 is overrated when I see it on lists of classics or 'best of the decade' already.. It's a no-brainer that it looks absolutely stunning, the score is fantastic, the production design is off the charts, the acting is great, etc... but the main hangup for me that makes me think it's overrated is that it didn't do anything for me emotionally.

***Spoilers ahead just in case***

I don't need a movie to emotionally stir something in me in order to love it, but when it lacks that after specifically having characters and scenes that are there for that reason, it's a negative. Nearly every "love" scene between Joi and K always lacked a depth that I found with a similar movie, Her, and I think it's because I could see Joi. Even though I know that both her and Samantha aren't real people, seeing Joi in the apartment partly see-through and/or the advertisements for her made it very difficult to think of her as a real person, whereas Samantha was like an omnipresent person in his ear like a bluetooth as if a real person is somewhere offscreen talking to him. The main moment that really let me down is when they're threatening K and end up killing Joi, part of the intention of the scene was for both K and the audience to experience pain and sadness and anger at her "dying" but when they crushed her little USB thing, it just felt empty. And it's because I never looked at her as more than an appliance. And that's the thing: that is all she is. And he is. But I believe the movie was trying to make them feel human and it just didn't for me, which was disappointing.

And maybe it's not fair to compare this to Her but when some of the themes and scenes are extremely similar, I can't help but think of it and how much better it was done and compare them.

I still think it's great and worth watching, especially in theaters, but I couldn't say that it's a classic or important other than looking at movies from a production point of view.

 

The thing between K and Joi is that while she is basically a hologram designed to his specifications, she’s the only thing he has. Throughout the whole movie, it’s clear people just see him as a tool, he breathes, eats, and bleeds, but he’s not human and they let him know it. Joi is the only thing that made him feel wanted, that someone or something rather gave a shit about him. It’s also why the scene with the giant hologram Joi ad is so crucial, he realized that he relied on this thing to feel human and that doesn’t make you human.

 

I enjoyed 2049 for the most part, but I agree that it probably isn’t anything that will go down as one of the greats. We’ll see. One of my biggest gripes with 2049 is how they feel the need to hold your hand at the end and show you all those flashbacks. It’s like, have some faith in your audience that they aren’t idiots and are able to connect the dots. I definitely need to rewatch though, it’s been awhile.

 

Sure, I understand all of that as well and think that it works to a varying degree, but overall, it didn't hit me emotionally while watching or leave me with anything to really ponder over later, like other better sci-fi movies or shows.

 

The presence of Jared Leto is enough to knock it down quite a bit in my personal view, without even getting to some of the issues with the film itself. It was impressive that it managed to be such a success among fans given how iconic the original is, but I agree that it hasn’t stuck with me nearly as much as a lot of other recent sci-fi.

 

That’s totally fair

 

2049 is one of my favs after one viewing.

 

2049 is definitely an improvement on the original imo.

 

They’re both great and on the same level of quality, but I think the original is a classic because it’s the original and being made 30+ years ago. Pretty astounding.