X (Ti West, March 18, 2022) Movie • Page 4

Really enjoyed this, some cool editing, and the cast was great. Loved the lighting during RJ’s kill once the blood splattered onto the headlights.

Definitely agree that the “Landslide” scene felt off. Lost me with the crocodile kill too.

 

crocodile kill and the dialogue leading up to it was the best part of the movie

 

Brittany Snow might have my favorite performance in this.

 

She really carried the movie IMO

 

Was a big fan of this.

 

Man, this was fun. My 2 favorite parts:

Ortega’s “I want to be in the movie” right after the touching and borderline hilarious (?) Landslide sequence and the edit of Ortega turning the lightbulb on and the pitchfork being removed

 

Pretty sure the dude tied up in the basement was the “missing person” on the milk carton.

 

Probably his car in the lake too.

 

Which was a nice parallel to Psycho that they alluded to earlier in the film.

 

On top of this being on VOD the 14th, A24 is doing the virtual screening room for it tomorrow as well.

 

Hell yes! Have been wanting to watch this and it’s out of most theaters here.

 

Thanks for the heads up. Never done one of those before but looks like they give you a four hour window to watch it? I’ll probably just do that.

 

I did the one for C'mon C'mon, spots fill up fast (which I'll never understand since it's virtual) but you do have a 4 hour window to watch the movie!

 

This was fun but I would not say I loved it. Definitely enjoyed it though.

 

Definitely didn't love this. The fire felt way dialed down from what I expected. The first kills blood splatter was dope and I wanted more of that.

Absolutely delighted to hear Chelsea Wolfe in there. Didn't know she scored it.

 

yeah I really felt like this didn't know how funny and how scary/sad it wanted to be, just ended up some half-hearted mix of both. like, the RJ kill being followed by that dance set to Chelsea Wolfe was bone-chilling stuff I won't forget anytime soon. after that each kill just got progressively sillier until Ortega's made me burst out laughing, not in a good way

some reeeeally bad dialogue too and the dude playing Wayne needed to put some polish on his McConaughey impression. Goth, Ortega and Brittany Snow were all great. some of the themes it dipped into were actually pretty interesting, but Ti is too obsessed with schlock to carry anything like that out fully (hard to care about your sympathetic old people antagonists when they're teleporting around the property despite incredibly slow walking speeds)

overall, Ti is a thoroughly interesting director. he has a distinctive voice that always comes through whatever genre he's aping. but, apart from HOTD, the I'm just not sure that he makes good films lmao

 

I may have over hyped it for myself. The trailer, reviews, cast/director, premise and awesome poster... I was hyped. Plus, toss in im a Texan now, and this was top level anticipation for me.

In the end, I thought it was good, not definitely not great. Totally fine. A solid 7/10.

The tone was all over the place. Trying to have heart, be silly, be gruesome, and be semi artsy all at once...the pieces didn't fit as nicely as I'm sure Ti West thought they did. They almost did! Pacing was disappointing. A super slow burn to an extremely quick series of deaths. The deaths weren't satisfying or interesting either.

Worth a watch as a whatever horror movie but I wouldn't expect anything beyond that. I think in 2022, I expect a bit more from horror movies (since it's all been done to death)

 

Surprised we haven't gotten an update for Pearl yet

 

Yes

 

I hope it’s not just what was at the end of X. Would like to see a little more.

 

Looks better than X, tbh

 

I liked the first one enough to give it a VOD watch.