I didn’t hate it, but your description here is exactly why I left feeling unsatisfied. There’s a lot of good stuff in the movie (especially Toni Collette, who absolutely carries it), but I don’t think its overall structure is satisfying.

Also, the first half is so very literal in being about grief - it’s not a horror…

God, I’m relieved to see people saying this movie didn’t scare them! I thought I was doing it wrong. I thought it was beautifully crafted, Toni Collette was amazing, the plot kept me guessing. Some of the imagery was creepy, too. But that “nervously looking over my shoulder on the way to the car” scary? Not at all,…

I very much wanted to like this movie, but I left feeling completely indifferent to the whole experience. I’m completely baffled as to what everyone else watched that’s leaving them heaping praise on it. I didn’t think it was scary, or even very tense. I usually love A24 horror flicks, and I’m in the cold on this one,…

I don’t see the issue here. It’s like the opening to a fight in a martial arts movie where everyone involved tosses in a little intimidating flourish and strikes a threatening pose.

The disappearing dagger at 3:19 is a serious flub, but even acknowledging that I think this is far and away the most entertaining fight scene in a Star Wars.

“Excuse me, sir. SIR! As a fan who disagreed with the technical merits, character beats, and plot points of TLJ, it is my SOVREIGN RIGHT to call prominent women in the cast cunts. How ELSE am I to register my intense displeasure!?”

It’s startling how nice it is just to watch something measured and thoughtful about this movie. I really dug this film and still agree with the the critique of Finn’s character arc. I love TLJ, but not unconditionally and it’s nice to be able to think about these things without the conversation devolving into the…

Kylo Ren is everything Anakin Skywalker was supposed to be in the Revenge of the Sith. Conflicted, angry, capable of believably expressing human emotions.

I just subscribed to Filmstruck a few weeks ago and I’ve been absolutely loving the service not only because of its exceptional selection of movies but also because of features like this. Haven’t watched the Jenkins segment, but now I’ll need to check it out.

I’m on board for new Barry Jenkins material.

I just subscribed to Filmstruck and I got to see a 30 minute conversation with Jenkins about the films that influenced him and it was a delight.

I’m sorry, was that the plot where they held an election for Space President, but it turned out that someone made fake Space Paper Ballots so she was disqualified leading to the election of Obvious Traitor Balthar?

Agreed on the casting of Ozy. He just doesn’t fit the character as it’s represented in the book, and the nature of that character is integral to the plot. But who would you cast? If they were making it now, I’d actually suggest Chris Hemsworth, as he can pull off the “strongest man” aspect, but he’s also stereotyped…

My disappointment with Watchmen started the second Adrian and the Comedian are having the fight in his apartment and they started punching through concrete. It was especially crushing after that amazing title sequence. How can anyone who claims to love the source as much as Snyder did completely miss that the point of…

I could quibble over a creative decision here or there, but for the most part I think Snyder’s film is a good and faithful adaptation. With one MASSIVE exception: he doesn’t understand the character of Ozymandias at all. Like, he gets the character EXACTLY ASS BACKWARDS, portraying him as a shifty, effete supervillain…

Watchman is a super faithful adaption of a work of satire done by a person who didn’t realize it was satire.

Stylistically I think Snyder nailed a lot of the comic, but thematically he just seemed to miss the point, time and time again.

It could have been decent enough - l actually quite enjoyed it - if not for the fact he completely missed the point, fetishizing the violence and making the book’s very much non-super heroes ULTRA super.

It’s funny how pseudo-intellectuals (read: anti-intellectuals) on the right view themselves as actual intellectuals. The idea that being a smug dick, smirking through your racist rhetoric and wearing a suit and tie makes you an “intellectual” is laughable. Even more so when what they rely on are misrepresented facts…

If you were here to provide criticism your first thought would not be to immediately accuse someone of “virtue signaling” because they posted a comment on how to deal with trolls.

Yeah I’m just going remind everyone that when the bigots and trolls swarm the greys and reply to your threads, please don’t reply back. At least not directly. Instead, take a screenshot of the troll’s comment and post it in a comment to yourself while dismissing the original comment.