What none of the sequels have ever been able to recapture is the primal terror and hopelessness of taking a very slightly wrong turn and ending up in the middle of something that just shouldn’t exist in the real world (while still making it plausible). Marketing it as a true story and filming it in 16mm grindhouse…

Sally, who’s been hunting Leatherface her whole life

This looks like a still from a movie about four near-human aliens who’ve crash-landed on Earth and are trying to fit in.

When the first promotional still dropped, and the cast looked like they wandered off the set for an Iphone ad, I instantly knew this was going to suck.

Also, no criticism is complete without mentioning that this was shot in Bulgaria and IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS SHOT IN BULGARIA.

When the new Halloween movies came out I watched some of the older Halloween sequels that I never bothered to watch. I was very impressed by how much the 2017 Halloween remake “borrowed” from the 1980s Halloween 2. IIRC the hype trailer for Halloween 2017 was the long steadycam shot of Michael Myers walking around…

Its baffling to me the way both shitty “direct sequels” have made zero attempt at the ragged, semi-improvised documentary realism. As soon as you tell this story using more Hollywood-classical performance styles, you make it almost impossible to connect with.

It's all about prunes, fiber, and in-out rubber catheters. You gotta be regular to be happy. 

Ray Fisher might disagree with that assessment.

I certainly don’t want to defend a d-bag like Whedon too much here, but these articles are trying waaay too hard to tie it into Whedon solely when Affleck’s quotes don’t really support that. Opposite really; he even gives a “confluence of things” lists of reasons of why everything about his life personally and…

Somewhat surprisingly—given the many rumors that have cropped up about that particular set—Affleck doesn’t then go on to namecheck Joss Whedon as a source of that misery.

wrong one, dickhead

Isn’t that his brother?

I think that was even more poorly reviewed than Justice League.

I thought he was a better Batman than Christian Bale, Val Kilmer. or George Clooney.

I think Whedon is getting to much credit here. Like obviously he made it worse, but Ben is clearly stating that he didnt enjoy being a famous superhero because his life was totally falling apart. Totally understandable really.

I hope he didn’t compound his misery by watching it too.

As someone who’d never heard of the character before, his simply being a black-furred, intimidating Wookie who makes Chewie look like a cuddly teddy bear was plenty to make his presence pop.

By the way, Boba’s criminal organization continues to be such a hilariously weird operation. Apparently it is a pretty big city and somekind of an important hub worth a lot of money, yet Boba seems to think that he could run it all with him, his right-hand woman and two muscles. Like no information network, no…

The visual storytelling is working for me fully still at this point, to the degree that so far I’m not even bothered by the fact that they just did essentially introduced Dancing with the Wolves to Star Wars.