Just saw that new scary movie...MAMA

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Almost complete garbage, save a few small, and hardly noteworthy scenes/ideas....fro the opening shots, the movie never establishes itself, poorly done CGI, and uninspired and weak acting...Chastain is not winning any Oscars here, and struggles with the painfully bad dialouge and cliches the screenplay asks her to recite with a straight face. The male lead is a walking cliche, the idiot, oblivious to all, and the girls....odd, and a little creepy, are never really established either, only the broadest of strokes to character development. I did the Snoop face at least a dozen times in this, when the doctor said...you can keep the kids, just move into this 12 bedroom creepshow house. The Aunt character is another standard horror movie cliche, and the Doctor is too. By the time they started heading up to the woods in the fukking dark, I had checked all the way out of the movie. Aside from a few creepy scenes, seconds, or less, the movie is forgettable in almost all ways, except it utter incompetence...I know it's a January horror movie, but this was a lowbrow entry, in spite of that. The conclusion is ridiculous, why do these horror movies all insist upon ending in some showdown of poorly done CGI...You can count the cliches and have more fun then investing any effort into the actual movie. Asides from the doctor and the idiot protective male, you have the ominous old librarian or whatever she was, the clueless cops, the sinister relative...I know what I'm getting into with this shyt, but still, this is bullshyt-not anywhere close to a horror movie.

And, about 40 min, the idiot lead, and Chastain just stop talking, or seeing each other, he's at he hospital recovering from a coma, but pulls it together to follow up some dream sequence lead, without telling anyone where he's going or what he's up to....least of all his fukking girlfriend. He's walking around the hospital, drawing shyt, and his girl is dealing with supernatural woods apparitions and ancient ghosts...dude didn't give a fukk, apparently.
 

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Saw it earlier. Was decent. The use of too much cgi hurts it. Cgi just isnt effective in horror movies.

also del toro didnt design anything. The director of this had a short film called mama you can watch it on youtube with the same design. In fact they recreate the short film in the movie.

the ending is....different.
 

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No Way, seriously? I Slept on it because it was PG-13 and I don't Play that. :no:

I'll think about it this Week.
 

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I thought it was ok, not scary though (I actually don't get scared would like to though lol). Atleast unlike the R rated flicks who try to bring horror by blood and gore, this kept it PG-13 and that route wasn't necessary.

The kids were mad cute, I think Victoria (the older one) has a bright future ahead. Cool concept.
 

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this shyt is :childplease: status so far

I would turn it off but it's tha only movie I got right now

If I see another horror movie with lil white kids whispering I'm gonna slap tha shyt out a random cacs kids :stopitslime:
 

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jessica chastain in this was :ahh:

other than that it was just ok, interesting ending
 

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Not gon front...had a nikka stressin :whew:

If you like scary movies, catch it. :gladbron:

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It wasn't bad to me, but the end kinda fell short to me (and I figured the little sister would go). But there were some freaky parts for sure. Overall, pretty good.
 

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It was good until you actually see the ghost

And the ending made no sense.

I took it like the younger sister just saw the Ghost as her mother being she was just a baby when they went missing and that's all she knew. The older one seemed to have a better grasp of reality.
 

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MAMA must be the ugliest creature in the history of horror movies. They did a really good job at making her look scary. I ended up feeling bad for MAMA and understanding her emotions. Empathy is not the feeling I'm searching for when watching a horror movie and that's why the movie was meh. It's difficult to fear what you understand and what's familiar.
 
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