darealvelle
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I think all that happened in 2020 got the studio scared and they had to re edit the movie.We’re never gonna get a director’s cut.
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That really what pisses me off, because it was such a brilliant set up and empowering moment to end the film. I felt like it got sabotaged from a studio head. It doesn't come together and it just felt like the whole 3rd act needed another 30 minutes.
Like homeboy went from leaving the hospital to being completely disfigured within 5 minutes then within 3 minutes... Everyone is dead. A character that we had very little screen time with the whole movie. She had the empowering moment and it just feels flat. Then, you got a$$hole racist ass cops that also had very little role in the film. So, instead of it being a prominent element of the film. It just feels super tacked on to be honest. The art snobs where there to just get murdered. For a film that try to say a lot... it really doesn't. I hoping the topic gentrification would have a more prominent role that gets boiled down to a couple of lines. I just wanted more of it. Then, the 3rd act completely loses all this narrative depth when it's a couple of crazy guys doing stupid shyt.
The way the film was initially paced... It felt like this was one of those slow burn 2+ hour films, but it got trimmed down to 1 hour and 45 minutes.
I think what sucks the most to me... It didn't feel like a Candyman film. It was a bit bland and didn't really have much style. The cinematography was brilliant, but Candyman never got to breathe life into it.
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darealvelle
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The doctor completely did not address his body turning into a burnt honey comb. I was not feeling the ghoul/goon candyman. Dude was a lame and was growling and moaning the whole time. I guess Anthony was lucky to not become a ghoul Candyman lol.
No fight at all.
Anthony found out the truth from his mother and said fukk my life, it is what it is.
darealvelle
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No fight at all.
Would have made sense for him to get stung by the bee after he summon Candyman and not before?
See I would’ve liked that more over the out of nowhere bee sting. Continuously brushing off the sting when the infection clearly got worse and worse was weird, as were the folks around him not noticing it. Girlfriend touching his face like everything’s fine and dandy.
Felt like he was more oblivious to what was actually going on for a lengthy portion of the film rather than enduring the suffering and dread like Helen did.
It felt like someone watched the Fly and Candyman back to back and was thinking that it was a cool idea to do a transformation, but that shyt didn't make sense.
Just seems shoehorned in....
Probably been better off if he was hallucinating that infection. He goes to the hospital and they unwrap the hand it's perfectly fine. Then, it better illustrates Anthony mental decline. They still need to add a better transition from his mother and him just giving up. It was too abrupt.
darealvelle
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Also Nightmare on Elm Street pt 2. The writers and the director too smart for a lot of details missing. Studio had to interfere.
darealvelle
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After he left his moms crib, there was no reason or was not explained why he went back to that abandon apartment. Outside that scene in the beginning where he was taking pics of art on the wall. And also how did he end up with Burke near the end?
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Would of been a nice Nightmare Candyman scene...
darealvelle
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There was a sort of nightmare candyman scene that was cut when he shot by the cops. Then Helen Lyle appears and Tony Todd asking Anthony to join the congregation.
Feels the real Candyman film was left on the cutting room floor. wtf man....
