J-MIL
Fly Sh!t Only
Entertaining ass movie
Ant became a man at the end
Ant became a man at the end
nowhere near the movie i just finished watchingSo same ending...
This stays faithful to the original up to a certain point until it becomes a full-fledged popcorn thriller. Has a more digestible ending that audiences should eat up. Nothing really groundbreaking but for a remake, it’s not damning either like The Vanishing.
I was missing that foreboding score from 2022’s though, this was a little too quiet for me.
This is what happens in the original Danish version. It’s a different and IMO, less impactful ending here. The parents and both kids end up finding a way to escape and kill the other couple.
I thought Watkins and Blumhouse would show some balls here, but guess I should’ve already known the ending would be sanitized for a more accessible one due to the likelihood of American audiences not being able to handle such a major downer.
One thing I did like about the remake was the fact that the parents actually fought back against McAvoy and his wife, rather than continuously being complicit to every red flag presented. It was like they were contending for ‘Worst Parents of the Century’ in the OG, and it was hard for me to feel sorry for them when they died.
Mackenzie Davis was in that hipster show Station Eleven, she was wasted in thatSaid in other thread that I met Mackenzie Davis in LA, and she was really good in this. Never heard of her before this year, and would have not known if I wasn't told.
She did a good job being pretty mildly obnoxious at times and portraying a certain type of professional class woman.
It was pretty much a comedy to me. Along the lines of movies like Carnage, and the classic social/class tensions. Also, like movies like The River Wild, a commentary on rural vs country, mans man vs kind of the educated white collar man. Man takes back his power/manhood and wins back his family. McAvoy was excellent. He was masterful. You couldn't take it that serious, and I am glad the ending wasn't bleak, it would have not fit the material.
Lots of not subtle commentary on modern masculinity, emasculation, a lot of funny moments. Just the constant line crossing and McAvoy cracking the girls neck like that, yelling at his son, that goose scene, "that's not dancing", lots of laugh out loud moments. Had fun, but it's a not a great movie. The direction is good looking and competent, but not beyond that.
Reminded me of Vacancy too.