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Never fukked with Insidious that much, but I can’t deny its popularity and impact at the time it came out. James Wan really did co-own the 2010s and by mid-way through, spurn three successful horror franchises into the mainstream. That whole “elevated horror” sub-genre I keep hearing about felt like it took off from 2010 and onwards.
Three franchises, three ripple effects. He’s easily the most influential horror director within the past two decades, IMO. Dude can hang his suit up like Thanos at the end of Infinity War right now and I wouldn’t even be mad at it.
Three franchises, three ripple effects. He’s easily the most influential horror director within the past two decades, IMO. Dude can hang his suit up like Thanos at the end of Infinity War right now and I wouldn’t even be mad at it.
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Men - idk , this movie is slow moving and weird - there better be a satisfying payoff bc I’ve been looking at grass and rolling hills for the past 45 minutes with flashbacks of a man impaled on a fence and a bald naked white walker, and was anyone else bothered by the fact that this lady had the audacity to pick an apple directly off a tree and start eating it without washing it firstbut I’m guessing that supposed to be an allegory for a later part of the story (garden of Eden) -
This started off great but just got way too self-indulgent for me by the end, similarly to Garland’s show Devs. It’s not even the bizarre, last 15 minutes that turned me off. I’ve just grown tired of religious allegories in association with trauma in these kind of films.
This movie has me tight. Smh. I’m not even bothering to finish this - they lost me with the “violent abusive suicidal black man” v the fragile minded white woman pushed to the edge of victim hood. Like the entire movie is obnoxious - that’s the perfect term you used to describe this. And that one man playing 20 different characters - omg . He’s not that interesting as an actor for me to be impressed with his roles. I’m done with this slow build overly developed drawn out moody emo “horror” movies that have no pay off conclusion. (Those echoes she was Doing in the cave could have knocked 30 mins off that movieThis started off great but just got way too self-indulgent for me by the end, similarly to Garland’s show Devs. It’s not even the bizarre, last 15 minutes that turned me off. I’ve just grown tired of religious allegories in association with trauma in these kind of films.
). From now on - if it’s not slashers, vampires, ghost hauntings, witches, creature features or kill counts - I’m not watching. Been patient enough with the psychological thrillers - enough is enough. #Bring Back the violence in horror
“Through the Glass Darkly” is basically The Sixth Sense with Alzheimer’s- another slow build with a M. Knight Shylamanananamanaman “twist” and “the” agenda
Prey and Orphan restoring the mood though
we need more of these.I would not hate if they made another Underworld. Waiting to see Nope in the next week or two and then Halloween season
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“Men” is a surreal-ish folk horror film that can best be described as an admirable mess.“ August 16, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review… This is thoughtful horror, like the 2019 film Midsommar, with mythology underlying the grotesqueries. August 12, 2022 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D+" on an A+ to F scale,
No lies told. Movie was trash status
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D+" on an A+ to F scale,
No lies told. Movie was trash status
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Men (2022 film) - Wikipedia
I hope that anyone associated with this movie never acts again - I almost lost one hour of my life watching this bullshyt
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Men (2022 film) - Wikipedia
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[SPOILER][While attempting to drive away, Harper runs over Geoffrey. In a rage, he throws Harper out of her car and drives away, circles back around, and chases Harper down before crashing the car into a stone wall in front of the house. The naked man, now in full Green Man form, approaches Harper, his ankle now severely broken and matching another injury on James's corpse. The naked man violently gives birth to the young boy, who in turn gives birth to the vicar, then Geoffrey, and finally James, heavily mutilating their bodies[./SPOILER]
I hope that anyone associated with this movie never acts again - I almost lost one hour of my life watching this bullshyt
When I said it has memorable images but not necessarily in a positive way, this is that crazy ass scene I was referencing
When I said it has memorable images but not necessarily in a positive way, this is that crazy ass scene I was referencing
(I’m going back and reading yall reviews- I was avoiding them bc I didn’t want to spoil it for myself. )
I must have changed the channel before that scene -thank gawd!! I thought that it would have a midsommar vibe but this went completely off the mark
all A24 movies are is banned from getting any play on my tv for the duration, after this catastrophe 
Movie was way better than midsommar, you just have crap taste
(I’m going back and reading yall reviews- I was avoiding them bc I didn’t want to spoil it for myself. )
I must have changed the channel before that scene -thank gawd!! I thought that it would have a midsommar vibe but this went completely off the mark
There's nothing "overdeveloped" about this story, you are literally just an empty headed bytch throwing buzzwords around about a movie that you didn't care to like or understand. It's very simple in structure and narrative.This movie has me tight. Smh. I’m not even bothering to finish this - they lost me with the “violent abusive suicidal black man” v the fragile minded white woman pushed to the edge of victim hood. Like the entire movie is obnoxious - that’s the perfect term you used to describe this. And that one man playing 20 different characters - omg . He’s not that interesting as an actor for me to be impressed with his roles. I’m done with this slow build overly developed drawn out moody emo “horror” movies that have no pay off conclusion. (Those echoes she was Doing in the cave could have knocked 30 mins off that movie
“Through the Glass Darkly” is basically The Sixth Sense with Alzheimer’s- another slow build with a M. Knight Shylamanananamanaman “twist” and “the” agenda
Prey and Orphan restoring the mood though
I would not hate if they made another Underworld. Waiting to see Nope in the next week or two and then Halloween season
Here's a breakdown from an audience review off Google; since you can't hyperlink google reviews I'll quote them. It's the best review and understanding of the movie I've seen thus far.
Christen Warrington-Broxton
"We need to talk about the last 30 minutes of the film because a lot of reviews and comments either skip over that part or brush it off as "weird."
There are folks claiming the ex storyline was never resolved. Think about that next to last scene with the reborn tocksick msclnty (TM) blameful ex where our heroine is clearly calculating how she will dismantle that mess with the axe.
There are also folks who think the most grotesque and symbolic scene of gory birthings makes no sense. Again, you have to get into the meat (ew and lol) of that scene. It's slap-you-across-the-face-obvious commentary on how men reproduce, or rebirth, the TM that was passed onto them, even down to the traumas, or wounds.
It may even be that this scene is commentary on the Green Man even existing in mythology is so utterly grotesque. It's obsurd and inherently patriarchal that a man has been carved into stones and wood around the world as a symbol of nature and rebirth, when clearly women are the only human beings capable of birth. On the opposite side of the stone is the Sheela-na-gig, a figure on whose role scholars cannot seem to agree, which is hilarious considering they managed to figure out the Green Man.
One interpretation of the Sheela-na-gig is that she symbolizes pain, a salient message for the film. Yet, focusing just on facts, these pagan carvings highlight a theme among religions, even pagan or tribal religions that are commonly mistaken to all be matriarchal in nature: the reduction of women. The Green Man carving focuses on his face while the Sheela-na-gig focuses on the lady parts, highlighting just how long men have been reducing women. And, it's deeply meaningful that these carvings are found in one of the single most patriarchal and TM places in the entire world: a church. Frankly, just about any major global religious place of worship would fit the scene.
The gross scene takes the idea of the Green Man and turns it on its head, as if to say when men do give birth to something, it is the consistent, even monotonous rebirth of generational torment and trauma, eventually causing the woman in the scene to lose her initial shock and horror, and become oddly numbed.
The onslaught starts with the Green Man, the oldest stealing away of women's power, going through its many itterations. There is the plain old attacker. The policeman who lets a man go. Besides, all the man did was attack a woman. It's not like he stole valuable property, insinuating women aren't as valuable as property. We also have the passive aggressive nice guy at the bar who forces himself into buying women drinks women dont want. Forgiving the likely mistake in order, they bring in the angsty teenager, thinking a woman owes him her time just because he asked nicely at first. And, without fail, they bring in the religious leader who blames the woman for the abuse of a man. All giving way to the final man, the one who threatens to X himself if his wife doesn't stay with him, the man who violates his wife's privacy to talk with her friends about the emotional abuse, escalating to physical abuse, and the final foolish accidental fulfillment of his own threat when he fails in forcing his way back into her life.
The modern woman walks away from the inevitable and pathetic rebirth of toxic masculinity that comes for her: the ex. She goes to wait to prepare herself emotionally, and physically with the weapon her female friend pointed out to her. She must destroy this presence in her life.
Now, did I leave the theater asking myself if this would have even been produced if a man had not written it? I sure did. And isn't that the ultimate point?"
Christen Warrington-Broxton
"We need to talk about the last 30 minutes of the film because a lot of reviews and comments either skip over that part or brush it off as "weird."
There are folks claiming the ex storyline was never resolved. Think about that next to last scene with the reborn tocksick msclnty (TM) blameful ex where our heroine is clearly calculating how she will dismantle that mess with the axe.
There are also folks who think the most grotesque and symbolic scene of gory birthings makes no sense. Again, you have to get into the meat (ew and lol) of that scene. It's slap-you-across-the-face-obvious commentary on how men reproduce, or rebirth, the TM that was passed onto them, even down to the traumas, or wounds.
It may even be that this scene is commentary on the Green Man even existing in mythology is so utterly grotesque. It's obsurd and inherently patriarchal that a man has been carved into stones and wood around the world as a symbol of nature and rebirth, when clearly women are the only human beings capable of birth. On the opposite side of the stone is the Sheela-na-gig, a figure on whose role scholars cannot seem to agree, which is hilarious considering they managed to figure out the Green Man.
One interpretation of the Sheela-na-gig is that she symbolizes pain, a salient message for the film. Yet, focusing just on facts, these pagan carvings highlight a theme among religions, even pagan or tribal religions that are commonly mistaken to all be matriarchal in nature: the reduction of women. The Green Man carving focuses on his face while the Sheela-na-gig focuses on the lady parts, highlighting just how long men have been reducing women. And, it's deeply meaningful that these carvings are found in one of the single most patriarchal and TM places in the entire world: a church. Frankly, just about any major global religious place of worship would fit the scene.
The gross scene takes the idea of the Green Man and turns it on its head, as if to say when men do give birth to something, it is the consistent, even monotonous rebirth of generational torment and trauma, eventually causing the woman in the scene to lose her initial shock and horror, and become oddly numbed.
The onslaught starts with the Green Man, the oldest stealing away of women's power, going through its many itterations. There is the plain old attacker. The policeman who lets a man go. Besides, all the man did was attack a woman. It's not like he stole valuable property, insinuating women aren't as valuable as property. We also have the passive aggressive nice guy at the bar who forces himself into buying women drinks women dont want. Forgiving the likely mistake in order, they bring in the angsty teenager, thinking a woman owes him her time just because he asked nicely at first. And, without fail, they bring in the religious leader who blames the woman for the abuse of a man. All giving way to the final man, the one who threatens to X himself if his wife doesn't stay with him, the man who violates his wife's privacy to talk with her friends about the emotional abuse, escalating to physical abuse, and the final foolish accidental fulfillment of his own threat when he fails in forcing his way back into her life.
The modern woman walks away from the inevitable and pathetic rebirth of toxic masculinity that comes for her: the ex. She goes to wait to prepare herself emotionally, and physically with the weapon her female friend pointed out to her. She must destroy this presence in her life.
Now, did I leave the theater asking myself if this would have even been produced if a man had not written it? I sure did. And isn't that the ultimate point?"
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just re watched this
i think its one of the better Steven King adaptations
i think its one of the better Steven King adaptations
@abominable1 dapping that TLR troll that never posts here . Noted.