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It Follows (2014)
Naked man on the roof made me laugh...not really interesting and full of plot holes. Would be good to watch if you're younger than 20 years old.
This is probably a good "coming of age" movie and so I tried to watch it with the knowledge I had when I was 17 - which was also the same time this movie was originally released and I wasn't interested in watching it back then. What a regret that was. This horror movie is seriously funny with its stupidity, on levels that would've had my friends laughing with dumb narrations and ridiculously easy hot takes throughout.
It's presumed throughout the movie that the curse will follow you at a walking pace until it's caught up with you unless you pass it on to another person. So why not fly to Berlin and hit up those sex freaks for a weekend? Or Thailand? Or any city in America rather than an empty suburb of Detroit?
I understand the metaphor in the movie, don't get me wrong, and I feel like Smile (2022) drew a lot of inspiration from the concept of mental health and trauma. With that being said I just couldn't stop thinking of easy ways to get away from the curse or even profit from it. I'd catch myself saying "wow you can have sex with someone and have a free personal trainer for life?" or "I'd book a venue for proof of ghosts at the MSG and walk around central park for an hour then walk on stage with the ghost covered with a bedsheet for easy money". If I was Paul and wanted to smash without her feeling guilty I'd tell her "I'm going to San Francisco and joining a gay orgy purely to take a bullet for you. That would give us like a thousand people head start by the end of the week".
Emancipation (2022)
Saddens me to say that this movie could have been created by AI... A movie about slavery that feels so...sterile?
The character ark is so overdone, its like watching a handful of movies being regurgitated into something so unoriginal it hurts to watch. The feeling I had at the end of the movie was akin to watching Apocalypto, Django, 10 years a slave, My Way and I am legend all at the same time - but in black and white.
It was basic in terms of Direction however the cinematography and was pretty decent at times and so I consider it the only redeeming feature - making 2 stars of my 4 star review; the other 2 stars is split between the story and acting (1 star) and 1 star for the production quality.
I can't stress just how disappointing the story line and acting was - leaving a true disconnect between the viewer and the movie which was by far the biggest set back. Ben Foster was playing a character that we've all seen before. Charmaine Bingwa was the best redeeming feature in regards to the acting. I'm not alone in saying that Will Smith is now in the vain of Nick Cage and Jeff Goldblum, where I struggle to see him as the character he plays rather the person himself playing a character. Unlike Nick Cage and Jeff Goldblum though, Will Smith lacks any theatrical range and is now giving off the impression that his on-screen presence is that of an SNL actor.
If you want to waste 2 hours of your life for a half-assed Saving Private Ryan-esque-D-day-beaches battle scene, then this is the movie I would recommend. Very basic. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Will Smith died shortly after the last Oscars and this production was entirely created with AI and advanced CGI technology to sway us into believing he's still alive.