SKINAMARINK
Added 2023-05-04 04:37:22 +0000 UTCI just saw it. While I admire aspects of the concept, there just wasn't enough there for me to recommend or even really like. From what I gather it has divided a lot of people. If you've seen it, tell me what you think.
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I think the experience of it is different in a theater just cause of how loud it is. Some I could predict but when a random toy phone rings so loud literally out of nowhere, I find it hard someone could predict that.
Tyler Shobe
2023-05-04 20:59:22 +0000 UTCNo I haven't. I had never heard of it until you mentioned. I will look into it. Thanks!
Deepfocuslens
2023-05-04 20:53:48 +0000 UTCYeah I am right there with you. I actually stayed with it for a while. I found the plot to be fairly clean for a bit there. But admittedly I zoned out as it went, and a lot of the stuff in the second half to third act, actually are a real detriment to the film imo. And partially it's due to what you say...there's little to nothing to build from. I think this would work better as an interactive experience, an hour long videogame or something. But even then you'd need to make it far less skeletal. The director talks about loving Maya Deren and Stanley Kubrick and...I just kinda wanna roll my eyes. This feels like a student thesis, and it almost kinda is in some ways. But not in a good way. He has all these specific film maker references, and meaning he discusses (was filmed in his childhood home with a lot of his original child toys), and yet I gain nothing of what he is saying in the actual film. And I wanted to. I actually went with it for a bit. Found the concept interesting. But it is far too thin to construct a film of this length. Found that to be insulting tbh.
Deepfocuslens
2023-05-04 20:48:50 +0000 UTCI mean, I got it for the most part so far as the plot was concerned. But admittedly I zoned out around halfway through, and started to lose the plot, so I had to go back and watch parts of it. And I realized that a lot of it in the third act is really the issue. Beyond almost anything else. Too much going on with little foundation for the drama to unfold.
Deepfocuslens
2023-05-04 20:43:43 +0000 UTCI dunno, I was half asleep even during the jump scares. They were real obvious to me. I don't even really think it captured childhood that strongly.
Deepfocuslens
2023-05-04 20:42:28 +0000 UTCYeah my friend was saying the same thing. The repeat of it was catching his attention, and it became his central focus, understandably.
Deepfocuslens
2023-05-04 20:41:40 +0000 UTCYeah I agree. It was real full of itself
Deepfocuslens
2023-05-04 20:41:15 +0000 UTCLike I said before checked out after 25 minutes. I spent much of the time trying to workout how often the faux grain filter would repeat. I preferred Enys Men
Simon
2023-05-04 16:26:01 +0000 UTCI tried to watch the short and tapped out. I can't believe there is a 1 1/2 hour longer version. If you thought, 'This would make a good short", think again. I'll give the guy credit for taking the swing, but hopefully, he's got more up his sleeve than just aesthetics.
Terry Farthing
2023-05-04 13:39:17 +0000 UTCSame here. Admire the atmosphere and it trying to capture the feeling of childhood fear but it wasn't enough for me. Plus I HATED the jump scares. They made the experience kind of miserable for me since I saw it in theaters and they're just absurdly loud and done through cuts to random images. It made me very anxious and not in the fun way you can get from a movie.
Tyler Shobe
2023-05-04 07:36:05 +0000 UTCIt didn’t work for me. You’ve got to have a little more to hold onto than that. A few interesting images, but that’s about it. Felt unfinished. Saw it in the theater, about 10 people, mostly under 30. When it ended, a guy stood up and said, “Did anyone get that?” No one did.
Jim Barnes
2023-05-04 07:07:49 +0000 UTCHi Maggie Have you seen the film god bless America. I like it a lot. It reminds me of taxi driver ( there is one scene with a gun dealer that is pinched from scorese). I know that you didn't like the joker and found it to much like taxi driver. I would be interested to know what you think of God bless America
anthony scully
2023-05-04 06:08:43 +0000 UTCIt definitely gets the atmospherics right for being alone in an empty house at 3am when you’re a kid. That mounting paranoia you got when you looked at the other end of the hall that’s darkened and were convinced something’s there even if you didn’t see it…it nails that feeling. But despite that and a few eerie images (like that final one), the movie gets so carried away by its own artiness—its own insistence on being unconventional and distant and confounding—that I can understand why some people lose patience with it. Myself, I stayed with the film all the way through…and didn’t find it nearly rewarding enough. It used nightmarishly surreal Lynchian tropes (especially towards the end) without really attaching much meaning to them other than to say that it’s scary being a little kid on your own and a demon takes over your house. But even then, because the film insists on not having any characters, that statement doesn’t register much. You’re not invested or affected by what’s going on. Still, I’m interested to see what this filmmaker does next. This could just be the amateurish avant-garde student film he needed to make before he graduates to becoming a better filmmaker.
Bennett Oliver
2023-05-04 05:42:06 +0000 UTC
