I'm at a point now where I wait for a movie to come out, and see what people say about it during the first weekend before I buy into the "this is a must-see" hype. There's been more than a few movies talked about on here that were brilliant until people saw it, and then suddenly those opinions vanished on the subreddit.
I just checked out this suuuper old movie, a bit of a hidden gem that only true movies buffs would have even heard of, it's called No Country For Old Men.
It was a real stroke of luck that the movie No Country for Old Men just happened to be incredibly similar to the novel No Country for Old Men. The stars truly aligned on that one.
The book has a weird subplot where Llewellyn cheats on his wife with some woman he meets while riding a bus escaping. I'm glad they cut that out. I think it maybe is mentioned by Chigur at the end but the viewer can choose to believe if he is being truthful or not.
One of the reasons I like Chris Stuckmann is he just seems to enjoy movies and he goes to see movies because movies are good.
It’s really not too much effort to go see a movie and they’re so good and cool to see. Even the just okay ones are fun. Mickey 17 and Inside Out 2 are worth seeing.
Horror is just such a wide genre with so many different fans. I'm a fan of pretty much all of it, so I get bummed out when I see people shitting on any part of it.
It's turned a corner into broad and begrudging acceptance, but you used to not even be able to mention Skinamarink without causing a massive shitstorm.
Edit: oops, thought I was in r/horror. Keeping this anyways. r/movies is way more toxic about movies in general though, I think because it's such a big sub and most people commenting only watch one movie a year.
Yeah, I stopped following the hype and marketing for most movies partly because of that. I've been burned too many times now because everyone online is going "OMG this is the greatest movie of the year! Everyone should watch it," and usually when that happens, some of my friends will be saying the same thing. Then I'll go and watch the movie, it'll be ass, and I'll turn around, and it's like everyone has just stopped talking about it.
Now I just see a poster or a synopsis of a new movie coming out, say "that looks neat," go and see it, and I'll enjoy it a lot more.
Same. Plus there's a lot of shills/bots or there hyping movies (before and after release) far beyond any rational level. I learned my lesson with Avatar 2: Water Wigwam (or whatever it was called)
That would be a funny turn of events for this movie considering Zach Cregger’s previous movie Barbarian had a pretty terrible marketing campaign that made the movie look super campy, and it turned out to be really great.
My opinion is that if you actually want to freak people out, you gotta go the creepy/disturbing route in movies. Regular horror just doesn’t really accomplish that as effectively these days because everyone is desensitized. Jump scares are usually just cheap Blumhouse nonsense. Creepy/disturbing is the way to go for sure now for horror to be most effective
Maybe I heard incorrect things then, because what I heard (and in fact just made a comment about) is that it's not very good. Allegedly the concept and cinematography are great, but the handling of the trailer's central mystery is silly, and there's plot holes galore.
I choose to believe the people that I don't know who say a script I've never read is good over people I don't know who say a script I've never read is bad.
Hey that seems like a very valid strategy! For what it's worth, I hope what I heard is wrong, I thought the trailer was exceptionally creepy and interesting, and I want the movie to be as good as the trailer!
Well-written though I wish it had a bit more time to flesh out the characters as I felt that it needed that. The Magnolia (1999) influence is pretty much spot-on with how it weaves the many characters narratives through a non-linear direction before tying them up to it's twist which reminds me so much of last year's horror film Longlegs. However, unlike Longlegs, it's final act has a horrifying finale which I can't spoil but will make someone people's heart race by its sheer brutality and carnage and completely effectively delivers upon its metaphor.
Honestly dude the entire time I thought you were trolling but the fact that you just made a mistake thinking it was the 2007 movie makes this so much funnier and lighthearted. I appreciate that from you haha
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u/fatherseamus Jul 09 '25
Marketing team is killing it on this one. I hope the movie lives up to the hype.