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14 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Shit. I dont have to. Helobious said it will suck.

How many careers in movies and sports have taken a decided uptick once Helo says they are doomed to failure?

Really, really good.  Lived up to the hype imo.

Go see this one. Any critic that doesn’t like that movie should probably find a new line of work. 38 million very, very well spent.

Absolutely loved it, it’s even better than Barbarian. 

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I thought the 1st part of Barbarian was good and the 2nd half was a different, rather shitty movie.  Will I like this one?  

Its getting Longlegs hype, and I liked that movie so my loins are gilded.

I bought the AMC discount package for 13 bucks a year ago I'm using that as an excuse to get my ass to the movies more

Fuck yes. Might be my favorite horror since hereditary. Fucking riot

Only complaint is the commercials/previews being 28 minutes long when the normal 20 minutes is already absurd 

If you really want to have fun, do a double feature of Barbarian at home then go see Weapons

23 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

Its getting Longlegs hype, and I liked that movie so my loins are gilded.

I bought the AMC discount package for 13 bucks a year ago I'm using that as an excuse to get my ass to the movies more

Try girding them next time. 

6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Try girding them next time. 

Lol.  Damn auto swipe.

On 8/6/2025 at 11:19 AM, Helobious said:

This has long legs written all over it. Massive curated critic hype to be followed by audience letdown. 

 

On 8/6/2025 at 7:34 PM, BurgleBro said:

Longlegs was cool. 

Lol yeah, I guess I missed the Longlegs audience letdown 

Longlegs tried to do two movies in one, a silence of the lambs type and then a blumhouse horror, and the sum didn’t add up to a great movie 

Longlegs put me to sleep.

Saw Weapons tonight and it was a lot of fun.  The mystery turns out to be kind of dumb but the final comeuppance was great.

16 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

I thought the 1st part of Barbarian was good and the 2nd half was a different, rather shitty movie.  Will I like this one?  

Yeah, overall I enjoyed it, but second part was quite cliched relative to the first.

I liked it better than Barbarian.  Still kinda felt like two movies to me - I again loved the first one.  The comedy sprinkled throughout was great and unexpected.  

The Gladys character was super captivating, something very nostalgic or familiar about her performance. 

1 hour ago, CastHorn said:

The Gladys character was super captivating, something very nostalgic or familiar about her performance. 

She must have developed her witchcraft skills when her family built that supernatural baseball field in a corn field in Iowa. 

45 minutes ago, RexWilson said:

She must have developed her witchcraft skills when her family built that supernatural baseball field in a corn field in Iowa. 

Or selling tires in Chicago.

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Loved it. The humor/horror mix was perfect - I feel like it's what Cregger was trying to do with Barbarian, but couldn't quite get it (and I liked Barbarian a lot). 

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When I was in the restroom after the movie, this group of girls came in after me and one was all "I think it's, like, a commentary on our society's dependence on cameras and like, how even though they're everywhere you like, still can't know everything." I don't think so - as my son (he's 17) said afterwards, it's about a witch doing witchy things. I'm sure someone will draw some broader commentary that's relevant, but I like the simple interpretation. Some random thoughts below.

I cannot wait to get a gif of the kids chasing Gladys at the end. Everyone in the theater was dying laughing during that whole scene. And I never would have thought it was Amy Madigan.

Loved Gladys's whole "Raggedy Ann on crack" aesthetic. It was perfect for that character.

Speaking of crack, Austin Abrams was hilarious.

There were a lot of fun details around Marcus and his partner. They had matching (but not identical) Mickey Mouse shirts, and apparently only ate food that little kids eat? They had something like six hot dogs on that tray before Gladys showed up. I'd have liked to hang out with those guys. Before all the head smashing, of course.

 

It's almost as if Hollywood makes an original, well done movie, people will go see it.  Interesting.  

Oh well, back to another super hero movie or a shitty, bloated 10 hour, 8 episode streaming drama that should be 1.5 hours.  

When budgets are mentioned, is that just production budget or does that include marketing?  I like the idea that you don’t need 200 million dollars to make a good movie, but marketing costs can be whatever number you want them to be on top of the production cost. 

On 8/9/2025 at 12:45 AM, WBT said:

Longlegs put me to sleep.

Saw Weapons tonight and it was a lot of fun.  The mystery turns out to be kind of dumb but the final comeuppance was great.

Lol Weapons put me to sleep. I don't think it was bad or anything I just didn't really love it. Was kinda bored.

3 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

It's almost as if Hollywood makes an original, well done movie, people will go see it.  Interesting.  

Oh well, back to another super hero movie or a shitty, bloated 10 hour, 8 episode streaming drama that should be 1.5 hours.  

Horror also kills it at the theater if any level of hype materializes, and the ROIs are great because they're typically not expensive because they aren't reliant on star actors or directors 

3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

When budgets are mentioned, is that just production budget or does that include marketing?  I like the idea that you don’t need 200 million dollars to make a good movie, but marketing costs can be whatever number you want them to be on top of the production cost. 

They usually they don't include it. Also remember that the studio only gets about half of the box office

Per Variety, the marketing for this was $38m

This movie will have legs in theaters though 

Loved it. The final sequence was perfection. Loved the out of sequence storytelling. 

So was she a witch or a gypsy who stole people's essence to stay young. The only thing I didn't get was what was her plans with the school kids? It seems none of them were harmed or sacrificed. The kids chasing her down and ripping her apart was one of the best villain endings in a long time.

32 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Loved it. The final sequence was perfection. Loved the out of sequence storytelling. 

 

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So was she a witch or a gypsy who stole people's essence to stay young. The only thing I didn't get was what was her plans with the school kids? It seems none of them were harmed or sacrificed. The kids chasing her down and ripping her apart was one of the best villain endings in a long time.

 

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Yes, she just feeds off younger energy or soul or whatever to stay alive, until she takes it all up and then moves on. They went heavy handed on the parasite mention earlier in the film.

As an aside, my theater was fucking rolling when the meth head kept sprinting back up to go after Brolin. True slapstick 

 

Wong put up a pretty good fight against Thanos. I was surprised

12 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:
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Yes, she just feeds off younger energy or soul or whatever to stay alive, until she takes it all up and then moves on. They went heavy handed on the parasite mention earlier in the film.

As an aside, my theater was fucking rolling when the meth head kept sprinting back up to go after Brolin. True slapstick 

 

Gotcha. I guess that's why some kids were learning to talk again and some weren't. She had drained less of them, maybe? Daughter and I were laughing later that the principal and his husband were Disney adults with matching Mickey and Minnie shirts when Gladys comes over.

Pedro Pascal was supposed to play the Brolin role and dropped out. I think that's a good thing for this movie. I like Pedro but Brolin was so great in this. 

5 minutes ago, mdmost said:

 

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Gotcha. I guess that's why some kids were learning to talk again and some weren't. She had drained less of them, maybe? Daughter and I were laughing later that the principal and his husband were Disney adults with matching Mickey and Minnie shirts when Gladys comes over.

 

Pedro Pascal was supposed to play the Brolin role and dropped out. I think that's a good thing for this movie. I like Pedro but Brolin was so great in this. 

Yeah, I’m not a Pedro hater, but Brolin was perfect for this.

 

minor continuity error?

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When the cop drags the junkie out of the cruiser, it's night time/evening and he's been in there all day.  But when Alex comes home after school, the cruiser is there and both the cop and the junkie have been zombified.  If it were just after school, the junkie would still be in the car. If it were the next day, after the cop/junkie arrival, Alex would have noticed them and not been surprised by the cop car or the cop being there when he came home from school.  

 

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48 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

minor continuity error?

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When the cop drags the junkie out of the cruiser, it's night time/evening and he's been in there all day.  But when Alex comes home after school, the cruiser is there and both the cop and the junkie have been zombified.  If it were just after school, the junkie would still be in the car. If it were the next day, after the cop/junkie arrival, Alex would have noticed them and not been surprised by the cop car or the cop being there when he came home from school.  

 

I think so. We noticed this, too.

7 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Yeah, I’m not a Pedro hater, but Brolin was perfect for this.

 

Pascal is really good at what he does, but Brolin nailed it. 

thought it was a good movie, albeit not very scary.

kind of silly, actually.

Julia Garner is a really good actress.

Another question someone brought up. Why so many hot dogs for just two people?

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4 hours ago, yoladu said:

thought it was a good movie, albeit not very scary.

kind of silly, actually.

Julia Garner is a really good actress.

She's really good.  I thought the guy that played the cop did a great job as well.  The scene with those two in the bar was phenomenal acting IMO.  Great writing and directing in that scene too. Cregger should try his hand at dramas and not just horror.  He's got the chops for it.    

2 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

I thought the guy that played the cop did a great job as well.

You mean Han Solo or The Wiz?

10 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

She's really good.  I thought the guy that played the cop did a great job as well.  The scene with those two in the bar was phenomenal acting IMO.  Great writing and directing in that scene too. Cregger should try his hand at dramas and not just horror.  He's got the chops for it.    

If you've never seen Hail Caesar! then you should as he was great in that. 

2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

If you've never seen Hail Caesar! then you should as he was great in that. 

I have not - thanks.  

47 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

She's really good.  I thought the guy that played the cop did a great job as well.  The scene with those two in the bar was phenomenal acting IMO.  Great writing and directing in that scene too. Cregger should try his hand at dramas and not just horror.  He's got the chops for it.    

was thinking the same thing during that scene.

2 hours ago, mdmost said:

Another question someone brought up. Why so many hot dogs for just two people?

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an odd number of hot dogs for 2 people? My OCD cannot handle.

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