Ah yes, The Wailing, good point.
I did like that one, but not strongly. Definitely found it to be longer than it needed to be.
Ah yes, The Wailing, good point.
Can't really argue with these trailers. This one is even better than the teaser and does enough to suggest that the run time is going to be put to good use.
I quite liked A Cure for Wellness although Dane DeHaan is a dreadful lead actor. The European bits were like something out of a Corman movie, though an obviously expensive one trying to look cheap.
What are you basing this fear on? I see no evidence in this trailer to support that worrytenia wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:30 amI'm also afraid the movie might be vastly over-explainy. Part of the appeal of the original movie is that while having a rather simple movie, it doesn't care about explaining everything that happens, why and how and what, etc, something that might be comparable to the kind of narrative differences between Paprika and Inception (if that makes my concerns easier to pinpoint).
As I wrote, it's just a concern (and not a hunch !) based on a trailer, so it might obviously be totally wrong, but it's still made for american audiences, so it might also comes with some trade offs (jump scares, superfluous CGIs, etc etc). I'm still curious in any case, especially because having re-watched recently the Argento movie, it's pretty fresh in my mind so it'll at least make for an interesting comparison, but of course, it might just be me being too pessimistic. We'll just see !domino harvey wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:19 amI don't really think this is a "Hollywood adaptation" in the way that, say, Pulse was. Do you really think, based on Guadagnino's existent work and early word of mouth, that this won't be plenty weird and off kilter on its own? I see zero evidence of it being dumbed down or conventional
It's very simply a certain pessimism, because the movie is an international production but that clearly looks to be as trying to americanize the movie, that I found most recent "horror" movies I've seen to be relatively mediocre and relying on "cheap" jump scares (you'd think a movie relying on silence and sound like A Quiet Place would try and go the distance to avoid that but oh no). And I certainly never thought having some concerns about the remake of a movie I quite like and consider a cinematographic milestone would lead to this kind of discussion, especially because I'm trying to remain nuanced and explain my simple concerns.mfunk9786 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 12:15 pmIs "irrational dismissiveness" a thing? It seems as though you're overstating already somewhat inaccurate concerns with American films and then applying them to an international production, and somewhere in all that have totally lost the thread of what you're trying to accuse this film of doing, sight unseen. It's... a lot of leaps to be taking all in one evaluation of something you haven't seen.
They're not ALL cheap, but many are, on top of being often avoidable. I don't think it's a 50/50 thing, hence the/my overall dislike.