dex14

JayTL

Optimistic

Throwing Copper

I thought Ex-Machina was one of the best films of that year, but this guy needs to prove himself again. Haven't loved his other work.

GoldenJCJ

His only other movie was Annihilation which wasn’t great but also wasn’t bad.

Throwing Copper

Yes, it was a MASSIVE letdown and a mess. But when you set the bar unreasonably high with the great Ex Machina, I guess that's to be expected. I can't stand Jessie Buckley, so this is gonna have to be really fucking good. lol

Maxflier

The tunnel looks like a snake in the poster.

JayTL

yeah you're right, I saw the skull more but nice catch.

Trailer gave me It Follows vibes more than anything

dex14

E Unit

I like Garland and will watch whatever this is, but he is very hit or miss. Most recent miss was Devs. But I’ll hope this will be more Ex Machina or Annihilation.

JayTL

No need to watch this next trailer...I'm gonna watch this movie.



I'll still probably catch the trailer lmao

CyberpunkCentra

Dan

Y'all hating on Annihilation and Devs are crazy, yo.
The trailer for this I saw just before X had a good creepy vibe, so I'm down.

E Unit

Annihilation - Yes!
Devs - Nope. It had a premise it couldn’t follow through.

dex14

Reviews starting to come out for this: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/men_2022

dex14

This is out this weekend.

Decker

Interesting interview with Garland from the NYT. He sounds like a pretty miserable (or at least pessimistic) individual.

Perkinsun Dzees

The tagline for this movie should be: "Come for the Garland, stay for the Cronenberg."

The movie plays out sort of like a female version of Straw Dogs with Jessie Buckley's protagonist being a fish out of water who finds herself at odds with the male locals in a predicament of escalating tension and violence. Of course, Garland directs the hell out of of it with lots of dreamy and nightmarish imagery, a hypnotic soundscape, and a slow but steady narrative buildup that leads to....well, let's just say it's nothing like what the trailers had you expecting.

Overall, I enjoyed it a lot. It was more grounded and emotionally involving than Annihilation and possibly even better than Ex-Machina, though I may have to give that and Men another viewing before deciding. Buckley is more than able to carry the movie in an impressive performance in a demanding lead role and Kinnear is effective in multiple parts, though the CGI effects for the face of one of his (younger) characters is a bit odd looking, though perhaps intentionally so.

MysterioMan007

My thought after watching this last night: WTF did I just watch? If there was some underlying deep meaning to this movie, I didn't get it. The only real frightening part of the movie, imo, was the scene with the disappearing policeman outside the house. I'm not saying I disliked the movie. I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure what the message was supposed to be. It went over my head. I had never seen Jessie Buckley in anything before. I thought she did a great job. But, as soon as the priest showed up with the split arm, I was lost. It didn't feel like a waste of time, but it just felt like a bunch of feminism threw up in this movie.

Crocker Jarmen

Same here. I guess there's supposed to be a reason why they got a different actor for the husband. Maybe I needed to know what those stone statues were based on, some kind of well-known myth maybe? I'd swear I saw the one in a Marilyn Manson video from the 90s.

I also had the misfortune of being in a theatre with four high school girls who laughed every time a penis appeared onscreen.

dex14

I really enjoyed the majority of this... mostly due to Garland's direction. The last act though.... wow. I'm not sure on all of that.

Buckley and Kinnear were excellent.

Throwing Copper

This got a D+ CinemaScore from audiences. I’ve never even heard of one that bad. 😂

Should be streaming fairly soon.

DaveNinja

Just saw this and had the same "WTF did I just watch" reaction.

TomOpus

The 21 movies that audiences have hated the most in the past 2 decades

These movies received an F

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RichC2

Arthouse fare that gets a wide release usually get shit on.

Hereditary also got a D+, and I really liked that movie.

Matthew McConaughey's Serenity also got a D+ which was a little more earned

Other D+ Movies: Holmes & Watson, Soderbegh's Haywire, PTA's Punch-Drunk Love, Mike Nichol's Closer, Event Horizon, John Carpenter's Vampires, Very Bad Things, Jaw Breaker, The 13th Floor, Get Carter (2000), Alexander, Marci X, The Weather Man (the Nic Cage movie), Malick's The New World, The Ruins, The Black Dahlia, and a few others

Kinda related:
The Life Aquatic, American Psycho, Jeepers Creepers and Ravenous all got D ratings.
Eyes Wide Shut a D-, Vanilla Sky got a D-, The Witch pulled a C-