Maybe a hard sell, but not impossible. Get Out was just nominated for best picture and many other awards just recently.
The problem is that horror films follow formulas and have consistent tropes throughout almost all of them. If any horror film says something unique and new, it gets consideration. It's rare.
I haven't seen the film you're talking about, and I'm sure it's a good film, but you do have to be very unique to get consideration as a horror film.
The thing is that Get Out actually does follow the generic horror formula in the last 1/4 of the movie which was what keeps it from perfection. Hereditary is a better crafted movie and it's problem is that it's not mainstream enough like Get Out and somewhat uncomfortable which some people don't like.
Funny story, I have some permanent damage from concussions, what we've found is that my brain is inserting different words when I type things out, sometimes I catch it sometimes I don't.
Whether this will get worse, my doctor couldn't tell me, but at this point its worse then it was 5 years ago.
Sometimes I'll post, look at it and it looks fine. Then I go back a while later, and there are just random words in there that make no sense.
So I'm going to go back and fix that and feel shame
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How is Halloween 79% on RT? I finally got around to seeing this and I can understand that teenagers may like it but to me if you stripped Halloween from the title would be as forgettable as any of the hundreds of B-horror movies out there today. No scares, no suspense, and not even a lot of gore. While it's nice to see Jamie Lee Curtis back in the fold some of the dialogue she was given was cringe-worthy bad.
Very late to the party here, but I finally saw Into the Spiderverse.
I consider myself a fairly big Spider-Man fan and I had no idea this movie was even coming out. I didn't really hear about it until after it was released and noticed all the rave reviews. Even after the praise I tempered my expectations, but I am happy to say it lived up to the reviews.
Funny, unique, and entertaining. Just a treat to watch and a fresh take on the superhero genre.
The thing is that Get Out actually does follow the generic horror formula in the last 1/4 of the movie which was what keeps it from perfection. Hereditary is a better crafted movie and it's problem is that it's not mainstream enough like Get Out and somewhat uncomfortable which some people don't like.
Get Out is a great horror movie, but it 100% got nominated for promoting the kind of identity politics that Hollywood busts a nut over, just like Crash. Make the movie about class instead of race and everything would still work, but it would get 0 oscar consideration.
Watched Venom on my flight home from Toronto last night, and the best way to describe it is a good character wrapped up in a bad movie. Tom Hardy was good, though I think he tried a little too hard with the accent and mannerisms. The symbiote itself was great and I loved the interactions between it and Brock. Everything else though was pretty bad, especially the main villain and his henchman. They were straight out of a B-movie. It would be nice if Sony just wised up and let Marvel take the reigns to integrate Venom into the Spiderman world, but that will probably never happen. Hopefully they get a more competent writer and better actors for the sequel though (at least the post-credits scene was promising on the latter)
I also tried to watch the new Predator movie, but gave up about 15 minutes in. Holy hell that thing is hot garbage
Watched Venom on my flight home from Toronto last night, and the best way to describe it is a good character wrapped up in a bad movie. Tom Hardy was good, though I think he tried a little too hard with the accent and mannerisms. The symbiote itself was great and I loved the interactions between it and Brock. Everything else though was pretty bad, especially the main villain and his henchman. They were straight out of a B-movie. It would be nice if Sony just wised up and let Marvel take the reigns to integrate Venom into the Spiderman world, but that will probably never happen. Hopefully they get a more competent writer and better actors for the sequel though (at least the post-credits scene was promising on the latter)
I also tried to watch the new Predator movie, but gave up about 15 minutes in. Holy hell that thing is hot garbage
I'm not going to get too much into Venom because I think you're pretty close, but that Predator movie?
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Get Out is a great horror movie, but it 100% got nominated for promoting the kind of identity politics that Hollywood busts a nut over, just like Crash. Make the movie about class instead of race and everything would still work, but it would get 0 oscar consideration.
The plot would not still play out the same if you changed it from race to class. It would be a RADICALLY different movie. Of all the dumb takes on Get Out, this might be the dumbest.
I actually didn't mind Venom as a mindless time waster. I actually think the character is one of the best in the Marvel universe and the film did a great job of making him menacing yet kind of nerdy as the comment of "On my planet I'm kind of a loser like you" suggests he's a castoff taking advantage of a better situation on earth. It's too bad the movie itself wasn't as well thought out as the story is along the lines of something I would expect from a Netflix original.
Is it me or does Tom Hardy do a weird American accent? It sounds like he's slurring like a drunk at times.
The plot would not still play out the same if you changed it from race to class. It would be a RADICALLY different movie. Of all the dumb takes on Get Out, this might be the dumbest.
Nah, they could still hit all the same beats and tell the same story, 'outsider who's adopted into uncomfortable new environment' is an old trope that works with a lot of different groups and cultures. Make him a poor white boy and the script would only need minor revisions.
The path they took gave the movie a unique flavour that certainly elevated it, but they didn't make a masterpiece. The ending was bat#### crazy (which I loved), but it all ended up a whole lot cornier than you'd expect to see in an award winning movie. It kind of felt like a Key & Peele sketch that Peele blew up into a really good horror movie. If identity politics wasn't an issue that Hollywood endlessly blows itself over, this movie doesn't get a hint of a nomination.
