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for tha culture and it being pride month

needed to immediately rewatch that first music conjuring timeline bend sequence

trapped a bunch of people in my house and shared with them the cinema that is this movie

The Grandmother, Youn Yuh-jung, was my favourite, the shift in the film as she arrived at the (recently de-lesbianified) house was so nicely exciting.

loved the last two acts, very feel good.

so many cool elements especially the treatments of space and how the visual construction /deconstruction of it

they could’ve gone so much more cringe with the dialogue around ‘nothing’ and really slapped it in your face but i like what they did / the restriction in it

the dialogue felt so grounded and real 

would’ve loved more aubrey but also realise her character served its purpose

wasn’t even gonna log this but i have to be honest

I love when lead casting is done right 

also super cool to watch this post substance as Fargaet’s debut

what more could you want really…

almost 2 hours of over sexualisation of women & minors, unnecessary violence / sexual violence, and men abusing power dynamics, where in the end lesbians and other women target the mc with the above the furtherest. 

only for it to be then dedicated to his wife.

i too visualise a whole musical number in my head while writing and then think (directly after finishing) this is bulshit

those mourning someone still alive moments did hit fkn heavy

colours don’t look the same after this. 

i want to study the crazy busy flashback/kill/past x present scenes frame by frame

that scene where brad pitt says ‘Yes i told you, i know’ to the hornet while she explained the venom felt very ironic given how much the movie threw all its small lore hints in your face repeatedly 

half star for the sandra bullock cameo

wish i could watch this for the first time again

horrors w distinct & genre juxtaposing visuals 🫶

loved the little fourth wall / meta breaks - ate that up 

also love the full balls to the wall commitment to the stunts and the ode to that art.

my review was going to be smth about the line ‘I wasn’t always this cracked’ 

but then i crashed out halfway thru the movie so maybe i personally have always been this cracked

started watching this but couldn’t stop thinking abt and looking into how the actors were treated behind the scenes (unwillingly? being manipulated into more ‘method acting’) and then following distribution

it’s just those kids scissoring to lady gaga

maybe the shock and terror was the friends we made along the way…

(now hold on this review for an extra long 5 seconds before u cut away)

lowkey…. cunt

that dance telekinetic contortionist beat up scene early on was sick as hell

should’ve either been an incredibly honed in individual character experience of a war photo journalist and the dissonance that comes with that, or actually committed to saying something about the American civil war it was trying to depict.

didn’t sit right w me at all tbh

average mansplainer conversation - yes radiohead, creep was mentioned

take a drink every time the teals/greens are over bearing 

(u won’t put ur drink down)

i can viscerally visualise the crew on set nerding out over some of these shots 

scratches the shitty-dissatisfied-but-simple-goal-orientated-people-arcs,-depicted-with-out-there-stylistic-choices itch

lowkey excited for the mass teenage girl demon take over

was it a lil pretentious in its story telling ? yes

was it a fun, wtf watch with visual moments i haven’t made my mind up about in a good, new way and some good sound moments ? yes 

did one line of dialogue snap me out of watching it from a filmmaker perspective and make me cry in the cinema ? idk maybe why u asking

i missed rachel sennot

big fan of the last 30ish mins / kendricks character moments of realising 

also fan of seeing anna kendrick slay a directorial debut

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