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Just seen this recently and two things comes to mind. First, I have to give some props to the director, since the concept itself isn't that strong and the movie could have been unwatchable in lesser hands. But it was watchable, and for me two things made it so: the wide wonderfully lit shots, and the soundtrack. Both of which may lose their charm over time, but for now when I think of the movie I don't think of the monster or the characters, I think of the strange in-your-face music and the long shots where you try and see the monster in the background somewhere. Second, even though we have two, I feel like we needed another death scene, something to show the consequences of what happens when It catches up with you. There's a lot of running in the movie, it feels like there needed to be one more "consequences of not running" scene to be effective. I think the opening sequence doesn't quite qualify because at that point we don't know what's going on and it's easy to forget about later. This movie is like the original Terminator, just with less robots but more robotic sex.
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And if you were told "if you have sex with this person, you will be marked for death" would you really do it? They didn't know if the plan would work.
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Aug 13, 2015 22:49
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Jay believes that some creature on the beach is going to kill her, but we all know she is actually just being self-destructive. The wind blew her hair, so she claws one friend in stomach, starts firing a gun wildly at the other, then crashes their car into a ditch. I'm sure the girl at the beginning who had her legs bent the wrong way (not to mention no ties to the main character) is relieved to hear that!
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Aug 27, 2015 22:19
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It didn't do that. Then what did?
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Aug 28, 2015 03:23
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Ok. Who?
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Aug 28, 2015 04:16
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One that we see at some point in the movie, or one that is completely unknown?
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Aug 28, 2015 04:43
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When you get down to it really, all movies are dream sequences.
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Aug 28, 2015 16:50
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quote:But simply saying this doesn't capture the full impact, which is why it's necessary for the kid to invent a completely different script.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:26
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He's a gimmick and to give credit where it's due, he's usually pretty good at it, but I started posing the simple questions because what he was spouting was nonsensical. The great thing about the Art Critic paragraphs he spouts is that they are really hard to defend against, but when the argument comes down to "Literally nothing you see on the screen happened", that argument can apply to every single film ever and you can't say "that's not true". I brought up the girl in the beginning because there is nothing to tie her in to the other characters, she does not know Jay, she does not know Paul, and she knows what is stalking her because she says goodbye. Oh, I forgot, literally every character is a murderer that no one knows about. Brilliant! It Follows has lots of subtexts, sexuality, STDs, innocence, and so on. It has enough to say about those, why make things up to try and find more stuff that not only isn't there but is directly pointed out that it is there? Oh yeah, because nothing is real.
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Aug 29, 2015 22:24
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Because there's no textual evidence to support that interpretation. It's as if my computer just became self-aware.
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