The reviews started out great. Now people are saying it's not that great. This is the same bullshit all over again with IT from last year; people are not being grateful. It really makes me sick! Does nothing scare anyone, anymore!?
sharemovie fell apart for me after they hit Mikey with the damn car and the doctor went all psycho
share40 years and 10 sequels later expectations were very high, you can't really cry foul about people not liking it and not being scared (that's a silly thing to expect of someone).
I thought it was good, not great, but just good. Having said that, there were still some terrible writing and acting throughout that just bought it down a few notches for me.
It's because they wiped out the sequels. Plain and simple. Critics like TFA and TLJ and the last Indy film. But fans didn't. This movie should not have ignored the sequels or at the very least acknowledge that they were a dream or something. It didn't work for the Highlander films and it won't work here.
sharethe press, just like the Democrats, have a total disconnect with reality. They prop up these new films with glaring reviews like they are the greatest thing and they are everything but. But, having said that, I don't really see the public being unsatisfied, even though the movie is trash.
sharePeople are trash, anymore!
sharePeople have seen it all before. This is another sequel after all. Plus, the movie business doesn't seem to allow auteurs like John Carpenter to thrive any more, so there is less artistic-minded craft put into the films, and therefore less of a chance that you will see something truly original and scary (e.g. Phantasm, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist). Things make be edgier in some sense these days, but only in a limited, commercially acceptable way. The devil doesn't pack the same punch any longer. For example, I think it would be far scarier now to invert the idea of The Exorcist and have some religion's God, say the Christian one, come back to this earth and smite a large fraction of the earth's population and damn them to hell for an eternity (for being so naughty). Now *that* would scare a great many more people than Satan or the ghost that haunts the house where a murder once happened.
Or... they simply don't agree with you and legimitely think it's an okay movie at best. I didn't see it but to be honest, I don't really see how this movie might surprise me...
shareIt's probably as good as IT; not really scary but decent, for a typical horror film, in sea of trashy horror films about demonic possessions and ghosts!
share'started out great' - well, those that jump to see a movie as soon as it's released, and probably when theatre will be crowded and possibly noisy - are super eager for the movie. Like the plot or actors or genre. They already like such movies, so sure, the first reviews will be better than from those who wait awhile to see it. That's my 2 cents anyway.
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