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I agree 5.5 seems rather low even with the context of this series. I would personally give it a 7 out of 10, but taking into account the typical IMDB ratings for horror movies and this particular series, I would have expected something around a 6.1 on IMDB.
Yes, The House of the Devil is my favorite Ti West film. For a reference comparison to Pearl and X, I would give The House of the Devil an 8 out of 10. I think West is a very talented director, but I'm still waiting for him to make that one complete horror masterpiece. Each of his movies has a significant flaw or two that hold them back from being genre classics.
I also liked X more, but I also though it was a little overrated. It was a 7 out of 10 movie for me. Pearl is a 6 out of 10 for me. Great performance from Mia Goth and good visual style, but it never fully became the tense and gripping horror drama I was expecting and it ended at the moment when it got most interesting. It just felt like a lot of build up without a truly satisfying payoff.
Even though I don't love this series the way the critics have, I have to admit I'm very curious to see how things wrap up with Maxxxine, especially since the 80s setting seems so appealing and Ti West really knows how to recreate an 80s visual style and atmosphere (a la The House of the Devil).
X isn't a slasher mystery. We know upfront that Pearl is one creepy lady in that film and they make no attempts to hide that she's a crazed killer.
I liked X, but thought it was a bit overrated. I definitely thought Barbarian was superior, easily the best horror film in years.
Barbarian has it all: exceptionally creepy atmosphere, incredibly thick tension and suspense, and masterfully executed shocks and scares. This was the best horror film I've seen in years, and my personal favorite since The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
It is genuinely scary, quite frankly, I thought it was the most frightening and unnerving horror film I've seen in years. It's even darkly funny in spots.
I agree. Predator 2 has really become overrated over the years. The acting stunk, even Glover was poor, and I never could buy that he could last in a fight against a Predator. That whole video monitor sequence was such a shameless ripoff of Aliens. I thought most of the action was just lackluster and there was hardly any tension or suspense. Prey and Predators were easily superior to it.
1. Predator - 10/10
2. Prey - 9/10
3. Predators - 8/10
4. The Predator - 7/10
5. AvP - 6/10
6. Predator 2 - 4/10
7. Avp: Requiem - 4/10
If we're taking box office success into account, it has to be the 90s. Most of his biggest hits came out that decade: Backdraft, Unlawful Entry, Tombstone, Stargate, Executive Decision, Breakdown all grossed over $50M each in the domestic box office. They were also all damn good movies as well.
I also give the original Top Gun a 6/10. I give Top Gun: Maverick a 10/10 and I don't do that lightly with new movies. It's a fantastic film because it combines story, character, emotion, and action so brilliantly (and I don't want to exclude the great moments of humor, either).
I loved the characters (Maverick was my favorite, but Phoenix, Bob, Rooster, Hangman, and Penny also all made great impressions), I thought the film had rich emotional and character depth with several scenes that genuinely moved me, all aided by a great musical score.
The film also works superbly as a "men on a mission" war movie, as the training scenes are all thrilling and the military strategy presented is some of the most engrossing that I've seen. The mission objectives are laid out in such a comprehensive and clear manner that we have no trouble following what's going on in the final battle.
And of course, the last half-hour is amazing and features the best third act I've seen of any film in years. The film boasts the best, most exhilarating, tense, and thrilling aerial battle scenes ever put on film. It all closes off with a series of final scenes so perfectly executed that I actually don't want to see a sequel for fear it may ruin the closing moments.
Thanks. I admit that I focused my post on the U.S. because I don't really have a good guess how it will ultimately do internationally. My best guess is looking at how Mission: Impossible Fallout did internationally, which was $571M, but that was with a China gross of around $181M. Since Top Gun: Maverick won't get a China release, subtract that and we're looking at about $390M-$400M, which would be my best guess. I don't think the film has quite as broad an international appeal as Mission: Impossible but I think stronger word-of-mouth will counteract that for a similar gross minus China. I think it will ultimately get over $800M worldwide total (with over 50% of that coming from the U.S.) and will be Tom Cruise's highest grossing film.
Top Gun: Maverick had a much higher domestic opening weekend and much better reviews and word of mouth than both POTC: At World's End and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (I'm using those films for comparison since they were also Memorial Day weekend releases), and those movies ended with $309M and $317M in domestic box office, respectively, even after suffering over 50% drop offs in their second weekends. Is there any reason to believe Top Gun: Maverick won't easily surpass both films in the U.S.? I do see Top Gun: Maverick reaching $400M in the U.S.
Maverick is the far superior film. Everything was superior: action, characters, storytelling, and drama and emotional beats.
Post-2000 horror films, even the acclaimed ones, generally get lower IMDB ratings, relatively speaking, so a 6.6 rating is actually damn good for the genre.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe, It Follows, Sinister, and The Babadook all have a 6.8 rating each, and those are considered modern classics of the genre. X is the most acclaimed slasher film in years (maybe even decades!), and it has a 6.7 rating and will probably drop even further since it's so new. Modern horror is seriously the most divisive genre in film. Every one of the aforementioned films, along with Drag Me to Hell, will show up on plenty of horror fans' "best horror films" list. They will also show up on plenty of "most overrated horror films" list. I would be pretty surprised if anybody reading this post was a big fan of every film I just mentioned, that's how divisive horror is these days.
For Drag Me to Hell, many thought it was a great combination of horror and comedy, but I'm sure some thought the genre mixing didn't work, and for sure, I know many people who hated the ending or thought the entire plot was unfair to the protagonist, which would sour the film as a whole for many viewers.
Day - 4.5/5
Dawn - 4/5
Night - 3.5/5
If you see the scene near the end where the last killer looks at the release form, there's two addresses written down, each on its own separate line. The form likely also asked for the address of an emergency and/or family contact, which would explain her mother's address being on there.
I think the implication was that Austin mercy killing his father interrupted bargain before it could be completed, hence she's still stuck until she gets her next set of victims. She may actually have honored the bargain before the interruption occurred.
It's definitely second best to Jaws. My ranking of the best shark movies would be:
1. Jaws
2. The Shallows
3. Jaws 2
4. The Reef
5. The Meg
6. 47 Meters Down
7. Open Water
8. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
9. Great White