I've read a bunch of the reviews on letterboxd and the kind of people who speak in memes seem to love it, not a good sign
I'm also noticing some horror fans starting to lionize the director Fede Álvarez, but he really hasn't made a single great movie. He's mainly popular for using practical effects instead of CGI, which is great and all but who cares if those effects are in service of a weak story? way too much attention on how a movie looks and not whether it's any good
Evil Dead 2013 is a meaningless splatter-fest. the first Don't Breathe was okay but the premise of Don't Breathe 2 is so genuinely offensive that edgelord should never be allowed to write a script again. ever since then I'm actively rooting against this man
honestly I expect to enjoy Romulus on an aesthetic level but there's gotta be more to it than that. even fun schlocky horror movies can and should be about something, and from everything I've heard Romulus is just about keeping the franchise alive and making the studio a lot of money
PS his justification for reanimating Ian Holm with AI is so funny:
"It’s so much more expensive to do it the way we did it — it’s much cheaper to just hire an actor"
oh so not only did you use a dead man's likeness without his consent instead of paying a living actor, you also wasted money and people's time just to do something creepy and immoral? all so people can point at the screen and go "hey it's the guy from the old movie!!" ugh
I've read a bunch of the reviews on letterboxd and the kind of people who speak in memes seem to love it, not a good sign
I'm also noticing some horror fans starting to lionize the director Fede Álvarez, but he really hasn't made a single great movie. He's mainly popular for using practical effects instead of CGI, which is great and all but who cares if those effects are in service of a weak story? way too much attention on how a movie looks and not whether it's any good
Evil Dead 2013 is a meaningless splatter-fest. the first Don't Breathe was okay but the premise of Don't Breathe 2 is so genuinely offensive that edgelord should never be allowed to write a script again. ever since then I'm actively rooting against this man
honestly I expect to enjoy Romulus on an aesthetic level but there's gotta be more to it than that. even fun schlocky horror movies can and should be about something, and from everything I've heard Romulus is just about keeping the franchise alive and making the studio a lot of money
PS his justification for reanimating Ian Holm with AI is so funny:
oh so not only did you use a dead man's likeness without his consent instead of paying a living actor, you also wasted money and people's time just to do something creepy and immoral? all so people can point at the screen and go "hey it's the guy from the old movie!!" ugh