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Respect the indie industriousness and some of the animation is pretty but it's so pandering a twee and relies on overused cultural stock. Because ICO and Journey/Abzu were doing this stuff 15 years ago. Not to mention the million imitators that they spawned.

And I use those cultural markers deliberately because this always looks like a video game (lighting, textures, angles, models) and not a film.
 
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Respect the indie industriousness and some of the animation is pretty but it's so pandering a twee and relies on overused cultural stock. Because ICO and Journey/Abzu were doing this stuff 15 years ago. Not to mention the million imitators that they spawned.

And I use those cultural markers deliberately because this always looks like a video game (lighting, textures, angles, models) and not a film.
I think the video game look is because it was all done in a program called blender. I haven’t seen the film but it does give off the vibes of more technically impressive than artistically good.
 
I think the video game look is because it was all done in a program called blender. I haven’t seen the film but it does give off the vibes of more technically impressive than artistically good.
Yep, it's clearly been rendered and engined in familiar software but beyond that the editing, art design, camera work, resemble a particular, clichéd video-game cut scene aesthetic in a way that say Pixar doesn't. (All those swooping fecking camera pans, Jesus Christ)

I guess it's success is ultimately a good thing, even if the fawning critical concensus reaffirms the ever declining expectations amongst our modern slack-jawed cultural shepherds.
 
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Heretic (2024) - Two Mormon missionaries get more than what they bargained for.
Hugh Grant plays an affable villian. One of his best performances (up there with the one he did with Nicole Kidman).

In a year that was barren for top-tier horror films, this is one that stands out from the crowd.
 
Heretic (2024) - Two Mormon missionaries get more than what they bargained for.
Hugh Grant plays an affable villian. One of his best performances (up there with the one he did with Nicole Kidman).

In a year that was barren for top-tier horror films, this is one that stands out from the crowd.
Well, this is not true at all.