More suspenseful than scary. There was one jumpscare that got me, but other than that, it was a relatively scare-free movie.And is it more terrifyingly scary or great suspense? I don’t prefer terrifying because it fecks with me at night for a few days afterward, but I make an exception for well made horror.
Appreciate it!More suspenseful than scary. There was one jumpscare that got me, but other than that, it was a relatively scare-free movie.
I enjoyed it. Best thing I've seen at the cinema in a couple of years.
For me, it's completely different, not even to be compared.How does or compare to Silence of the Lambs? I read somewhere, maybe even here, that it has a resemblance to it.
I don't really see the similarities. It's not scary at all - slightly atmospheric, but not scary.How does or compare to Silence of the Lambs? I read somewhere, maybe even here, that it has a resemblance to it.
And is it more terrifyingly scary or great suspense? I don’t prefer terrifying because it fecks with me at night for a few days afterward, but I make an exception for well made horror.
I would say Silence of the Lambs is better by quite some way, but I still thought it was excellent.How does or compare to Silence of the Lambs? I read somewhere, maybe even here, that it has a resemblance to it.
And is it more terrifyingly scary or great suspense? I don’t prefer terrifying because it fecks with me at night for a few days afterward, but I make an exception for well made horror.
Sort of agree with this, but maybe trash is a bit far, I feel.Fantastic movie. Fantastic acting and cinematography, can tell thought was put into every shot.
Trash ending. Last quarter let it down. 8/10. Probably 9 if not for the ending.
Yep, have to agree with this. It was over-hyped for sure and I would class it as style over substance. Great mood/atmosphere but the more the story unfolded the more it lost me.Really really disappointing. First hour or so was kinda building up to something decent, but it's just a mess in the end. And not the fun, endearing kind of mess. What a letdown!
Monroe and Cage were both very good however, and the atmosphere was pretty creepy until it became a bit of a caricature.
Yep, have to agree with this. It was over-hyped for sure and I would class it as style over substance. Great mood/atmosphere but the more the story unfolded the more it lost me.
I personally felt Cage to be miscast. I was genuinely laughing out loud when he was in the car screaming and singing and many other moments. I don't think it worked for me.
Interesting about Nicolas Cage, I actually felt he was one of the strongest points of the film. I mean, there's only so much you can do with the "satanist serial killer" character really, there's not much else left to explore with it. I thought that he at least made it his, without making it too Cage-y (though that scene you refer to @Dirty Schwein was him drifting into pretty serious Cage territory).Hereditary did the atmospheric, is there really something supernatural going on vibe much much better. As did other horrors like It Comes At Night. Felt like the movie got to the end and the screen writers decided to spell everything out for the audience.
Also would have probably preferred to watch it at home. Watching it in the cinema might have contributed to not feeling like it was that scary, whereas at home with the lights off for me is a much better way to experience horrors.
Also Nicholas Cage was Nicholoas Cage.... I don't think he helped the movie.
Just out of curiosity, and even though it felt at times they were trying to claim that Silence heritage, apart from the female FBI agent, what about it felt similar? Genuine question. I love Silence of the Lambs and watched it again recently, and I see very little similarities overall.I personally really liked it. I've seen Silence of the Lambs mentioned quite a few times as a comparison (one of my favourite films ever) and this does have a similar sort of feel to it, but obviously diverges in lots of ways, especially as the films continues. I'm a huge sucker for a thriller-style movie, especially one with an 80s or 90s setting or vibe to it. The ending won't be to everyone's tastes. I will need to see it again to form a better view of it, but my first impressions are that I enjoyed it and liked it a lot. My wife was unsure what she thought of it and like lots of aspects to it (more so the first half) and feel it fell away towards to the end. I'm interested to see how many 'clues' or hints are scattered throughout the film during the first two thirds of it, so I think it'll end up being one of those films that gets better on a rewatch and grows in stature in time.
Just out of curiosity, and even though it felt at times they were trying to claim that Silence heritage, apart from the female FBI agent, what about it felt similar? Genuine question. I love Silence of the Lambs and watched it again recently, and I see very little similarities overall.
Fair enough! For me those are mainly tropes specific to the genre, not really similarities between the 2 films (tonally, that is), but I do see what you mean.Not so much with plot, but more so with the feel of it. More to do with the way the main characters are set up rather than the storyline itself. I don't think it's exclusive to Silence though, but rather the thriller films that we had at that moment in time, which seem to be very few and far between these days. For me, the similarities would be that theme (wonder if it would be classed as a cliche?) of younger, inexperienced female stepping into a highly specialised, potentially dangerous male-dominated profession. Serial killer with unusual, distinctive methods of killing, with a memorable (and creepy) visual appearance. I'd throw the voice into that, too. Childhood trauma, although it's handled differently in both films. Without spoiling it for others, you have the 'confrontation' scene, too. The 'clue-gathering' process and how that mystery unfolds is handled differently in both, too.
In reality, there are probably numerous instances where you could take two films from a similar genre and find similarities, so I'm not saying that they're directly comparable. But, there are certain things that cross-over, in the sense of "if you like film A, you may like film B". I liked Longlegs, because I enjoyed films like Silence of the Lambs, Copycat, Seven, Kiss The Girls, Primal Fear, The Fugitive growing up.
Fair enough! For me those are mainly tropes specific to the genre, not really similarities between the 2 films (tonally, that is), but I do see what you mean.
I think I was also disappointed by Longlegs because of my expectations (my own fault) and because I'd heard parallels made with Se7en which I rewatched 2 days before Longlegs... needless to say the latter does not stack up well against Fincher's film, which is still today genuinely excellent.
Yeah, to an extent... Although I know that for my part after seeing Silence of the Lambs or Se7en for the first time, I absolutely adored them immediately and rated them as masterpieces. Se7en is one of my first teenage "wow films can be so fecking good" moments, and made me interested in cinematography for example.Se7en is excellent. That and Silence of the Lambs are the pinnacle of the genre.
I do always think that it's hard to tell how good a film is just on the one watch, so we'll see how this holds up over time and what people think on repeated watches. I found that with Hereditary, where my opinion changed quite dramatically over each watch.
First watch: yeah, it was...ok.
Second watch: actually, that was great. fecking creepy.
Third watch: masterpiece. One of the greatest in its genre.
The advantage that films like Silence and Se7en have is that we've had repeated watches of those, and they've had time to become embedded within our own cultural psyche. They're iconic. They've been imitated, replicated, parodies, etc. Will be interesting to see in 5 or 10 years from now which films are on that similar level.
Yeah, to an extent... Although I know that for my part after seeing Silence of the Lambs or Se7en for the first time, I absolutely adored them immediately and rated them as masterpieces. Se7en is one of my first teenage "wow films can be so fecking good" moments, and made me interested in cinematography for example.
I also know after seeing Longlegs that I have no desire to see it again, because I genuinely don't think there's much more beneath the surface. I don't see how a rewatch will change those last 30mn or the overarching plot (deal with the devil made by mom, daughter becomes the person hunting the murderer, it's all very contrived). It's in no way terrible, there's merit to it, but it's also subpar for the genre. I'm glad other people enjoyed it more than I did though, and weren't as bothered as I was by the conclusion.
I don't particularly think so, or yes to an extent but not necessarily for the reasons you state. I think there's a dual thing at play here:I haven't seen this yet, so this is more of a general observation, but is it just me or are more and more supposedly intelligent movies and TV series' riddled with terrible plot holes? Se7en hit all the marks, right out of the gate. Well cast, well acted, well shot and an absolutely watertight and coherent plot. It's maddening how often you watch modern films/TV and everything is ticking along nicely only for the plot to completely fall apart by the end. True Detective season one is a great example of this. Is it because there are more and more test screenings (and hence, rewrites) than there was when a film like Se7en was made?
I think that with Horror films they always suffer a bit with endings, I think writers struggle to kind of maintain the quality when tying up the plot at the end. Perhaps the writers should move away from trying to "conclude" a story and just leave it open-ended, I feel that would make for a better and more thought-provoking experience. The scariest stuff is that which we don't know.I think I'm slightly more positive than most in here. I did find it genuinely creepy and unsettling throughout, I think the cinematography was excellent, and the use of empty spaces in the background of shots was incredibly chilling and effective. The build up of the 'mystery' was well done, Maika Monroe was very good, and Nic Cage's performance was fun.
But then... yeah... I just hated the ending. It was really disappointing to go from the comparisons to Lambs/ Se7en to a bog standard supernatural horror at the end, without much invention or originality in the third act. There was enough in the film to make it worth watching, but the decisions made at the end undid a lot of the good that came before, and felt like they were from a different, cheaper, dumber movie.
