Thoughts on Things

Things is an awful movie. I know making a full-length movie of any quality is a feat unto itself. The script and acting is painful to behold. The movie seems to borrow heavily from Evil Dead, the Thing, and Alien. Even the editing looks like it was done by a wood chipper. The audio is such a mess that making the movie a silent film might actually be an improvement. It was clearly dubbed in after the fact. It is a shame that the dialogue is unrealistic. Even the attempts at humor fall flat.The only draw is that porn starlet Amber Lynn cameos as a cue card reading reporter that clearly doesn’t want to be there. This movie isn’t worth seeing unless you seek something stupefyingly crappy.

Thoughts on Midsommar

Midsommar is a movie that may leave you saying: “Damn, that was weird.” It is a very symbolic movie with amazing photography. The story is long but purposeful in a tale about grief and a relationship falling apart. The film gets uncomfortable at times but that nightmarish quality is juxtaposed nicely against the beautiful scenery and artistic camera-work.  It’s worth seeing if you like long well-developed horror with a massive dose of the bizarre.