This didn't disappoint at all. As X fashioned itself under '70s Horror, Pearl seems to be fashioned as a Douglas Sirk Horror flick, a colorful, larger-than-life melodrama where the protagonist goes psycho and kills people in spectacularly gory fashion. Echoes of Carrie in her character too. And really, Mia Goth goes all out here. She has a co-writing credit with West here so she fashioned a vehicle to showcase all her range and spectacular talent. It might be a new favorite female performance in a Horror film ever, next to Angela Bettis in May.
At my showing we were like three or four loners scattered around and one of them was clearly off his marbles a little bit and started yelling things at the screen for the first 15 minutes. A grim start but the movie was so good it won him over and, besides a few expressive reactions, he didn't offer any unsolicited commentary.
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Sounds like perfect boyfriend material for Pearl. I would have yelled at him "hey man don't lose your ... ... head muahahahahah!"Quoting Grouchy (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Oh he definitively was on Pearl's wavelenght. Just a Florida crazy.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
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Always beware of Florida Man ha ha.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
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And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
The trajectory is so obvious I imagine one needn't to see X to know early where it's going, and narratively it's too underimagined whether as drama or as horror to counter that inevitability for me. But its aesthetic is so alluring (including the amazing soundtrack), and Mia Goth is so captivating as advertised in this lead role, that the film ultimately still works well. 7/10
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5