I mean everybody else was watching it and I already downloaded it thinking it would likely win, so I figured why not. Still gonna watch Fargo this week but I've already watched it like 5 times before, it's one of my favorite movies.
This was dumb. And, like, I get that it was supposed to be dumb, but this actually kinda made me mad how dumb it was. I can't really explain that feeling. Like, it wasn't scary, but it wasn't really supposed to be? But it also wasn't funny enough to be a proper horror comedy. It fell into really stupid tropes like the one black character acting like a total stereotype and the stupid couple sneaking off to have sex when they literally already knew the things were alive and then SEEING it in the room and waving it off despite already having known it was alive. Seriously, no decision anyone made throughout any of this movie made even a little bit of sense.
I'm all for goofy over-the-top nonsense (I LOVED Cage's other recent film Mandy and was hoping for something on par with that) but there's a limit. There has to be some bit of sense to be made of any of it, because otherwise it's just kind of all just bullshit happening without reason. You can't care about any of the characters because most of them are just blank fodder to be killed off. The only character with a personality is Cage, who is silent and also nonsensical in his actions. Like if you're going to kill the animatronics anyway, why not just do that? Why wait until they're already mid-kill?
Also the sound editing was really wonky; I didn't really dig most of the music and it sounded way louder than scenes called for, often coming across as weirdly jarring. Sound effects were similarly inconsistent volumes. The ending even feels a little icky, with Liz getting in the car and taking the drink offered by the strange old man. Was that a happy ending? What even is that?
also my girlfriend called it the worst movie she'd ever seen.
2/10
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