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| Topic | Board 8 Ranks 2010s Horror Movies - *THE RANKINGS* |
| Snake5555555555 05/14/22 8:05:06 PM #24: | Suprak the Stud - C- I had seen this already and knew that it would be near the bottom of the list from the start. But, I dont *completely* hate it. I dont think this is as bad as people in the topic were indicating before rankings went up. I tried to do the animated films rankings before this one, and I couldnt make it through because a solid 15 of those films were utter trash. Bird Box is better than two thirds of the movies on the last list, although I guess that is very faint praise. But more than that, I think there are some aspects of this movie that arent bad. Its a very breezy film, and I didnt struggle to get through it like I do with particularly bad horror movies. I actually think Sandra Bullock is great. That whole opening speech is very well done and it was something I remembered now even like three years after I saw the movie for the first time. And it is unique. There were a decent number of movies on this list that felt derivative, but this wasnt one of them. I mean, what youre dealing with here is well established, I suppose. Cthulhu or Cthulhu like creatures are one of the most iconic monsters in all of horror, and this isnt really all that big of a departure from that. You have people going mad by looking upon the creatures, you have cults and followers being gathered in his name, all fairly common stuff. But I still felt like this was a film I hadnt seen before (although closest comparable to me was The Happening which isnt exactly the kind of company you want to keep). I liked that the movie didnt spell it out, and I feel like the really bad version of Bird Box just shows the monsters right away and we all laugh at how dumb it looks. It at least has the creative vision to not do that. So you have Sandra Bullock, you have a fairly original premise, and you have some interesting looking scenes, particularly at the beginning. What you dont have is horror. This is the film on this list that I feel like couldve been dropped for a variety of reasons, but the biggest of which is Im not sure it fits in the genre. I get that it was big culturally, and looking at the list you would say pretty safely that this is the film that resonated the most with people for whatever reason (probably the fact it comes with Netflix and you dont have to go out to a theater to see it). But its not horror. Thriller, maybe, or suspense or something else, but not horror. I was never scared, and Im not even sure the movie really wanted me to be. The movie isnt filmed like horror it doesnt have the right beats. The stuff that I guess is supposed to scare you is filmed more like what I would expect from a natural disaster kind of movie. This is The Day After Tomorrow with bad weather swapped out for transdimensional monsters. It also isnt really all that good of a movie. Like, I stand by my original assessment as not as bad as everyone else was saying but that certainly doesnt make it good. There were multiple instances here where the writing either made me roll my eyes or laugh out loud, including the ending which has to be one of my least favorite endings ever. Like when the camera pans and the sign says school for the blind and Sandra Bullock smiles like this is some sort of twistno, that doesnt work in the movie interpretation of the material. Like, ok, cool. Good job not being able to see the creatures. But maybe this isnt going to help you against the heavily armed roving bands of psychopaths that are going house to house and shooting people. I feel like they wanted to wrap this up in a nice pretty bow, but the ending just feels weird and not fully thought out. There are a lot of examples of stuff like this, of things just sort of happening because the story needs them to happen. Like what are the odds of two pregnant women finding each other in the midst of the apocalypse and then they both give birth within minutes of each other (which happens solely for the purpose of throwing the house into chaos so the crazy guy can go around and open all the windows). And then I kinda hate all the characters besides Sandra Bullock. They are all these horrendous one dimensional archetypes and I couldnt have cared less when they all died. Part of it is because of the strange set up to the story, and you literally start the movie with Sandra Bullock alone with her kids and no one else, and it doesnt take an intense examination of the story to figure out everyone is dying. You have these monsters that are everywhere, you have one character left when there used to be ten, it isnt hard to piece together whats going to happen. There is no tension in these flashback scenes because Sandra Bullock is hanging out with a bunch of corpses. And then the characters are just really, really boring. I have never cared less about the fate of a pregnant woman than I have the second pregnant woman in this film. She is barely a character. Shes a department store mannequin someone drew a smiley face on that says quotes from posters with cats on them when you squeeze her hand. Machine Gun Kelly is in this movie for some reason and hes one of my favorite secondary characters because at least he has the decency to leave right away. So you have bad characters and bad writing and a badly structured plot. It isnt good. And I dont want to be the snobby annoying guy, but the book was way better. A lot of the dumb stuff in the movie is way less dumb than the book, and some of the stuff they changed here doesnt really make all that much sense when you see what it was supposed to be like. The river scenes with the kids were at least somewhat intense, and Sandra Bullock was good, and some of the beginning scenes where people are randomly killing themselves and theres chaos everywhere is fun to watch. Like, it isnt totally irredeemable. But it is also probably the most skippable of all the films here. It isnt good enough to warrant a watch on its merits, and it also isnt bad enough to get to that fun bad level of quality that you and your friends can sit around and make fun of. This is definitely my prediction to end up at the bottom of our combined list. Im dont think it quite deserves that because I feel like this is definitely more watchable that a handful of other films on this list. But at the same time I at least see the reason why people here were complaining about this one specifically. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. https://www.instagram.com/horror_obscurities/ ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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