Candy Man(2021) was pretty bad. A ton of the characters were bland and annoying. The whole thing was boring, even the kills. They filmed these scenes for the trailers, not the movie itself. I say this because the deaths are quick, with a scream, some blood, and a thud. That's what you get. It's lame, a Rated R movie, and no one wants to show anything; great. I give this a 4/10—waste of time. Candyman needs better writers, it's an exciting mythos, but no one has helped it reach its full potential.
Lost Highway by David Lynch. I don't even know what I watched. I was keeping up in the first hour, and then the movie flipped its script and lost me. You could try to put everything together, but I wouldn't. It was a mess. For some reason, Mr.Lynch kept adding licensed heavy metal songs in multiple scenes that didn't need them. I asked myself, "Am I watching an AMV?" 5/10 I give it a pass because it's an old movie(1997). Still, it was dumb. Maybe my IQ wasn't high enough to understand this film.
The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
@MsJubilee I really liked new Candyman because it was about the mythos rather than slashing, it’s about building myths and taking the mickey out of trauma art. I just found it a beautiful film shot amazingly, I’m so glad I saw it in the cinema and didn’t stay in as it was peak covid mania.
Basically Lost Highway is a dream within a dream, think The Wizard Of Oz or Inception but they don’t you tell the gimmick. Even Lynch’s most acclaimed films are divisive and not for everyone. It’s probably an unpopular take to say I prefer Lost Highway over his similar/later movies Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire mostly as I like the slick vibe to it whilst Mulholland Drive felt like it had a puzzle narrative you had to follow precisely otherwise you wouldn’t figure it out, a bit like a point and click adventure where you have to click a very particular item even though you’ve figured it out but can’t move on. The best person to explain Lynch would be @rambler as they are a big Lynch fan, I like that his films aren’t predictable so I don’t know how they turn out but I wouldn’t say I am a fan of his work.
Also fun fact, in Steven Speilberg's film about himself The Fabelmans they have John Ford in it since he's one of Spielberg's film making idols and introduced him as "the greatest director in the world" and had David Lynch play Ford.
@Professor_Plumber btw, there are more, what I have is a cut-down version... Every year at the end of the year the list leaks probably on purpose to stir up attention from Netflix or someone (ever wonder where the bad Netflix movies come from?).
@Professor_Plumber A young girl creates a robot version of Harry Potter while her father simultaneously is treating Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe for a terminal disease.
The black list is thought of the wrong way, it's not the best unmade scripts but rather the best unsellable scripts. This isn't the 80s, if it was a good script someone like A24 would make it with a mid-budget already.
My thoughts go to Cop Out, the only film Kevin Smith made which he didn't write and it's god awful. He's been in a drug haze for 10 years making random films like Yoga Hosers (which I find stupid fun in fairness) yet it's better than Cop Out was on the black list for years and the problem with the film is it's so generic which comes from the script.
All fair points as I agree Inland Empire and Mulholland Drive are better films than Lost Highway but I still prefer Lost Highway for it's slickness. There's an (international) flatness to the other two, especially Mulholland Drive, which I didn't like.
Tbh I got the Lost Highway soundtrack 10 years before I saw the movie as I like the kiddie metal. lol There's a Nine Inch Nails track they only did for the movie so it was the only way to own it.
Manson in that XXX naughty vid scene is alarming though, I saw it this year after all of the stuff about him came out which made this so much worse. Eew!
@Professor_Plumber A young girl creates a robot version of Harry Potter while her father simultaneously is treating Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe for a terminal disease.
Remove Harry Potter from it, would you still care? There's enough reference rubbish as it is let alone more gimmick stuff.
Just watch Swiss Army Man, the Harry Potter kid play a corpse in an emotional drama comedy about loneliness/depression. A weirdo lost in the woods finds the corpse and starts remembering his humanity. Plus there's fart jokes in it plus the next film the filmmakers made was Everything Everywhere All At Once which won all of the Oscars.
@Rambler It was The Perfect Drug which is probably the closest to a pop song NIN ever did. There are so many fun hooks to the song but it's annoying as they rarely ever play it live. Then again I've seen them 5ish times and I've only seen them play Closer their biggest song twice.
Basically Keven Smith became a full time stoner. I use to listen to his podcast until he became unbearable talking about weed constantly. What happened was he thought Zach And Miri was gonna be as big as Judd Apatow's movies which had a similar vibe to him and were massive at the time plus it had peak popularity Seth Rogen in it, only Zach And Miri did so-so. He got depressed and just kept smoking until recently where he went into rehab. Red State is the last good film of his imo, Tusk and Yoga Hosers are weird fun (I wouldn't call them good though) and Clerks 3 is shocking as it's more amateurish than Clerks somehow but has a few nice moments. Cop Out is his worse though, it's so bland that I can't even gather the energy to rip apart how bad it is.
I don't trust Jamie Fox to be in a non-rubbish movie tbh.
It feels a bit like Sorry To Bother You in terms of tone, forget the trailer and wiki description watch the movie as it takes a turn to something you wouldn't expect. It's made by the hip-hop group The Coup.
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