#MWi2019: pet sematary 2019

[krokodile]

jesus it’s been like fifty movie since i’ve done one of these.

sunset boulevard - just a favorite i go back to every few years.  i can recite at least half the dialogue with it (and i often do.  what can i say?  the comedic delivery is so perfect - i feel like not enough people appreciate how witty and just plain funny this movie can be.  @songstressofnotionsgonewrong i’m sure you’re the exception though!)

pet sematary - i liked it more than the original, but i really don’t like the original, so...that’s not saying a lot.  it did have good points, though.  making the undead child ellie instead of gage was a smart movie, and jete laurence is terrific in the role.  john lithgow is perfect (he’s john lithgow, after all), and i love the relationship he has with ellie.  besides giving jud a reason to resurrect first church and then ellie, his love for her makes her death that much more heartbreaking.  i loved them both, i didn’t want anything bad to happen to either of them, even while i knew what was coming.  i couldn’t give a shit about gage or anyone else in the original.

but the obvious trailer fodder with the masks was pure cringe (admittedly, it looked good, but...come on), the writing isn’t great (i mean, neither is the original’s screenplay...nor is the novel) and john lithgow had one line delivery i would really like to know the thought process behind because it seemed like a weird choice.  zelda wasn’t nearly as terrifying in this one, and her death was accidentally hilarious.  jason clarke is fine but he’s majorly outclassed by the other actors (including the little kid).  it’s fine; it’s a five out of ten if i were doing number ratings.  i was the only person who thought this needed a remake, and i’m happy enough with what i got.  it’s an improvement.  it’s just still not that great.  

the darkness - i’m 99% sure that the boy was originally written to be about four, but they realized they didn’t want to deal with all the shit that comes with hiring a kid that young, and figured no one would notice if they made him a middle schooler, because he’s autistic; that’s the same thing as mentally challenged, right??  sigh.  movie itself wasn’t good, but i’ve seen worse.

child’s play - i’m just gonna say it.  i like it better than the original.  the only older chucky movie i have a soft spot for is bride of chucky and that’s mainly jennifer tilly/tiffany anyway.  unlike pet sematary, i don’t think it really needed remaking, but i thoroughly enjoyed it.  older andy was a great idea - very young children absolutely can be very capable actors, but a thirteen year old is going to be a more interesting character than a six year old because he can actually do things on his own.  the friends they gave him were a lot of fun, mike and his mom were great characters, aubrey plaza’s being aubrey plaza.  mark hamill’s voice was perfect.  and i liked that the main character was allowed to be hearing-impaired without it being a plot point.  i’m guessing it was intended to be at some point, but i liked how it ended up being handled.

crawl - so much respect for kaya scodelario.  she picks some weird/bad movies, but she gives her all every time.  wasn’t a fan of this one, but  i’m not huge on creature movies to begin with.

a silent voice - i guess i’m the only person who didn’t like it, but the one main character was nauseatingly perfect, and the other was forgiven way too easily.  i get why people liked it, but i didn’t.

the favourite - if i’d known who directed it i wouldn’t have bothered; i just never enjoy this guy’s films.  great performances though.  god help me but i’m starting to love emma stone, and rachael weisz has never given a bad performance that i’ve seen.  was less impressed with the lead, but she got an oscar for it so clearly i’m in the minority there.

along came the devil - sydney sweeney needs to fire her agent.

velvet  buzzsaw - hated it, but kind of expected to.  

inside - hey, rachel nichols!  in another thing with this title!  movie was a pile of meh.  predictable but i guess not offensive.