LOL OK I did eventually see this movie and... you know, I liked it well enough. I wanted to see it in a double feature with "Love Hurts" on Valentine's, but wouldn't you know it, neither of them were showing at my local theater then. Boo! But I am glad these movies released around the same time, because they really crystalized something I've been never quite able to articulate, which is that given two movies with similar ideas, I inevitably prefer the one with the *worse* plot. (In this dyad "Love Hurts" is the one with the worse plot - genuinely nonsensical - that I found delightful to the point where I was clapping like a seal, whereas "Heart Eyes" was fun enough but kind of lost me a little with how self-obsessed it ended up being with its own structure. "Scooby Doo reveal" was right.)
And then I got home that evening and watched this week's "Elsbeth," featuring a high-class escort played by ... Jordana Brewster!! Getting to wear some fuckin' gorgeous fits (and not just in comparison to the titular sleuth-slash-sentient-migraine, lmao). Is she having a career renaissance or something?
Yeah, I saw an ad that Jordana was on Elsbeth, so that's great that she's doing other stuff than the Fast Furious movies, especially with that franchise seemingly in limbo. (Left us off with a major cliffhanger, WTF?) I actually think Heart Eyes and The Monkey would be a better double feature, just cause they're both funny horror movies. I'm actually going to see The Monkey a second time today, though I definitely didn't like it as much as Heart Eyes. The plot for Love Hurts wasn't even what annoyed me as much as the execution... it was pretty obvious that the director was a stunts guy, but even his boss (David Leitch) proved that he had a good eye for story/performance to be able to direct movies like Bullet Train and The Fall Guy.
I *am* excited for The Monkey, even though Longlegs kind of just bounced off me. (It helps, perhaps, that King's Skeleton Crew anthology was maybe the first "adult" book I ever read.)
You know, I liked Bullet Train and The Fall Guy, but... did those movies really land the pathos or romance? Or were they just stylish action movies that succeeded by having a critical mass of likable actors and neat action setpieces? I wanted a 90-minute Jackie Chan-esque action comedy that lampoons the Live Laugh Love aesthetic, and baby, I got it! Laughed my ass off.
> "Jordana Brewster might be best known for the “Fast and Furious” movies..."
"Faculty" erasure! "Faculty" erasure!! Ah, it's alright - I also mostly hated "Terrifier 3" so I'm glad to hear this is going to be a pretty good horror-comedy.
It's so funny that you should bring up The Faculty because there was just talk about a remake (yeah, I know) and I began wondering whether I had actually seen The Faculty. I think I have but it's been so long that I'd have to see it again to remember for sure. (Yes, I'm getting to that age.) But she's great in this movie... I actually didn't realize it was her!
A remake directed by the guy who wrote/directed "Companion," apparently. (Which I haven't seen yet... maybe this week.) I think it's probably one of the less egregious films to remake in 2025, because thematically you *could* imagine "The Faculty" with cell phones / TikTok - hell, you could even imagine "The Faculty" as a metaphor for TikTok, if you're creative enough - and "Euphoria" exists as a new aesthetic template. One obvious problem is that part of the joy of "The Faculty" is what an absurdly stacked cast it had, and it's hard to imagine a horror movie reboot in 2025 getting that level of megawatt celebrity. (Maybe they stunt-cast Josh Hartnett as one of the adults?)
LOL OK I did eventually see this movie and... you know, I liked it well enough. I wanted to see it in a double feature with "Love Hurts" on Valentine's, but wouldn't you know it, neither of them were showing at my local theater then. Boo! But I am glad these movies released around the same time, because they really crystalized something I've been never quite able to articulate, which is that given two movies with similar ideas, I inevitably prefer the one with the *worse* plot. (In this dyad "Love Hurts" is the one with the worse plot - genuinely nonsensical - that I found delightful to the point where I was clapping like a seal, whereas "Heart Eyes" was fun enough but kind of lost me a little with how self-obsessed it ended up being with its own structure. "Scooby Doo reveal" was right.)
And then I got home that evening and watched this week's "Elsbeth," featuring a high-class escort played by ... Jordana Brewster!! Getting to wear some fuckin' gorgeous fits (and not just in comparison to the titular sleuth-slash-sentient-migraine, lmao). Is she having a career renaissance or something?
Yeah, I saw an ad that Jordana was on Elsbeth, so that's great that she's doing other stuff than the Fast Furious movies, especially with that franchise seemingly in limbo. (Left us off with a major cliffhanger, WTF?) I actually think Heart Eyes and The Monkey would be a better double feature, just cause they're both funny horror movies. I'm actually going to see The Monkey a second time today, though I definitely didn't like it as much as Heart Eyes. The plot for Love Hurts wasn't even what annoyed me as much as the execution... it was pretty obvious that the director was a stunts guy, but even his boss (David Leitch) proved that he had a good eye for story/performance to be able to direct movies like Bullet Train and The Fall Guy.
I *am* excited for The Monkey, even though Longlegs kind of just bounced off me. (It helps, perhaps, that King's Skeleton Crew anthology was maybe the first "adult" book I ever read.)
You know, I liked Bullet Train and The Fall Guy, but... did those movies really land the pathos or romance? Or were they just stylish action movies that succeeded by having a critical mass of likable actors and neat action setpieces? I wanted a 90-minute Jackie Chan-esque action comedy that lampoons the Live Laugh Love aesthetic, and baby, I got it! Laughed my ass off.
> "Jordana Brewster might be best known for the “Fast and Furious” movies..."
"Faculty" erasure! "Faculty" erasure!! Ah, it's alright - I also mostly hated "Terrifier 3" so I'm glad to hear this is going to be a pretty good horror-comedy.
It's so funny that you should bring up The Faculty because there was just talk about a remake (yeah, I know) and I began wondering whether I had actually seen The Faculty. I think I have but it's been so long that I'd have to see it again to remember for sure. (Yes, I'm getting to that age.) But she's great in this movie... I actually didn't realize it was her!
A remake directed by the guy who wrote/directed "Companion," apparently. (Which I haven't seen yet... maybe this week.) I think it's probably one of the less egregious films to remake in 2025, because thematically you *could* imagine "The Faculty" with cell phones / TikTok - hell, you could even imagine "The Faculty" as a metaphor for TikTok, if you're creative enough - and "Euphoria" exists as a new aesthetic template. One obvious problem is that part of the joy of "The Faculty" is what an absurdly stacked cast it had, and it's hard to imagine a horror movie reboot in 2025 getting that level of megawatt celebrity. (Maybe they stunt-cast Josh Hartnett as one of the adults?)
I'm seeing it next week and am 'looking' forward to it. Thanks for your review (I agree with you on the Terrifier franchise).