LMAO sorry for playing catch-up with your last couple months of reviews and spamming your comments -- I never get to talk about mainstream cinema with people who've seen and have thoughts about it. In fact, I could talk even longer about how I've felt at the movies -- flag me down when you see me in Harlem next month and hear for yourself :P
But yeah, this film -- mixed bag, this one! They had some fun with the scenic design, there's a really interesting premise with each iteration of the Groundhog Day loop introducing a different genre of horror into the mix, and there's some great head explosions; more importantly I actually found myself really enjoying spending time with these doomed teenagers, which is not a given for this style of movie! But unfortunately I just... don't think there was much of a throughline here, and this becomes really obvious towards the end where they just watch a highlight reel of "creepy stuff that happened over the past week" on their phones, one of the purest "the screenwriter just gives up" moments I can think of in recent movies.
Quiara, thank you so much for your comments -- I always appreciate reading intelligent discourse even when someone doesn't like a movie as much as I do. I definitely appreciate you reading them and commenting, and totally, at Lollapuzzoola, we need to sit at the same table and chat about movies in between puzzles.
LMAO sorry for playing catch-up with your last couple months of reviews and spamming your comments -- I never get to talk about mainstream cinema with people who've seen and have thoughts about it. In fact, I could talk even longer about how I've felt at the movies -- flag me down when you see me in Harlem next month and hear for yourself :P
But yeah, this film -- mixed bag, this one! They had some fun with the scenic design, there's a really interesting premise with each iteration of the Groundhog Day loop introducing a different genre of horror into the mix, and there's some great head explosions; more importantly I actually found myself really enjoying spending time with these doomed teenagers, which is not a given for this style of movie! But unfortunately I just... don't think there was much of a throughline here, and this becomes really obvious towards the end where they just watch a highlight reel of "creepy stuff that happened over the past week" on their phones, one of the purest "the screenwriter just gives up" moments I can think of in recent movies.
Quiara, thank you so much for your comments -- I always appreciate reading intelligent discourse even when someone doesn't like a movie as much as I do. I definitely appreciate you reading them and commenting, and totally, at Lollapuzzoola, we need to sit at the same table and chat about movies in between puzzles.
Will check out the other comments in a bit.