What I've really liked to see to far is how varied people's reactions to these three shows are. My personal ranking would be Bly > HH > MM. But I think HH is objectively the best-crafted show of the three.
but the monologues really cheesed me off, i have to admit. they felt so forced and unnatural to me, especially in episode 4 where the formerly pregnant woman and that annoyingly good looking guy talked and talked and talked.
Yeah a lot of ppl are frustrated with that. On FB, there were a number of ppl who in the same boat as you and struggled to finish the show. I imagine many ppl who didn't like the excessive monologuing may have just not finished the show to comment.
One guy on this board actually highlighted that ep4 convo specifically. It annoyed me earlier in the show when I realized that's what this show was going for but I guess maybe the monologues' content didn't bother me enough to pull me out. I just kinda shifted my expectation for the style.
but i wish he would let a cruel, heartless editor take multiple passes at his tv scripts
I definitely hope this was intentional this time, and I'm hoping Midnight Club will be leaner.
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3 years ago
after letting it rattle around in my head for a day, i've come to appreciate more of the good qualities in this. i was probably a bit too pissy in focusing on the monologues, particularly when there were so many good things to be found.
like i said above, i will always take a focused, pacey movie over hours and hours of television, & i think having that kind of sprawl available to him gives flanagan a bit too much free reign. but he's consistently making interesting & entertaining stuff, and whatever he does next i'll be there for it.
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acidraindrop (3055)
3 years ago
Nice! I wonder how i'd feel upon a second viewing.
I used to think the Ghost in the Shell animated film was super slow and had one too many monologues, but I grew to appreciate it upon future viewings.
Despite enjoying MM, I still think it's a bit too slow despite my revised expectations...but I'm wondering if maybe I would also have a more positive evaluation of its pacing.
& i think having that kind of sprawl available to him gives flanagan a bit too much free reign.
I'd love to see a new film as well, one that isn't an adaptation. I'm wondering if Oculus (and Midnight Mass) were his only babies though lol
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3 years ago
have you ever seen absentia? that's his first film, and an original story. it's very low-budget, and it has some community-theatre level acting at times, but it might be my favourite thing he's done. it really achieves a low-fi creepy atmosphere that i absolutely love.
it's streaming on shudder in the u.s. if you use that service. no guarantees, of course, but i highly recommend it.
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acidraindrop (3055)
3 years ago
Oh yeah that's right, that was also his own story, and yup, I've seen it! It was a bit rough around the edges (and as you said, community theatre level acting (and filming lol)), but I thought it was excellent. It was a fairly grounded narrative but still managed to be really unsettling, in an uncanny way.
It was also cool to see glimpses of how his style would ultimately evolve. Like his filming of hypothetical thought processes (which he used briefly in Hush, and wholeheartedly in Gerald's Game...and something like it in Before I Wake). I felt like the movie also did a good job of like, entertaining multiple interpretations of the events that are happening.
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