Agreed. I saw an interview with him where he explained that he appreciated Dredd Day (many years ago) where fans got the film to the number 1 spot on Amazon's chart in order to promote interest in a sequel.
But as he further explained, all of the investors lost money on the original film, so getting anyone to invest in a sequel was an impossibility.
Well then I guess I have to see this. Geralds Game and Doctor Sleep were excellent. Also I’ve read the original short story and without giving anything away, I found it oddly affecting.
I misread that at first, as I know there are plenty of films that have been visually created by AI and just look odd, including a full remake of Terminator 2!
The film draws on many of the actual bikers who Lyon hung out with, including Austin Butler as Benny, the gang's wildest and most charismatic member, with Jodie Comer as his girl Kathy and Tom Hardy as Johnny, the leader of the group.
Growing popular concurrent with the actual rise of the motorcycle club in the US, the genre also waned after the real-life counterparts – which began as social hubs for hobbyist mechanics and racers – degenerated into organised crime.
Told in flashback using Kathy's voiceover, the film luxuriates in the mythic and OTT elements of the iconography: the motorcycle boots, jackets, cigarettes, and rubber squeals that are familiar to any of us who have watched biker movies of the era.
Responsible for the early careers of Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, and many others, he would seize on the box-office phenomenon of Easy Rider (1969) to make a whole host of flicks about countercultural – or even frenzied criminal – motorcycle gangs.
Equally, in The Bikeriders, as time goes on we begin to see the rift between the "pot smokers" and the "beer drinkers", who were the earlier members and not drugtakers – a real discord occurred in the latter part of the 60s and into the 70s, largely due to returning Vietnam veterans swelling the ranks of motorcycle clubs, whose drug use often went beyond marijuana.
In the 60s, The Shangri-Las sighed, pined, and swooned over dead biker boyfriends in their haunting music – their 1964 hit Leader of the Pack, as Nichols points out, actually has motor engines revving in the background, and the song of theirs he uses as a motif throughout The Bikeriders – 1965's Out in the Street – echoes across the film.
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I had to log in into the default web UI to see what it was on my PC, but it's great. Perfect for the sub. By default, I use phtn.app to browse lemmy on my laptop, and the icons are on the small side.
However, on my phone using Thunder, it looks great too.
So I went out and saw it. Might as well give my review for others with the same question.
Quick summary: American girl gets a job to deliver something in Ireland. She gets lost in a forest where she finds a small group trapped there by the Watchers, for a name that makes sense.
I thought it was not as bad as I thought it was going to be for the bad critic scores and mediocre audience scores, which have been in like the high 30's to 60's in % review sites. But then, I don't see a lot of movies nowadays, so my bar may be lower than other movie buffs. It definitely has a lot of the feel of a Shyamalan movie even though it's his daughter directing. It's got the trademark suspense, thriller feels, and some horror and dark fantasy and on the nose themes. Don't worry if you're averse to horror, as it got nerve-wracking but never crossed into horror levels of scary imo. Still, atmosphere has always been her father's strong point, and she's managed to keep that going, which is good.
Dakota Fanning did a good job acting with what she had, but it wasn't a lot. All the characters felt kind of thin and paper, as they skipped most character development to get right into the premise and mystery. At least I think so, we arrived to the theater a bit late lol. The characters basically give you enough to justify their actions by their personality and that's mostly it. It's not as bad as like Avatar or The Happening, but the characters didn't feel as real to me as let's say Sixth Sense or Signs (to compare to other movies from the family name). This does slightly benefit the movie in some places, because the weird characters with little history adds to the slight atmosphere of distrust between these characters that are thrown together.
The end probably could've been slightly better, but I didn't think it was as bad as other reviewers felt. It did the job, made sense enough to wrap up things, and I was ready to leave by then anyway.
Overall, it kept me mostly entertained for the time I was there. It had enough horror to add some suspense, without actually being too scary so my family could watch it (my grandma and small children probably would've been too scared to watch it, though). It needs something to push it into the next tier, but I'm not sure what. Maybe it needed to be scarier, or more action, or something. Still, not bad for a first directorial outing, it just didn't blow me away.
Final note, I haven't read the book, so I don't know how accurate this is to it. This wasn't quite memorable enough to convince me to read the book, but it was an entertaining enough plot that I could see why it was made into a movie.
And it's poor performance and reception was probably the end of their film careers too.
Jupiter Ascending was such a weird problem ... like I feel like there's a good film in there but it was cursed in some "last attempt to stay in hollywood" urge or something.
This should be normalised more IMO. Even sought after. Usually it's a sign that there's something special in it if you're one of the people that are going to like it ... and that should be treasured.
I said it in another reply ... subjective art is awesome!
Curious how you feel about The Fountain ... as that was the most similar film I could think of.
Speaking of which, I'm just cooking up an idea of running a sort of watch club here, where something like this could be an ideal candidate, at least for a sort of "out there, somewhat experimental sci-fi cinema watch club".
Do you have any thoughts on whether that'd be something you or others would be interested in?
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