Album Rating: 5.0

I mean Zach Snyder has his strengths and his weaknesses lmao

I would argue more strengths than weaknesses personally

Album Rating: 5.0

Id say they are in equal doses, but he has a distinct visual flair, impressive scope, and is good at hyperviolence, and just seems like a really nice dude and pleasure to work with so i forgive his struggles with story telling, dialogue, and bloating and am excited to see the Snyder cut

Why did you say that name???!?

Tilda is good in Suspiria. Movie is looooong and clocks 153 minutes. The main characters floor dancing tendencies are pretty funny.

Album Rating: 4.0

this movie's got an amazing remake focusing on anxiety-inducing dance scenes, and then there's another movie crammed in about the war or whatever - tilda plays an old guy with obvious prostheses and it's mildly interesting at best.

Album Rating: 5.0

Wow you don't say

Album Rating: 4.1

gotta disagree, the Klemperer stuff is essential. the way it dovetails with the main story when they kidnap him using the illusion of his wife is fucking haunting too

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah, i just found it so lacking in thematic cohesion and story. like, a hundred other things could've been dragged into the last part of the movie and felt equally earned. what in the world does the Klemperer stuff have to do with a witch-run dance school aside from 'historical context'?

Album Rating: 4.1

I wrote a long ass analysis a few pages back, can't be arsed finding it but I think my basic conclusion was the film uses Klemperer as a stand-in for the whole of Germany while they were in the phase of reckoning with their complicity in WW2 and Hitler's atrocities, which is why the film's set in the time period it's in. the reason they drag Klemp in at the end and make him the "witness" is because his guilt about not saving Chloe Grace Moretz is a link to his larger guilt about losing his wife, which in turn connects to the country's guilt about WW2. and the witches are kind of feeding on a very female power that lands on the other thematic side of the coin from that (iirc Ms Blanche says she created Volk out of the pain and sacrifices of living through WW2)



there's a fuckload more you could dig into there, especially given Tilda is playing both Blanche and Klemperer which adds an entire new dimension to the witness thing that I'm too small-brain to get into right now. but I don't think anyone can accuse the film of being thematically lacking lol

I didn't realise Tilda also played the old man... Wtf.

Honestly I am glad Guadagnino chose to not try and copy Argento's original masterpiece. He knew nothing could top the original so he chose to make it is own and it was really good. It is a bit too long though yeah.

Album Rating: 4.0

bit too short???

Album Rating: 5.0

@conesmoke she also plays the frog witch

Album Rating: 4.0

@Rowan



yeah sure, i totally see those links, but they're not at all central to the subversion in the main story about the protagonist entering the force she was always meant to inhabit and becoming the true leader of the temporarily toxic/corrupt hierarchy of the school. all the WW2 stuff still just seems like a backdrop for this story to unfold, more than anything related to Dakota Johnson's character and arc. this would be fine, of course, hadn't it taken up half the runtime and been kind of a slog compared to the rest. in the end Johnson comes in and clears the burden for Klemp, but the scene really just feels like another attempt by the screenwriter at making the two parts connect more than anything that would seem important for the character to do.



i mean, like, agree to disagree otherwise.

It's so great when Tilda regains consciousness after they flip her broken neck back into position.. like a human breath mint tin lid lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Lol

Album Rating: 4.0

When the neck thing happened, the lady beside me in the theatre straight up gasped "Guð minn góður"



(basically oh my god in Icelandic)



Seemed funny that THAT was the moment in the film that audibly shocked her. Not Olga, nor any of the other horrible shit that came before, but Tilda the human breath mint tin

Album Rating: 5.0

“Also, I like he is one of the few critics that is willing to acknowledge the absolute genius that is Zack Snyder.”



Is this a bit? After your ‘porn’ nonsense, it’s hard to tell.