Not quite outstanding, but a really great effort
Honestly, I love watching Nick Cage movies. Even when he's typecast as a certain type of role, he fills it to the brim with craziness. Longlegs is no exception. He is clearly unhinged in his performance. A couple of tweaks, and this would have been an outstanding film. What holds it back are *spoiler alert* divulging the identity of the main killer too easily and too early, some of Nick Cage's satanist…
Somewhere between A COLOR OUT OF SPACE and BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP
The Whisperer in Darkness ranked in the "pretty good" range of Lovecraft adaptations, for me. The higher range would include Re-Animator, From Beyond, and A Color Out of Space, while the lower range would include Beyond the Wall of Sleep and The Deep Ones. The mid-range is populated by such movies as The Unnamable, Dagon, and Necronomicon, and is a fuller list than either of the other…
The Rock should be President, Doctor Fate should be VP
One of my two favorite DC characters was finally in this film, and I cannot emphasize enough how happy this makes me. What's more, it was brilliantly cast to the ineffable Pierce Brosnan in a casting decision so powerful that it could almost eclipse the sheer force of seeing The Rock, finally, for the first time as a superhero onscreen. I can tally the amount of great DC and Marvel…
Coolest alien spacecraft award
This movie screams sequel-potential, unlike its predecessors like "Independence Day" and other Peele movies like "Us" and "Get Out." It hooks you in with two major plot points which act to throw you off the chase of the mystery throughout the beginning of the movie; a chimpanzee attacks people at a TV show shooting, and the main characters are equestrian horse farmers whose grandfather was hired by the first director of a film in the 1800s.…
