A film that I feel I should like given the core of the story being a rather interesting (and at times painfully delivering on second-hand embarrassment) depiction of social isolation. It's just that enough elements drag it down, mainly in its length feeling a bit unnecessary and the 'love interest' of Ni just being a baffling choice on characteristics if they at all wanted him to be appealing to the audience.
I get that we as the audience are largely…
The first half of this is really strong, but I found the central romance of the whole thing just didn't work for me....probably because Romeo and Juliet inspired stories just seem to not work for me as a whole in the first place.
What I really liked was that initially set-up and songs/choreography, along with the set design and use of colours (several jokes were made about Argento stealing the camera anytime the colour red was aggressively used). How it…
Incredibly captivating if you let it warm up, definitely follow the general consensus of going in blind for the best experience. Ending is wild and I absolutely loved that they went that far because that was entirely not the twist I was expect.
If you aren't into schlock or more B-movie horror fare you'll probably leave in a huff about how bad it was, but for those that are fans you'll have fun. At least I did anyway.
Going in with low expectations due to the reviews here and was left pleasantly surprised at it being better than what I'd grown to assume. First off, if we compare it to the original then yes, the original wins. This doesn't capture the same things that made the original so good, nor will I likely rewatch it to the same degree as I would the original (if I rewatch it at all). It doesn't help that the ending is pretty…
