sharkme94
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It's hard to write a comprehensive review because this really feels like two different movies.
The first half of the move (first 2 hours) is excellent, the second falls apart majorly.
The first part of the movie is slow, no doubt, but it is still very engaging and excellently shot. I was still invested in the buildup to what would happen after intermission, which ultimately turned out to be not much. The pacing suddenly falls apart and the streamlined narrative we've been following stops making any sense as we start jumping all over the place with no grounding.
Adrien Brody is majorly overhyped in this movie. I didn't feel like I was watching a performance as much as he was just doing an accent. His emotional range was super flat considering the weight of the role, and the character felt like he had zero personality.
Felicity Jones was really good; the first scene of her and Adrian in bed after being reunited gave me chills.
Ultimately this movie is all form with no substance. After almost 4 hours of my time, even for all that I was engaged with the story and for all the cinematography I could appreciate, I still left wondering what the point of any of it was.
The first half of the move (first 2 hours) is excellent, the second falls apart majorly.
The first part of the movie is slow, no doubt, but it is still very engaging and excellently shot. I was still invested in the buildup to what would happen after intermission, which ultimately turned out to be not much. The pacing suddenly falls apart and the streamlined narrative we've been following stops making any sense as we start jumping all over the place with no grounding.
Adrien Brody is majorly overhyped in this movie. I didn't feel like I was watching a performance as much as he was just doing an accent. His emotional range was super flat considering the weight of the role, and the character felt like he had zero personality.
Felicity Jones was really good; the first scene of her and Adrian in bed after being reunited gave me chills.
Ultimately this movie is all form with no substance. After almost 4 hours of my time, even for all that I was engaged with the story and for all the cinematography I could appreciate, I still left wondering what the point of any of it was.
It's finally here, and now it can be undoubtably declared the finest horror movie of 2024, and possibly even years past. It was everything I hoped it would be.
The movie is terrifying in ways I wasn't expecting, with a level of surrealism that is both titillating and disorienting, removing a sense of time. It really does create an effect of the characters, and thus for the audience, of being trapped in a nightmare.
Nosferatu contains some of the most beautiful imagery to date by Robert Eggers. The production value is incredible, and his cinematography continues to put most other contemporary films to shame.
This film also has the most stacked cast of an Eggers film to date; every single person deserves an award. Nicholas Hoult was phenomenal in his earlier scenes with Orlock, and Lily-Rose Depp deserves all the acclaim she is getting for her emotional turn as Ellen and the extreme physical performance she delivered. To me though, far and away the star was Bill Skarsgard. Having seen other films of his, when you first see Orlock and hear him speak, the famous actor we know is gone and replaced by something monstrous and inhuman. The voice work he did was absolutely incredible.
This was the film I was most excited for in 2024 and it did not disappoint! Robert Eggers has once again proved himself to be one of the most original and powerful voices, not just in horror, but in cinema as an art.
The movie is terrifying in ways I wasn't expecting, with a level of surrealism that is both titillating and disorienting, removing a sense of time. It really does create an effect of the characters, and thus for the audience, of being trapped in a nightmare.
Nosferatu contains some of the most beautiful imagery to date by Robert Eggers. The production value is incredible, and his cinematography continues to put most other contemporary films to shame.
This film also has the most stacked cast of an Eggers film to date; every single person deserves an award. Nicholas Hoult was phenomenal in his earlier scenes with Orlock, and Lily-Rose Depp deserves all the acclaim she is getting for her emotional turn as Ellen and the extreme physical performance she delivered. To me though, far and away the star was Bill Skarsgard. Having seen other films of his, when you first see Orlock and hear him speak, the famous actor we know is gone and replaced by something monstrous and inhuman. The voice work he did was absolutely incredible.
This was the film I was most excited for in 2024 and it did not disappoint! Robert Eggers has once again proved himself to be one of the most original and powerful voices, not just in horror, but in cinema as an art.
Part elevation, part satire, and all around love letter to the classic slasher film.
This is a unique and ambitious experience to watch, and I can see the pieces at work, although at the end of the day they don't necessarily all work.
The cinematography in this movie is stunning. The fact that the central protagonist is an inhuman killer becomes surprisingly palatable when we watch him move through the world in some truly stunning nature shots. He is no different than any other wild animal that coexists perfectly in his environment - until prey presents itself.
See the group of young friends from the killer's eyes really was a fun way to flip the genre on its head. They are flat charicatures of people, insufferable and unsympathetic, and therefore perfect bait for some gory kills. I really enjoyed this aspect of the film, although it did come at the expense of the fear since I couldn't have cared less about any of the people doomed to die.
The supernatural elements of the plot are purposefully left vague, but even so I felt it clash pretty clunkilly against the themes of the killer as a wild animal. It was just an element that didn't work very well for me.
I found the final scene of the movie very frustrating. It felt like a departure from the whole rest of the story, and I felt frustrated by the end of it. In retrospect, I think it was probably a deliberate attempt to build tension and leave the viewer on a cliffhanger, but I didn't find it a very satisfying watch.
All in all, I'm glad I saw this movie as there's really a lot to admire about the quality of the filmmaking. I don't think it completely worked in pulling off the different angles it was aiming for; I wouldn't necessarily watch it again but I would definitely go see the sequel.
This is a unique and ambitious experience to watch, and I can see the pieces at work, although at the end of the day they don't necessarily all work.
The cinematography in this movie is stunning. The fact that the central protagonist is an inhuman killer becomes surprisingly palatable when we watch him move through the world in some truly stunning nature shots. He is no different than any other wild animal that coexists perfectly in his environment - until prey presents itself.
See the group of young friends from the killer's eyes really was a fun way to flip the genre on its head. They are flat charicatures of people, insufferable and unsympathetic, and therefore perfect bait for some gory kills. I really enjoyed this aspect of the film, although it did come at the expense of the fear since I couldn't have cared less about any of the people doomed to die.
The supernatural elements of the plot are purposefully left vague, but even so I felt it clash pretty clunkilly against the themes of the killer as a wild animal. It was just an element that didn't work very well for me.
I found the final scene of the movie very frustrating. It felt like a departure from the whole rest of the story, and I felt frustrated by the end of it. In retrospect, I think it was probably a deliberate attempt to build tension and leave the viewer on a cliffhanger, but I didn't find it a very satisfying watch.
All in all, I'm glad I saw this movie as there's really a lot to admire about the quality of the filmmaking. I don't think it completely worked in pulling off the different angles it was aiming for; I wouldn't necessarily watch it again but I would definitely go see the sequel.