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Sorority Row (2009)
Surprisingly fun!
I've never watched the original it was based on, so read the review with that in mind.
Initially I wasn't into the movie at all. Every single character was unlikeable and felt like a melting pot of the same character copy-pasted with slightly different looks, so it was hard to stay attached. But then the incident happens, and that's when the characters start to freak out and show more depth and individuality to their characters. The drama and the rift between them makes their characters shine, and it made me genuinely invested in their fates. And that's when I started having a lot of fun.
From that point on the movie becomes a classic and fun slasher that managed to get some genuine laughs out of me. It gave me a bit of Scream vibes, thinking about it now. Just some comfy, popcorn slasher fun.
Suzume no Tojimari (2022)
Stunning visuals, but the main characters' relationship felt lacking.
I'll just get the obvious out of the way: the visuals are GOR-GEOUS. You could feel the love and experience of the artists emanating through the screen.
But what brings down the score for me is the main couple: Suzume and Sota. I can't help but feel as though the story this movie tells would have worked MUCH better as a TV show where enough time would have been given to develop the relationship between the two at a more reasonable and convincing pace. But as it is, there was too little time, and too few scenes with just the two of them getting to know each other for the relationship to feel anything but forced. Some more slice of life scenes with them bonding would have helped immensely, but I understand it's not exactly possible with such a short runtime.
There was also the lack of explanation and exploration of Daijin's character and motives. I felt like we only touched the surface of what could have been.
Seuwiteuhom (2020)
I would have enjoyed this much more had I not read the webcomic beforehand
The title pretty much sums it up. I'm a big fan of the original webcomic, so when I heard that it was being made into a live action netflix series I was overjoyed!! I watched the first 3 episodes and even though there were some changes, they weren't enough to bother me. But then the changes just kept getting more and more drastic until it just wasn't the same story anymore. They did Wook so dirty :(
I'm sure that if I hadn't read the original webcomic though, or had I known about the changes beforehand, then none of those issues would matter to me, so if you're going in this fresh then I'm sure you'll enjoy this series, but if you're like me then just be warned.
W lesie dzis nie zasnie nikt (2020)
If you're new to horror/slashers and its clichés or don't mind them, this is the movie for you. Otherwise, maybe stay clear.
Having just watched it, there were so many odd decisions within the movie that I just had to add my two cents. Spoilers ahead!
Starting the movie, I was a big fan of the setting and premise they established: campers who're there to overcome their technology addiction go on a three-day hike and start getting killed one by one by a slasher monster dude. I'm always a sucker for a camp setting, and the idea that they all have their own reasons for being addicted to technology and have to overcome it throughout the movie as a nice idea. But it was just that, an idea. The movie never actually went ANYWHERE with it, instead just using it as an excuse to get all these kids together at camp, but like any other regular camp will do, so I really have no idea why they introduced the idea of tech dependency and overcoming it when it wasn't explored AT ALL. Well, I won't say "at all" since we did get a taste of it when they were at the campfire and Julek tells us his backstory, but I'm serious when I say that's genuinely IT. That's all we get in relation to the tech dependency plot, then it's completely forgotten. You could argue that it's also used to explore Zosia's backstory, but it really isn't. We never see her being dependent on tech after the tragic accident of her parents (or even at all), so the tech idea could have been written out of the plot entirely and her backstory would have still worked scene for scene.
Then there was the music, which was a choice. I personally didn't care for it or thought it was even jarring or clashed with the scene at times as if the music was trying to push for a more comedic or light tone, but the scene itself didn't convey that at all (the priest getting grinded in the wood chipper for example), but I also recognize that that's a matter of personal taste.
And finally, there were many, MANY times in the movie where a character did something completely baffling and just like, "why???". It felt less like the characters being stupid, and more like the writers absolutely HAVING to get them killed, so they wrote them doing something completely out of character and idiotic and left field. For example, with Miss Iza. She's shown throughout her screen time to be a dependable leader to the children, having a strong mental head on her shoulders, able to perform first aid, and able to keep calm under pressure. But then they all just waltz into the killer's house (I don't blame the character, mostly just the writing and cliché of horror in general), but when they're inevitably cornered by the monster and the others have climbed out the window and she has ample amount of time to do so as well, she hears the phone on a dead corpse ring, and instead of doing the sensible thing of going out the window (guaranteed survival), she instead decides to go for the phone, but also not really?? It's written under that guise of that decision yeah, but instead all she does is actually just pick up a stick and try to whack the monster with it. So in the end, she chose not to escape, but decided to go for the phone, but then I guess just forgot the moment she turned around???? Like it genuinely made no sense logic-wise, ESPECIALLY for a character like hers.
There were many scenes like this throughout the WHOLE film that just left me frustrated with it's writing for the sake of convenience (in having these characters killed off). Such as:
-Aniela's death, where she sat and TOLD us (not showed us) all about her character and her true feelings (ppl see me as the dumb slutty blonde, but I want to find true love some day), but like literally the whole movie they only showed her being the dumb slutty blonde, then right after her confession of her wanting to find true love and the potential to SHOW character development, they kill her off. Like literally RIGHT AFTER. It made me think how such a waste of a character she was and what she could have been had they started her development earlier in the film.
-Bartek's death, where he somehow escaped one of the monsters in the church?? It should NOT have been possible, and it was never explained, then suddenly he shows up at the mailman's door (who also hadn't been explained how he survived), WITHOUT KNOCKING, and gets shot. Overall just an avoidable death (or like, they could have just had him killed by the monster in the church, would have been less confusing and just out of nowhere for no reason).
-The plan with Zosia and Julek to get the monster out of the house, where they had agreed for Julek to get the monster's attention and lure it away for Zosia to get the phone in the basement. So Julek knocks on the front door with the intention of having it come and run after him, but like mid scene as Zosia's digging for the phone, Julek just stops knocking on the door for some god damn unexplained reason???? Which obviously gets Zosia attacked and ends up getting Julek killed. But again, the movie gives literally NO reason as to why he just stops their agreed upon plan mid way, and it just really felt like it was simply the writers writing it that way for a convenient conflict, but they forgot to add logic.
It wasn't the worst movie I've seen, and the premise and setting were very promising, but overall the holes in the writing just left too big of an unpleasant experience for me to rate this higher.