...and I continue to feel like Pearl herself: am I missing something everybody else has got?
Who really wanted a prequel to a film that was a gimmick in the first place? X looked fantastic, but that's about it. Now, PEARL also looks really good, but what am I missing that I find all of Ti West's films boring and empty shells?
And so I find myself in the same situation again. I admire the technical aspects and how much work went into making this, but couldn't you have written an interesting story in the first place? Yes, Mia Goth is great, we get it. Wowsies, the monologue. Gasp, the smile in the end credits. Suspense? Nope.
With all that, I do think that West has made progress. PEARL is probably his most coherent work to date, but the self-indulging, wanna-be aspect remains. And he's making it a trilogy, or so I've read. Which really makes me wonder again: who wants this? Who funds these films? What is going on?
Who really wanted a prequel to a film that was a gimmick in the first place? X looked fantastic, but that's about it. Now, PEARL also looks really good, but what am I missing that I find all of Ti West's films boring and empty shells?
And so I find myself in the same situation again. I admire the technical aspects and how much work went into making this, but couldn't you have written an interesting story in the first place? Yes, Mia Goth is great, we get it. Wowsies, the monologue. Gasp, the smile in the end credits. Suspense? Nope.
With all that, I do think that West has made progress. PEARL is probably his most coherent work to date, but the self-indulging, wanna-be aspect remains. And he's making it a trilogy, or so I've read. Which really makes me wonder again: who wants this? Who funds these films? What is going on?