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Thoughts on Antlers (Not explicit spoilers)
Posted on 10/31/21 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 10/31/21 at 4:04 pm
I will say I missed the start of the movie.
Good movie, I enjoyed it, but it could have been better.
This movie certainly isn’t a light watch. It is very dour and sad for the most part, which contrasts entirely with the conclusion in my opinion but overall I felt it worked.
I did like the overall point the movie is trying to make in how we ignore people even when they’re crying out for help. Anyone who grew up with grandparents with dementia can relate. But this movie is dark and not a feel good movie and there are people who will not like where it goes
I thought the monster design was cool and we don’t get to see enough of it.
This movie kinda made me want to move to rural mountainy Oregon (despite the flesh eating monsters)
Good acting overall. Keri Russell’s character did annoy me though honestly. Don’t think she quite earned her overall presence throughout the movie. Just because her brother is the sheriff doesn’t quite give her the leeway to be everywhere all the time. I think the movie would have been stronger if she was used a little bit more sparingly in the second act.for thematic and cinematic reasons.
The movie would also have been stronger if they had kept the original ending. It honestly just doesn’t quite work. They were trying to keep the mood of the original ending I guess while flipping it around. I don’t know, don’t think it worked.
Gore is pretty good. CGI is above par most of the time. Very well shot movie.
Good movie, I enjoyed it, but it could have been better.
This movie certainly isn’t a light watch. It is very dour and sad for the most part, which contrasts entirely with the conclusion in my opinion but overall I felt it worked.
I did like the overall point the movie is trying to make in how we ignore people even when they’re crying out for help. Anyone who grew up with grandparents with dementia can relate. But this movie is dark and not a feel good movie and there are people who will not like where it goes
I thought the monster design was cool and we don’t get to see enough of it.
This movie kinda made me want to move to rural mountainy Oregon (despite the flesh eating monsters)
Good acting overall. Keri Russell’s character did annoy me though honestly. Don’t think she quite earned her overall presence throughout the movie. Just because her brother is the sheriff doesn’t quite give her the leeway to be everywhere all the time. I think the movie would have been stronger if she was used a little bit more sparingly in the second act.for thematic and cinematic reasons.
The movie would also have been stronger if they had kept the original ending. It honestly just doesn’t quite work. They were trying to keep the mood of the original ending I guess while flipping it around. I don’t know, don’t think it worked.
Gore is pretty good. CGI is above par most of the time. Very well shot movie.
5
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:03 pm to athenslife101
the short story is one of my favorites.
I assume they took liberties with the plot?
I assume they took liberties with the plot?
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:29 pm to athenslife101
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Keri Russell’s character did annoy me though honestly. Don’t think she quite earned her overall presence throughout the movie.
Just her character or Keri's acting? I was watching Dark Skies earlier and I'd never really noticed before but something about her voice especially when she gets loud is really annoying
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:40 pm to cgrand
It’s expanded a bit more. It plays a lot more into the drama until the end and the ending is indeed very different. It’s been awhile since I read the stories but I believe it still follows the basic plot otherwise.
It’s a short movie though.
It’s a short movie though.
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:47 pm to Corso
Her acting is fine. They spend a lot of time giving her a backstory and a reason to be so invested in the child and a lot of character building with her and her brother. And it works somewhat on its own but I think it detracts from the rest of the movie to a certain extent. This is a fairly straight forward movie about monsters. You want drama, the movie does a good job of adding drama into the boy’s story.
I liked in the original story her just being a caring teacher but now in this movie she had more of a sense of ownership in the problem because she had been abused.
And the very very very end ties directly into that.
The only time she really really really annoyed me was when she was talking with her brother and she was describing how she was abused and her brother snaps back with”you think I wasn’t ever abused, did you ever ask about that,” and she gives him the most dismissive glance and walks off
I liked in the original story her just being a caring teacher but now in this movie she had more of a sense of ownership in the problem because she had been abused.
And the very very very end ties directly into that.
The only time she really really really annoyed me was when she was talking with her brother and she was describing how she was abused and her brother snaps back with”you think I wasn’t ever abused, did you ever ask about that,” and she gives him the most dismissive glance and walks off
Posted on 10/31/21 at 8:31 pm to athenslife101
I still prefer the short story, largely due to the ambiguity surrounding exactly how it happened and the bleakness of the ending. But this was a respectable adaptation
Posted on 10/31/21 at 8:37 pm to tylerdurden24
The thing is you could argue the ending in the movie was more bleak in two ways. But overall, the movie is well enough made I’m not going to let it bother me
Posted on 10/31/21 at 9:53 pm to athenslife101
I saw the previews and they looked great.
How was it?
How was it?
Posted on 10/31/21 at 10:08 pm to Chalkywhite84
It was pretty good. I’d give it about a 7. It sets out to do what it wants to do very well, I just don’t know if I like all that it wanted to do. Well shot, well designed, well acted but almost unanimously people don’t really love the ending and there is some filler in my opinion that’s unnecessary even though the movie is only like 90 minutes long.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 1:06 am to athenslife101
Saw this on Friday. It was alright. Not a must watch, but at the same time wasn’t mad I watched it either. I like Jesse plemmons and Keri Russell, the setting was nice, they did a good job casting the kid, but in the end I just didn’t really care about the story.
My recommendation is wait until it hits streaming services. Definitely not a must watch in the theaters. 5/10.
My recommendation is wait until it hits streaming services. Definitely not a must watch in the theaters. 5/10.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 8:30 am to athenslife101
I guess where I differ in the two really depends on the nature of what had happened.
SPOILERS
The story is ambiguous about how the dad and son turned into what are more like demonic entities, other than evidence of a pentagram and the middle son saying he wanted them to be able to live forever. It also implies that the middle son is “cursed” in the same way but just hasn’t died (yet). Also, those last two lines of the story just stick with you.
The movie adopts the Wendigo mythology more specifically (which del Torronis obsessed with doing, adapting mythologies into darker, realistic settings) which I think gives it a better visual feel but removes some of the ambiguity that makes the short story horrifying. I also prefer the more-central location of the Mudder house in the story than the inclusion of the mine in the movie.
SPOILERS
The story is ambiguous about how the dad and son turned into what are more like demonic entities, other than evidence of a pentagram and the middle son saying he wanted them to be able to live forever. It also implies that the middle son is “cursed” in the same way but just hasn’t died (yet). Also, those last two lines of the story just stick with you.
The movie adopts the Wendigo mythology more specifically (which del Torronis obsessed with doing, adapting mythologies into darker, realistic settings) which I think gives it a better visual feel but removes some of the ambiguity that makes the short story horrifying. I also prefer the more-central location of the Mudder house in the story than the inclusion of the mine in the movie.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:19 am to athenslife101
quote:Pulled a double feature did you?
I will say I missed the start of the movie.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:20 am to tylerdurden24
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Also, those last two lines of the story just stick with you.
*****SPOILER*****
It was Sheriff Eastin who finally found Julia. She was all over the kitchen floor. She was alone.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 12:23 pm to StrongOffer
No, I just left kinda late and tried to get lunch before hand. I have movies kinda timed out that I miss all the trailers and this time I got there just as the father was unloading stuff to go into the mine so I figure I probably missed two minutes maybe.
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