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What a complete waste of my life seeing that piece of shit fucking movie. What the fuck were they thinking.

The film did not have a single redeeming quality. Boring ass, shit ass, bullshit film. My only regret was not sleeping through more of it.

Also WHY DO AMERICANS USE FAKE BRITISH ACCENTS WHENEVER A MOVIE TAKES PLACE IN ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN USA? WHHYY? FUCKING WHYYY. THE MOVIE TAKES PLACE IN ROMANIA YOU IDIOTS WHY ARE YOU PRETENDING TO BE BRITISH FOR NO GOD DAMNED REASON agony-consuming

Edit: Germany? Fuck whatever, some country which notably does not have a British accent.

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[–] Ambiwar@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a reason they never made Nosferathree.

Technically I think this is the third one.

[–] Tofu_Lewis@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

Actually it was great. But I acknowledge your incorrect opinion.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

I-was-saying I liked Nosferatu

[–] regul@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The movie took place in Germany except for the castle and village scenes.

British accents still don't make sense, though.

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[–] Jenniferrr@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I thought it was great, surprised by the intense hate. I love eggers though

This should be in Badposting

[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I did think it looked pretty but otherwise it sucked.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

It was good actually

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

ok

I liked it. It's set in Germany tho. At least, the city is in Germany.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought it was the best film of the past 5 years. As for the British Accent, I heard eggers wanted to but was basically told that US audiences would be unable to distinguish the accent from Orlok's and he wanted the contrast.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds about right. He wanted to do a more genuine accent for the VVitch as well but the child actors had a hard time with it so he had to compromise with the ol' the past is always modern English accents thing.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it's not nearly as good as the lighthouse or the witch but i enjoyed it. very pretty at least if a little boring. he does better making less plot driven, more artsy shit i think. i probably won't watch it again.

[–] Pisha@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's so bad! You can't see a thing, there's a magic exposition man, everyone constantly talks for no reason and the message appears to be that women having sexual desires causes the plague. Like, Werner Herzog did this movie already and Eggers instead decided to crib most of the changes for his version from Francis Ford Coppola (and from The Exorcist, the scariest movie of all time (!)). I should have realized after watching The VVitch that he's just another middlebrow director with weird gender hang-ups that get lauded for being incomprehensible. Also, what kind of filmmaker is unable to make a movie set in the current day? Seriously now.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the message appears to be that women having sexual desires causes the plague.

Genuinely how on earth do you misinterpret the themes of a film so poorly lmao. Especially one thats so overtly on the nose about it. Ellen's sexuality being repressed by her society is what forces her to connect to Orlok, its his embodiment of male sexual domination that causes the plague and the other male characters trying to control her that worsens her episodes. Only when von Franz tells the other guys to fuck off and let her do her thing do they start getting anywhere, and in the end

spoilerits her accepting her sexuality and autonomy that lets her kill Orlok.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Also all of eggars movies (aside from the lighthouse obviously) are fairly straight forward. What exactly is incomprehensible about the VVitch?

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It genuinely tries to explore an alien subjectivity, that of a 17th century or whatever puritan who was so extreme he got his family exiled from his own puritan community. What freaks him out, what is his horror story. It’s incomprehensible insofar as it’s foreign to our understanding in both language and mindset.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yes but thats whats so good about the VVitch. Is weird but its not incomprehensible (aside from the accents sure). Its a straightforward story about a puritan family bedeviled by a witch, it just gives us a look at Puritan culture with depth beyond simple aesthetics and plays with the themes of both horror from the outside (the witch, the devil) and horror from within (patriarchy, repressed sexuality, etc.). Its fairly accessible without being hand holdy I guess is what Im trying to get at.

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[–] nandos_house_of_glues@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

i think lily-rose depp is the only american in the cast, but yeah it wasn't great

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah, forgot about him. was just saying this wasn't the best example of the real phenomenon of americans using english accents for romanians or russians or finns bc 5/8 of the characters with significant screen time were actually just english and one was a swede.

[–] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Leftists: "culture is garbage and everything is bought and paid for in a way that's designed to extract maximum profit for minimum effort. Let me go back to the same slop trough and get another snootful!"

I don't understand why anyone is surprised that entertainment is garbage. I don't know the first thing about this movie. I don't know whose in it, who directed it, or any other relevant detail, and somehow I could still tell it wasn't worth my time.

The Chapo podcast does this too. Three bromandudes in their 40s get famous pointing out how shitty American culture is while simultaneously drinking it all in to the point that they are current on every single shitty show or movie.

It's like when I see someone at work palling around with someone they just got done talking shit about.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I dont think any "leftist" has ever said "culture is garbage". Youre literally on the hexbear forum specifically about movies, we like movies here.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Actually if you're a leftist you should only watch MosFilms on YouTube.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"Communism is when you watch hour long video essays on youtube and the longer the video essays are the more Communister it is"

- Karl Marx, youtuber, influencer and video essayist

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

MosFilm is all Soviet movies though

It is pretty cool how every soviet film is now public domain and you can just watch them on YT now

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

(I didnt know that until I looked it up. I just saw "youtube" and "leftist" and thought: video essay)

According to this site that's the LEAST communist thing you can do

If you didn't like the movie that's fine, but I don't think classifying it as "slop" is really accurate here. Eggers is an actual auteur director who makes films that aren't "designed to extract maximum profit for minimum effort", if anything is flaw is he's a bit too instant on certain details of his work.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fish in a polluted pond: this shit sucks I want fresh water

You: yet you drink polluted water non-stop your fucking hypocrites

Are you just blaming and moralizing over people’s environments? What is there to do within western culture except point out how terrible it is and why?

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet they have iphones too.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

As the one true leftist, I have a Huawei. Suck it, libs

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't know the first thing about this movie. I don't know whose in it, who directed it, or any other relevant detail, and somehow I could still tell it wasn't worth my time.

This is a very bleak outlook

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

We watched it together on Hextube and it was a jolly good time.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

It was ok but i like herzog’s version more

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I was about to chew your ass out for insulting a classic but then I realized it was the remake I haven’t seen yet so carry on

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

to be fair i watched the OG and herzog version like a day or two before the new nosferatu, but damn what a downgrade

it's like... so modern horror movie it hurts, if i had to describe it. just threw all of the current horror trends into a movie, vampire looks like they're malnourished instead of a vampire, almost comical sex macabre scenes. easily the least interesting rendition of nosferatu as a villain, they somehow managed to make a boring willem dafoe role which i previously didn't think was possible, and overall it just felt like it had so much less to say. only prop i can give it is that the blood sucking sounds were pretty good, props to the foley peeps. robert eggers? ya basic

biggest horror movie disappointment to me since longlegs

[–] hollowmines@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

love the herzog one

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[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

I fell asleep 40 minutes into it at the theater when I saw it a week ago.

[–] Yeat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love Eggers’s other films but yeah this one was disappointing

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Trash Dracula look like boat

[–] Mobile@leminal.space 4 points 2 weeks ago

In my opinion, this was a classic monster movie. The atmosphere and slow build up to where the entire city is at the mercy of Orlok.

I'm glad I saw it in IMAX.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

most movies make me feel this way so when one doesn't it really shocks my system

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