Apparently Hollywood is bleeding jobs
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Finally. Hollywood use to be who was talented and looked decent. It devolved to looking great, acting decently, and had good mouth movement. Now, it’s ideological vomit and three actors trying to hold up the industry alone.
I watched "Obsession" because it was all the rage for a minute, revered for being a "real horror movie" or something and better than all the "Hollywood slop."
I'm not upset that it was bad - I'm upset that people whose opinions I respect regarded it as good. Just listened to Critical Drinker's take, and having seen the movie, it sounds like he's doing fan service. He glosses over a lot to discuss the good aspects. Nikki's character was acted well, but that's pretty much all the good things I can say for the movie. It felt exactly like the budget indie flick that it was, though I have to agree it's better than 99% of the turds Hollywood pushes out. But that's an indictment on Hollywood, not praise for Obsession.
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Writing - terrible. Pace - terrible. Not horror, barely suspenseful, ending made very little sense - like, it's a Monkey's Paw premise, right? You get what you wished for, but it's twisted because of Man's fallen/imperfect nature, sure. It's contrived, but it's an age old premise that can still work as a plot device, okay.
So where's the Monkey's Paw irony in the guy who wished for $1B taking a bullet to the head for just walking through the door? When he makes the wish, money starts raining down - wouldn't it be more fitting if he was like, buried in money and suffocated? Or killed in a robbery, then the robber could be killed in his ravenous greed or whatever. Also, why does it take him hours to come to the realization that the wish worked (walks through the door saying "It actually worked!" or "It's real" or whatever) when it literally started raining wads of cash on him the moment he made the wish.
Also, wtf with the body of the girl Nikki killed being in the living room or whatever? That surprised Bear, so where was the body before that? And you knew in the opening scene with the cat taking pills that it was Chekhov's suicide - someone was going to die from pills.
Again, not disappointed that it was shitty, disappointed that people who should've seen it was shitty said it was kinda good. /rant
Unfortunately, we're now looking at the outcome to the response of the laws of the extreme.
Woke was so bad that the response to anything that isn't AS woke is that it must be good. The distribution curve has changed on what "good" is because woke was so bad.
So now we're seeing a lot of normies accept woke corposlop that isn't AS bad as the wokest crap out there get preferential treatment because the curve for what's considered "woke" has been raised.
The Overton Window has moved so far Left now that junk like Obsession get called "good" even by people who are supposed to be anti-woke.
In ten year's time we'll have movies with tranny superheroes becoming blockbusrter successes while the so-called anti-woke crowd will call it "good" because maybe it makes a joke at the expense of feminists or does the bare minimum to criticise Pakistani rape gangs.
Yea I just started watching the Barbie movie, and I was taken aback when Nurse Barbie or Doctor Barbie or whatever was a tranny. Very not-passing, sounds exactly like a dude trying to pass, jawline and everything... and I mean, how stupid to have him juxtaposed against a bunch of actual women. His makeup is caked on to remove the hard masculine lines from his face to the point he about looks like a damn geisha, his voice is even deeper than Dylan Mulvaney's, and yet he's cast as a female doll alongside a bunch of actual women with tastefully-done makeup (even for Hollyweird). I had to stop the movie when he spoke because it was so obvious he was a dude. Chicks on too much steroids sound like dudes who huffed helium, but dudes trying to sound like women just sound like gay dudes.
The irony of all the dolls not having genitalia isn't lost on me, but there are clearly-defined male and female dolls. They're genital-free because they're kids' toys. Even Mattel understands shoving adult genitals into kids' faces isn't appropriate, even if the Algae Beety Clueless movement doesn't.
From what I can gather the willow isn't cursed. People in the movie use it and they are happy with the wish. So it seems to me the movie isn't suggesting the willow is inherently evil, it's the intention of the wisher thst cause the problems in the movie.
Literally in my comment above. But we could also explore evidence of a curse.
To quote the first clerk when Bear goes to buy the OWW:
...small talk...
Seems like pretty strong "suggestion" (I would call it ham-fisted declaration, which isn't uncommon in the genre) that it's a Monkey's Paw premise we're about to see unfold... which we do. There's actually never any evidence that "People in the movie use it and they are happy with the wish" - we see exactly two people in the movie use the wish, and both end up dead... so I'm not really sure what your basing your assessment on.
Even when Bear goes back to the shop, then next clerk says:
"Yea yea yea yea yea you made a shitty wish, and now you wanna reverse it." <-- like this is a very common thing with that product.
I guess maybe that line from the clerk "Oh I already used my wish" and the fact that he's still alive makes you think it's usually okay? At no point does he say he's happy with his wish though, so I'm really trying to figure out why you say:
Person in the movie says he used it (could be lying as to not get involved with a hysteric stranger covered in blood complaining about his wish) and is possibly happy with the wish (again, undetermined). Everyone else we see use it ends up miserable and/or dead.
And, if it's not cursed, it makes even less sense to shoot the $1B friend guy in the head. The script is way too messy for the praise it got (among other problems), and now I'm pissed that I had to sift/sit through that shitty pacing and dialogue.
Like I said initially, usually the moral of the "be careful what you wish for" story isn't that wishes are inherently cursed, it's that man's desires are often ill-motivated or impure, and our will is imperfect. Therefore when we try to "god" something into existence through our will, the results spiral out of control quickly. But in this case, maybe the thing is cursed. That would give a better explanation for the sort of random bullet to the head for $1B guy.
Ian isn't randomly shot dead, Nikki shoots him. The money he wished for had zero to do with his death. There is zero dramatic irony. He wished for money, got money, zero negative outcome from the wish.
And Curry Barker has stated the willows are not inherently evil.
The story is based on The Simpsons version of The Monkeys Paw in which Ned Flanders uses to reverse all the bad wishes. So it isn't the paw that is evil, it's the user.
Billionaire doesn't die because of his own wish. The writer has stated it's not a cursed monkey paw situation, it's to do with the wish being evil and taking away the woman's freewill.
The Bruce Willis movies he did before he died were pretty good, and also a good example of your point.
Bruce Willis is still alive. He does have hardcore dementia though.
If you saw some of those movies he made during Covid it was as close to 'weekend at bernies' as you can get in real life.
basically the same thing
I can't keep up with celebritydeathhoax.
Would that make it harder, or easier, to get into a role?
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