I know it is cool to hate on M. Night Shyamalan but I like more of his movies than I dislike. This one had
its moments where I really liked it and was seriously fucking
terrified. However, a lot of it didn't make sense and the last five
minutes are fucking horrible and pointless. Should have just ended
the movie after the climax. Instead we get inappropriate rapping.
It's like the scene at the end of Alice in Wonderland when Johnny
Depp randomly starts dancing for a half hour except with a child
rapping about getting a diaper full of shit pushed in his face and
how that shit did not taste like chicken. What the hell is going on
here? I have no idea.
Pros: A lot of good here. Fucking
scary. The obligatory twist is insane. Strangeness works in its
favor.
Cons: A lot of bad here. Mostly jump
scares. The ending is cringeworthy and stupid. Child rapping.
Disclaimer: My notes pretty much
always contain spoilers. I don't give up the ending in this one since
the MNS twist is fucking crazy, but I do include lots of plot
details.
Notes:
Kids are making a documentary about going to their grandparents'
house for the first time. Their mother left the house on bad terms a
decade and a half before. Mom is sad they are leaving. Cries as she
runs next to their train as it rides off. The girl is a dick to the
ticket taker then the brother freestyles about sex with his fifth
grade girl friend. The first half of the movie is this kid rapping.
Grandparents seem normal. If they were
this would be a different movie. They have a 9:30 bed rule. That is
when Grams and Pop-Pop get into their weird shit. Nana pukes
repeatedly on the floor and the next day while the kids are playing
under the house she chases after them on all fours like a crazy lady.
After that when she gets up and walks away, her dress is ripped and
we see all the way up to one of her butt cheeks. If you are keeping
track of the drive-in totals that is one butt cheek. It is insane and
sort of hilarious.
Some loser shows up confirming they are
actually psychologists of some kind so able to hold down a job. From
the shit they say I'd say they are amateur at best. PP says later he
worked in the coal industry but got fired after Talks about all the
gossip at the hospital. Some recovering drug addict comes by later
and basically says the same shit. She eventually comes back and sort
of disappears. She shows back up towards the end hanging from a tree
out back. This is totally unexplained and goes nowhere. I have no
idea what the fuck is up with that.
The grandparents basically start out
fucking insane and progress to deranged. I have a rule about getting
the fuck out if anything insane happens the first time I go to your
house. That is especially true if it involves relations of people. I
call it my Blue Velvet rule. These kids should adopt a similar rule.
Around here the kids get to learn about
incontinence. Senior moments really start to escalate. PP attacks
some guy and puts on a tuxedo for a costume party. NN scratches up
and down the wall like a cat. And she is naked. That's two more ass
cheeks. Mom says yeah, it's fine. Ask NN about mom. NN makes her get
in the oven then NN has a freakout and thrashes about. Can't ask
about mom anymore. Also, I bet they provide great medical care.
Sister lets the brother vamp for a
while about playing football when he was eight, also, don't let your
kids play tackle football when they are eight (or at all). He then
turns the camera on her and makes her cry for no reason. They cry
about their dad leaving and being a dick.
NN laughs like an idiot at the wall and
says she has a deep darkness and she has to laugh to keep it in.
Okay. Catch Gramps with a shotgun in his mouth. He is “just
cleaning it” he says way too many times to be true. Start secretly
filming them at that point. That night NN finds the hidden camera
immediately and nearly scares the piss out of me.
Fucking gross |
And then THE TWIST is fucking insane.
What the fuck is happening? The last half hour is genuinely
terrifying and total fucking bananas. Except for the last which are
fucking dumb.
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