You're the enemy of this thread to be perfectly honest.
Until the day you realize that I was its one true ally.
The Batlord
10-15-2018 07:29 PM
You mentioned Spring. I haven't seen a single thing about any of these movies besides what you have said and whoever else on this site said something. I know not a single ****ing thing about any of these movies and am totally blind. And I'm on board btw. I don't know if Resolution is a horror movie but 20 minutes in and it's got me for the same but different reasons as a horror movie and is awesome for totally unique reasons and if this is somehow a Lovecraftian trilogy then OMG. Or if it's just something that redefines what I think of as Lovecraftian then OMG. Or if I'm completely off base then this is still totally the ****. Damn it this totally reminds me that I feel useless for never finishing Gerald's Game. Which I still have on my external hard drive. Weirdo late 2010 horror is some of the best horror I've ever seen tbh.
The Batlord
10-15-2018 07:36 PM
Oh and tbh I think I'm going to completely ignore this thread for the next little while cause I don't even want to know what this movie even is.
The Batlord
10-15-2018 09:20 PM
Okay, so there are a couple of little scenes I don't understand about Resolution.
Spoiler for spoilers:
1. So that last, last, last scene I don't know was supposed to make sense but I feel like I still missed something in how it tied anything together. The presumed entity felt arbitrary but what exactly was going on the whole time was totally unclear anyway so I figure I probably missed something.
2. That all honestly doesn't bother me and didn't bother me during the entire movie tbh (except for the very end feeling arbitrary), but what does bother me is the beginning of the end of the movie when they see themselves on the laptop being beaten to death by the tweakers. That's some **** to see no doubt for any rational human being, but all of a sudden even the guy who thought he was being ****ed with was convinced that to escape something or ****ing other some kind of story needed to be fulfilled and as far as I could tell that idea just sprung up out of nowhere, never mind that it didn't seem to make sense that the two guys believed it so completely on the drop of a dime.
I'm just looking for closure cause the movie was awesome but the last twenty minutes just confused the hell out of me.
Would it just solve everything if I watched the movie again?
Frownland
10-15-2018 09:32 PM
I have to watch it again.
The Batlord
10-15-2018 09:35 PM
**** you that's not helpful. The movie was so coy for so long and then it seemed not coy enough while still being coy and never really gave me anything to latch onto. I love the idea of a horror movie building up so slowly but it didn't seem to make sense at the end. I thoroughly loved the movie other than that but I felt like I didn't even know if I was being jerked off without my knowledge.
Frownland
10-15-2018 09:39 PM
I have to watch it again to be helpful, bitch.
Big fan of this part of Beyond the Black Rainbow. Intense as ****.
I remember being freaked out by Jacob’s Ladder. Looking back I was just a big pûssy.
Frownland
10-15-2018 09:57 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by 66Sexy
(Post 2005439)
**** you that's not helpful. The movie was so coy for so long and then it seemed not coy enough while still being coy and never really gave me anything to latch onto. I love the idea of a horror movie building up so slowly but it didn't seem to make sense at the end. I thoroughly loved the movie other than that but I felt like I didn't even know if I was being jerked off without my knowledge.
Oh you should check out Convergence and The Invitation. You've seen The Witch, right? That has a nice slow burn.
YorkeDaddy
10-16-2018 09:15 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by 66Sexy
(Post 2005435)
Okay, so there are a couple of little scenes I don't understand about Resolution.
Spoiler for spoilers:
1. So that last, last, last scene I don't know was supposed to make sense but I feel like I still missed something in how it tied anything together. The presumed entity felt arbitrary but what exactly was going on the whole time was totally unclear anyway so I figure I probably missed something.
2. That all honestly doesn't bother me and didn't bother me during the entire movie tbh (except for the very end feeling arbitrary), but what does bother me is the beginning of the end of the movie when they see themselves on the laptop being beaten to death by the tweakers. That's some **** to see no doubt for any rational human being, but all of a sudden even the guy who thought he was being ****ed with was convinced that to escape something or ****ing other some kind of story needed to be fulfilled and as far as I could tell that idea just sprung up out of nowhere, never mind that it didn't seem to make sense that the two guys believed it so completely on the drop of a dime.
I'm just looking for closure cause the movie was awesome but the last twenty minutes just confused the hell out of me.
Would it just solve everything if I watched the movie again?
Spoiler for spicy meatball:
I think the "entity" was a metaphor for the audience and how the audience typically has preconceptions on how a horror movie will play out. The film throws a lot of red herrings at us: the drug dealers, the Indians, the church members, the traveling salesman, a satanic cult, and a diary about telekinesis, the woman in the window, the government, the man in the cave and the man in the trailer. The movie pretty quickly cycles through all of these and moves on to the next without exploring them very deeply. The entity grows angry at the end because the story has reached a conclusion that is unsatisfying in a typical horror context, and the entity, or we the audience, demands a different ending. Hence the two main characters asking for another chance to do it all again but better. Typically horror movies don't have a happy ending or at the very least there's some big climactic event where someone or something has to die, but none of that happened in the movie which frustrates the entity, aka the audience.
Watch The Endless next!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other slow burn horror movies that I would absolutely recommend: Hereditary (one of the all-time greats), The House of the Devil, The Blackcoat's Daughter, Pyewacket, The VVitch
