I am in 100% agreement on the ending of Weapons. It's a farcical ending in a film where very little up to that point is farcical. I absolutely LOATHE when that happens in a movie (getting the tone wrong at crucial moments). Because of that, I have this at 4/10 stars--or more C- to your B-.
I do love Amy Madigan, though! How can baseball fans like us not after Field of Dreams?! She is great in this creepy role--until that ending, alas.
It seems like horror movie fans really like their Grim Endings. (I hated how it was implied all the possessed kids were brain-injured for life at the end of this.)
Your man and mine, Mr. King, doesn't do that. Deep darkness is out there, in the King universe! (I'm sure he's as angry as you or I about recent darkness in Minneapolis, both with Good and with Floyd.) But in King, light prevails. Same with Serling, overall. (Serling ended individual stories with bleakness, yet that was to send a message how we can overcome the bleakness if we try.)
I do think this guy is a really talented director; he's a gifted dude. There were camera angles which made me go "whoa, that's good," and that almost NEVER happens. But the jumping through windows shit was awful, and the forced-grim suggestion that all the possessed kids were permanently impaired was really unpleasant.
How much cooler would it have been if the baddie died in a subtler way? The mobs of attackers rush into the house, the baddie backs into a dark room, the attackers follow, then the door closes, and we hear screams! Tell me that wouldn’t have been better! It would have been WAY better!
I am in 100% agreement on the ending of Weapons. It's a farcical ending in a film where very little up to that point is farcical. I absolutely LOATHE when that happens in a movie (getting the tone wrong at crucial moments). Because of that, I have this at 4/10 stars--or more C- to your B-.
I do love Amy Madigan, though! How can baseball fans like us not after Field of Dreams?! She is great in this creepy role--until that ending, alas.
It seems like horror movie fans really like their Grim Endings. (I hated how it was implied all the possessed kids were brain-injured for life at the end of this.)
Your man and mine, Mr. King, doesn't do that. Deep darkness is out there, in the King universe! (I'm sure he's as angry as you or I about recent darkness in Minneapolis, both with Good and with Floyd.) But in King, light prevails. Same with Serling, overall. (Serling ended individual stories with bleakness, yet that was to send a message how we can overcome the bleakness if we try.)
I do think this guy is a really talented director; he's a gifted dude. There were camera angles which made me go "whoa, that's good," and that almost NEVER happens. But the jumping through windows shit was awful, and the forced-grim suggestion that all the possessed kids were permanently impaired was really unpleasant.
How much cooler would it have been if the baddie died in a subtler way? The mobs of attackers rush into the house, the baddie backs into a dark room, the attackers follow, then the door closes, and we hear screams! Tell me that wouldn’t have been better! It would have been WAY better!