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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
what even was that?
We watched this movie in our filmclub and boy did we all wish it was shorter.
That the horrid accent the main vampire had was supposed to be german only dawned on us when he brought out some butchered sentences in between...
The whole thing is so dark, you can't see a thing, it's as if they couldn't afford any light and just used the lamps in the room turned down to 50%.
We're still not quite sure where exactly the fun and humour was supposed to be in this movie, because it just felt like a lot of unconnected footage slapped together. And, lo and behold, when i later looked it up "About 125 hours of footage was shot, most of which was improvisation from the cast. The process of editing that down to a 90-minute movie took almost a year. " And that just explains everything.
But it got worse: "Taika Waititi wrote 150 pages of script, but chose not to show it to a single person involved in the film (both crew and cast). They only described broad strokes of what each scene was about, sometimes providing a beginning and an end point. "
This all reads like the worst film student project I've ever heard of.
To think that THIS is the movie that got him all those big budget hollywood movies? Creepy...
explains the results though.
Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
well, 'tis a movie
Well... 'tis a movie
it exists.
It has quite a few callbacks to the first (in humour as in visuals as well as in actual footage).
But way more ideas and jokes are just done for a second time, which was then just "aha, memberberry?"
we sadly, actually fell asleep twice on the sofa.
Good idea to cut their annoying version of Mycroft out, but that was apparently only luck and schedule.
All in all, they should've stuck either to one of the Enola Books, or woven something from the canon in. This was just not interesting or captivating.
All that made the first movie interesting was not there.
But they probably spend more time to fill Victorian London with PC amounts of POCs.