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Agreed. Spider-Man, then again with Doctor Strange? It makes it really hard for me to take it seriously, even for a comic book movie.
 
Felonious Monk said:
I thought it was well done considering it was PG-13. I didn't expect a full on Horror film--just darker than Spider-Man, and it was.
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I should say, while it wasn't for me, that's not really commentary on it being well done as a film. There's nothing technically wrong with it. For what it's aiming for the writing is fine, the casting works, the camera is doing its job, the effects and such are on par for similar stuff of the era.

I just didn't vibe with it, and I think Raimi probably has better ideas in him. I feel like any horror director could have made this one. But I like Raimi doing the stuff only Raimi could make. That's just a taste thing, and I'm definitely not one of those folks who will say if folks do vibe with something i don't that this makes them wrong.

In fact, if I'd seen it closer to release, I might've liked this one a lot more. Sometimes a movie just needs to hit you at the right time.
 
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JakeEkiss said:
Drag Me To Hell: An oldie, but I hadn't seen it and after years of hearing about it I was honestly really underwhelmed. Nothing about it was unusually bad for a Raimi film or anything, but I just didn't vibe with it. This is the first one of the season that was just a total miss for me.
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It's funny how much expectations can impact our enjoyment of a film. I went into Drag Me to Hell as not a huge Raimi fan and having never heard anything particularly good about it, so I watched it with 0 expectations and had a blast. The slapstick gore was so unexpected in a movie that was leaning serious that it hit way harder for me than any sincere attempt at horror would have. And I just enjoyed how offbeat it is compared to the formulaic haunting/curse type horror movies with similar plots.

I finally got around to watching the original Suspiria the other day and was quite underwhelmed by it. My only previous Argento movie was Phenomena, which I really liked, and everyone considers that one kinda bad compared to Suspiria so I thought I was in for peak giallo. Instead got non-stop weird vibes with choppy editing and an extremely thin coven plot. Still enjoyable, but was definitely overhyped by my expectations.
 
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