Side note she has the voice of a precocious British child who's lost her mummy and is now asking the main character if she's gonna marry her dad and become her new mummy now lol
@@watamatafoyu no, the best actress Oscar just has to stop snubbing the horror genre. The performance stands very well on its own in this category but the academy only wants to see biopics
Definitely a one time thing watch for me lmao. Not a bad movie but it was too much for me😂. Mia Goff is putting her stamp in the horror genre cause she’s amazing.
@@familyminahan3343 my friends and I were rendered speechless after watching the movie like the drive home was so quiet😂. All the themes of the movie flew over my head cause all the sex made my brain shut off😂.
I enjoyed the idea and the acting but didn’t ultimately love what the final product was. I definitely latched in to the way Mia’s character kept calling the locals “animals” when they were the ones going wild and literally peeing on each other
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Not as a serious prequel idea, but it would be interesting to see earlier previous vacations, to see who Mia Goths character used to be, basically their origins with this ritualistic society of hedonists. Love Cronenbergs!
This movie was crazy. Psychedelics, Cloning, Crazy Sex scenes... and all it boils down to how you handle a situation when it presents itself and how you come out of it. It was a grounded approach when you have an idea of cloning. I thought they were going to go to a different direction with cloning but the execution was pretty good. Rich people as usual doing crazy stuff and pretend they are normal at the end. Mia and Alex were excellent. 7.5/10.
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Damn, so he kills a local unintentionally, is sentenced to death, but...He can use the handy-dandy basement ATM to withdraw enough cash to have a clone of him synthesized which will stand in for him in the execution. That sounds like a shake-down to me, friends and neighbors!
Tbh sounds like how rich people have the advantage in crime and punishment anyways. "Like yeah you may have committed a horrible crime, but if you have enough money (bail) you can get out until we're ready to prosecute you for it, if you don't that's too bad. And if you get convicted we'll be more likely to give you a slap on the wrist like community service or probation versus actual time in prison".
I'm really excited to see this. Sarsgard and Goth are both phenomenal actors, and Infinity Pool seems to be continuing the trend of class satire movies over the past few years. It also seems very topical with the recent discourse around nepo babies in the entertainment industry.
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Great review! Just saw this recently. You mention the facial hair, I noticed a moment early on before the "doubles" concept was introduced where the facial hair didn't match, it might've been a continuity error or might it imply doubles before that point? I honestly have no idea. I don't think you're "looking too much into it", those are valid observations.
I love Mia Goth ever since I first saw her in Pearl. Then I bought and watched X. It was really good, but really loved seeing her in a solo role. Infinity Pool. Wow. She only proves she is scary, beautiful, and talented. Any movie she makes, I'm already seeing it
i really really wanted to love this movie but the last act just didn’t do it for me. i agreed that it relied a little hard on the trippy scenes and just the vibe in general, and yes it was incredibly tedious for me. i considered leaving a couple times just because i was bored and annoyed with it. mia goth was iconic, and i loved the look of the film, brandon’s got an interesting film language. but i couldn’t help but feel like the fact that i wasn’t overwhelmed by the shock value, especially from THE trip scene on, meant the movie just couldn’t hit for me the way it could’ve. i loved some of the concepts and the acting was great and again the cinematography and mia were spectacular, but i just kinda left this movie mad. also yes the theater cut did still have the nipple sausage but yeah the cumshot was much less graphic. which i appreciated, the movie felt unnecessarily gratuitous enough at times as is. it was like a 5/10 for me
I’d love there to be two James one on the island and one back home.This could be how he becomes a “successful” writer. The clone writes about the first trip and original feeds him new material .
@@watamatafoyu why wouldn’t have access to to money? He could use his wife’s money as they said he been doing for years. Remember they had made up by the time he was going to the airport. Once the book sold then he have his own money to use.
Thought it was a great entry for Brandon's career, my personal favorite of his is still Possessor, but I think that Infinity Pool was an excellent display of what Mr. Brandon Cronenberg is capable of. Skarsgard and Mia had such a contrasting chemistry that worked so well on screen! Can't wait to see what's next for the Cronenbergs!
After my parents and I watched this movie, we questioned whether or not the original James was ever switched out and killed instead of the clone James during his first and second execution, thinking that it could be interpenetrated as to if the James that we see at the end is the real him or not. Also, I wonder what ever happened to the two girls that helped bring James into their house towards the end, since they were not shown to be present in the house when he woke up for real or outside when he confronted the Zombies.
100 percent yes. Do you remember when the cop came in and expressed how frustrated he was with the gang and he had something special planned and they said "yes, please"? That was the execution of the original human people. The clones were in the audience. ALL of them at the end were clones.
So jealous you got to see the Cum Cut. I'm gonna see it one more time in theaters but I'll hafta wait til home release for the NC-17 version. Maybe the significance of 2018 is him getting the inspiration for his next work. This and Possessor have similar themes of class, justice, destructive tourism, ego death, loss of self, etc.
Movies about "what if people were just at their absolute disgustingly worst and could get anyway with anything bc money" are not for me...make me feel sick tbh. But I'm sure the performances were good I just will be passsingggg
@@aobaichiko122 That is something that we can read into the movie if we choose. People in positions of power do bad things, they are deposed and punished and another person takes their place doing more bad things, with the cycle continuing. Is that justice? Like you point out... not necessarily, since the culprits are swapped out for more abusers.
I think I heard somewhere that the Sundance version was NC-17 or something like that. The theatrical edit is toned down to the original version. I just saw it yesterday, and it was wildly insane. I had to walk home after watching it, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Even when I got home and my grandma asked me if I liked it, I couldn't really get my words out. I did, but I ended up telling her that I wasn't sure if I did. It wasn't a lie though. I don't know if I like it. All I know is that I will not be seeing it again
same. after some serious mulling over i think ive concluded that i honestly didnt enjoy it. was it bad? ehh idk. i think it tries too hard to be a horror rather than a horror story. it scared me but not because i was afraid for the characters nor did i ever feel enveloped by the story, i was scared for just what could possibly show up on the screen next. it lingered longer than it shouldve. it had an easily read subtext yet paraded as if it kept trying to make you understand it. sure it was a campy art freak psycho horror thing it felt so shallow with not much beneath the surface. the premise had me extremely intrigued but the movie left me disappointed. thanks for sharing your thoughts. :)
Apparently Brandon's next project will be a limited-series adaptation of J.G Ballard's "Super-Cannes." The plot sounds right up his alley, but I also think it's interesting that his father adapted another of Ballard's work "Crash" into a movie in the 90s.
Mia goth and Maika Monroe are THEEEE queens of horror. Mia has that Shelley Duvall energy and Maika has that Jennifer Love Hewitt energy. Them two in a movie would have the OG’s QUAKING!!!! Sadly Maika is underrated even though she’s been the leading Scream Queen for over a decade now.
I’m going to be honest after hearing the breakdown of the plot it seems a lot less creepy than the trailers made it seem. I guess films always seem scarier when you can’t pin down the direction they are going and everything is constantly unsettling. That’s how the trailer was just unsettling all the time.
It's not so much scary as it is disturbing in its implications and commentary. It kind of depends on the person watching it, I think. Different strokes. Also that gross n!pple scene was truly horrific to everyone I've talked to about it so there's that lol
It's kind of giving Crash (1996) vibes... people going through something hugely traumatic and destructive, getting WAY too into it, and continuing to pursue that high regardless of whose lives get ruined in the process
saw this yesterday. i cringed, i laughed, i thirsted over both alex and mia lol. the “ooze” was indeed in the theatrical cut. idk about it in full but it was there. 😂 i’m glad i went into this movie blind. alex gave this one tear cry when mia was reading him the negative review and that part hit different. they sold the heck out of this movie.
I enjoyed it, but some parts of it seemed a little familiar. I saw bits of Midsommar (cult in a European setting and also that upside down shot), The Menu (poking fun of rich people) Men (body horror where someone got split in half) Triangle of Sadness (beach setting/poking fun at rich people) and, of course, Pearl (Pearl’s in it)
I know it's not the point of the movie, but somehow I couldn't accept the idea that cloning a human being was presented as something so trivial. And to think that this place is the only place in the world where this is doable, the possibilities that a technology like this could bring. But nope; they use it just to execute people. And it's kinda hilarious if you think about it. They could even bring back the victim but no, punishment is the only thing that matters. Also, it is supposed to be a poor country that barely stands up thanks to tourists, but I think human cloning would be a much more profitable activity. I know I'm overthinking this but the lack of context on that matter kinda put me off a little.
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As I was watching the film, part of me kept wondering if Em was in on the whole plot with Gabi and co. She was pretty vocal with her dissatisfaction with James in the beginning that it led me to think she wanted to bring him there to try to "fix" him. I kept expecting her to pop up again with her distraught behavior all being an act calling back to the "flair for dramatic" aspect of the island that Gabi mentioned lol
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agree, the ideas don't really come together and it's VERY on the nose at times. some ideas were just there as place holders for things to come (how did the body doubling actually impact the story? not much). but it was ok, acting was fine, not great. still cronenburgs ideas will come to into their right one of these days and then we'll have a truly great film. did like possessor better as well.
There's a couple of things I'm still fixating on academically. For example, this idea of what is truly primitive vs. civilized, and the ritual murder by the son. There's also the knife vs gun use (meaning why are knives sometimes used, and guns used in others, and what's the significance there).
I can’t wait till someone is able to make a conventionally attractive actress the villain of a horror movie without making her do something sexual. Idky but it just has become a stereotype. Either villian woman is a old rotting hag or a seductress demon
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I just saw the theatrical cut of this movie (really want to see the Unrated). I loved it but there was this 80-something-year-old woman in the audience who started chirping it towards the end asking, "Is it too late to get my money back?" Ended up seeing her in the elevator and she said it was the "worst movie she'd ever seen in her life."
Dude, I really wanna watch this movie now! Stories about privilleged people trying to come to terms with their mediocrity are really interesting to me and I don't think I've ever seen it be taken quite this far, holy shit
I think that I liked this movie, but I don’t particularly want to see it ever again, and I agree with Amanda that the ideas and themes the movie presents are much more interesting than the actual story the movie is telling
I just don’t get the cloning aspect. Tourists killing the natives there, does that happen often enough to get a fancy clone machine? Liked Possessor better. Your review and questioning the movie was nice to hear compared others that liked it just because it was “ wild” . I thought it was kinda messy.
This movie had like, all the hallmarks of a surreal horror movie that I normally would love...but for some reason I can't put my finger on I walked away from it just feeling meh about it? I thought the performances were all good, the effects were cool, but I just felt bored the whole time
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I didnt know what to think of Antiviral but I really enjoyed Possessor. Hope BC continues on this new wave of horror that seems to focus on terror more if that makes sense.
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I laughed a lot during the movie too and wasn’t expecting it. The orgy scene was so long I kinda blacked out until the stuff came out of the nipple LOL snapped me right back
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Subverting expectations only works if what you do is more interesting than what I expect. As I watched this movie my expectations were consistently subverted… and every time it was a either a discount, downgrade or bargain bin variant.
Ok but is there any way to confirm that the him at the end of the movie, is the him at the start of the movie? How much of a sick joke would it be, to have the double live while the "original" gets killed. Or at least the second time it happens, just to really fuck with people
I didn't watch the movie but after reading a full explaining my theory is that they are all clones of those people, and the real people are killed or in a smaller sense at least the main man.
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I love that Mia Goth that set herself up as both a famous final girl and horror villain. What a badass.
P
I loved both roles in X.
Mental illness goes a long way in Hollywood
Mia Goth had no idea she was filming a movie. That's just the way she is.
Hahaha I fully believe this
She's a vlogger
Side note she has the voice of a precocious British child who's lost her mummy and is now asking the main character if she's gonna marry her dad and become her new mummy now lol
@@Shyknit Mia Goth as Claudia in Interview with the Vampire
Brazillian powerhouse
Knowing NOTHING about this movie and then hearing Amanda say 'nipple extension dribble scene' was... interesting
Mia Goth was crazy & crazy good in "Pearl" in 2022 too. Almost criminal that she wasn't even considered for an Oscar nom.
There needs to be a best villain category, or most terrifying performance in a scene category.
What? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
agree. ✌️
Cant wait for Maxxxine ❤❤❤
@@watamatafoyu no, the best actress Oscar just has to stop snubbing the horror genre. The performance stands very well on its own in this category but the academy only wants to see biopics
I was lifting a spoon of overnight oats to my mouth on the words "ejac splat" and had to take a minute to remember what having an appetite was 💀💀💀💀
Right when Amanda finished describing the accident where the local died, my RUclips feed pushed an ad for the Sandals resort. Perfect timing!
Definitely a one time thing watch for me lmao. Not a bad movie but it was too much for me😂. Mia Goff is putting her stamp in the horror genre cause she’s amazing.
I said the same thing then sat down and watched it a whole other time for the video aha
I agree. I had a fun time because we were with friends, but definitely a one time watch
@@familyminahan3343 my friends and I were rendered speechless after watching the movie like the drive home was so quiet😂. All the themes of the movie flew over my head cause all the sex made my brain shut off😂.
*Goth
Same here. Do I think it was a bad movie? No. Would I say that I enjoyed watching it? Also no.
this movie is so good. Mia Goth yelling "James" is iconic
Top moment of the movie along with the urns
@@AmandaTheJedi Were the urns supposed to be the clone's ashes?
Same! My friends and I have been yelling James at each other since we saw it.
@@danieldeplorable4960 yes
@@danieldeplorable4960 Are you sincerely asking?
I enjoyed the idea and the acting but didn’t ultimately love what the final product was. I definitely latched in to the way Mia’s character kept calling the locals “animals” when they were the ones going wild and literally peeing on each other
Alexander Skarsgard is a phenomenal actor and I’m a huge fan of his work.
Him and his brother are amazing actors!
@@WYIN98 Which one? There are quite a few Skarsgards running around!
@@aNaughtyFox Bill! Aka Pennywise
@@WYIN98 what about Gustaf as Floki?
@@aNaughtyFox Holy shit that was his brother?
The more I hear about Mia Goth the more I'm excited for each of her next film
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Agreed! I recommend Amanda whenever I can- hearing a female perspective to some of these films provides such a stark contrast to other reviewers
Agree❤
Agreed!!
Not as a serious prequel idea, but it would be interesting to see earlier previous vacations, to see who Mia Goths character used to be, basically their origins with this ritualistic society of hedonists. Love Cronenbergs!
This movie was crazy. Psychedelics, Cloning, Crazy Sex scenes... and all it boils down to how you handle a situation when it presents itself and how you come out of it. It was a grounded approach when you have an idea of cloning. I thought they were going to go to a different direction with cloning but the execution was pretty good. Rich people as usual doing crazy stuff and pretend they are normal at the end. Mia and Alex were excellent. 7.5/10.
Once he takes the drug how do we know that any of it happened...
Im convinced Mia Goth should play Harley Quinn moving fwd in the new DCU! I think she’s the perfect mix of intelligence and manic insanity.
She would be great at that!
Margot Robbie's perfect though😭
Mia Goth would be a fantastic Harley.
Here me out… instead of Harley perhaps Poison Ivy
*hear
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This movie seems like too much for me lol, but her review was great!
Damn, so he kills a local unintentionally, is sentenced to death, but...He can use the handy-dandy basement ATM to withdraw enough cash to have a clone of him synthesized which will stand in for him in the execution.
That sounds like a shake-down to me, friends and neighbors!
Tbh sounds like how rich people have the advantage in crime and punishment anyways. "Like yeah you may have committed a horrible crime, but if you have enough money (bail) you can get out until we're ready to prosecute you for it, if you don't that's too bad. And if you get convicted we'll be more likely to give you a slap on the wrist like community service or probation versus actual time in prison".
I'm really excited to see this. Sarsgard and Goth are both phenomenal actors, and Infinity Pool seems to be continuing the trend of class satire movies over the past few years. It also seems very topical with the recent discourse around nepo babies in the entertainment industry.
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You teleported again. And change clothes, how 🤔
Did seeing Skarsy's giant hog spooge all over the screen make you more gay or less?
Is this the original Amanda...or a copy? :)
Great review! Just saw this recently. You mention the facial hair, I noticed a moment early on before the "doubles" concept was introduced where the facial hair didn't match, it might've been a continuity error or might it imply doubles before that point? I honestly have no idea.
I don't think you're "looking too much into it", those are valid observations.
I love Mia Goth ever since I first saw her in Pearl. Then I bought and watched X. It was really good, but really loved seeing her in a solo role.
Infinity Pool. Wow. She only proves she is scary, beautiful, and talented. Any movie she makes, I'm already seeing it
You should watch a Cure for Wellness then.
@@coffeebean_tamer I watched it only because of Mia. The first hour (or hour and a half) was so boring I should have just skip it.
Glad to see Brandon Cronenberg is continuing on with his father's legacy of making unique and very disturbing films.
i really really wanted to love this movie but the last act just didn’t do it for me. i agreed that it relied a little hard on the trippy scenes and just the vibe in general, and yes it was incredibly tedious for me. i considered leaving a couple times just because i was bored and annoyed with it. mia goth was iconic, and i loved the look of the film, brandon’s got an interesting film language. but i couldn’t help but feel like the fact that i wasn’t overwhelmed by the shock value, especially from THE trip scene on, meant the movie just couldn’t hit for me the way it could’ve. i loved some of the concepts and the acting was great and again the cinematography and mia were spectacular, but i just kinda left this movie mad.
also yes the theater cut did still have the nipple sausage but yeah the cumshot was much less graphic. which i appreciated, the movie felt unnecessarily gratuitous enough at times as is. it was like a 5/10 for me
Same here it's like David Cronenberg meet David Lynch Meet Nicolas Winding Refn but all their worst aspects.
I’d love there to be two James one on the island and one back home.This could be how he becomes a “successful” writer. The clone writes about the first trip and original feeds him new material .
It wouldn't work as he wouldn't have access to money on the island for long. One of them would have to die.
@@watamatafoyu why wouldn’t have access to to money? He could use his wife’s money as they said he been doing for years. Remember they had made up by the time he was going to the airport. Once the book sold then he have his own money to use.
@@lesliebailey1 Because there'd be two James accessing money from different parts of the world 😆 and she wasn't aware of the duplicate clones.
@@watamatafoyu you’re right 🤦🏽♂️😱😭 Boooo
I was wondering if it was commentary on how empty James is. He can send a clone with no life experience home in his place and no one even notices.
calling it "infinity pool" is such false advertising! I've been to some of them and they were always finite - liars!
Thought it was a great entry for Brandon's career, my personal favorite of his is still Possessor, but I think that Infinity Pool was an excellent display of what Mr. Brandon Cronenberg is capable of. Skarsgard and Mia had such a contrasting chemistry that worked so well on screen! Can't wait to see what's next for the Cronenbergs!
I believe that Brandon Cronenberg's mom died around 2018. Maybe that had something to do with the date listed in the movie?
After my parents and I watched this movie, we questioned whether or not the original James was ever switched out and killed instead of the clone James during his first and second execution, thinking that it could be interpenetrated as to if the James that we see at the end is the real him or not. Also, I wonder what ever happened to the two girls that helped bring James into their house towards the end, since they were not shown to be present in the house when he woke up for real or outside when he confronted the Zombies.
Imo that man he ran through was def one of his clones.
100 percent yes. Do you remember when the cop came in and expressed how frustrated he was with the gang and he had something special planned and they said "yes, please"? That was the execution of the original human people. The clones were in the audience. ALL of them at the end were clones.
I think you’re right about the flight date thing that makes sense. Especially w/ him saying in interviews that he relates to Skarsgard’s character
I literally called my mom saying this movie was a messed up episode of white lotus mixed with black mirror
So jealous you got to see the Cum Cut. I'm gonna see it one more time in theaters but I'll hafta wait til home release for the NC-17 version. Maybe the significance of 2018 is him getting the inspiration for his next work. This and Possessor have similar themes of class, justice, destructive tourism, ego death, loss of self, etc.
Movies about "what if people were just at their absolute disgustingly worst and could get anyway with anything bc money" are not for me...make me feel sick tbh. But I'm sure the performances were good I just will be passsingggg
That was what upset me the most. No retribution or justice to the awful characters
I left feeling unsatisfied after watching, not the same feeling after watching a good movie despite the ending.
@@formlessdivinity They were executed and replaced with clones.
@@wetterschneidernot necessarily justice cause even as clones they returned to their normal lives after
@@aobaichiko122 That is something that we can read into the movie if we choose. People in positions of power do bad things, they are deposed and punished and another person takes their place doing more bad things, with the cycle continuing. Is that justice? Like you point out... not necessarily, since the culprits are swapped out for more abusers.
I think I heard somewhere that the Sundance version was NC-17 or something like that. The theatrical edit is toned down to the original version. I just saw it yesterday, and it was wildly insane. I had to walk home after watching it, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Even when I got home and my grandma asked me if I liked it, I couldn't really get my words out. I did, but I ended up telling her that I wasn't sure if I did. It wasn't a lie though. I don't know if I like it. All I know is that I will not be seeing it again
same. after some serious mulling over i think ive concluded that i honestly didnt enjoy it. was it bad? ehh idk. i think it tries too hard to be a horror rather than a horror story. it scared me but not because i was afraid for the characters nor did i ever feel enveloped by the story, i was scared for just what could possibly show up on the screen next. it lingered longer than it shouldve. it had an easily read subtext yet paraded as if it kept trying to make you understand it. sure it was a campy art freak psycho horror thing it felt so shallow with not much beneath the surface. the premise had me extremely intrigued but the movie left me disappointed. thanks for sharing your thoughts. :)
Infinity Pool felt like an overly-long short film.
Funnily enough that’s how Crimes of the Future felt too lol
Apparently Brandon's next project will be a limited-series adaptation of J.G Ballard's "Super-Cannes." The plot sounds right up his alley, but I also think it's interesting that his father adapted another of Ballard's work "Crash" into a movie in the 90s.
Mia goth and Maika Monroe are THEEEE queens of horror. Mia has that Shelley Duvall energy and Maika has that Jennifer Love Hewitt energy. Them two in a movie would have the OG’s QUAKING!!!! Sadly Maika is underrated even though she’s been the leading Scream Queen for over a decade now.
YES! I keep saying Mia is our generation’s Shelley/Sissy
Hopefully she doesn't encounter anybody like Stanley Kubrick
@@Shyknit I’ve been saying this!!!
Maika is brilliant loved her in The Guest.
@@coffeebean_tamer her acting talent is out of this world she has Oscar potential
Okay, but why did I immediately recognize that doctor character as the dad from Life With Derek?
The performances in this film were incredible. I have to say that this explanation genuinely helped cause I was slightly confused, but intrigued.
By FAR the best review I’ve watched so far. Now I’m hooked on your channel!
I’m going to be honest after hearing the breakdown of the plot it seems a lot less creepy than the trailers made it seem. I guess films always seem scarier when you can’t pin down the direction they are going and everything is constantly unsettling. That’s how the trailer was just unsettling all the time.
I didn’t find this movie scary but I did find it awesome even if it has issues
It's not so much scary as it is disturbing in its implications and commentary. It kind of depends on the person watching it, I think. Different strokes. Also that gross n!pple scene was truly horrific to everyone I've talked to about it so there's that lol
It's kind of giving Crash (1996) vibes... people going through something hugely traumatic and destructive, getting WAY too into it, and continuing to pursue that high regardless of whose lives get ruined in the process
Sounds like if The Purge got sucked into a multi-verse of horror.
saw this yesterday. i cringed, i laughed, i thirsted over both alex and mia lol. the “ooze” was indeed in the theatrical cut. idk about it in full but it was there. 😂 i’m glad i went into this movie blind. alex gave this one tear cry when mia was reading him the negative review and that part hit different. they sold the heck out of this movie.
It reminded me of 1997's "The Game" as well. It makes up for his dad's movie, "Crimes of the Future", which I wasn't really into.
I enjoyed it, but some parts of it seemed a little familiar. I saw bits of Midsommar (cult in a European setting and also that upside down shot), The Menu (poking fun of rich people) Men (body horror where someone got split in half) Triangle of Sadness (beach setting/poking fun at rich people) and, of course, Pearl (Pearl’s in it)
I know it's not the point of the movie, but somehow I couldn't accept the idea that cloning a human being was presented as something so trivial. And to think that this place is the only place in the world where this is doable, the possibilities that a technology like this could bring. But nope; they use it just to execute people. And it's kinda hilarious if you think about it. They could even bring back the victim but no, punishment is the only thing that matters. Also, it is supposed to be a poor country that barely stands up thanks to tourists, but I think human cloning would be a much more profitable activity. I know I'm overthinking this but the lack of context on that matter kinda put me off a little.
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That scene sounds like it had to totally be inspired by Society (1989)
I couldn’t even finish this movie, I guess I have to find out the ending from Amanda 😂
I wanted to walk out towards the end, it was getting silly .
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I need to find time to watch this in a theater but I don't want to go alone because this looks so unhinged 😂
I really liked this. I’m a sucker for confusing and seemingly surface level commentary and discussions that are mostly “whoa, what if THIS” at first.
Mia Goth is the brazilian (canadian and british as well) represantation I/we need !!
Huh, guess it runs in the family; when your dad is David Cronenburg you have some interesting tastes
Skarsgard should play james in a silent hill 2 movie
Thank you. I thought I was the only one not liking and even skipping trip scenes.
Love the representation for unhinged women without eyebrows that miss goth is bringing to the table
I love all the rich people are the bad guys movies. So close to being self aware
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As I was watching the film, part of me kept wondering if Em was in on the whole plot with Gabi and co. She was pretty vocal with her dissatisfaction with James in the beginning that it led me to think she wanted to bring him there to try to "fix" him. I kept expecting her to pop up again with her distraught behavior all being an act calling back to the "flair for dramatic" aspect of the island that Gabi mentioned lol
I don’t think so, she was coerced imo. But with movies like this anything is possible.
Ha! "How it was executed", good unintentional pun!
Full e-jac splat is a new one for me 😂😂😂
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agree, the ideas don't really come together and it's VERY on the nose at times. some ideas were just there as place holders for things to come (how did the body doubling actually impact the story? not much). but it was ok, acting was fine, not great. still cronenburgs ideas will come to into their right one of these days and then we'll have a truly great film. did like possessor better as well.
There's a couple of things I'm still fixating on academically. For example, this idea of what is truly primitive vs. civilized, and the ritual murder by the son. There's also the knife vs gun use (meaning why are knives sometimes used, and guns used in others, and what's the significance there).
I can’t wait till someone is able to make a conventionally attractive actress the villain of a horror movie without making her do something sexual. Idky but it just has become a stereotype. Either villian woman is a old rotting hag or a seductress demon
She likes getting nekkid
I thought the trailer looked fucking terrible but I like both actors, especially Mia. I might check it out on streaming.
Awesome video. I might check infinity pool. I like your review on letterboxd and RUclips.
This movie has scenes that as much as I would be grotesquely intrigued I really don't want to see it so I'm glad you covered this movie
It’s giving acid trip ego death
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Full Ejact Splat is the name of my new band
I just saw the theatrical cut of this movie (really want to see the Unrated). I loved it but there was this 80-something-year-old woman in the audience who started chirping it towards the end asking, "Is it too late to get my money back?" Ended up seeing her in the elevator and she said it was the "worst movie she'd ever seen in her life."
Hahaha I loved it too. And anything that gets a visceral reaction from a sweet old lady is going to be for me 😂
Haha. I applaud her for at least watching and yes , I’m glad I only dropped $5 seeing it
Dude, I really wanna watch this movie now! Stories about privilleged people trying to come to terms with their mediocrity are really interesting to me and I don't think I've ever seen it be taken quite this far, holy shit
I think that I liked this movie, but I don’t particularly want to see it ever again, and I agree with Amanda that the ideas and themes the movie presents are much more interesting than the actual story the movie is telling
Yep we get bodily fluid and we get an interesting take on the whole cloning thing.
I just don’t get the cloning aspect. Tourists killing the natives there, does that happen often enough to get a fancy clone machine? Liked Possessor better. Your review and questioning the movie was nice to hear compared others that liked it just because it was “ wild” . I thought it was kinda messy.
i just wanna say, Possesor is one the best movie in years absolutely want more
David Lynch's style is making a comeback.
I found this channel by happenstance, and I was immediately won over by your style of speaking! You're really funny!
This movie had like, all the hallmarks of a surreal horror movie that I normally would love...but for some reason I can't put my finger on I walked away from it just feeling meh about it? I thought the performances were all good, the effects were cool, but I just felt bored the whole time
You have such a dynamic and fun eloquence to the way you review things, and I often watch films and shows after I see your reviews because you review it. Thank you for what you do, you have a fantastic talent 💜💚🧡
So on the fence about seeing this one
Suggested alternate title. The Squicker Man.
I didnt know what to think of Antiviral but I really enjoyed Possessor. Hope BC continues on this new wave of horror that seems to focus on terror more if that makes sense.
I agree... The ideas were outstanding, but the movie didn't quite satisfy. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it.
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I too went into this movie knowing nothing about it but the three sentence summary at redbox and boy it was a trip.
More Mia playing crazy and Alex playing an animal plz
I don't know if you have already or if you have a spot for suggestions. But could you possibly do a video on the movie Platform? (2019)
Also, I found you last year and I've been very grateful and excited to watch more of your videos since!
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really missed the date on the plane ticket detail. I understood most of the self referential stuff, but that one I didnt catch.
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I hope Amanda reviews ‘you can live forever’!
I laughed a lot during the movie too and wasn’t expecting it. The orgy scene was so long I kinda blacked out until the stuff came out of the nipple LOL snapped me right back
So, I’m just happy that Cronenberg included another Canadian treasure, Amanda Bruegel.
Mia Goth is the moment. She would make the perfect female Freddy Krueger or cenobite
Maybe not related but 2018 was the year the stock market crashed as well.
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Subverting expectations only works if what you do is more interesting than what I expect. As I watched this movie my expectations were consistently subverted… and every time it was a either a discount, downgrade or bargain bin variant.
I feell Brendan made the movie he wanted to make. All of it felt intentional. I would not call this a "bad" movie, just a movie I did not enjoy.
Loved your insights and thoughts on this film! 🎬
I learned about this movie ‘cause the composer, Tim Hecker, is an ambient artist I like! His 2011 album Ravedeath, 1972, is incredible!
i felt like i was having a very weird fever dream the whole time i was watching this movie
Ok but is there any way to confirm that the him at the end of the movie, is the him at the start of the movie? How much of a sick joke would it be, to have the double live while the "original" gets killed. Or at least the second time it happens, just to really fuck with people
I didn't watch the movie but after reading a full explaining my theory is that they are all clones of those people, and the real people are killed or in a smaller sense at least the main man.
Cop "I'm going to make a statement", gang "yes, please". The originals were executed.