A 30 Minute Rant About ‘Tarot’ So You Don’t Have to Watch it

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  • Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
  • #tarot #tarotmovie #review #moviereview
    In today's video, I go on a 30+ minute rant about the new horror film: 'Tarot' and break down why I think it was truly written by A.I. -- and trust me when I say, there's a lot of garbage to be sifted through here. Enjoy :)
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  • @StonyStark
    @StonyStark 5 месяцев назад +299

    Hey Guys -
    This is Stark’s gaming channel. Commenting from over here. I apologize if I made a few mistakes with the plot recap. My sentiment about the overall structure and presentation of the script remain; it’s a funny bad horror film that will be forgotten within a few months. That’s ok, it happens. And I’ll continue to get better and better at writing my scripts and getting details right especially when it comes to videos being made after a first-time theater viewing.
    Cheers and thanks for watching!

    • @JeanTheBT
      @JeanTheBT 4 месяца назад +9

      I'm a first-time viewer and I think this video was awesome! It got the main things you wanted to talk about down even if you might have missed some things (not that I would know, I didn't watch the movie lol) and you have a very calm but fun personality. Keep up the great work!

    • @tablescissors
      @tablescissors 4 месяца назад

      Months?? I think weeks. at best.

  • @DeePeeArts
    @DeePeeArts 5 месяцев назад +1495

    After she said " he's an earth sign that's why he was found dead on the ground" I WAS JUST DONE. LMAO. I LAUGHED SO BAD.

    • @StonyStark
      @StonyStark 5 месяцев назад +28

      If I could have pirated this movie there are so many things I could roast harder

    • @StonyStark
      @StonyStark 5 месяцев назад +10

      Too many funny things to jot down in the notes 😂

    • @ellamayo9045
      @ellamayo9045 5 месяцев назад +46

      If that’s the case, where the heck will the corpses of the Air signs be found?? o-o

    • @DeePeeArts
      @DeePeeArts 5 месяцев назад +23

      @@ellamayo9045 as a air sign, I wanna know 😂

    • @YouveBeenMegged
      @YouveBeenMegged 4 месяца назад +22

      Like that’s the kind of shit I say when my Taurus sister trips and falls 😂

  • @BlkRoseGold87
    @BlkRoseGold87 5 месяцев назад +1437

    This could have been good if they made it like a test, cause every tarot card has a light/shadow side. So if you past the test you live but if you don't and you choose the shadow then the card gets you.

    • @ellamayo9045
      @ellamayo9045 5 месяцев назад +196

      That’d definitely make for a more interesting premise! Have the Major Arcana entities be more like neutral arbiters of fate or something, tying in more with the themes of divination and choices that determine later outcomes rather than just killing because vengeful angy ghost.

    • @inplane9970
      @inplane9970 5 месяцев назад +101

      That's what I thought the premise would be. It's only Death that should pose any actual threat, but every other arcana should give a chance at survival.
      It's like they chose them at random with no correlation to the characters either. The Priestess could've went to someone who's faithful, the Jester for someone who laughs at the misery of others, the Hanged Man for someone who's pessimistic, etc. What a waste of an interesting plot.

    • @lemoncholyme
      @lemoncholyme 4 месяца назад +45

      That would be too authentic to Tarot. This movie Rick Roll'd the art of tarot. 😂

    • @BlkRoseGold87
      @BlkRoseGold87 4 месяца назад +2

      @@lemoncholyme 😂

    • @Hellswarmglow
      @Hellswarmglow 4 месяца назад +6

      SAW for teens, but supernatural.

  • @silver_fox02
    @silver_fox02 5 месяцев назад +905

    So it’s just zodiac final destination

    • @StonyStark
      @StonyStark 5 месяцев назад +37

      LITERALLY BUT WORSE

    • @yesmansam6686
      @yesmansam6686 4 месяца назад +20

      Except nobody has an interesting death except magician girl. That one would've been the boring death in Final Destination.

    • @xTwistedPeach
      @xTwistedPeach 4 месяца назад +2

      But not fun 😂

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx Месяц назад

      Ouija as well.

  • @Nimble.ninja910
    @Nimble.ninja910 4 месяца назад +493

    I was expecting an anthology film with each tarot card being a different meaning to each main characters death. Then I realize I thought of a better story in my mind than the actual movie.

    • @madam-mint
      @madam-mint 4 месяца назад +20

      I would be interested in yours, legitimately

    • @mochiandturtles5642
      @mochiandturtles5642 4 месяца назад +35

      That would be so cool tho?? Like... The High Priestess tarot would show that it's a revenge kill for abusing their power?

    • @BE-ew2pt
      @BE-ew2pt 4 месяца назад +40

      @@mochiandturtles5642 Or The Hermit card could be someone dying because they isolated themself from the people who could help them. That would be so much better than... well, this.

    • @mochiandturtles5642
      @mochiandturtles5642 4 месяца назад +7

      @@BE-ew2pt Ooh good Idea. I'm kinda bored rn so why don't ya'll come up with deaths based off of tarot cards?

    • @cassiehartleyy8849
      @cassiehartleyy8849 4 месяца назад +2

      wait i’m confused, i just saw the movie is that not what happened?

  • @victoriascott3137
    @victoriascott3137 5 месяцев назад +594

    "Horoscope readings to die for" would've been a better news paper title than "You die today" as a horoscope reading in a news paper.

    • @petrfedor1851
      @petrfedor1851 4 месяца назад

      Yet another disguise foto Agent 47

  • @MeganWave
    @MeganWave 4 месяца назад +369

    "death of the ginger birthday girl" is such a good obnoxiously long band name/song title

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +25

      Perfect 🥂😂

    • @charlottesmith4797
      @charlottesmith4797 4 месяца назад +30

      You could tell me that's the name of a panic at the disco song and I'd believe you

  • @JTX30000
    @JTX30000 4 месяца назад +222

    The "Magician" card is a Mage(mystic/witch), not a stageshow trickster.
    So basically the people who made this movie "Tarot" don't know about Tarot at all. And they just made a clueless mockery of it.

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 4 месяца назад +29

      Right, the magician is usually a pretty positive card. I also found it funny that she shuffled the cards for each person but always draws a major arcana card for the one in the center of the wheel.

    • @JTX30000
      @JTX30000 4 месяца назад +12

      @@Not_Always well they needed cards they could make monsters out of. But yeah, around 9 humanoid characters out of 22 major arcana out of a total 78 card deck? It's unlikely they would all get one of those humanoid characters...
      But that could just boil down to the spirit manipulating what was pulled, tho.

    • @toolatetothestory
      @toolatetothestory 4 месяца назад +13

      @@JTX30000 God, imagine any of them ending up with like... the 9 of swords of something. The monster you could make out of that could be so metal.

    • @JTX30000
      @JTX30000 4 месяца назад +18

      @@toolatetothestory maybe, but the fact they used the 6 of swords for the stabbing scene instead of the 10 of swords which basically means ruin, and literally has a picture of someone getting stabbed by ten swords on it, proves they didn't know what they were doing.

    • @toolatetothestory
      @toolatetothestory 4 месяца назад +7

      @@JTX30000 Right, 10 not 9, my mistake!
      But yeah. It's not like it would have been hard to just... Google the meaning. It takes like five seconds

  • @torrent-tortellini
    @torrent-tortellini 4 месяца назад +198

    can we also discuss the fact that these filmmakers just saw a widely used cultural practice and decided- "oh shit! witches do this! witches = equal scary!"

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 4 месяца назад +30

      I was thinking that when that old lady was talking about the woman who cursed the cards, and was like 'she was hunted down and accused of witchcraft' implying this was false, as she immediately says she does some black magic ritual to 'bind her soul to the cards' and then afterwards I was like, ok so they were right to hunt her down and call her a witch.

    • @toolatetothestory
      @toolatetothestory 4 месяца назад +4

      @@Not_Always Ikr. Like, yeah, she very much was a witch and the hunting down was justified.

    • @cj-bi7hz
      @cj-bi7hz 4 месяца назад +6

      So insulting.

  • @richardkyoki8103
    @richardkyoki8103 5 месяцев назад +461

    I do tarot reading as a cool little party trick. Do i believe they have some truth behind the meanings yes, but most of it is interpreted by the person whos getting a reading. Not once have my cards tried to kill me...

    • @schoolinJOO
      @schoolinJOO 5 месяцев назад +33

      that you know of . . . .

    • @mikankitsune0440
      @mikankitsune0440 5 месяцев назад +2

      Same.

    • @LovelyPeace-si7jp
      @LovelyPeace-si7jp 5 месяцев назад +8

      Or others Dun Dun Dun Dunnnnn 😮

    • @Haventgonefar
      @Haventgonefar 4 месяца назад +19

      I love that idea so much, especially when ppl go crazy over the death card 😭 it scares people so much

    • @donotgotthis
      @donotgotthis 4 месяца назад +21

      ​@@Haventgonefar real😂 istg the same people who are terrified of the Death card will pull The Tower and think nothing of it.

  • @somrone9236
    @somrone9236 4 месяца назад +89

    I wish the main blonde girl was actually the killer simply bc i think it would be funky and she could have planted the cards in the house or just done a ranfom reading, and decides based off the cards how shell kill everybody. (And then the films lack of research wouldnt be such a detriment bc it would be a part of her character that she didnt do the proper research, and not a major issue with the film lol)

  • @JTX30000
    @JTX30000 4 месяца назад +119

    The 6 of swords is not a negative card and has nothing to do with getting stabbed by swords

    • @lionspawfilmandphoto
      @lionspawfilmandphoto 2 месяца назад +1

      I was hoping someone mentioned this. So true! I don't know how the script was written, but it wasn't by anyone who knew how the cards work. The priestess and fool being malevolent figures is just as tangentially bizarre.

    • @Daddyharlem
      @Daddyharlem 2 месяца назад

      What does the sword means?

  • @illuxtre
    @illuxtre 4 месяца назад +148

    i knew it was gonna be absolute nonsense when the premise was "oh my god, the death card" as if it isn't a super chill card like no one there even cares for the basic research i'm

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 4 месяца назад +2

      Then which card represents literal death

    • @kevinandorsusie
      @kevinandorsusie 4 месяца назад +28

      SAME! I knew this movie wasn't for me when I heard the card descriptions they had in the trailers. They weren't _technically_ wrong because the cards are up for interpretation, but some of their descriptions seemed way off from the traditional meaning. Or a meaning you would only get with other different cards clarifying, not the card alone.
      They showed the fool and said "this card means that you feel boxed in" and I was like, "The fool, really? The reckless abandon card, that shows a man in the vast expanse of nature about to waltz off a cliff? That's the boxed in card and not the hanged man?"

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 4 месяца назад +37

      @@alexv3372 The death card CAN mean death in context, it just almost never does. The tarot has 78 cards, and there are cards that have a lot more dangerous energy. A tarot reading is about what all the cards are in relation to each other when you draw them. Cards like the 9 of swords, the Tower and a few others can point to negative things, but no one card by itself just means DEATH

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 4 месяца назад +19

      @@kevinandorsusie right, the hanged man means stagnation

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 4 месяца назад +3

      Which cards in your opinion can have “dangerous energy “ and which ones should be used in the movie?

  • @liraysakonijn9439
    @liraysakonijn9439 4 месяца назад +131

    I work at a movie theater and always invite my brother to go to stuff like this. We went on a monday afternoon. There were like 7 other people there. We were making fun of the whole thing from way in the back, laughing at the stupidity the entire time. Our favorite was the one reading where she mentioned a bridge coming true, and one of the characters literally stating something along the lines of "..B-b-but... we're on a bridge right now!".

  • @Wyrd__One
    @Wyrd__One 5 месяцев назад +233

    Didn’t “Cabin in the Woods” lampoon this type of cookie-cutter horror filmmaking over a decade ago? 🤔

    • @Dr_Mortis_SCP
      @Dr_Mortis_SCP 4 месяца назад +27

      Except Cabin in the Woods was actually good

    • @lumisherbert5682
      @lumisherbert5682 4 месяца назад +10

      @@Dr_Mortis_SCP Yeah, I never saw the whole thing (Still working up to actual Horror movies, currently stuck more at Pg-13), I had a friend tell me that it was a very faithful, goofy unpacking of the horror tropes within it.
      Edit: referring to "Cabin in the Woods" not "Tarot" :)

    • @Dr_Mortis_SCP
      @Dr_Mortis_SCP 4 месяца назад +6

      @@lumisherbert5682 It was definitely pretty goofy at times, but it was also a masterful breakdown of the entire slasher horror subgenre

    • @Satnanat
      @Satnanat 4 месяца назад +4

      @@Dr_Mortis_SCPI mean cabin in the woods was purposefully goofy

  • @Sclasspsycho
    @Sclasspsycho 4 месяца назад +138

    Too bad Trevor Henderson had to be involved in a crappy movie. He's a great creature artist.

    • @mileskimasktheslumpgod
      @mileskimasktheslumpgod 4 месяца назад +19

      agreed, he's super talented and a huge inspiration to me so i was really excited for this movie. massive let down.

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea 4 месяца назад +4

      The creatures were the standout from the trailer I saw a while back

    • @0_dearghealach_083
      @0_dearghealach_083 4 месяца назад

      Amen to that, chief.

  • @a.houston946
    @a.houston946 5 месяцев назад +181

    As you were coming to the end of your review, I thought that the guy who showed up at the end would turn out to be the Jester. The shape-shifting monster who would provide a dark, twist ending. "Fuck fate? No, Fate fucks you!"

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  5 месяцев назад +41

      This would have been hilarious and honestly more intriguing

    • @jordanhunter3375
      @jordanhunter3375 4 месяца назад +1

      Better yet, it's the Jester from 2023's THE JESTER

  • @necronival
    @necronival 4 месяца назад +68

    the fact that jacob and avantika - the two actors in this movie that has the most street cred - got the best death scenes tells me that the writers can actually write, they just don't want to put any effort in unless they need to

  • @chelseaarima
    @chelseaarima 4 месяца назад +64

    Avantika really deserves to be in better movies because the stuff Shes been in this year has not been that good and in my opinion, she seems pretty good at both acting and singing

    • @depointedulac
      @depointedulac 4 месяца назад +3

      At least she always shines in every project, on mean girls she and reneé are the best part On here idk cuz im not watching this 😭🤣

  • @Dr_pocky
    @Dr_pocky 4 месяца назад +36

    I was surprised when he mentioned that a girl knowing about horoscopes and tarot readings was such a character buff
    I knew so many girls in high school who loved crystals, star signs, and tarot readings.

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +8

      It’s the way they had her say it; you have to see it to get it but maybe I’m just weird :))

  • @Urzu.N7
    @Urzu.N7 4 месяца назад +54

    So in no way does this movie actually use the mythology of Tarot?
    Oh and its spoopy season, we will never let that down.

  • @lfsantacruz8703
    @lfsantacruz8703 5 месяцев назад +171

    What? You're telling me you don't have a hidden booze room leading to a haunted basement??? Come on!
    😅

    • @AFoxInFlames
      @AFoxInFlames 5 месяцев назад +4

      I thought that was the standard in every house!😂

    • @sarahthesarah2850
      @sarahthesarah2850 5 месяцев назад +3

      Like hidden exits and crawl spaces!

  • @schoolinJOO
    @schoolinJOO 5 месяцев назад +229

    everyone getting their tarotussy ate

    • @DarlingMissDarling
      @DarlingMissDarling 4 месяца назад +8

      Hahaha booooo!
      I just cackled like a cartoon witch stirring a gd cauldron 😂😂 10/10 no notes

  • @firestaranimationsofficial
    @firestaranimationsofficial 4 месяца назад +88

    I have an idea for an alternate take if you wanted to redo the concept, but keep the tarot card theming and premise, and I came up with while making food.
    Main Character (or MC for short) gets a Tarot set as a birthday gift. They learn how to do readings and for the most part, the readings are normal/nothing acursed or paranormal. Eventually a family member falls ill and they try to do a reading to find out if they'll live. The reading informs MC that their loved one will pass away soon. Desperate, MC starts trying to find a way to prevent this. They seem to find a spell/ritual, but either it wasn't intended to work at all or it was meant for something else, but MC changes to fit their needs and performs it.
    An entity is summoned as a consequence of fucking around and finding out. MC tries to get out of paying the price, but to amplify the stakes, the spell or ritual fails to keep their loved one alive and now they are being hunted down by the entity. I'm thinking it's kinda simular to Ged and his shadow from Earthsea. MC manages to get away, but the entity is always looking for them, which sends them on the run, unable to truly make friends. Time passes to present day.
    MC is at a college and gets invited by birthday girl to join them for a celebration in the woods. MC is hesitant (due to their prior trauma and the entity), but agrees. At this point, MC has learned to use their Tarot deck as a means to check how close the entity is at any given time, but it's a two-way mirror. If the MC looks out for the entity, it manages to catch her sent and comes looking. Same events play out at the cabin. Group pressures MC to do a reading, MC is wary, but does it. Entity is able to find them due to MC's meddling.
    With the MC trying to get away again, this time with the group of friends, the entity starts killing the friends to get the MC. It isn't because they angered it too, they're just in the way. Two possible endings can happen here, depending on the tone you're looking for.
    Ending 1: *Good ending*
    MC sees 1 or 2 of the friends die, coming to the realization it will continue to kill everyone if she doesn't confront it. MC decides to take an L for the group and let herself die for her original crimes to save everyone else. The survivors remember MC as very brave person and it ends on their gravestone.
    Ending 2: *Bad ending*
    MC continues to run away, like a coward, until the whole group dies. Now, with the blood debt paid, the entity has no reason to continue chasing MC. MC is the sole survivor and questions in the end if she did the right thing.
    I'm a bloody fanfic writer and I can pull a better Tarot-based horror movie concept out of my ass than a damn AI or a group of Hollywood writers! It's embarrassing how sloppy and lazy these horror movies are doing these days.
    Love the video! Can't wait to see more!

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +16

      Holy moly what a comment! Thanks for sharing. New video on The Strangers drops tomorrow and it’s kinda like this recap was here. Hope you enjoy!

    • @madam-mint
      @madam-mint 4 месяца назад +2

      I like this a lot!

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 4 месяца назад

      Which tarot card can be used for this rewrite

    • @firestaranimationsofficial
      @firestaranimationsofficial 4 месяца назад +2

      @@alexv3372 I don't think it would focus on any specific card, but the deck in general.

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 4 месяца назад +2

      Ya cooked
      And left no crimbs

  • @Not_Always
    @Not_Always 4 месяца назад +31

    the stupidest part is tarot is not primarily used in conjunction with astrology for a reading, so no one would be using tarot like that to give a general reading

  • @designereyebags
    @designereyebags 4 месяца назад +56

    tarot cards have different meanings based on whether they’re upside down or right side up so clearly research wasn’t done lol. this had potential to be great, just in the wrong hands

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 4 месяца назад

      No they don't. The positive/negative is already covered by the meaning of the card, it is all in how it is drawn in context with the other cards or its position in a spread. The concept of reversals is relatively knew and most serious tarot readers do not bother with it because it is nonsense.

    • @quester09
      @quester09 4 месяца назад

      it could have been intriguing, with some sublety and knowledge of tarot

    • @skinwclker5241
      @skinwclker5241 4 месяца назад +7

      @@Not_Always ​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠ they literally do though. Having a card reversed turns it into a more “negative” meaning. The lovers is usually a really good card since it talks about deep love and attraction but once it’s in reversed, it becomes something about weak bonds/lack of romance (depending on the person getting the reading). I’m sure it’s still a new thing no doubt but the card definitely does change in meaning to some degree when it’s reversed

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 4 месяца назад

      @skinwclker5241 that's literally not true

    • @ma.2089
      @ma.2089 4 месяца назад

      @@Not_Always perhaps there’s different ways of reading tarot but the one I’m familiar with does have different meanings based on whether they’re reversed or not. Like death and death reversed meaning 2 different things.
      The reversed tarot stuff has been around since the 90’s so it’s not super new, so it’s not necessarily nonsense

  • @jordanhunter3375
    @jordanhunter3375 4 месяца назад +24

    My idea for how they could have made this more interesting:
    1. Have the first two cards drawn represent a past event (Card 1) that the victim-to-be was a part of that they feel responsible for, which in turns influences how they are in the present (Card 2), and then the Death (Card 3) has a rememant of said event present or takes place at the site.
    For instance: C1: Ned has been given time and again to give aid, yet every time he backs out (He's seen another student, Peter, getting bullied, but doesnt help because hes afraid of getting roped into the bullies' hit list, or he'd be found out as the stitch because teachers fsr have a knack of dropping names even when told NOT to, and thus Peter ends up dying, either by his own hand or the bullying going too far)
    C2: This therefore pushes Ned to become overly helpful to others, to the point of mildly annoying or exasperating others, as a self-coping mechanism to mentally ease that guilt; or, to tie it to the Jester, he becomes a class clown to try and distract the bullies from their doings, oftentimes getting caught by the teachers and labeled a "bad influence" and "troublemaker" because of it
    C3: Either the Jester has Peter's face/voice, it attacks Ned at the site/inside an illusionary recreation of the place Peter lost his life, or even have Peter appear in the background

    • @jordanhunter3375
      @jordanhunter3375 4 месяца назад +2

      2. Over time, both the characters and the audience piece together that each one of them, even the blond tarot-reader, has had a part in Peter's predicament, either as one of his direct tormentors, someone who didn't/couldn't help him, someone who did try to help him but did it too little too late, or unknowingly gave the bullies the means to torment him (like one of the girls gave Bully a spare key to her father's studio, never knowing he would use the building to beat up Peter out of sight or where Peter had initially died before they moved the body to another location and staged it as a botched mugging or something). And then, cherry on top, the Mansion they AirBNB'ed and read the tarot cards at happened to be owned, or at least tended to, by the family of Peter. So the whole time, it wasn't just the Tarot-Master's deck haunting them, it was the wrathful spirit of Peter using the aid of the deck to come after them and take payback on them for contributing to his death

  • @footwearisoptional8766
    @footwearisoptional8766 4 месяца назад +44

    It actually wouldn't be unusual for a twenty-something woman to be a self-taught reader. I was. A trip to Barnes and Noble will do it. Most of the more in-depth books to have information about astrological and numerological correspondences. I have three books right now that would be enought to "buff her up" And saying "oooh, I taught myslef " wouldn't be an unexpected brag. So I wouldn't find that bit all that cheesy.
    However, it is considered very very very impolite to handle someone elses's cards without their permission, let alone read with them. Eespecially not a deck that someone broke into a locked room and grabbed. Some readers won't even buy used decks because they might have someone else's negative energy. (When I saw Stigmata, I wasn't bothered by the "haunted rosary" although the Church will assure you stigmata can't be passed on that way" The thing that pissed me off what that this woman was going through all this pain and suffering over a text that you can pick up an English translation of at... Barnes and Noble.) So, drunk or not, strike one for cheese.

    • @Not_Always
      @Not_Always 4 месяца назад +1

      It is not considered impolite in the sense that if you saw a deck of cards just sitting on a counter and you started looking at it that it is bad. I buy tarot decks second hand, does that mean that every person who handled it before has to give consent to any person that touches it after? That is just another tarot myth, along with your first deck has to be gifted to you.

    • @footwearisoptional8766
      @footwearisoptional8766 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Not_Always If a deck is on the counter in a New Age shop, it's kind of understood that it's there to be pawed over so potential buyers can see what the deck looks like before they buy. And a secondhand deck has usually been sold, given away or inherited and is therfore the property of the person it was given/sold/bequeathed to. I have no problem buying them myself. I think that superstition was started by deck publishers when the used deck market started cutting into their profits.

  • @MightHaveToTakeItThere
    @MightHaveToTakeItThere 4 месяца назад +21

    The most interesting takeaway I got from this video is that I never realized how macabre it was to play the game "Hangman" in elementary school 'til just now.
    Thanks for saving me 14 bucks, I guess, lol.

  • @serpentdog
    @serpentdog 4 месяца назад +28

    i liked the designs of the monsters, that’s about it though

  • @kevinandorsusie
    @kevinandorsusie 4 месяца назад +20

    I knew this movie wasn't for me when I heard the card descriptions they had in the trailers. They weren't _technically_ wrong because the cards are up for interpretation, but some of their descriptions seemed way off from the traditional meaning. Or a meaning you would only get with other different cards clarifying, not the card alone.
    They showed the fool and said "this card means that you feel boxed in" and I was like, "The fool, really? The reckless abandon card, that shows a man in the vast expanse of nature about to waltz off a cliff? That's the boxed in card and not the hanged man?"

  • @schoolinJOO
    @schoolinJOO 5 месяцев назад +90

    scary movie 6 : the tarot deck

  • @shielfoxftw8279
    @shielfoxftw8279 4 месяца назад +10

    My favorite moment in this movie was when the characters were looking up stuff about the curse, and Ned Leeds, while looking at the computer, asks what it says.

  • @AKeNeN
    @AKeNeN 5 месяцев назад +62

    Based on your description of the main character’s experience with her mom, it sounds like the film is alluding to the accuracy of tarot cards rather than the character’s premonition. That would at least explain why you got no further allusions to her abilities thereafter.

  • @mali-ze5ob
    @mali-ze5ob 4 месяца назад +34

    i went to see this with my friends last week, and we thought the entire beginning was an ad

  • @bubblybobabubbles
    @bubblybobabubbles 4 месяца назад +14

    Man I've had NOTHING to do with tarot cards (besides a friend had a deck once) and even I know they're not at all literal. The writers couldn't even do a single google search lol

  • @Slushea
    @Slushea 4 месяца назад +15

    Imo i kinda now wanna see something like yu-gi-oh horror movie where a guy had such a freakout due to being outsmarted he died and now possesses his deck.

    • @EveCat2343
      @EveCat2343 4 месяца назад +4

      Honestly, with the premise and the Shadow Games of the original manga, Yu-Gi-Oh would work really well as a horror series

  • @danorourke1585
    @danorourke1585 5 месяцев назад +31

    My family grew up watching horror movies, my mom taking me and my older sister to all the big horror releases when they came out and having a decent collection of VHS and DVDs at home. We had nothing to do on a rainy Sunday so we went to go see it and we laughed the entire time along with the rest of the audience. If it wasn’t for Jacob Batalon I would have left early lmfao.

  • @Fedorah_Mccain
    @Fedorah_Mccain 4 месяца назад +26

    Wait, you mean to tell me we have a movie where the Tarot cards have their figures come to the real world as twisted parodies of themselves to cause chaos? Persona 3 if it was shiiiiiit

  • @LizzardDaddy
    @LizzardDaddy 4 месяца назад +4

    Im a manager at Regal, we have a contract with Pepsi right now that forces us to play at least 20 to 30 minutes of previews before our movies start. It's a 10 year contract we can't break so I just tell all of our customers to come 10 minutes late to their showing.

  • @agateomania712
    @agateomania712 4 месяца назад +23

    The only reason I was excited for it was because Trevor Henderson was working on monster designs for ittt noooo 😭

  • @SpiralxShock
    @SpiralxShock 4 месяца назад +9

    It’s unfortunate because I follow the guy who did at least some of the creature designs for the movie and his art is so good, it’s a shame they couldn’t have been in a better movie…

  • @dorcaswinter8296
    @dorcaswinter8296 4 месяца назад +5

    Can we also appreciate that throughout as their friends are dying the surviving characters have ZERO emotional reaction to their friends deaths.

  • @salemgender
    @salemgender 4 месяца назад +9

    me and my mom watched it In theaters ^_^ the cashiers told us it was " the worst movie they've ever watched " so i guess we were warned .

  • @angelahyler2955
    @angelahyler2955 5 месяцев назад +31

    Unfortunately I've already watched this atrocity disguised as a movie.

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  5 месяцев назад +9

      Fortunately you made me laugh

  • @mostlynull
    @mostlynull 4 месяца назад +10

    Not me over here just wanting a copy of the deck and not actually giving a shit about this garbage Hollywood shat out. 😂😂😂

  • @Thescarletbrainrot
    @Thescarletbrainrot 4 месяца назад +11

    8:30 speaking as a guy who was in a friend group with my ex during and after our relationship I can tell you it happens😂

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +3

      Never had that happen with my friends but hey I guess it does, oops! lmaoo thanks for the comment

  • @Chuwy1578
    @Chuwy1578 5 месяцев назад +46

    I was expecting like a bad quality video but man this is so much better keep it up man!

    • @rapaz1997
      @rapaz1997 5 месяцев назад +6

      yeah, was expecting a picture of the poster with bad quality and a shitty audio. this was good.

    • @jjhaya
      @jjhaya 4 месяца назад +2

      I've seen a few content creators that have high production but have only like few thousand subscribers and are uploading consistently without a lot of views. I guess they do it because of passion and not necessarily monetary gains since some videos barely hit 10k views.

  • @Wandergirl108
    @Wandergirl108 4 месяца назад +9

    I heard this movie was bad, and a thing I've started doing this year is, when I get too stuck in my head, I go to the theater and watch the worst horror movie on the docket. Naturally, I watched this for that reason…but HOLY HECK it was bad, even for my budding tradition, it blew the other bad horror movies I've watched out of the water. I honestly hate how many times I mentally corrected you because I remembered the plot so well, I curse my stellar memory. Big point: LITERALLY the point of the scene where they throw the cards in the fire is to show that the cards CAN'T be burned, even if you were drunk I don't understand you getting that mixed up. Also, the Tarot Master scene where she takes on the cards is way worse than you made it out to be - she said she'd been planning this for years, and yet she didn't seem to have a plan, she just invoked the spirit and it immediately read her horoscope and killed her and she accomplished literally nothing. But I won't continue to correct you because this movie is not worth the energy. Your main points are still one hundred percent valid.

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +3

      This is how you drop a comment. Everyone else trying to correct me just kinda insulted me and the video. It’s not THAT deep at the end of the day, and yes, I made some errors but nothing too crazy. Appreciate your words here nonetheless ❤️🥂

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +2

      And idk to me during the movie it looked like they cut away when the cards were literally burning to a crisp lmao. Must have missed something there.

    • @Wandergirl108
      @Wandergirl108 4 месяца назад +1

      @@Stark-Cinema No…they throw the cards into the fire, and then spend like a full two minutes freaking out because the cards AREN'T burning. Again, I'm really not sure how you could possibly have missed that, it wasn't remotely subtle or even brief, they MILK the characters' reactions to the cards refusing to burn. Maybe you saw them throw the cards in the fire and then spent the rest of the scene doing something on your phone…? I mean, I guess I couldn't really blame you if that's what happened…

  • @queenofice18
    @queenofice18 5 месяцев назад +27

    I’m going to watch this. I do enjoy bad movies

  • @sakura_f4u546
    @sakura_f4u546 3 месяца назад +3

    I agree that the lady's death was the vaguest of all. She read the cartas to herself so that with her "power" she could talk to the spirit that cursed the cards.
    The death of the girl, of probable Indian ethnicity, was not overlooked, I would say that they realized that she separated from the group after not seeing her behind them.
    But if I were them I would have also continued running, because my life is in danger and crying now was not the right time. I don't think it would have been right for them to have turned around and gone looking for her, especially when they know they are the next to die.

    • @sakura_f4u546
      @sakura_f4u546 3 месяца назад

      They tried to burn the cards, but they couldn't, since they were cursed and indestructible.

    • @sakura_f4u546
      @sakura_f4u546 3 месяца назад

      In the final scene you can see that after the protagonist read the letters to the former astrologer, she explains that living in the past will not allow herself to be completely healed. After her final card is revealed as death, she is trapped by the circle of the zodiac and her spirit is freed from the regret of her past, you can see the scene of her and her daughter walking together.

    • @sakura_f4u546
      @sakura_f4u546 3 месяца назад

      And no, the one who was hanged was not a lesbian because she was in love with the boy who di#d at the beggining.

    • @sakura_f4u546
      @sakura_f4u546 3 месяца назад

      Our dear Ned does not die because in the letters he not only said that he would unexpectedly help his friends, but because he told him that by staying with company or friends he could be saved.(in this case Tod.)

  • @JohnnyCarver2024OC
    @JohnnyCarver2024OC 3 месяца назад +3

    32:55 They are cursed so I don’t think burning them away would get rid of them

  • @cj-bi7hz
    @cj-bi7hz 4 месяца назад +4

    As someone who does tarrot and is so tired of the myth that tarrot cards are evil, I refused to watch this movie. It's like people making a horror movie out of the Bible

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +1

      The Bible do be scary though….

    • @cj-bi7hz
      @cj-bi7hz 4 месяца назад

      @@Stark-Cinema definitely, but still shouldn't be turned into a horror movie 😭

  • @hgmd3284
    @hgmd3284 4 месяца назад +6

    What are you talking about, I loved that movie, I loved it when the high priestess tarot monster just said “the arcana is the means by which all is revealed!” Then tarot’d all over the place
    (I’m kidding I never saw the film)

  • @aubreymorgan9763
    @aubreymorgan9763 4 месяца назад +9

    It’s like they took the tarot system from phasmophobia and piled on more bs

  • @Uprssdthwrgbttn
    @Uprssdthwrgbttn 4 месяца назад +3

    Laziest death scene? I point you in the direction of In The Name Of The King 3. Dolph Lundgren manages to lay on the ground in the most casual way possible while bad guys literally run and fall on his sword. Me and my homies almost stopped Bad Movie Night because we couldn't stop laughing over how bad that scene was.

  • @dawlish81a
    @dawlish81a 5 месяцев назад +7

    First vid of yours I’ve seen, loved it and like your setup and style, the not looking at us the entire time but punctuated eye contact really effective. Look forward to more.

  • @FBvampire
    @FBvampire 4 месяца назад +4

    I hate how she says “fuck fate” as if they won or something, girl like 6 of your friends died 😂😂

  • @angelwhitenight1456
    @angelwhitenight1456 4 месяца назад +3

    Let's be honest, in real life they would have looked at the cards and ignored them to get more alcool lol

  • @JohnnyCarver2024OC
    @JohnnyCarver2024OC 3 месяца назад +2

    Holy shit. They made thanksgiving, one of the best horror films from last year. I’m looking at you Sony Pictures

  • @DungForever
    @DungForever 4 месяца назад +2

    I actually found it super interesting and I'm glad it wasn't that scary. I've never heard of using your zodiac to do a tarot reading and I feel like the movie could have been a little better if someone bothered to actually research Tarot card readings beyond the first page of Google.

  • @Haventgonefar
    @Haventgonefar 4 месяца назад +7

    You can’t just bring up deepfake Tom Cruise character and NOT show a pic 😭

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +2

      I should have dug up the actor's IMDB -- I couldn't find ONE good clip of the dude on marketing material lmao

  • @aidenisconfused3436
    @aidenisconfused3436 5 месяцев назад +11

    Idk if this is interesting to you but Trevor Henderson is responsible for some (if not all, I am not sure) of the concept art behind the monsters. That is all I know though, so I can’t say if he was also involved in shooting the scenes or just the monster designs.

    • @GlobalsoftPirka
      @GlobalsoftPirka 5 месяцев назад +7

      He just did the designs. The designs are genuinely awesome. 🥲

  • @thewildmonarch
    @thewildmonarch 4 месяца назад +2

    I have a friend who's been into tarot for a few years and when I saw the trailer for this movie, I started dying laughing, because clearly the movie makers don't actually know how tarot works.

  • @revenanted
    @revenanted 4 месяца назад +4

    Confused why some actors in Tarot are actually decent at their job but put into this garbage movie.

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад

      It’s hard to get consistent work as an actor so even when you’re good you take whatever you can get sometimes

  • @Cece-m2w
    @Cece-m2w 4 месяца назад +4

    AmaIng review I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers!! Most in depth review I have seen of this movie

  • @DistressedCrab
    @DistressedCrab 5 месяцев назад +9

    They’re putting a bad name on tarot :(

  • @jolierodriguezzz
    @jolierodriguezzz 4 месяца назад +2

    it would’ve been cooler if the jester and magician played a role in each of their deaths like potentially orchestrating situations to test each character and if they failed obviously they’d die but if they passed they’d live because of this whoever survived could’ve conducted a plan to get the magician and jester back into the box while banishing the vengeful spirit

  • @jennyfer757
    @jennyfer757 4 месяца назад +2

    “He’s not a bad guy , he’s a bad actor” 💀

  • @TuberoseKisser
    @TuberoseKisser 4 месяца назад +6

    So basically....I should just watch it for the Jester scene?

  • @bribro23
    @bribro23 4 месяца назад +1

    The Ironman plushie perfectly positioned in the blank space under the Mic does something for me😂😂

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад

      Welcome to the greatest semi ok RUclips channel on earth

  • @lavenderlaceration
    @lavenderlaceration 4 месяца назад +1

    The monsters were all done by the creator of siren head, Trevor Henderson! That's why they're all so cool, he posted some concept sketches on his IG for the jester and its super cool :3

  • @lomasharripersad1233
    @lomasharripersad1233 4 месяца назад +7

    Taro is based on the book horoscope, now i have not read or warch the movie but i do wonder if the book is any better

  • @p.d.l7023
    @p.d.l7023 4 месяца назад +2

    Biggest surprise: Main character is a blonde woman?! In 2024?!

  • @AAAAHHHHhhH
    @AAAAHHHHhhH 4 месяца назад +2

    Ik its late and someone already said this but the scene about the cards burning youre talking about, the cards actually dont burn, thats the whole reason they look for the tarotmaster character in the 1st place

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад

      ahhhh yes sorry the movie was so boring I guess I missed it

  • @jennyfer3673
    @jennyfer3673 4 месяца назад +2

    Shame this movie didn’t do so well, since the designs for the tarot monsters was done by the guy who created Sirenhead. He did a good job on the designs only to have it be in a shitty movie

  • @-OneofManyNames
    @-OneofManyNames 4 месяца назад +2

    The monster designs were really good, they were made by an Instagram artist named Trevor Henderson. His art is incredible, but the movie is bad. I honestly feel bad for Trevor, hes such a good artist, but his name is attached to such a bad movie.

  • @babsdriskol910
    @babsdriskol910 5 месяцев назад +6

    It sounds like the makers of the Gallows went into cryosleep and woke up just to slog this one out

  • @GhostownKnives
    @GhostownKnives 5 месяцев назад +26

    Man I like your style and presentation type but the work ethic and ...diligence? is lacking on this particular video.
    To me it is always a bummer to know someone is making a project does not care about the topic or presentation enough to learn the details and answer the things they "don"t know"
    it is just as hard to ignore in a RUclips video as it is in a crappy horror flick.
    it makes me want to do all the missing due diligence for you and watch the movie to gather the details that you didn't care to retain. just to complete the experience I have just invested my time into .
    a well thought out, spoken AND researched video would be so much more engaging because you yourself are very entertaining ...but not knowing basic plot points and order of events makes it hard to justify the time used for this rant.
    I say that as a someone who almost exclusively watches long form content(just very happily spent 6 hours learning about Midsommar) and also just watched this in its entirety.
    You do not have to care about the film but you must definitely care about the video you are making... its no legendary horror film but could be a phenomenal break down and critique on your end.
    subbed .

    • @kyeshagoodyear6560
      @kyeshagoodyear6560 5 месяцев назад +6

      I saw the movie and it’s obvious he wasn’t paying attention. He got a lot of things wrong. You don’t even need to research anything, just watch the movie. I don’t know how he missed these things

    • @owltakizawa
      @owltakizawa 5 месяцев назад +2

      Agreed. Even having not seen the movie a ton of thins he said and ignored could've been solved with the smallest bit of research, or actually paying attention. I love to be a hater, it's funny, but if I'm gonna shit on a movie and post it I'd at least like to be a little accurate y'know.

    • @StonyStark
      @StonyStark 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@kyeshagoodyear6560thanks for the comment ❤️🙏

    • @StonyStark
      @StonyStark 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@owltakizawajust comment with your rebuttal next time - appreciate the engagement either way

    • @StonyStark
      @StonyStark 5 месяцев назад +3

      Thanks for the sub - what did I get wrong? I think I messed around talking about 6 characters instead of 7 but the plot is pretty basic; pretty sure I got the plot correct.
      Let me know!
      Thanks 🙏 ❤️

  • @TheLegPumpkin
    @TheLegPumpkin 4 месяца назад +1

    Longlegs is the most interesting horror movie I've waited for in years.

  • @Syreynnae85
    @Syreynnae85 5 месяцев назад +13

    Light roast… if that’s your closest I don’t trust what you call boring… lol 💜💜

    • @CupidCrux
      @CupidCrux 4 месяца назад

      Omgggg thissss lolol😂

  • @doubleclutchdualies6570
    @doubleclutchdualies6570 4 месяца назад +1

    Incorrect. The evil girl in the cards reads the tarot master’s future against their will. Which makes the movie even dumber

  • @seleniebeanie
    @seleniebeanie 4 месяца назад +4

    XD EVERY video I've watched about this movie has just said how Jacob Batalon is the only good thing about the movie. LOL

  • @Qeisama
    @Qeisama 4 месяца назад +1

    If only this plays like someone / some cults tried to build a connection to higher entity through collecting souls imbibed within the Tarot to form a mystical tree of life and connect to the higher entity.
    The ritualistic to imbibe the soul must correlate with the meaning of the Arcana. E.g imbibing The Fool with the soul of someone free spirited and daredevils who died because of high curiosity.
    The Tarot is almost done, but it needs 6 more souls. This is where it could be revealed that one of the teenagers is a cult member that tried to complete the rituals and invite the groups as they fulfilled the condition for the last 6 cards.

  • @jaeologist3361
    @jaeologist3361 4 месяца назад +2

    I thought I was tripping with pre movie previews they were so long like 40ish mins

  • @mapetidye
    @mapetidye 4 месяца назад +4

    It would’ve been good if they made the movie longer to focus on accurate history and storyline

  • @369dimensionreadings
    @369dimensionreadings 3 месяца назад +2

    ♈Aries🌞, ♋Cancer🌙,♉Taurus⬆

  • @cozyheartache
    @cozyheartache 4 месяца назад +1

    keep going man, you are great content and the boom is on the horizon

  • @aarsha6384
    @aarsha6384 5 месяцев назад +4

    Damnnn, I just realised his eyes are really scary

  • @NightmareRex6
    @NightmareRex6 4 месяца назад +3

    but i dont think those "bad movies" die becuase all those communitys that specificaly watch the WOST movies on purpose.

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +1

      Lots of them do lose money but yes some of them can take on cult followings

  • @eyeorigins77
    @eyeorigins77 3 месяца назад +1

    i actually enjoyed it. i need more stupid horror movies. sometimes i just wanna get scared

  • @TigerBxy
    @TigerBxy 4 месяца назад +1

    I remember I had to check my tickets to make sure I was in the right auditorium when it started, and then I looked up the cast list just to make double sure. The tone was just so off right away.

  • @johndaniel6443
    @johndaniel6443 4 месяца назад +4

    I was thoroughly disappointed. It was a dud, and the ending was so underwhelming 😢

  • @mauricemcclain5253
    @mauricemcclain5253 5 месяцев назад +3

    Great review, and BTW, that is a nice closet it says " I am a grown ass man! Doing big shit!!"

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  5 месяцев назад

      Lmao! It's just a nice touch and an easy place to put some suits ;)

  • @jamieserrano827
    @jamieserrano827 4 месяца назад +2

    Why neuter a scary movie with a PG-13 rating?
    It’s just lame these studios are turning out weak sauce, horror movies with rating to get tweens and young teens in seats instead of going all out

  • @uraniancoolery927
    @uraniancoolery927 4 месяца назад +2

    Me when I don’t know the occult so I talk and talk and talk.

  • @kaitlintemplar3719
    @kaitlintemplar3719 5 месяцев назад +3

    I have that regal movie pass they said previews are 30 mins long and it kills me with having adhd and not being able to focus long but for the movie I feel so many of the characters could have been saved if they just sat still and didn't run from everything cause there was 4 people who ran or left and died . I think the cards got sold at auction if it was evidence at the police department

  • @youaretearingmeapartlisa7253
    @youaretearingmeapartlisa7253 3 месяца назад +1

    I was so annoyed that they didn't just have the characters get the corresponding card to their astro sign. It would have made way more sense and spookier that she'd draw each person's main card that way. The monsters looked way better in the trailer and I felt tricked!

  • @sakura_f4u546
    @sakura_f4u546 3 месяца назад

    They look for alcohol around the house as a last resort. They already said that the stores would be closed at that time and home delivery orders would not be fulfilled either.
    The first boy does not die because he sticks his head out, but rather he is pushed by the spirit out of the train and a train coincidentally passed by.
    The birthday girl goes up the stairs in search of whoever is making the joke, but after receiving the scare they push her to the ground, leaving her semi-unconscious and probably with some injuries...That's when the priestess takes the opportunity to drag her under the stairs.

  • @pluralizingeverythings2737
    @pluralizingeverythings2737 5 месяцев назад +4

    You deserve a "K" after these 644 subs man. Nice vid

    • @Stark-Cinema
      @Stark-Cinema  4 месяца назад +2

      I appreciate that! We just hit 1k!