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Recently watched We're All Going to (sleep watching) the World's Fair.

Some people really do just praise shit because it's quirky or comfy huh? I never found the early Internet to be spooky or ominous so I guess a lot of it just went over my head. Also ripping off paying homage to Paranormal Activity is peak creative bankruptcy.
 
Iron Father said:
Recently watched We're All Going to (sleep watching) the World's Fair.

Some people really do just praise shit because it's quirky or comfy huh? I never found the early Internet to be spooky or ominous so I guess a lot of it just went over my head. Also ripping off paying homage to Paranormal Activity is peak creative bankruptcy.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The critics consensus reads: "Narratively challenging and visually haunting, We're All Going to the World's Fair adds a uniquely ambitious and unsettling entry to the crowded coming-of-age genre."[18] On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 78 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[19]

Some reviewers have interpreted the film as having themes of gender dysphoria.[20] Of this, Schoenbrun, who is nonbinary, has said that they were trying "to do something that felt truthful to [their] coming-out process."[20]
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well there you have it
 
I mean they got most of the letters right in that movie name.

Edit - also, Florida is literally the worst place to be a vampire. Extremely long, hot, sunny days. And it's where, vampire or not, you're most likely to get staked in the heart at random. The gators will eat all of your wolf familiars. And any pestilence you bring will be unnoticed due to the pre-existing far worse pestilence. Not to mention any blood you drink is going to be inundated with meth, alcohol, herpes, and God knows what else. (Source: escaped Floridian)
 
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Dragged Into Sunlight said:
Just watched the American remake of Speak No Evil and it really just cements how Blumhouse horror has absolutely no balls.
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I know I'm late on this, but I just saw Woman in the Yard and I'd say that's not necessarily true. I'm surprised this movie got made in 2025. That was an absolute mean spirited and cruel movie. It takes some kind of balls to make a movie where a woman AND person of color is that hateable. I don't think any movie has made a woman that hateable since Sicario. I recommend a slow afternoon pirate. I think it's got a decent bit to say. Spoilers ahead because I really do want to talk about my thoughts on it.

So the ending twist is that the mother fucking hated the farm life. She was feeling suffocated not being a girl boss. Even though her husband says she was coming home literally crying over her career and how difficult work was. So this poor man moves her out to the country, and starts fresh to live the trad dream. Except now she hates it and wants to go back to the city and abandon her family to go back to work. What an absolute monster of a cunt. The movie doesn't tell us if she crashed the car intentionally to kill her husband, but I like to think it's implied. Ever since then, she wants to kill herself. She hates her children. She's constantly fantasizes murdering them and leaving. Despite all of this, she misses her husband and talking about how they were going to make the farm life work. She never gave it a name because she secretly hated it. Yet now that he's gone, she misses it. The titular Woman In the Yard is a form of Death giving her the strength to kill herself. There's a part where the Woman tells her that her children will be better off without her. She even shows them their future (which is probably all in her head and she's justifying suicide to herself.) She looks at the stuffed penguin her daughter left her and blows her brains out. In her version of Heaven, just to rub salt in the wound, she goes to a Heaven where her kids come back and their home and farm is completed to live out their days. She even named it. This whole thing started with her hating this place and then after she destroys any possibility of their dream happening, then she yearns for it. I don't think I've seen a more hateable woman in movies. She definitely goes up there. She is unsympathetic, abhorrent, narcissistic CUNTBAG. She 1000% deserves to blow her own brains out. The mother is an absolute monster.

I think a lot of people get lost in the message of suicide. I've seen reviews for it where people say it glorifies suicide. However, I don't think so. These are very much delusions she's having and lying to herself that suicide is the way to go because she's a selfish narcissist and her mind is fracturing and has been for awhile now. I think people get lost in the notion of suicide, either thinking the movie is trying to say suicide is good or bad. When in reality, I think the director's intention is to make you hate an absolutely selfish woman who's completely beyond any redemption for repeatedly selfish and hypocritical choices. She starts off being portrayed as sympathetic and as the mask peels off you realize how much of a real monster she is. I've seen and heard plenty of older women echo the "IM TRAPPED IN MY FAMILY" sentiment, so I think it's a very relatable conflict. Heck if you browse the Farms long enough, you'll find plenty of users who say that now. I feel bad for the son who has to deal with all this bullshit caused by his mom. In my opinion, I think the whole movie is a demonstration about how being a selfish narcissist can lead one down a bad path in life and it's better to appreciate the good while you have it. The woman doesn't even show up until the son brings down his dad's mug. At first I thought it was the mug that pissed her off, but rather it's what it says "If you dream it, you can build it". She can't dream it anymore and she physically cannot build it because her leg is fucked from the accident. She views the mug as a taunt. Or I'm wrong and the director is a fag just glorifying suicide. Who knows. Either way, it's only a matter of time before that Ryan Hollinger fag makes a video on it for his YouTube channel. I also think the director made intentionally or unintentionally, the most anti-woman movie in awhile lol. The whole movie is caused by one giant Womoment.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
I'm not an expert, I'll give that Florida is technically south of Deep South, but I'm pretty sure you have to be near the poles to do 30 days of darkness things?
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Your Starter for 10 said:
I mean they got most of the letters right in that movie name.

Edit - also, Florida is literally the worst place to be a vampire. Extremely long, hot, sunny days. And it's where, vampire or not, you're most likely to get staked in the heart at random. The gators will eat all of your wolf familiars. And any pestilence you bring will be unnoticed due to the pre-existing far worse pestilence. Not to mention any blood you drink is going to be inundated with meth, alcohol, herpes, and God knows what else. (Source: escaped Floridian)
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I initially thought it would be an Evil Dead ripoff until I saw the comments revealed the monsters are vampires. Demon-possessed people would have been more fitting with where it's set.
 
Iron Father said:
Recently watched We're All Going to (sleep watching) the World's Fair.

Some people really do just praise shit because it's quirky or comfy huh? I never found the early Internet to be spooky or ominous so I guess a lot of it just went over my head. Also ripping off paying homage to Paranormal Activity is peak creative bankruptcy.
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I kind of hated it. My effortpost review/reaction from earlier in the thread:
frozen_runner said:
I just watched Let's All Go to the World's Fair (2021), solely because Michael J. Rogers is in it and I really liked his performance in Beyond the Black Rainbow. I knew zero about it otherwise.

Early on it was clear I was watching a micro-budget, "nothing is actually going to happen" indie film, but I couldn't have been prepared for how little happened. The movie is, to it's credit, very effective at illustrating the dysfunction of lonely and isolated people who live too much of their lives online in hyper-niche communities, and there are stretches of the film that are totally watchable due to solid direction and pacing. But around halfway through I lost interest (despite a an engaging debut performance by the main actress), and by the end I actually kind of hated the movie (and myself) for wasting my time.

Then I found out the director is a tranny/genderspecial, and I realized I really shouldn't have bothered. Not recommended. It's not even really a horror film.

Oh, and a shout out to whoever in this thread recommended They Look Like People (2015). I haven't been able to get into Perry Blacksheer's later film The Siren (2019), but TLLP is a great example of quality indie filmmaking on a budget. In other words, it's everything Let's Go to the World's Fair isn't, including "scary."
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No way in hell I'm watching I Saw the TV Glow.
 
frozen_runner said:
No way in hell I'm watching I Saw the TV Glow.
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I watched it yesterday and I quite liked it. Overrated perhaps but I kinda get the hype, as nobody really makes "Lynchian" movies that often. Didn't even seem like the same director as We're All Going to the World's Fair tbh. I've never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer so some of the references went over my head though.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
Just watched the American remake of Speak No Evil and it really just cements how Blumhouse horror has absolutely no balls.

First hour where it followed the original was great but of course they completely puss out on the ending, which was the entire fucking point of the movie.
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Imagine if they did that with the Funny Games remake. Come to think of it, what if Paddy/Patrick and Karen/Ciara met Peter and Paul from Funny Games?
 
Party Hat Wurmple said:
I know I'm late on this, but I just saw Woman in the Yard and I'd say that's not necessarily true. I'm surprised this movie got made in 2025. That was an absolute mean spirited and cruel movie. It takes some kind of balls to make a movie where a woman AND person of color is that hateable. I don't think any movie has made a woman that hateable since Sicario. I recommend a slow afternoon pirate. I think it's got a decent bit to say. Spoilers ahead because I really do want to talk about my thoughts on it.

So the ending twist is that the mother fucking hated the farm life. She was feeling suffocated not being a girl boss. Even though her husband says she was coming home literally crying over her career and how difficult work was. So this poor man moves her out to the country, and starts fresh to live the trad dream. Except now she hates it and wants to go back to the city and abandon her family to go back to work. What an absolute monster of a cunt. The movie doesn't tell us if she crashed the car intentionally to kill her husband, but I like to think it's implied. Ever since then, she wants to kill herself. She hates her children. She's constantly fantasizes murdering them and leaving. Despite all of this, she misses her husband and talking about how they were going to make the farm life work. She never gave it a name because she secretly hated it. Yet now that he's gone, she misses it. The titular Woman In the Yard is a form of Death giving her the strength to kill herself. There's a part where the Woman tells her that her children will be better off without her. She even shows them their future (which is probably all in her head and she's justifying suicide to herself.) She looks at the stuffed penguin her daughter left her and blows her brains out. In her version of Heaven, just to rub salt in the wound, she goes to a Heaven where her kids come back and their home and farm is completed to live out their days. She even named it. This whole thing started with her hating this place and then after she destroys any possibility of their dream happening, then she yearns for it. I don't think I've seen a more hateable woman in movies. She definitely goes up there. She is unsympathetic, abhorrent, narcissistic CUNTBAG. She 1000% deserves to blow her own brains out. The mother is an absolute monster.

I think a lot of people get lost in the message of suicide. I've seen reviews for it where people say it glorifies suicide. However, I don't think so. These are very much delusions she's having and lying to herself that suicide is the way to go because she's a selfish narcissist and her mind is fracturing and has been for awhile now. I think people get lost in the notion of suicide, either thinking the movie is trying to say suicide is good or bad. When in reality, I think the director's intention is to make you hate an absolutely selfish woman who's completely beyond any redemption for repeatedly selfish and hypocritical choices. She starts off being portrayed as sympathetic and as the mask peels off you realize how much of a real monster she is. I've seen and heard plenty of older women echo the "IM TRAPPED IN MY FAMILY" sentiment, so I think it's a very relatable conflict. Heck if you browse the Farms long enough, you'll find plenty of users who say that now. I feel bad for the son who has to deal with all this bullshit caused by his mom. In my opinion, I think the whole movie is a demonstration about how being a selfish narcissist can lead one down a bad path in life and it's better to appreciate the good while you have it. The woman doesn't even show up until the son brings down his dad's mug. At first I thought it was the mug that pissed her off, but rather it's what it says "If you dream it, you can build it". She can't dream it anymore and she physically cannot build it because her leg is fucked from the accident. She views the mug as a taunt. Or I'm wrong and the director is a fag just glorifying suicide. Who knows. Either way, it's only a matter of time before that Ryan Hollinger fag makes a video on it for his YouTube channel. I also think the director made intentionally or unintentionally, the most anti-woman movie in awhile lol. The whole movie is caused by one giant Womoment.
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The only ending this character should have gotten is after offing herself she is back at her old city life only there is no family to come home to at the end of the day, revealing this is her personal Hell for all eternity. Of course, that ending would not fly with current Hollywood.
 
The Nothingness said:
This is just 30 Days of Night set in the 1930s Deep South with a mostly black cast.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7joulECTx_U
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Looks average and woke. And it's from a very milk toast director but it always amuses me that the guy was in the same graduating class as lolcow Lindsay Ellis who formed a mean girls clique ostracizing him. So I want the guy to continue to make films just to mock her.
 
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The Nothingness said:
The only ending this character should have gotten is after offing herself she is back at her old city life only there is no family to come home to at the end of the day, revealing this is her personal Hell for all eternity. Of course, that ending would not fly with current Hollywood.
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You know it's funny, in the last few moments of the movie the husband isn't there. However, the dog does come back. Fuck the Dad, he's still dead in her Titanic Heaven. It's just the dog. The dog and what I'm assuming is a kitchen full of peanut butter...Even in her delusional heaven, she's still a selfish, narcissistic bitch. She didn't even fix her leg. She still needs help walking. Even in Heaven, she's still a cripple. This movie is fucking hilarious.
 
some autotranscriptions of 1978 said:
(10:41) Todo muy lindo en la primavera, (10:44) ¿quién sabe ahora qué nos esperará? (10:46) La confusión es un mal menor, (10:48) ya secó la flor y nos acomo el semblante. (10:53) Se avecina lo mejor.
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AND?
And what the fuck is so mejor?
why the fuck is the captions stopping and literally there's no dialog for -
[checking the audio, splat intensifies and there's not really "dialog"]
well, okay.
you win THIS round

worth a doublepost
I have seen the future of horror and it is crabsticking up a translation while being vaguely aware of the content and getting the last half hour of the movie is
(0:02) I can't feel anything! (0:06) That's enough already! (0:07) Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! (0:15) She's gone! (0:16) They've taken her!! (0:1 8 This is going to end badly. (0:19) She wentounding into the screen! (1:12) No! (2:19) No! (2:49) No! (3:09) No! (3:12) No! (3:14) No! (3:15) No! (3:41) No! (3:59) Irene, we have to go now. (4:02) Take care of him.
(4:04) Promise me that you will take care of him. (4:09) I promise.
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and then wondering what the movie is...
 
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