Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, August 24, 2018) Movie

Starring John Cho and Debra Messing. Also, the first mainstream thriller headlined by an Asian-American actor in Hollywood

 

This is getting some solid early praise, so maybe this will surprise some people

 

It's pretty solid. Gets a bit... silly (?) story wise but the gimmick works really well and it's surprisingly very moving at times. I had genuine tears like two minutes in.

 

Two minutes in?! We have an UP situation on our hands?

 

The first shot — let alone the first sequence — had me tearing. Definitely rivals Up in that regard.

The level of craft on display throughout the whole movie is astounding. At least every ten minutes I would put my hand to my mouth and get butterflies in my stomach at something, whether it be a narrative beat or a manipulation of the found footage gimmick. Briliant movie.

 

Enjoyed it thoroughly. Did feel it went a little off the rails towards the end but I suppose it had to. loved how it nailed that fake thoughts and prayers spread on social media, thought that was too real
Saw this as a double feature with the Happytime Murders. Wow was that a piece of shit in comparison to this.

 

this was better than I expected
my stomach was in knots when it seemed like the brother did it
also I’m glad that there was a happy ending cuz I couldn’t take much more Sad John Cho
also I found it kinda refreshing to see realistic texting/social media use in a movie, it’s a big pet peeve of mine when tv/movie characters don’t text like real people do

 

I thought this was incredible. I actually felt the "gimmick" added a lot to the story. I was a lot more invested in the story and felt like I was very much on the same page as Cho's character the entire way through far more than if this had been shot traditionally.

 

This was pretty damn great

 

Hadn't heard of this until yesterday, but our local theaters are doing $5 movies all weekend so I watched some trailers and picked this. It feels wrong to say this was "fun" to watch since the subject matter is so dark and portrayed pretty realistically, but it really was. The gimmick was handled really well and the story was a straight up roller coaster through and through. Loved how they nipped the twist in the bud early on by showing Rosemary getting that award and whatnot. Her being the culprit came into my head a few times but was instantly cast away every time I thought back to David looking her up so early on. And those texts between David's brother and Margot... my heart was sinking like an anchor!!

 

Oh god when David's brother became a suspect, I nearly lost it

 

Loved this even more than I thought I would and my expectations were already quite high. Also glad this has opened in the US higher than Sony expected which it more than deserves and even though I saw at a small screen in my local cinema it was still mostly packed which surprised me. Hoping it makes a good amount of money here in the UK.

 

Very surprising. Good movie.

 

This knocked me on my ass a bit. Really great movie.

 

One of the writers/producers of this is actively commenting in the r/movies thread and I just think that's really cool.

 

He goes on the screenwriting sub a lot too

 

There were a few minor things that took me out of this a little but overall this was real good.

 

Might be my favorite film of the year when all is said and done

 

This was great.

 

Wow this had me riveted the whole time. the slow reveal at the vigil was absolutely chilling

 

If Sony doesn't put this into more theaters in the US for the weekend then they are utterly mad as it has gone from fourth place last weekend to third on Tuesday and second place on Wednesday despite showing in the least amount of theaters in the top ten.

 

This could easily climb to number 1 with only Peppermint and The Nun coming out this week.

 

Pretty sure The Nun is gonna have a big opening.

 

Yeah no way. The Nun is going to open p huge this weekend. Gonna be the biggest "Conjuring" opening

 

I forgot that The Nun was part of the Conjuring universe. Searching could be number 2 though.