Trap (M. Night Shyamalan, August 2, 2024) Movie • Page 12

Final season good

 

Only ever saw the first season of that show. It was good but always kinda left me in a funk, in the same way that the first season of The Leftovers did. I’ll probably restart it again someday because I haven’t heard many negative things

 

yeah absolutely a stand up and walk around and take a few breaths between episodes kinda show lol, such an oppressive feeling to it. thankfully the episodes are short enough that it's still a relatively breezy watch, and Grint's character is good comic relief

 

“stand up and walk around and take a few breaths”

Sounds like The Butcher’s M.O. at the Lady Raven show!

 

you mean that nut that's been goin around choppin people up??

 

finally about to watch this. sucks i’m sitting behind a whole pack of bros in the next row AND i was here early enough to see an eli roth peta ad

 

I hated this more than any film I've seen this year and maybe in several years and I feel like I'm going crazy because general consensus seems to be "it was inoffensive and okay" and I'm just over here with my loathing.

I have very low expectations for M. Night films but generally find them mindlessly enjoyable, so it's not an aversion to him.

 

enjoyed the hell out of this. i never wanted him to stop getting out of every pinch he was in

 

time will vindicate this movies enjoyers I'm sure

 

wouldn't be the first night movie for that to happen

 

Movie fucking rocked. One of the best of the year imo and his best since Signs. My Letterbox review:

Trap, Shyamalan’s latest, is really silly, and at times totally nonsensical, at least when considering the machinations of the plot. But M Night is so supremely talented (and at this point alarmingly underrated) that he is able to transcend all of these obvious flaws. He’s more concerned about fathers and daughters, the paradoxical nature of parenthood, and the relationship between fatherhood and vice, both in many ways their own “trap”. Wanting to be a great dad but being preoccupied with other personal interests, that’s a tough and threatening line to walk. Trap isn’t that dissimilar from his comeback movie Split, but this is retooled in a way that will be relatable to many middle aged family men, in more terrifying ways, ways that could destroy a life. As an aside, Josh Hartnett is on absolute fire here in what is surely his all time best performance.

 

Gotta catch up on this thread when I get home, this was definitely a beat too long but wow did I have fun with it. Felt like everyone making it hard a blast too. Hartnett was on that Cage/Wahlberg juice and hamming it up every chance he got whether the scene called for it or not. Still so hunky and charming. Shyamalan's daughter was really good on this imo. Movie just had me grinning for the first half and feeling pretty tense/anxious in the second. Feels like his most fun since The Visit and also felt like the best version of the B-movie schtick he's been doing since that movie combined with a genuine Hitchcock-esque thing. Great time at da movies, baby!

 

I'm coming around on this more after listening to the Blank Check episode. I think I just expected something a little more grounded. Might try to catch it again before it leaves theaters though as I think I'll enjoy it more going in with a different mindset.

 

I've seen people drink $20 beers while watching a baseball game on the bar TV inside the stadium where the game is actually happening that they have purchased seats for, this is definitely not unrealistic lol

 

Definitely seen that and people that tailgate through and miss entire shows.

 

That blows my mind lol

 

I almost got into a fight at a phoebe bridgers concert because the people behind would not shut up her entire set and just kept talking about where to go drink afterwards so I finally turned around and told them to shut the fuck up. They paid $75 to talk during her set.

 

You and me both lol

 

Can't stop thinking about how impressive it is that Saleka created a full album of original music for an in-film concert that her dad ALSO had to direct in addition to the actual film. Like the film or not, that's undeniably impressive and lends to the whole "An M. Night Shyamalan Experience" tagline

 

oh I was hoping they'd drop that. song with Cudi is a genuine hit

 

If any of his films deserve re-evaluation, it's Lady in the Water.

 

The only ones that deserve the mockery are After Earth, The Last Airbender, and if you want to be a completionist, Wide Awake.

 

truly hope i'd like glass and old a helluva lot more if i revisited either/both of them

 

Glass is much better than it gets credit for.