Sara Watches Stuff

I get recommended a lot of terrible, terrible horror movies, so I've learned to take any recommendations from the internet with a grain of salt. I had absolutely no idea what to expect from the relatively small film, Spring . It was directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead, and while I own Resolution on DVD, I've never actually watched it? How did it get there? Is it any good? I should probably watch Resolution , right? I should definitely watch Resolution , because if Spring is any proof of what Benson and Moorhead can do together, they're a great team. I was actually shocked that this was recommended to me on horror forums, because it's such a non-horror movie. I'd actually call Spring a romance first a foremost, with monster movie leanings. Think Colossal , but less sophisticated and about love instead of people systemically destroying each other , and really the only similarity is the monster thing. Apparently I just like monster movies that are di...

While  Project Almanac  lacks the cleanness, coherence and atmosphere of  Timecrimes ,  it at least has a bit of fun. Is it successful in at least that aspect? That’s a question I’m still unsure of the answer to. There are problems in this movie inherent to the major generic elements - not only is it a time travel movie, it’s also a found footage movie. On top of that, it’s about teenagers. From there, you should be able to work out whether or not this movie would be your cup of tea.  The first person footage is often unjustified or inconsistent (how is the video camera picking up audio of a quiet conversation metres away at a goddamn music festival?; about twenty minutes into the movie, a character finally says that from then on, they should record everything - so what was the beginning stuff?) and at times made me feel dizzy in real life. The time travel was atrocious. Even within the rules established in universe, it seemed to disregard logic at will, es...

You know when a movie claims to be based on true stories and you can’t help rolling your eyes? That’s  Deliver Us From Evil .  Bar some effective spooky imagery, the movie itself is very average. A cop (Eric Bana) uncovers a case that quickly reveals itself to be centred around possession and otherworldly interference, and it becomes an obsession.  It’s slow paced and not in a way that feels intentional; it’s a horror movie bottled in a crime drama, and as such it can't quite figure out whether to pace itself over episodes or to keep the action up. The lighting suffers a similar condition, where the whole thing is lit in the same way as those “gritty” tv shows that really need to ease up on the blue tint and maybe turn on a lamp or two. The performances are fine, mostly - Eric Bana carries the whole damn movie, and you need it in contrast to people like the Jesuit priest who is…cringe-worthy. It’s so close to nailing the tone - it could go full cop drama or full...

I need a “Sara’s watching garbage” jingle. This is the first post on this converted blog with one of the truly, truly garbage entries! What utter garbage this movie was.  I know you have to set aside some judgement on the science side of things, because this is a movie about one of ~those~ super drugs and in this case, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is unwillingly used as a drug mule for said super drug until it ruptures in her guts and allows her to unlock - you guessed it -  100% of her brain . Yeah. It’s  Limitless , but a little more self aware. And when I say "a little", I mean it. They know we want to see Scarlett Johansson beating people up and manipulating the physical world, but they don't trust us enough to want to watch it done with any semblance of realism. So at this point I've set aside what little I know about the science of drugs and neurology, but even ignoring all of that body bullshit, it's impossible to ignore the reality imposed on you within ...