It's not
a bad idea for a film, though The Terminator series did the same but much better using a similar idea of artificial intelligence gone amok.
The Forgotten is a fairly
bad idea for a film, only made better by two very strong factors: Julianne Moore's gut - wrenching portrayal and the solid score by James Horner (Aliens, Apollo 13), who gives every scene the right sense of foreboding required to achieve edge - of - your - seat chills.
Not exact matches
Even as a
film critic, it seemed like a
bad idea recommending a
film praised by the occult
for possibly showcasing a pro-witchcraft message.
Unlike most Marvel villains, who have little nuance as far as their evil intentions, Killmonger has a rationale
for his malevolent acts, and a certain sympathy beyond this, that makes the
film more a struggle
for political
ideas than it is just a black - and - white fight between good guys and
bad guys.
From that, the rest of the
film follows,
for there is no broadly, easily villainous type present in the
film at all, whether student, faculty, administrator, or even parent; thus the focus more clearly and cleanly zeroes in on the central
idea at hand: that the two are their own
worst enemies, and they need to get over themselves to be awakened to what's truly worthwhile in their lives and in life as a whole.
But before anyone gets the
idea that Black Panther is an «agenda» movie — yes, it has something to say, but it says it so perfectly, giving us pure entertainment, a rousing, thrilling action - adventure
film that spans the globe, full of characters to cheer
for,
bad guys to hiss at, and action sequences galore.
It's a stupid
idea, in other words, one exacerbated by the casting of the usual suspects of beautiful young things who here find themselves trapped in a
bad rave by some twisted games master (Lance Henriksen, in the kind of performance you praise
for his knowing how wretched the
film is — let's think on that
for a moment).
Scott Derickson, director of the original
film, has
ideas of what he wants to do
for a hypothetical sequel (including a potential
bad guy), but that's far from confirmation that a sequel has actually been green lit.
Blumhouse's Halloween
film is ignoring all past events in their latest sequel, so would it be a
bad idea for Edward Neumeier's next Robocop entry to...
The
film leaves open the
idea for a sequel, one that probably wouldn't be that
bad.
Helgeland, who won an Oscar
for his superb whittling down of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential (1997), has gone back to John Godey's 1973 novel
for inspiration — a
bad idea, as it lacks the cleaner plotting and street smarts that screenwriter Peter Stone (Charade) brought to it on
film.
If a
film COULD be really good, if it has a good cast, a good basic plot or
idea it centers around and uses interesting camera techniques to tell the story, but turns out to be an insulting, stupid, arrogant vanity project
for the director, it's the
worst kind of movie there is.
It remains to be seen if this opens more doors
for Netflix to try out multiple release approaches concurrently (maybe not a
bad idea given all the content they are putting out now), but if you are feeling a little anxious about an upcoming lack of binge - worthy
films and TV, have no fear.
Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made
films involving the distortion of sex and the
idea of sex being the conduit
for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels
for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?