I'm, like, still mad about this movie two days later.
Seeing the positive reviews and mentions of riveting performances is really disheartening to me. As an avid movie fan (especially of the horror genre), have our standards for quality really plummeted thus far? First It Follows and now this? These movies are laughable.
Is the end message here a coming of age tale of a typical mean girl who finally sees the errors in her way? Is that that the takeaway? How about some of the BIGGEST plot holes and questions that we're so quick to overlook? So, we have a girl who doesn't want to acknowledge her birthday because of the painful memory it entails after her mother's death (which isn't described in any way) and they shared the same birthday...... but we're going to make her ringtone an original track telling about it being her birthday? Uh, k.
She just sees that there's a serial killer in existence in her area on the television and his victims happen to be blonde- but it's not at all described where she is, how big the campus is, etc. I initially thought the connection was that this was the man who had killed her mother and was on the loose (which would have been a better angle) but no- just a guy that kills blondes chilling in a hospital under lax security. There's the answer! When she makes attempts to thwart his murderous ways, it's almost as if he knows her or why she's there. But she's just a stranger to him- why didn't that register on his face? When it's discovered who the killer really is (which I called in the first fifteen minutes), Lori seemingly has nothing else wrong with her, but is SO jealous of a married man's affair with her roommate that she's willing to resort to murder because of it? Why not murder the dude's wife then? Did she really not think anyone would decipher that she was poisoned? Hello, stomach contents- how do you do? Also, how did Lori facilitate that Tree would think it was the serial killer who had murdered her? How does that plot line even work? It's figured out that she used her connections at the hospital (where she worked) to stage it so the serial killer would be framed for Tree's murder-- how though? How does that even make sense? She thinks the police are going to find a poisoned cupcake in her belly and assume that he made that for her and knew it was her birthday (huh) or .... WHAT? Ugh.
Then we have the heartwarming moment between her and her father. Again, not giving away too much detail about how the mother passed and why this has seemingly affected her ENTIRE relationship with her father even though her birthday only comes but once a year.
Lastly, it's never once explained, even casually, how Tree even acquires the luxury to be able to loop time in the first place? I mean, yeah- it sucks getting murdered every day. But why is she so lucky to even get a second shot? How does that work? Why is it happening to her? Why does this movie even exist?
Seeing the positive reviews and mentions of riveting performances is really disheartening to me. As an avid movie fan (especially of the horror genre), have our standards for quality really plummeted thus far? First It Follows and now this? These movies are laughable.
Is the end message here a coming of age tale of a typical mean girl who finally sees the errors in her way? Is that that the takeaway? How about some of the BIGGEST plot holes and questions that we're so quick to overlook? So, we have a girl who doesn't want to acknowledge her birthday because of the painful memory it entails after her mother's death (which isn't described in any way) and they shared the same birthday...... but we're going to make her ringtone an original track telling about it being her birthday? Uh, k.
She just sees that there's a serial killer in existence in her area on the television and his victims happen to be blonde- but it's not at all described where she is, how big the campus is, etc. I initially thought the connection was that this was the man who had killed her mother and was on the loose (which would have been a better angle) but no- just a guy that kills blondes chilling in a hospital under lax security. There's the answer! When she makes attempts to thwart his murderous ways, it's almost as if he knows her or why she's there. But she's just a stranger to him- why didn't that register on his face? When it's discovered who the killer really is (which I called in the first fifteen minutes), Lori seemingly has nothing else wrong with her, but is SO jealous of a married man's affair with her roommate that she's willing to resort to murder because of it? Why not murder the dude's wife then? Did she really not think anyone would decipher that she was poisoned? Hello, stomach contents- how do you do? Also, how did Lori facilitate that Tree would think it was the serial killer who had murdered her? How does that plot line even work? It's figured out that she used her connections at the hospital (where she worked) to stage it so the serial killer would be framed for Tree's murder-- how though? How does that even make sense? She thinks the police are going to find a poisoned cupcake in her belly and assume that he made that for her and knew it was her birthday (huh) or .... WHAT? Ugh.
Then we have the heartwarming moment between her and her father. Again, not giving away too much detail about how the mother passed and why this has seemingly affected her ENTIRE relationship with her father even though her birthday only comes but once a year.
Lastly, it's never once explained, even casually, how Tree even acquires the luxury to be able to loop time in the first place? I mean, yeah- it sucks getting murdered every day. But why is she so lucky to even get a second shot? How does that work? Why is it happening to her? Why does this movie even exist?