nightflameauto
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I may have been able to tell ya a day after watching it, but probably not a week and some change later.They filmed at the same time, so it was probably just a coincidence. What scenes are you talking about in particular?
I just remember several moments thinking, "This is totally in Friday the 13th framed almost the same way."
It could have also been a product of the time. Lots of weird "why are they taking so long?" moments in movies of that age.The Prowler is kind of terrible, but I've watched it a few times. It's one of those movies where the gore effects are SO spectacular that it makes the rest of the movie worth sitting through. But man, some of the scenes just test your patience. Especially when they call the cranky guy who's playing solitaire or whatever, and tell him to check for the sheriff, and we get to see him slowwwwly get up and pretend to check but not actually leave his desk, and gah. It feels like a scene designed to pad runtime, which isn't necessary cause it's not like the movie was too short without that scene.
The whole thing struck me as a creator getting creative to the point where it was an actual deterrent for the creation itself. I'm a big fan of meta, but in this case it felt like the meta was more a bludgeon, rather than another color in the palette.Asteroid City I thought WOULD have been great if it didn't have that stupid framing device telling you not to care about anything cause none of it's real. I really liked 3/4 of the movie, it's just the other 1/4 was telling me I was a sucker for getting emotionally invested in it. Very frustrating. I hope Wes Anderson goes back to telling straightforward stories with likable, relatable, wacky characters like Royal Tenenbaums or Moonrise Kingdom, because his last two have been very frustrating.