Well. That was interesting.
Sunday, 15 June 2014 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carose59Review: You're Next
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There's nothing here you could really call a spoiler.
My first thought on watching You're Next was that it hardly seems necessary to write YOU'RE NEXT on a window in blood when there are only two people in the house to begin with. I think most people would just assume that the person(s) who had butchered their recent sex partner would most likely go after them next, and that it would make more sense to write NO WORRIES, I WAS ONLY AFTER HER.
Which would have made for an interesting movie. Well, maybe more like an interesting moment in a movie.
Not that You're Next isn’t an interesting movie. I really enjoyed it. My next thought was, this is what it would be like if psychotic killers invaded an Edward Albee play. That thought stayed with me throughout.
Here’s a rundown: during a family gathering to celebrate the parents' wedding anniversary, crazy killers begin killing the family members. The gathering includes three brothers and one sister, plus their SO's. One of those SO's is really good at survival stuff. I think the ad copy said something about it being someone unexpected.
I didn't find it all that unexpected, which was OK.
What I really liked, though, was the bickering between the siblings. At one point—after two people are dead and another is injured—they get into it about who runs faster and can make it to the car fastest. The brother who had been shot in the shoulder (with an arrow; this is not an NRA-approved movie) tries to convince everyone that he's the fastest runner, and he doesn't need his shoulder to run. It's hilarious that even scared to death, they're still acting like the spoiled children they were before the shooting started.
There are some twists, and they’re good ones, even if you have seen two of them in other movies. There’s a scene towards the end with a blender that you might not want to look at—I didn’t, anyway. I didn’t even know you could do that with a blender, but I guess it’s good to know.
I know I sound kind of eh about it, but really did like the movie. I think it's that I found it more interesting than scary. But I do highly recommend it to people who like gory movies.
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There's nothing here you could really call a spoiler.
My first thought on watching You're Next was that it hardly seems necessary to write YOU'RE NEXT on a window in blood when there are only two people in the house to begin with. I think most people would just assume that the person(s) who had butchered their recent sex partner would most likely go after them next, and that it would make more sense to write NO WORRIES, I WAS ONLY AFTER HER.
Which would have made for an interesting movie. Well, maybe more like an interesting moment in a movie.
Not that You're Next isn’t an interesting movie. I really enjoyed it. My next thought was, this is what it would be like if psychotic killers invaded an Edward Albee play. That thought stayed with me throughout.
Here’s a rundown: during a family gathering to celebrate the parents' wedding anniversary, crazy killers begin killing the family members. The gathering includes three brothers and one sister, plus their SO's. One of those SO's is really good at survival stuff. I think the ad copy said something about it being someone unexpected.
I didn't find it all that unexpected, which was OK.
What I really liked, though, was the bickering between the siblings. At one point—after two people are dead and another is injured—they get into it about who runs faster and can make it to the car fastest. The brother who had been shot in the shoulder (with an arrow; this is not an NRA-approved movie) tries to convince everyone that he's the fastest runner, and he doesn't need his shoulder to run. It's hilarious that even scared to death, they're still acting like the spoiled children they were before the shooting started.
There are some twists, and they’re good ones, even if you have seen two of them in other movies. There’s a scene towards the end with a blender that you might not want to look at—I didn’t, anyway. I didn’t even know you could do that with a blender, but I guess it’s good to know.
I know I sound kind of eh about it, but really did like the movie. I think it's that I found it more interesting than scary. But I do highly recommend it to people who like gory movies.
Posted simultaneously on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth