cwnmrgt
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Nosferatu had some style with some beautiful cinematography and scenery but ultimately it was a shallow movie that lacked any real horror and had a truly unsatisfying ending, one that I personally found disturbing.
I found the acting to be good at times but overdone at others. I couldn't say any of the acting was bad but I just couldn't manage to be attached to any of the main characters. Lily-Rose Depp's performance was unnerving at first but after seeing her convulse time and again, it started to get tedious. And I couldn't even remember her name until there was about 20 minutes left in the movie. I'm not sure if this was bad writing, ineffective acting, or a combination of the two. Defoe was good as usual but his character was sort of clownish and stereotypical. The one performance I thought stood out was Ralph Inneson as Dr. Sievers. He played a very believable part in a movie full of unbelievable events.
I was also surprised at how ineffective the horror elements were. Orlok was intimidating and had some decent but some silly design choices but he was left mysterious in some ways that made him less interesting. Overall he was more of an evil and ugly physical menace as opposed to the darkly mysterious spiritual menace they seemed to want him to be. And I found myself completely not scared pretty much the entire movie, even at the jump scares. That's not normal for me. The horror just didn't work.
The writing was mostly poor but in a way that you don't really realize it until the conclusion is reached. Some sequences are so bad as to be disturbing but not in a way that makes you contemplate the deeper meaning of the story. They're disturbing in a "they really put this on screen?" sort of way.
Overall, it's a movie that's got the visuals and sounds down but falls very flat everywhere else, especially in the writing.
I found the acting to be good at times but overdone at others. I couldn't say any of the acting was bad but I just couldn't manage to be attached to any of the main characters. Lily-Rose Depp's performance was unnerving at first but after seeing her convulse time and again, it started to get tedious. And I couldn't even remember her name until there was about 20 minutes left in the movie. I'm not sure if this was bad writing, ineffective acting, or a combination of the two. Defoe was good as usual but his character was sort of clownish and stereotypical. The one performance I thought stood out was Ralph Inneson as Dr. Sievers. He played a very believable part in a movie full of unbelievable events.
I was also surprised at how ineffective the horror elements were. Orlok was intimidating and had some decent but some silly design choices but he was left mysterious in some ways that made him less interesting. Overall he was more of an evil and ugly physical menace as opposed to the darkly mysterious spiritual menace they seemed to want him to be. And I found myself completely not scared pretty much the entire movie, even at the jump scares. That's not normal for me. The horror just didn't work.
The writing was mostly poor but in a way that you don't really realize it until the conclusion is reached. Some sequences are so bad as to be disturbing but not in a way that makes you contemplate the deeper meaning of the story. They're disturbing in a "they really put this on screen?" sort of way.
Overall, it's a movie that's got the visuals and sounds down but falls very flat everywhere else, especially in the writing.
As with most movies, you need to manage your expectations going in. If you do so, this movie can be a lot of fun. It's a mostly family friendly popcorn flick (there's a bit of swearing and the beach scene has a lot of thongs in a brief amount of time, but nothing too bad.) As for the characters, I'm not a Chris Evans fan but he's good in this role. I don't want to like the guy but he manages to play a likeable scoundrel. The Rock is The Rock. His name is appropriate because he doesn't change but that's okay. Again, he fits his role fine. JK Simmons is an absolutely fantastic Saint Nick and I love that he's actually the real Saint Nicholas of Myra and not some fantasy elf. He's a serious Santa who loves what he does and loves the people for whom he does it. Some of the secondary characters are really fun too, especially Nick's estranged brother.
A lot of people are saying it's a dumb movie and yeah it is, but that's okay. It's not trying to be anything more than a fun popcorn Christmas movie. It hits its beats well, it doesn't have anything obvious that tries to appeal to "modern audiences," and it maintains its good Christmas cheer. It drags a bit when the quest first starts but once it gets moving, it moves at a fun pace, right to the end. And by that ending, I kind of felt like a kid again.
A lot of people are saying it's a dumb movie and yeah it is, but that's okay. It's not trying to be anything more than a fun popcorn Christmas movie. It hits its beats well, it doesn't have anything obvious that tries to appeal to "modern audiences," and it maintains its good Christmas cheer. It drags a bit when the quest first starts but once it gets moving, it moves at a fun pace, right to the end. And by that ending, I kind of felt like a kid again.