4.5 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige movie this time we're talking about 2019's black and white |
0:07.1 | Classic one-to-one or nearly one-to-one ratio shot film The Lighthouse. |
0:13.0 | As directed by Robert Eggers, which you may recall, he directed this little 2015 movie called The Witch, which I meet Jim and I really really enjoyed. It's more like |
0:27.2 | Vitch because it's spelled with two V's it's a really long drawn out V. It was |
0:32.4 | written by Robert Eggers with his brother Max Eggers |
0:34.8 | loosely based on an unfinished, the final unfinished work of fiction by Edgar |
0:39.0 | Alan Poe at the Lighthouse. Also apparently based on a real life story, loosely, the Smalls Lighthouse |
0:46.7 | Tragedity of 1801. I found it had a lot of like the tale tale hearts in it, or more |
0:52.2 | like the tail tail tail |
0:52.8 | tail farts. |
0:54.0 | Yeah. |
0:56.0 | And it stars Robert Patterson and Willem Defoe and maybe 30 seconds of some other human beings but it's all these guys in very limited space. |
1:10.0 | This movie is shot to feel claustrophobic. |
1:13.0 | I don't, what did you think of this film? |
1:17.0 | Because if I start talking, I might not stop for 20 minutes. |
1:20.0 | I feel you, man, because I thought this movie was incredible. I loved it. There's I and let me |
1:27.7 | preface all this by saying I don't know that I fully understand it. I don't know that I |
1:30.9 | came away with anything that this movie wanted to tell me, but the experience of watching it was so good. |
1:35.6 | That I didn't feel like any of that mattered and I thought I got just enough of what they were putting down to feel like it was worth my time. And the witch is one of my favorite horror movies |
1:46.6 | of the modern era, of the last decade at least. I think it's fantastic in creating a mood and the tension. I don't recall what the trailer was like but I know a lot of people were saying, |
2:01.2 | oh the trailer, you know, makes it seem as if it's going to be just another horror movie with a series of jump scares and bullshit. |
2:06.5 | Turns out it was nothing like that. It was the exact type of mood and horror that I want from my horror films. |
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