The real hypnosis, and the thing you all missed was the fake diagnosis given to the wife. She was never really sick but was given treatments that ended her life, a slow and painful process of which Jack was fully aware.

New subscriber here. Great succinct analysis of the film. My favorite is the skeptic Haig when he begins to realize not everything is fake. Just because we can explain X % of things in the world, somethings defy logic and reason.

I randomly stumbled across this movie on VOD the other night, not even realising it actually came out quite recently. Its artstyle also convinced me it was an older classic, maybe not very renowned, but the title rang a bell for some reason. I gotta say that after so many hyped horror movies I've seen this and last year, that ended up not living up to the hype imo, I believe I've found a gem. It was a real breath of fresh air

Did you even watch the movie?

I'm still scared!

I think he didn’t backpedal, his wife was the price he paid for, and he did get the record breaking numbers he wanted… just not how he envisioned

The girl was abused at the grove

The devil was the guy in the skeleton costume. You see he doesn't react when the demon goes on the rampage, he's sitting right by the guy in the actual devil costume, and when Jack is at the grove, you see he him there as well.

Watched this about a week ago and I keep coming back to it. I'm not normally a fan of horror movies but this one is an exception for sure.

The girl is the demon from the very beginning there’s no innocent girl it’s always a demon. Watch it again with this in mind and you’ll see what I mean

my most favorite scene is the speech of Paul in the war council

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I’m so glad to hear someone talking about this scene! In addition to foreshadowing the Golden Path, I think the scene helps those who didn’t read the book understand the nature of prescience and Paul’s choice (or lack thereof) to choose a path leading to the Jihad.

The way I interpreted was all this did happen and then we see a flashback to jacks past where he sold his soul to be the biggest host (Lilly also references this earlier “youre going to be famous very soon”) They show how he did the ritual and sacrificed his wife It then cuts to him actually stabbing lilly to carry out the work of the satanic church The devil uses him as an instrument (which is also implied) and the evil “prophecy” is fulfilled The ending is up for interpretation but i believe the cameras cut when the lights went out so the home audience sees nothing that unfolds after There will most likely be a headline in the news that jack has gone mad and killed his guests falling into the trap of the devil as he was used and tricked to ultimately become the most (in)famous talkshow host ever

Every other path leads to inevitable extinction of the human race as a species or degeneracy into animals. That's how I get the Golden Path. Also other interpretations are valid. I'm just talking about thing book didn't said, but indicated.

What's the music you used in the beginning. It's greatly ominious.

Everyone ignores June in this whole thing. A minor detail where she screams "NOW" right before Lily lights up. Being the devil's right hand and orchistrated this entire thing or something?

This is a really solid analysis. The thing that wrong-footed me is the genre bait-and-switch. This is absolutely sold as found footage, until you realise that the backstage ‘camera’ is almost impossible. And then the shift at the end sells it. It definitely feels like an analogue horror film, and I think the hypnosis element ties in. I also like it’s subtle hints - ie Jack got the role because the previous host died in a ‘freak elevator accident’ according to the opening articles. And seeing Jack mouth ‘Minnie’ at the beginning, opening up the possibility that Christou was actually just hot reading Jack. There are so many layers to this film.

A pop filter and audio compression would have saved you from a downvote.

The Golden wasn’t really emphasized until Children of Dune where by the end it’s initiated. By the beginning of God Emperor of Dune, it’s in the final stages of its beginning, and at the end GEOD, it is in full swing. The Path wasn’t just to free people from a ruler, but also to not want to have a desire for one. Hence why it took thousands of years to fully begin it. The people had to be taught a lesson they’ll remember forever. By destroying prescience and instilling a desire to want to be free, mankind will be able to avoid extinction. That’s the point t of the Golden Path.

Villenueve is undoubtedly a great visual storyteller. A great director. It's a shame that all this comes to nothing due to such flat and, above all, poorly used characters, such as the baron or the emperor. The conflict never really becomes exciting because the villains aren't threatening. On top of that, the final battle is rushed, taking away the emotion and not to mention the appearance of Anya Taylor Joy as an advertisement for the third film that distracts from the actual conflict.

2:55 I strongly disagree on your claim that "demanding a lot from the audience" is the biggest critique of Nolan. Understanding everything on a first viewing is never going to happen in a movie, especially when twists are involved such as The Prestige, and Nolan simply amplifies that experience in his movies. Tenet especially. I would argue that the strongest critique of Nolan is the clunky way he uses exposition. An over reliance of it and having characters blurt out things we can clearly see.

You did not know that Max would not survive in FR? Reaaaaally?..

next time try to NOT relate the quality of the film with the box office. By your logic films like the transformers films, the twilight films, the fast and the furious films, captain marvel, the jurraric world films, pitch perfect 2, the BAD suicide squad film and all the sequel trilogy of star wars are better than fight club, scott pilgrim, the shawshank redemption, donnie darko, its a wonderfull life, willy wonka, blade runner, the northman, the GOOD suicide squad film and of course mad max fury road (why do you think i even mentioned pitch perfect 2?) because they didn't bomb at the box office. Money dosn't equal quality

Finally. Someone appreciates this scene as much as I do.

We have the same take on this movie. The only real one I've seen.

Saving cinema would be too much. Its just he has hype and eveyone wants to be ride on hypetrain thats why people go to watch his movies in theatre. His last 2-3 movies were okayish. Opeenhimer was good but not the level of masterpiece that people claim. Its screenplay was rather average apart from. 2-3 dialogues and people give lectures about not having attention span when someone didnt like movie they should start watching someone like sorkin to understand what great screenplay looks like.

Absolutely right, once hollywood had many nolan's(speilberg, cameron, john carpenter, etc) , around but now he is the only one left thats why he is more precious than ever

Absolutely HILARIOUS decision to mix your yotuube video with the voices too quiet to hear. No idea what you said and I disagree that Nolan mixes his movies badly. He mixes them impactfully. You just mixed it too quiet.

Saved cinema is too much

What’s your LEAST favorite Nolan film and why is it TENET?

Yes he did, with his barely audible dialogue, no wonder people dont go to the cinama anymore. He hasnt made a good film since Memento.

yes yes yes

What makes “Dune” is the moral ambiguity, historical vision, and essentially tragic view of the human condition.

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Sometimes I have the feeling that Jack is darker than we want to believe he is. The first time I saw the movie I thought it meant he had chosen to sacrifice his wife in some way for fame, and that felt like it could be vaguely true based on his intentional exploitation of a young girl dealing with alleged possession, and even if she wasn’t possessed, definitely a young girl dealing with immense trauma and bringing her on solely for ratings. We know he has been in a relationship with June, albeit for an obviously short amount of time, which also adds to the theory that maybe he did sacrifice his wife. Her being on the show before she died being the highest rated episode, then Jack feeling like he needed to top it and keep his success leading to the immediate following with the Halloween episode. Him telling the people at the end to turn off their screens is because he genuinely regrets how out of control everything became in a single night and he doesn’t want anyone else getting hurt. Jack wears his ring as show but also as a way to deal with his guilt, and Madeline’s way of haunting him is to also get back at him for his intentional sacrifice of her. Of course that was just my initial interpretation of the movie on a first viewing. I saw it a second time and still see how Jack became the unwitting victim of it all, especially poor Madeline. I feel it’s a scarier story if Jack is indeed a more intentional villain, but also having your world collapse around you due to making a deal with evil is just as scary,

The skeptic scene is a metaphor for you can’t buy your way into heaven.. nor out of hell.

Which did you prefer, Furiosa or Mad Max: Fury Road?

I liked it more than Fury Road, and that's a very high bar to exceed. It's one of those rare films that I wanted to watch again immediately after. Even though it is considered a commercial flop, I believe more people will appreciate it as time goes on. But then again, I've been a fan of the Mad Max films since I was a kid, and Furiosa feels more like the OG films than Fury Road does.

Fave sound, anything harkonenn, how many times, over 10

You hit the nail on the head. I think Furiosa had it's moments but Fury Road is an impossible act to follow. I wonder why the producers didn't want to return to Namibia?

I've never seen David Dastmalchian as the main character in a movie and he absolutely killed it. The cuts between "live TV" and backstage made it feel very real.

Even though Zendaya claims that Art is the one causing the conflict between Tashi and Patrick, and even the knee injure, I have this opinion that, still, Tashi herself is the only person responsible for creating tennis like the matches she always wanted to play or see. Injured or not. Even if Tashi didn't get injured, let's say she stayed with Patrick, it would have been the same because tennis for her was any relationship that had this back and forth. There still would have been back and forth between Patrick and Art. And it's when she pulls back from the bedroom scene that we truly see, it's all about tennis, it's about she wanting to see a good game to get her number...in the final tennis scene, it's about she wanting to see a good game too. I cannot say her intentions were a 100% planned, but the moment she realized the intentions to see a good match could be those, she wouldn't change that opportunity for anything. It's about she truly winning even without even playing tennis... Now that I think about it, it's none of them having a certain "guilt" or "fault". It's more like all of them taking their chances to get what they want.

He doesn't awake at the end when he says Dreamer awake because hes not the one hypnotized you are.

I really tried, I even watched it twice. I just couldn’t get into this movie. I think it was too over hyped

Got to say it’s nice to hear such a different take on this movie!

I loved this! The sound design was amazing too. So happy we have so many good horror movies lately 😭