Jon Cole’s Watch Log633
Left wondering if the exploitation of an animated character stops with the characters who wronged her in the film, or if it extends to the filmmakers themselves. If there's no one actually suffering the humiliation, is the natural response to project suffering onto the inanimate ink? Or to draw conclusions about how the filmmakers feel about real, live women? These questions wouldn't seem so boring if so much of the film didn't feel gratuitous for gratuity's sake. A little restraint can go a long way, just ask Tobe Hooper.
I was prepared to forgive a lot of this film's flaws because of the cast, but it comes across as a really bad 2012 standup routine about cell phones. In theory, juxtaposing rapidly advancing technology against vampirism to interrogate the female experience of aging is a great premise, but this comes across more like "old lady whines at sky." The jokes, unfortunately, did not age well.
Kind of funny that they reproduce Dr. Grant's velociraptor talon scene from Jurassic Park. This movie is everything you think it would be & not much more.
Lots of Clockwork Orange vibes here, where Anson Boon's character ends up paying for chaos he creates. A very convincing droog in the first act of the film.
