Halfway through Eli. Dork.

Anyway, I feel In The Tall Grass should offer more room for discussion than Fractured, certainly Taylor can have a field day positing theories behind the maze, maybe right after he gives Eli a once-over too, of course, again, no pressure, haha.

The Machinist is brilliant. Reminds me very much of Nolan’s “Following” in tone. Or maybe it was “Insomnia”. Can’t remember. But I regularly get the two confused. Session 9 was a great movie as well. I watched it when it first came out and remember recommending it a lot. So yeah, I get it.

These kinds of movies are more dependent on the viewer’s attitude and foreknowledge than anything else. So I am giving you guys the benefit… promise. I know I went in all wrong on this one. And generally speaking, I only post about movies that are good. I only talk about movies that I liked. And I posted about this one because I knew many might like it regardless of the fact that I wasn’t a huge fan.

Thanks for clarifying DeKev. But it’s all good. Everything is fine. I just blame your for all my life’s troubles is all. Haha. Seriously though, did you just recommend not 1, not 2, but 3 movies I should review in a single comment? In 3 minutes of typing you pour on like 6 hours of movie watching and 10 hours of research and typing?!? Unbelievable. You could have just let your comment go, allow the post response hate grow and id have been all the better for it! Hahaha.

Why don’t you give me a session 9 post to put up for you?!? Hahaha. And a Machinist? Oh, and after that a tall grass review? Did you not like The Tall Grass? Is it any good?

But having seen a bit of the trailer, and with a dead giveaway title like what you said, I went in with low expectations, certainly lower expectations than what I had for the other new Netflix release at around the same time, In The Tall Grass (a review, pretty please?). But it was Worthington’s performance (right before he went a bit berserk near the end anyway) that did the trick for me and kinda heightened my hopes a bit that had me thinking, hey this thing might turn out to be rather watchable after all. I know Sam’s acting is a bit of a bone of contention here. Just because I have seen a few movies in my lifetime does not qualify me as a proper critic, unless it was egregiously bad acting, which even I would be able to recognize for sure, something I’d like to believe is not the case here. And having read some other reviews online, guess what, Worthington’s performance has been described from being flat to passable to career-best (this from a reviewer whose last movie that they watched Worthington in was Avatar, I kid you not).

Enough about Sam Worthington, what about the director? He started his career with a one-two punch of Session 9 and The Machinist, two mind-blowing classics that properly announced his arrival, which IMO are still by far his career-best efforts. So if you have the time, you know what to do, but no pressure, no pressure. :p