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Get ready—there's a new neo-noir coming from del Toro!

Jeffrey Howard79 said:To me, noir means black and white—detectives, murders, dark alleys, shadows, rain, trench coats, fedoras, and revolvers. I don't get how movies without those tropes even qualify as noir anymore. Honestly, they don't interest me. Neo-noir feels like a fashion statement... just people making up styles for the sake of it.

Man, I actually find neo-noir way more interesting specifically because it bends the genre. You can dress up basically any film style in neo-noir clothing—from utopian futurism (Blade Runner) to straight-up pulp superhero flicks (Sin City).

I honestly don't even know what to make of this movie, other than the fact that it was a total blast—I’ve seriously never seen anything quite like it. For me, it was awesome. 🤣🙏

driftingcanyon2 said:🤦 Angel Eyes is more of a drama, while Shutter Island works as a great psychological thriller, though neither one really leans into horror elements.

Lol, I was actually thinking of Angel Heart from '87. 😵

Those chase scenes in the asylum in Shutter Island? Totally unsettling... definitely got some teeth to them. 👍

Angel Eyes and Shutter Island?

Neo-noir is easily my favorite genre—if we're even calling it a genre at this point—and I’d go as far as to say a lot of modern neo-noirs actually outshine those old-school 40s and 50s classics... provided they don't trip over their own clichés. For me, these are the heavy hitters that actually nail what neo-noir is supposed to be:

Mulholland Drive
Dark City
Blade Runner
Devil in a Blue Dress
Angel Eyes
The Usual Suspects
L.A. Confidential
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Sin City
Watchmen
Minority Report
The Spirit
Reservoir Dogs
Dog Star
Nocturnal Animals
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Blue Velvet
Chinatown

Looks terrible. 👎Honestly, I expected way more given who's directing this...

Joseph Chase29 said:For me, the sequel is actually right up there with the original, but they probably didn't even need a third one—still, I guess they had to finish the trilogy🤷

Give ?? aha😂 😂

aha. 🙂 Scream was a total phenomenon back then—mostly because horror wasn't mainstream yet, and most flicks were just low-budget B-movies featuring nobody you'd ever recognize.

Once they set a release date for the sequel, they pushed Titanic to a different slot just because they were terrified of the competition. 😁 And honestly, I bet every single one of those actors signed their contracts for the second film without even glancing at the script.

this looks terrible

Rachel Young3 said:What? What does that remind you of? 🤷

Yeah, doesn't it remind you? Same premise, similar characters, the whole mythology thing...

this is awful. I don't care how much they tried to make her version of Snow White look ugly—this just looks like a bad comedy. Based on this trailer? Total flop!

How to Train Your Dragon?

Daniel Kelly57 said:It's even more obvious that everyone just has different tastes.☕

That’s exactly my point. Snow White needs to look the part—she needs that royal, classic beauty. Which is something Stewartica just doesn't have. She’s not right for the role... too plain for Snow White.☕

What a pleasant surprise. 🙏

There’s zero depth here—it’s pure entertainment. But what it nails is that specific comic book vibe and those old-school adventure movie feels that most superhero flicks completely miss. Way better than I was expecting. Red Skull works great as a villain.

And definitely better than Thor.

Richard Wilson4 said:Did Portman film this before or after she was pregnant?

Before! 😁

The film has two funny scenes. Everything else is just garbage...

Kevin Ward3 said:You can't compare Da Vinci's code to this movie—this looks more like some mashup of 300 and Lord of the Rings. Honestly, half the Christian population in the US is probably going to lose their minds when this drops... all those holy relics and spikes 😁
I grew up Christian, but all those religious schemes don't really do anything for me. The only thing I ever actually read from the Bible was Revelation—that stuff was actually interesting because it's basically sci-fi. 😁

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As far as I'm concerned, Lucifer is fine so far, even if we're only seeing his eyes. I think Bradley Cooper is a killer choice for the role—he can play the good guy one second and then pivot to pure evil the next.

Maybe... we haven't seen the whole thing yet. Who's directing? They seriously need to pick a top-tier director who can actually do justice to this theme, rather than just making some generic blockbuster like 300.

If they actually nail this, it could be epic. 🙏

I’m not exactly sold on the whole concept for Lucifer—but hey, we’ll see. I just hope they stick to the source material instead of turning it into some typical Hollywood garbage.

And looks like we’re about to get hit with a massive wave of biblical themes soon. They already announced Noah's Ark—supposedly being pitched as a dark thriller.

Jack Murphy5 said:can 🙏

hahaha, what is this doing here?! 🙏 just like that girl from the PDF skiing video who couldn't stop laughing the whole time.