Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) directing 'Hold the Dark' for Netflix

[Luigi]

Looks promising.

 

[harlequinade]

Decided to read it. The last 10 minutes or however long the last few pages will be will piss people off so bad

 

[Hunter Rider]

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Saw this trailer eariler today, I like the setting and it seems to have some atmosphere and decent visuals, even though I fear some mumbo jumbo will be the conclusion.

 

[Luigi]

Word from TIFF is that this is Saulnier's bleakest film to date.

 

[Black Narcissus]

And more bloody.

 

[harlequinade]

And incomprehensible.

Lots of 6/10 and meh.

I knew it will be around 6/10, execution, performances and ambiance cannot save the script. Legit the worst thing I read lately other than little I read from The Predator script

 

[Persona]

That's too bad, I was really looking forward to this one with the cast and crew involved and I've heard the book is quite good. I wonder what went wrong. The trailer is choppy but I thought the actual footage was promising.

Regardless, gonna check it out for myself.

 

[harlequinade]

The script went wrong. It's so annoying. People are gonna hate this upon release.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

The script went wrong. It's so annoying. People are gonna hate this upon release.

How so?

 

[harlequinade]

It flirts with certain ideas and doesnt deliver. In the end some events happen for no reason and the story becomes too ambigous to care about or take seriously

 

[Spider-Aziz]

This title has no color in it, I'm disappointed.


Trailer gives me the impression that this is one of those movies that lose their footing really fast, and a mystery that tries too hard, but walks a thin line between staying mediocre and becoming another Snowman.

 

[Persona]

This is on Netflix now and I kind of like it?

I get the criticisms. Yeah, it's super bleak and dour. Everyone speaks in a sort of gruff whisper that ranges from confused to menacing to just plain lifeless. The character development is a little scant but also more opaque because of how the performances are rendered. Some of the dialogue get the eyes rolling. And yeah, some of the story aspects are intentionally baffling--including the ending--but I didn't mind that.

And, man, Saulnier knows how to construct some scenes (there is a face-off in the middle that is just superbly realized in its intensity and management of visual geography). And the cinematography (same guy who did BRIDGEND and LEAN ON PETE) is really great. At the end of it I thought about it a lot, even though I didn't quite know what to think.

Not a clear, indisputable success but it's striking and has an impact.

 

[scarlet-witch]

How many wolves die in this? I'm a wuss about any canine related deaths.

 

[harlequinade]

How many wolves die in this? I'm a wuss about any canine related deaths.

LOL I read the script and I saw this 2 days ago I kid you not I do not remember

I don't think any wolves actually die there's a dead deer but I don't remember if we see it shot....or it may have happened in American Sniper which I saw on the same day

the film is so dull, Skarsgard is very well cast and the music is good and that's about it, what a bad idea to adapt this book

 

[moviedoors]

Huge disappointment. GREEN ROOM was so killer and BLUE RUIN is one of the 10 best films of the decade. It starts well enough. Great performances, superb atmosphere, and one of the scariest shootouts I've ever seen, but at a certain point (a point I can't pinpoint) I realized it wasn't going to come together. I love ambiguity in movies; this was just opaque.

 

[scarlet-witch]

LOL I read the script and I saw this 2 days ago I kid you not I do not remember

I don't think any wolves actually die there's a dead deer but I don't remember if we see it shot....or it may have happened in American Sniper which I saw on the same day

the film is so dull, Skarsgard is very well cast and the music is good and that's about it, what a bad idea to adapt this book

That's a better answer than "all of the wolves die"

 

[KaijuDude1992]

This movie was ok. I enjoyed Green Room, although I thought it was a little overhyped and I didn't really care for Blue Ruin. That being said I was actually looking forward to this quite a bit and sad to say it was pretty disappointing. The performances aren't the problem and it's definitely a well directed and well shot film, but man is it dull. I just didn't have much of a reason to care for the characters even the so called good guys like Jefferey Wright and James Badge Dale, and the whole time your just waiting for this movie to come together in the end and it never does. I did like how atmospheric it was, and that scene with the assault on the cops was pretty damn horrific.

6/10