🎥 Heretic

[lilac falcon]

https://boxd.it/H1lY

[errant owl]

peak

7/10

[austere dagger]

Holy shit

What a fucking glow up

[winged hill]

Big glow up

[silver bone]

Just saw this movie the other night. Movie was great until the cheap ending this film had. In my opinion an unrealistic and poorly executed way of concluding this otherwise very intriguing film with an antagonist whose motif is really really unique and pretty damn good. The acting was also excellent and I loved Hugh Grant’s performance.

[maiden dirge]

What cheap ending?

[silver bone]

I mean sister barnes suddenly recovering from her slit throat wound? A throat slice is extremely deadly and in no way was she able to recover strength especially after Mr. Reed started slicing her arm up and pulling tendons and arteries out. She did end up dying but I just find it too convenient for her to recover suddenly, eliminate the antagonist and then dying

[maiden dirge]

I get it, but I'm choosing to believe her surgery had something to do with it and the film(makers) failed to show us how or to really make the point.

[latent agate]

It took a nosedive for me once the Ringu prophet showed up

It was pretty horrifying for a few moments though

Shouldn't have wasted that existential panic on what turns into a horror movie.

[modest patio]

I want to watch this

[maiden dirge]

Watch it, Mrs. Skywalker. It's good.

[winged hill]

https://tenor.com/view/hugh-grant-the-heretic-heretic-a24-gif-16788611331683141834

[latent agate]

I really have to say I liked Hugh Grant and his character in general

[modest patio]

im gonna check if its on cinemas still and go

[modest patio]

i think

i got it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NsxMr84sUQ&ab_channel=BrainPilot

He killed Barnes because she would be less easily controlled. Paxton came across as someone who would easily be controlled.

[bleak igloo]

I love Hugh Grant

That Golden Globes nom was well deserved

[austere dagger]

@bleak igloo I think he deserves the nomination 100% but tbh I’m still rooting for Seb Stan

[winged hill]

https://tenor.com/view/hugh-grant-the-heretic-heretic-a24-gif-16788611331683141834

[bleak igloo]

Same

Although I haven't seen A Different Man

But I want my boy Seb to get more love

[winged hill]

https://deadline.com/2024/12/heretic-script-read-the-screenplay-bryan-woods-scott-beck-1236202958/

[lavish citrus]

I’m confused

So this “prophet”

Is she just a victim or is she actually someone supernatural

Wait nvm

[latent agate]

Good film, but started falling apart in Act 3

[bleak igloo]

Agree

[winged hill]

Did you watch the movie

[maiden dirge]

Yes.

[maiden dirge]

Victim.

[maiden dirge]

True. Act 3 was the weakest, but still came out good as a whole film.

[novel ingot]

Yeah I’d agree the last bit was the weakest. And to me it felt like the writers were trying too hard to keep you guessing at the cost of a convincing plot

But I thought it was overall not bad. I enjoyed it although the throat stab and then he stabs her and then dead girl gets up and hits him all felt kinda lame

I feel like the more I think about things the more it’s gonna fall apart (I’m already wondering why all his caltives were at the same old age, and why he kept them in those tiny cages cause that’s like, an inconvenient way to keep prisoners and I think they’d quickly die like that etc) so I’m just gonna take it for what it was, an enjoyable and unique horror movie, and not think too much about it

[latent agate]

I watched this movie today. Overall good movie. The heart of the movie was the duel of ideas

[balmy umbra]

I'm confused on the arm implant thing

How did he know about that

[austere dagger]

He saw the scar earlier