I saw the preview of the movie, and still I thought the whole thing was going
to be something more than what the preview hinted at. My wife did not see the
preview and it wasn’t but a short while into the movie – probably around the
time the Day 1 title card appeared – that my wife called what was going on.
Again, I held out hope that it would all be something original, but alas my
wife was correct once again.
But then, so was I, to a degree, because it was done in a way that my wife and
I agreed was original and an interesting perspective of a tired idea that was
done very well for an indie movie.
A movie is good if my wife will sit through the whole thing while having to
look away more than once. If she doesn’t give up after having to look away more
than once then she’s interested. I enjoyed the gross parts, crying out in
discomfort (the scenes varying from massive menstrual blood – like multiple
scenes of massive menstrual blood – to teeth being easily pulled out as well as
nails being pulled off) but laughing at the same time.
With everything that was good about this movie, the interesting take on an old
idea, and the acting which was pretty good, the fact that it does still just
all come down to something that we see way too much in movies now-a-days was a
bit disappointing. The other part that hurt the movie was the fact that it
takes quite a big step out of reality to keep the story going.
The effects of the disease on the girl are intense and
gross and her acting is well done so that it all combines a sort of tense dread
and sorrow for the girl, but the way the story is written is has her reach a
point of grossness that it is nearly impossible for the people around her to
ignore or just pass off as her being sick – and yet they do, even the doctor
reacts to things in a way that is completely unbelievable, and it is these
moments that really hurt the movie.
It may be unfair, but when a movie is really good, the
most minor mistakes seem to be much bigger than they are because the rest of
the movie is so good.
I just did not understand why she had to be at the level
of grossness that she was at and still she needed to do things that moved the
story forward that made it unbelievable that she would even try to do those
things with the state that she was in. Why not have her NOT be so gross, keep
the story going, and then at the end reach that level when she essentially
becomes the monster? She’s a good looking girl, I can admit that, but there ain’t
no girl good looking enough (sorry to my wife) that I’d kiss, much less sleep
with, when they got the sort of things going on with their body that this girl
has – but in this movie, a guy can get over her teeth (rotting? Hello bad
breath!), her skin (nothing a vat of lotion would probably still not help). I
mean, at this point it’s clear what’s going on so there’s gotta be some obvious
signs, smell, feel, taste, that would turn a guy off. Not the guy in this movie
though, this guy powers through all that stuff like a pro and get’s the job
done (if there’s a sequel, I’d love to find out if the sex was worth it for
that guy).
This movie is an origin story, and through all the bad
parts in this movie, it’s not a bad movie, and though my wife said she’d put
she liked it, I was on the line between liked it an really liked it.
My wife said that this was the most disturbing movie she’d
seen since The Human Centipede. Yes, my wife actually sat through that whole
movie, and I will forever love her for that and will forever proudly tell my
friends, family, and complete strangers how awesome my wife is for doing such a
thing. Granted she hated it, but she watched it all, and that says something.
Of course she didn’t watch the second one, but my wife and I – we’ll always
have the first Human Centipede.
Now I would not say it’s like the Human Centipede, even
the gross factor is not the same, but my wife disagrees, so – whatever. Maybe
it is, but I stand by my own feelings that this movie and the Human Centipede
are not even close to being similar, this movie is gross and all but not like
Centipede gross.
A total bonus of this movie though is Dave Holmes. The
minute he walked into the movie I had this smile on my face, and his one scene
is hilarious and I had to pause the movie to fill my wife in on the history of
Dave Holmes, and if you don’t know it then don’t read my blog, just get out,
seriously. If you do know it, correct me if I’m wrong, but back in the day MTV
would have competitions to see who would be the next VJ (trying to make it a
big deal since it hadn’t been since the glory days of Tabitha Soren) and Dave
Holmes actually lost to some weird guy named Dude, or something like that.
Anyway, the weird Dude guy did like a few gigs as a VJ but it was Dave Holmes
who ended up becoming like a guest VJ and got all the cherry gigs and went on
to star in a few movies. Not sure what happened to Dude.
Anyway, it was cool seeing him in this movie.
I digress, though I’m pretty much done anyway. It’s not a
bad movie, and with lower expectations it would be a pretty good movie, which,
I guess that’s why I’m here, to lower you expectations of movies streaming on
Netflix as well as blogs.
You’re welcome.
