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Teaser trailer. I really like the animation in this. Never seen any of the movies.

That's really awesome.

The actual cinematic trailer doesn't look quite as good, unfortunately.

That animation looks amazing. It would be really hard for anything to look that great. I saw the live action trailer before and wanted to see the movie. Excited for it to eventually come out in theaters.

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The animation looks terrific. I wonder about the movie. I thought the first one was great but the next 2 were terrible, and I think Jordan Peele has been a little hit and miss with his projects - Get Out was great but Us was kinda bleh.

Someone in the original thread for this said the themes of the movie would be gentrification and police brutality, and that sure looks like it was true after all. It will be topical if nothing else.

 Ouze wrote:
The animation looks terrific. I wonder about the movie. I thought the first one was great but the next 2 were terrible, and I think Jordan Peele has been a little hit and miss with his projects - Get Out was great but Us was kinda bleh.

Someone in the original thread for this said the themes of the movie would be gentrification and police brutality, and that sure looks like it was true after all. It will be topical if nothing else.

I feel like the issues with us was not in the cinematography or the scenes or the acting and such. But the background premise for the film. Bonus, this movie is a modern day sequel to the original. So it already has a solid background to build the story off of. If Peele can put the rest of his solid directoral skills to work over that foundation it should be good.

But, like you, I feel like his wholly original works are going to be real hit or miss.

I found Us to be pretty good, but it felt like a social commentary with a thin veneer of plot, as opposed to a story with an underlying message or lesson.

I really like the original Candyman, and am similarly happy the this is a sequel rather than a reboot. The cinematic trailer doesn't do the film any favours though; the bit in the women's toilet looked particularly bad IMO.

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I liked Get Out. Haven’t seen Us. I don’t know how much he may have been involved in the recent Twilight Zone beyond hosting, but I only watched the first few episodes of that before I stopped because it was quite boring and predictable and took forever to come to the obvious conclusion.

 Elbows wrote:
Ah, it's Peele? Shame then, I'll probably pass. I enjoyed Get Out (not as much as some people, but it was well done)...and really didn't like Us at all. I feel he's been diving harder into politcal commentary, etc. etc. and that's not what I bother with when it comes to film. Politics and discussion of such is so suffocating and overbearing I've just skipped any movie that advertises itself as such.

To be fair, Candyman has always had a bit of a political message. It's not like Ghost of Mars or some vampire flick where there is just a monster. Candyman has always been about the mistreatment of blacks by whites and this particular ghosts revenge for such. You can't have a good Candyman movie without it.

Constantly commenting that you only enjoy movies free of any political themes or angles is basically virtue signaling that you are fine with the status quo, which is a political choice in and of itself. That's fine, it obviously works for some people, but don't pretend that frequently pointing out your aversion to those messages isn't a message of your own.

Sometimes a monster movie is just a monster movie, but as Lance correctly points out, the original movie is about a black guy who gets lynched by whites for the crime of loving a white woman (sorry, 1992 spoilers). So, this isn't exactly a turn into new territory for the franchise; this is exactly where it started.

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 Elbows wrote:
Ah, there we go...proper virtue signaling. Well done, Ouze. This place never fails.

Dude, what do you think your post was? No one is in doubt about your politics.

And to think, I edited that several times to be less aggressive and more conciliatory. /sigh

Candyman, based on the Clive Barker short story ‘The Forbidden’.

Clive Barker, a formerly closeted gay man, who also wrote The Hellbound Heart, and often expressed his preferences in his prose.

And it’s ‘political’.

All media is political in one form or another.

To be fair though, Clive Barker is a god.

 harlokin wrote:
To be fair though, Clive Barker is a god.

The 5th god of Chaos.......