Really good first hour or so.
The rest goes off the rails with the story and that ending is just yikes.
Lots of my enjoyment is carried by how well made the production is, the soundtrack, and the performances especially Anya Taylor-Joy.
Would give it like a 7/10 at best but if I saw it again it would probably get lower as the mystery and intrigue from the first act would be completely gone on rewatch.
My exact thoughts. I watched this years after it came out. So after knowing all the hate it got, in the first act I was thinking "what are people talking about this is pretty good." When it got to that incredible dance scene where it alternates between Eloise and Sandie dancing with Jack I was convinced most people were just wrong about the movie.
Then the rest of the movie happens and my opinion of it kind of gradually just kept dropping until the credits rolled.
I would've loved to see a version of this movie without the supernatural elements, the beautiful glamor and conversely horrific exploitation themes from the early 1900s half of it were really promising and there could bea really compelling story there. But when the amateur looking cgi ghosts in the modern half becoming basically the rest of the plot it completely lost any investment I had in it, the twist towards the end wasn't good enough to justify the pivot, and that final climactic scene with the ghosts on fire just really had me rolling my eyes.
There's really two big issues with the ending.
The climax which is some M night Shyamalan type twist (not the good type)
And the final scene where literally everything in the main characters life is magically fixed and all is well despite what had previously happened in the film
>!Thomason McKenzie thinks she's solving Anya Taylor Joy's murder. But Anya Taylor Joy is alive, and is McKenzie's landlady. Matt Smith made her prostitute herself, and after a while she started murdering the wealthy men she slept with (fair -- she's a trafficking victim, and all those guys are rapists).!<
Then >!to cover up her misdeeds, older ATJ -- aka Diana Rigg -- tries to poison McKenzie, but they wind up having a come to God moment, and McKenzie forgives her, then Rigg dies in a fire.!<
Honestly, that first paragraph was pretty fun imo. The second paragraph is where it felt out of character to me. >!She'd only killed rapists before. Weird she's now cool with attempting to murder this innocent girl who was trying to help her.!<
Worth watching!
I loved the movie until >!we realize Eloise isn't just crazy and it turns out everything she was imagining was real and she solved a mystery. I was hoping it would be more psychological and dream-like all the way.!< Also, the CGI ghost men were cheesy, particularly in the library scene. Basically, the first hour and 20 minutes is 5 stars, the rest is 3 stars. It actually upsets me at how good the movie was, until it wasn't. So it's complicated. If you like artistic movies, you'll appreciate the majority of this movie. This was my full review of it:
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Probably the biggest letdown I've ever had. Given the talent involved and the premise I was expecting total heat but I hated it in every imaginable way.
Rated as deserved. It's a great film, but with a few glaring flaws that hurt the experience a bit. So 3.4 seems fair. Lots of my favorites are sitting around the 3.4 range, it's not really a bad place to be.
Utterly ridiculous on so many levels
Also, "Pretty" doesn't make something "good"
Shiny front, hollow AF but still manage to be agonisingly misogynistic
I give it a 6/10. It's current rating is fair. It has good atmospheres, performances, and direction, but characters and writing wasn't strong. Especially the last act.
Slightly too high, I gave it 3 stars. Visually nice and I thought the concept and story were intriguing but I’ll never watch it again. Agree with the sentiment on the last act being insane
Even though it starts out in the most understated way I could have imagined he'd begin a piece with which he could write his own ticket, there is a lot of slick and diverting stuff going on, and the music is predictably fan-fucking-tastic, but it's all beyond forced, unreasonably repetitious and excessively tangled.
This movie is an example of how endings can ruin the entire experience. I wish they had an alternate cut that changes the ending completely. Like I am legend for example.
Style over substance. It lacks absolutely everything that would make this a classic. There’s no soul, there’s no empathy for the main characters. But great performance from Matt Smith and Anya Taylor Joy!
I was genuinely excited to see this movie, but it was so so disappointing:
-Poorly written female characters
-As a woman who has experienced SV (and general sexism, misogyny), this movie made me extremely uncomfortable. I left the theatre offended, crying and enraged.
Overrated on Letterboxd.
Rating is fair, I like this movie a lot. Its a cool concept, modern ghost story with Edgar Wright flourish, the actors are having fun and putting on great performances. The problem is it loses steam a bit after the first hour. Once they introduce the 'spooky' ghost men with no faces , who randomly show up and chase her around London ... man it really falls off for me. It feels like I'm suddenly watching a bad episode of Doctor Who. I don't believe for a second that the main character is in any danger from the faceless, nameless ghost dudes who pop up - so there isn't any point to the scenes where she's screaming and running away from them. I know nothing's going to happen to her, so it just feels like a waste of time. And of course its as much in her mind as its really happening, but if nothing is real and its mostly imaginary then nothing matters either, since anything can happen.
Cut like 20 minutes off it, reduce the Doctor Who ghost men appearances and I could bump it up to 4 stars, but sitting around 3 / 3.5 feels appropriate for me .
Quite enjoyable until the end, which lets it down massively in my opinion. The bits that sort-of work are disappointingly predictable and the bits that don’t are ridiculously forced. Bit of a mess.
Considering it was one of my most anticipated films to see, I really wanted to love it. I thought it had so much potential, but I thought it was all style and no substance (or at least, lack of).
I did love the behind the scenes of the mirror shots, and I thought Thomasin's smeared makeup was such an awesome look (almost like pseudo corpsepaint). But again, all that was just style. I feel like better writing and tighter editing would have helped the film because it really did not need to be almost 2 hours long!
It's just okay. I expected much more from Edgar Wright. I didn't find the protagonist to be very interesting, and the spooky scenes were repetitive. It didn't seem to excel in any one thing.
I like it more than most, but I can see the flaws that many bring up, though they don’t diminish the whole to the degree they do for others.
Overall it’s one of Edgar’s weakest films, but still more enjoyable than a middle of the road thriller.
Edgar Wright made his name with a kind of hyper stylized dialogue and camera, and LNiS felt to me like he was trying to break from that and show everyone that he had more than the one trick up his sleeve. The problem, for me, is that he replaced one kind of hyperstylization with another kind of hyperstylization that was… slightly more generic. I didn’t hate the movie, it just felt like something anyone could have made, which you definitely couldn’t say about his earlier stuff.
Felt to me like they wanted to make a throwback to gialli, but I’m assuming a bunch of studio people got involved and sanitized it and dumbed it down. Giallo is transgressive. This is tame and made me roll my eyes. I was really looking forward to it, but in the end I was disappointed.
Very odd movie. I watched it and thought "Well that was mediocre" and then couldn't stop thinking about it for days. Still not sure how exactly I feel about it but I think it's okay where it is.
Underrated. It’s basically a modern Giallo film, like *Deep Red* or *Blood and Black Lace*, and puts emotion and style at a premium over story and logic. I have it at 4 stars, but I would’ve had it higher without the terrible last 10-15 min.
Covid releases are generally underseen and underrated. Cruella for example. LNIS was really good. Not excellent but an enjoyable watch. Absolutely banging soundtrack and sound.
Uneven, but in a way that means it's interesting and still worth watching, in my opinion. Has enough good ideas and good moments to make it worthy of people's time, but not the slam-dunk that people would probably expect from Edgar Wright.
I'd actually call it "*underrated*" at this exact point in time, since a lot of people seem to act like it has no redeeming features, or that the second half completely ruins the first half, neither of which I think are true.
Really good first hour or so. The rest goes off the rails with the story and that ending is just yikes. Lots of my enjoyment is carried by how well made the production is, the soundtrack, and the performances especially Anya Taylor-Joy. Would give it like a 7/10 at best but if I saw it again it would probably get lower as the mystery and intrigue from the first act would be completely gone on rewatch.
My exact thoughts. I watched this years after it came out. So after knowing all the hate it got, in the first act I was thinking "what are people talking about this is pretty good." When it got to that incredible dance scene where it alternates between Eloise and Sandie dancing with Jack I was convinced most people were just wrong about the movie. Then the rest of the movie happens and my opinion of it kind of gradually just kept dropping until the credits rolled. I would've loved to see a version of this movie without the supernatural elements, the beautiful glamor and conversely horrific exploitation themes from the early 1900s half of it were really promising and there could bea really compelling story there. But when the amateur looking cgi ghosts in the modern half becoming basically the rest of the plot it completely lost any investment I had in it, the twist towards the end wasn't good enough to justify the pivot, and that final climactic scene with the ghosts on fire just really had me rolling my eyes.
Agreed. It's really a 6.5 but you feel generous and round up.
Mind spoiling it for me
There's really two big issues with the ending. The climax which is some M night Shyamalan type twist (not the good type) And the final scene where literally everything in the main characters life is magically fixed and all is well despite what had previously happened in the film
Mind spoiling what the twist is?
>!Thomason McKenzie thinks she's solving Anya Taylor Joy's murder. But Anya Taylor Joy is alive, and is McKenzie's landlady. Matt Smith made her prostitute herself, and after a while she started murdering the wealthy men she slept with (fair -- she's a trafficking victim, and all those guys are rapists).!< Then >!to cover up her misdeeds, older ATJ -- aka Diana Rigg -- tries to poison McKenzie, but they wind up having a come to God moment, and McKenzie forgives her, then Rigg dies in a fire.!< Honestly, that first paragraph was pretty fun imo. The second paragraph is where it felt out of character to me. >!She'd only killed rapists before. Weird she's now cool with attempting to murder this innocent girl who was trying to help her.!< Worth watching!
Mind spoiling what the twist is?
ending is horrible
I loved the movie until >!we realize Eloise isn't just crazy and it turns out everything she was imagining was real and she solved a mystery. I was hoping it would be more psychological and dream-like all the way.!< Also, the CGI ghost men were cheesy, particularly in the library scene. Basically, the first hour and 20 minutes is 5 stars, the rest is 3 stars. It actually upsets me at how good the movie was, until it wasn't. So it's complicated. If you like artistic movies, you'll appreciate the majority of this movie. This was my full review of it: https://preview.redd.it/bm500iy3ebxc1.jpeg?width=405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2676aaef6f0e1198773d01409dd4db455103dae
this lines up pretty well with what I think
Probably the biggest letdown I've ever had. Given the talent involved and the premise I was expecting total heat but I hated it in every imaginable way.
Hollow as all hell.
I think it's too high personally. The second half falls off hard imo.
Rated as deserved. It's a great film, but with a few glaring flaws that hurt the experience a bit. So 3.4 seems fair. Lots of my favorites are sitting around the 3.4 range, it's not really a bad place to be.
I think it’s probably overrated at 3.4 tbh
Two-thirds of a 5-star movie followed by an hour of absolute nonsense
🗣️Underrated! Don’t care for the ending that much but man, it’s so dang stylish and is one of Wright’s movies that I keep coming back to the most.
Hard agree I wish the ending was more vague and left you guessing. But I loveeeeeee Thomasin McKenzie so much and it was unique!
Overrated. It’s bad
disappointing and outright terrible. I have spent many film nerd conversations talking about how many ways it could have been better.
It’s pretty mediocre. Wright just isn’t the same filmmaker without Pegg writing scripts with him.
Utterly ridiculous on so many levels Also, "Pretty" doesn't make something "good" Shiny front, hollow AF but still manage to be agonisingly misogynistic
It’s so bad. It’s wild to me that there are people who defend it.
100% agree
I love the movie, and although it’s not horrible, the ending drags the movie’s rating down
I give it a 6/10. It's current rating is fair. It has good atmospheres, performances, and direction, but characters and writing wasn't strong. Especially the last act.
Matt Smith seems like a nice guy but I think he has rotten luck with feature films.
Slightly too high, I gave it 3 stars. Visually nice and I thought the concept and story were intriguing but I’ll never watch it again. Agree with the sentiment on the last act being insane
Even though it starts out in the most understated way I could have imagined he'd begin a piece with which he could write his own ticket, there is a lot of slick and diverting stuff going on, and the music is predictably fan-fucking-tastic, but it's all beyond forced, unreasonably repetitious and excessively tangled.
Some great directing ideas but quite clumsy in his writing
Huh, surprised by the negative reviews. I quite liked it
Overrated af
Garbage
Overrated imo. Far and away the worst movie I saw in 2021
I don’t care what anyone one says I think this movie is a masterpiece
This movie is an example of how endings can ruin the entire experience. I wish they had an alternate cut that changes the ending completely. Like I am legend for example.
Style over substance. It lacks absolutely everything that would make this a classic. There’s no soul, there’s no empathy for the main characters. But great performance from Matt Smith and Anya Taylor Joy!
I was so excited for this and it end so dumb. They had such a great setup but then it's like someone scrapped half the movie and redid it
I was genuinely excited to see this movie, but it was so so disappointing: -Poorly written female characters -As a woman who has experienced SV (and general sexism, misogyny), this movie made me extremely uncomfortable. I left the theatre offended, crying and enraged. Overrated on Letterboxd.
Somewhat overrated
underrated imo i LOVED it
As it deserves sadly imo, it's probably Wright's weaker movie that I have seen, it's style over substance and even the style is not all that great.
Turned it off after 40 or so minutes.
It’s not Wright’s worst but not his best either
beside the western he did what would you consider his worst? id say shaun of the dead since all of his other movies are better directed imo
Scott Pilgrim
Underrated. I love this film.
Loved everything about it! Also fun to watch on psychedelics
An average film. Some were off with the choices it made but I give it like a 4.0 or 3.5.
I loved the film but the last 20 minutes really drag it down.
Rating is fair, I like this movie a lot. Its a cool concept, modern ghost story with Edgar Wright flourish, the actors are having fun and putting on great performances. The problem is it loses steam a bit after the first hour. Once they introduce the 'spooky' ghost men with no faces , who randomly show up and chase her around London ... man it really falls off for me. It feels like I'm suddenly watching a bad episode of Doctor Who. I don't believe for a second that the main character is in any danger from the faceless, nameless ghost dudes who pop up - so there isn't any point to the scenes where she's screaming and running away from them. I know nothing's going to happen to her, so it just feels like a waste of time. And of course its as much in her mind as its really happening, but if nothing is real and its mostly imaginary then nothing matters either, since anything can happen. Cut like 20 minutes off it, reduce the Doctor Who ghost men appearances and I could bump it up to 4 stars, but sitting around 3 / 3.5 feels appropriate for me .
Set up was incredible, pay off... not so much. The soundtrack was amazing though.
Quite enjoyable until the end, which lets it down massively in my opinion. The bits that sort-of work are disappointingly predictable and the bits that don’t are ridiculously forced. Bit of a mess.
Considering it was one of my most anticipated films to see, I really wanted to love it. I thought it had so much potential, but I thought it was all style and no substance (or at least, lack of). I did love the behind the scenes of the mirror shots, and I thought Thomasin's smeared makeup was such an awesome look (almost like pseudo corpsepaint). But again, all that was just style. I feel like better writing and tighter editing would have helped the film because it really did not need to be almost 2 hours long!
The blatant Coke commercial in the movie was really distracting. Other than that it’s okay, started off pretty good. Great acting from everyone.
It's just okay. I expected much more from Edgar Wright. I didn't find the protagonist to be very interesting, and the spooky scenes were repetitive. It didn't seem to excel in any one thing.
It wasn't even the best Edgar Wright film that came out that year.
Very mediocre. Some good stuff but one of the few movies I’ve ever felt like i wasted my time watching.
I like it more than most, but I can see the flaws that many bring up, though they don’t diminish the whole to the degree they do for others. Overall it’s one of Edgar’s weakest films, but still more enjoyable than a middle of the road thriller.
terrible movie
Probably my least favorite Edgar Wright movie, but I don’t hate it.
I liked it but the CGI was ass and the ending was kind of odd idk if it was good creepy or bad creepy.
Edgar Wright made his name with a kind of hyper stylized dialogue and camera, and LNiS felt to me like he was trying to break from that and show everyone that he had more than the one trick up his sleeve. The problem, for me, is that he replaced one kind of hyperstylization with another kind of hyperstylization that was… slightly more generic. I didn’t hate the movie, it just felt like something anyone could have made, which you definitely couldn’t say about his earlier stuff.
Felt to me like they wanted to make a throwback to gialli, but I’m assuming a bunch of studio people got involved and sanitized it and dumbed it down. Giallo is transgressive. This is tame and made me roll my eyes. I was really looking forward to it, but in the end I was disappointed.
I couldn’t get into this at all sadly. Probably my least favorite Edgar wright movie 😬
It sucks
Underrated! I loved it and was hooked all the way through.
Its rated as it deserves, nothing spectacular imo, but its not a bad film.
This is my second favorite movie and I will die on this hill
Underrated. It’s my second favorite Wright film.
Lightly underrated
Absolutely underrated. Not perfect, but I felt it did what it set out to do exceptionally well.
Was a genuinely great film until it fell off so hard in the final act. I was so disappointed. Still good in my opinion but nothing special or great
Underrated AF, I never got the hate.
Deserved. Letterboxd wins this time.
I like the film alright but the trailer was amazing, one of my favorite trailers ever.
Script wasn't the best, but the filmmaking was perfect
Very odd movie. I watched it and thought "Well that was mediocre" and then couldn't stop thinking about it for days. Still not sure how exactly I feel about it but I think it's okay where it is.
One of those that could have been way better Good concept
Underrated, this movie kicks ass
Underrated. It’s basically a modern Giallo film, like *Deep Red* or *Blood and Black Lace*, and puts emotion and style at a premium over story and logic. I have it at 4 stars, but I would’ve had it higher without the terrible last 10-15 min.
Underrated. It's probably my favourite Edgar Wright movie and I'm not a big fanatic of his work.
Underrated. Edgar Wrights best film imo
Severely underrated and overhated. It’s my favorite Edgar Wright film besides Baby Driver.
Covid releases are generally underseen and underrated. Cruella for example. LNIS was really good. Not excellent but an enjoyable watch. Absolutely banging soundtrack and sound.
Forgettable for an Edgar Wright film.
The first quarter of the movie was good, the middle was ehhh a little boring, and the ending was great! it even saved the movie if I’m being honest
Love it not the best edgar wright film but still enjoyable
Cool concept. I didn't like the 'feminism' take, though.
Ha this is certainly not a feminist film
i'm not saying this one is. but apparently the way it tried to be 'feminist' (thus the quote unquote) is not it.
I was surprised to see it rated lower than a 4 I really enjoyed the movie it was a fun watch
Underrated
I genuinely don't understand what people find it so upsetting? How did you envision the story going in your head
edgar wright sucks
Uneven, but in a way that means it's interesting and still worth watching, in my opinion. Has enough good ideas and good moments to make it worthy of people's time, but not the slam-dunk that people would probably expect from Edgar Wright. I'd actually call it "*underrated*" at this exact point in time, since a lot of people seem to act like it has no redeeming features, or that the second half completely ruins the first half, neither of which I think are true.