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Child's Play (2019) - Trailer #2
- Thread starter Violence Jack
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Forget the crazy killer coming back from the dead in a doll's body.
When the hell did Orion come back from the dead?
When the hell did Orion come back from the dead?
Ehh...
-Why would someone connect all of their home's smart devices to such a toy? I don't mean that question from the viewer perspective of being aware that Chucky is a killer doll, I mean what utility would a consumer see in that function for a normal product of that kind?
-The kid is indeed much too old to have a doll like that (if anything, it would've been forgotten in a closet years ago by his age).
-Likewise, Aubrey Plaza seems too young to have a kid as old as that one (I'm aware that she's old enough to have one that age, it being believable based on her appearance and past roles is the issue).
-The It/Stranger Things deal with the kids banding together is also meh.
Just another poorly-conceived reboot. Not interested in humoring this even for Mark Hamill.
-Why would someone connect all of their home's smart devices to such a toy? I don't mean that question from the viewer perspective of being aware that Chucky is a killer doll, I mean what utility would a consumer see in that function for a normal product of that kind?
-The kid is indeed much too old to have a doll like that (if anything, it would've been forgotten in a closet years ago by his age).
-Likewise, Aubrey Plaza seems too young to have a kid as old as that one (I'm aware that she's old enough to have one that age, it being believable based on her appearance and past roles is the issue).
-The It/Stranger Things deal with the kids banding together is also meh.
Just another poorly-conceived reboot. Not interested in humoring this even for Mark Hamill.
About five years ago, apparently.
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Agreed, if they wanted an older Andy, they should have gave him a younger sibling who gets the doll.
I'll see it...I like my horror, but I'm not sure about this. The voodoo possession angle is more interesting to me than yet another 'technology goes crazy' deal. Eh, I suppose it could go down the ghost in the machine route and have a killer's consciousness get into the system or whatever. We'll see. The fact it can connect to a company's system, and potentially to other Buddi dolls leading to a rampage of killer robots a la I, Robot, has the potential to make Chucky seem less special. The original series of films eventually went down that kind of route, but it took 29 years to get there.
I dunno...very mild optimism crossed with a sense of this being a pointless reboot in the face of the original series still being a thing.
I dunno...very mild optimism crossed with a sense of this being a pointless reboot in the face of the original series still being a thing.
The voodoo stuff was dumb as hell and served the basic purpose of explaining how the doll was possessed and gave Chucky some motivation.
I'm afraid this tech angle will take over the remake when all we need is a creepy looking doll butchering people.
I may be ok with all of it if Chucky screams "GIVE ME THE POWER I BEG OF YOU" before hacking into shit.
I'd like them not to reference the originals in that way, I find it really cringey when film makers start winking at the audience so bluntly. Little nods or background details are fine, but wholesale reference just leads to unfavourable comparisons. Like when they redid the scene of Freddy in the wall in the Elm Street remake, it was just really poorly done, worse in every conceivable way.
Ugh.
I fucking called it in the thread for the first trailer. You can see someone fucking fucking around with a chip and looks like he's putting it into the doll. I guarantee dudes name is gonna be Charles Lee Ray.
And yeah, it sounds like Mark Hamill is doing his best Dourif impression.
And yeah, it sounds like Mark Hamill is doing his best Dourif impression.
It looks inoffensive. I'm not going to the theaters to watch this, but I'll gladly check it out when it hits netflix.
This trailer is.. not good. How hard is it just to make a movie about an insane doll that comes alive and kills people? This app shit sounds like it was written by some 60 year old writer who started a conversation by saying "you know what would be a good addition to this movie? Apps and smart devices, that's the newest thing right?"
This is going in the forgotten bin with the Nightmare on Elm Street remake and Friday the 13th remake. You know it to be true.
I had no idea this was coming out in like a month. Figured it would be an August or October release. So weird, feels like they filmed it like 3 months ago.
I'd like them not to reference the originals in that way, I find it really cringey when film makers start winking at the audience so bluntly. Little nods or background details are fine, but wholesale reference just leads to unfavourable comparisons. Like when they redid the scene of Freddy in the wall in the Elm Street remake, it was just really poorly done, worse in every conceivable way.
Ugh.
I laugh everytime I see that. I mean....how? Elm Street barely got made they had so little money...in 1983/4! Decades later with all that technology they shit out THAT.
I am looking forward to it.
Hope this is what the new Halloween was for that franchise.
Anyone know the review embargo? We are 2 days away from release.
Hope this is what the new Halloween was for that franchise.
Anyone know the review embargo? We are 2 days away from release.
It sounds like they're winning some reviewers over by leaning into being a horror comedy instead of straight up horror like the trailers imply.
Whoa...that's what threw me off too. i was like "wait...Orion's making movie again?"
She looks embarrassed to be in this. I don't blame her tbh
Saw it last night, it was actually pretty decent. The "tech doll" aspect worked a lot better than I expected - there was a lot of satire about how reliant we are on home hub-type devices and how easily hijackable they are, which I liked. All the cast were actually giving it a solid effort too, and Mark Hamill did a good job as Chucky.
She was in the Grumpy Cat movie and in the DeNiro wants to fuck movie. This is a step up.
Yeah it's definitely better than expected and a lot of fun, even if it still falls short of the best films in the series but at least it's better than Child's Play 3 and Seed of Chucky.
