Even though it's not the same as 13 Hours, one of my personal favourites is The Great Escape. I think you would enjoy it :)

Speaking of Casey, there's a nice bit of foreshadowing before the calls get nasty. What seems to an exterior establishing shot of the house, we see an innocent looking swing hanging from the tree swaying. 10 minutes later Casey's hanging from that swing.

Yes. she was fantastic

Yeah it sucked. Worst movie I saw in 2022. It's crammed so full of 2000s horror tropes it's unwatchable. Anything good in this movie is ripped out of better ones, like the general premise being It Follows but worse, and the visual style heavily "borrowing" from genuinely good directors like Ari Aster. The rest is so "generic homogenized jumpscare flick" it's painful. Trope after trope after trope. Plus even though I loathe jumpscares it'd be nice if they didn't fucking spoil the only one worth being startled by right in the fucking trailer.

A few weeks after I watched it I popped over at a gathering at a friends house and they'd started watching it like 20 minutes before I arrived. Initially I was like "oh man not this shit again" but after a while it was very affirming watching 4 different people getting more and more angry, disappointed and bored with the movie after each scene.

I simply don't like the way I feel when there's a jump-scare. The Armenian term for it (that my grandmother would use) translates as "my heart shattered" and that's the way I feel. In all honesty, the older I get I have anxiety thinking I'm going to have a heart attack because of a stupid movie.

Even when it comes to satire, I try not to make assumptions on any value judgements that may or may not have been made by any film. I like avoiding that socio-political commentary layer of reading movies, unless it's to empathize (but not on any moral level per se). I much prefer keeping my thoughts confined to a diegetic level, where it's not that Tyler's the worst person because he's a foodie -- he commits foul after foul and it pissed off the wrong person. I can understand that sort of dynamic and see where both sides are coming from. Tyler's super enthusiastic, Slowik is super over it

Because when we use the term "worst person" can we really say it was the foodie? With those incriminating fajitas?

Yeah I agree,yes the jump scares were terrifying but it gets to a point where I can't focus on the plot or the story because all I'm doing is mentally bracing myself for jump scares that could occur at any moment constantly. It's mentally exhausting and takes away from the movie.

Double that.

I mean this sound like being a dick to me. Like, I don't think that sports stars or actors sneer or look down on their fans for being unable to play professional sports or act, and if they did, that would be totally unreasonable.

I liked the premise of them weaponizing that smile though. It's not just her smiling to mask her pain, it's formed into a "physical" being that warps her perceptions and affects her entire life, as well as the people around her. Her smile only brings forth her buried guilt/trauma and it affects her mental health, which in turn affects her relationships.

I think buried deep down it has a solid premise (albeit not fully unique), but it gets way overshadowed by the amount of jump scares. There's the people who are too scared to finish, the ones who brace for scares more than paying attention to the story, or those who are unaffected and think the scares make the movie more cheap. Without so many, I think they could've made a solid psychological horror.

>He idolises the head chef whilst minimising the contributions of the other chefs (not asking the other chefs name early on, not recognising the whole menu is a collaborative process with others having input beyond Slowik)

I don't see your point. These are all things that Slowik plays into. He lives apart from the other workers, and is treated differently. He builds a reputation and mystique around himself, and his workers are treated in a dehumanized fashion. A point could be made that people like Tyler bring out the 'worst' in Slowik - their desire for spectacle over craft. But that's not the point that the movie articulates. Tyler is criticized for just being inauthentic, which is boring, because everyone already hates inauthenticity.

Also, like, I've worked in food service before. I never wanted any customer to ask my name.

heh, I didn’t even mean it bad at all. Love the guy and the WTF podcast. But my fault for not phrasing it better. All good.

Stop caring about stupid, pointless awards shows. Like what you like. The Oscars are simply a marketing campaign. It's a fancy commercial, nothing more.

It was a solid idea with a trauma demon messing with your senses and making you hallucinate until you're driven to madness. I enjoyed the premise. It's okay if you didn't though.

No I expected Smile to be FILLED with jump scares and it was. I just wish it didn't have them or at least as many as it did.

We can still talk about it even if you didn't like it. Conversely, if you see it then you don't have to click on it either

A few...?

I mean, you just like overstimulation. That's okay. We like different things is all.

Seconding this, such a great episode

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I was scared of the movie as well, but I felt like it was moreso because of the exhaustion from the physical reaction, rather than being scared. But then again, I'm also the type who enjoys a slower, deeper internal fear and growing paranoia than in-your-face screams.

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The chef's passion for his art was gone. Holt's character was the "worst person there" because he was willing to die and let a dozen other people die just so he could have a taste of something the chef now detested.

Let's not forget the wannabe bus drivers

And probably didn't pay her in advance either.