A tale of two (attempted) sacrifices
Apr. 3rd, 2026 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo I did go to the cinema today! Before I left I had a delivery though, of a Lego bunny set. Someone had put up instructions of Rocky from Project Hail Mary using the set and I totally caved to get it. (I built him tonight before this post, may post pics later)
In town I picked up some things mum wanted, feminine stuff she had vouchers for and the Lego Easter sets before going to the cinema.
I got the Mario Galaxy cup they had, which came with a keyring! I chose bowser which is pretty cool. (I got early because I knew how crazy the next days would likely be). Pics tomorrow in light. (They also had a popcorn tin but that seemed pricy and basic) After nomming some waffle fries I went up for the films.
But first, trailers! These were the same for both which makes sense given they were the same genre but it felt a shame there wasn’t even one different. They were:
Scary Movie: I’d seen this one before, it looks like it’ll be really funny and dumb, I’ve not seen the scary movie films for awhile so I’ll have to look them up
Passenger: Same trailer as before (well more a short scene) and I’m still super curious about it
Obsession: New trailer that I’d not seen. This one has made me jinda curious, especially how the woman’s face is always hidden which is kinda sus and intruiging
Hokum: new to me trailer, I’d seen another longer one which had made me curious, the vibes look really good
The Mummy: a different trailer than before, but I dunno I didn’t vibe with this one as much. I’ll still probably see it since I’ll be in town anyway
Undertone: I’m so sold on this one, cause I’m a sucker for haunted tech and thags the vibe I’m getting. Also the way it used the cinemas audio in the trailer alone makes me excite for it.
Before I get into them it is kinda funny that two films with similar themes came out so close to each other. They probably would have worked better not releasing as close but then maybe someone thought that’d capitalise on a double bill which… well it worked on me so I guess there’s a point there.
Thoughts under the cut for They Will Kill You then Ready Or Not Here I Come.
Of the two They Will Kill You had the smallest audience. I think there were three people there, myself included. Ready Or Not 2 had at least triple that.
First off the premise, a woman, Asia, is starting work as a maid at building, but things go wrong and it turns out she has been lured them as a sacrifice. But she is not as helpless as they hoped.
So yeah the basic premise is she’s lured to this building, trapped inside with everyone trying to kill her. In a way it’s a similar premise to the original Ready Or Not (though this time they knew they’d be sacrificing her from the start). I liked it well enough though not as much as I hoped and I can’t place why exactly.
(Now spoiler thoughts framed by *)
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The trailer makes it seem that Asia has just been lured into the job and when they try and take her from her bed, she just improvises and acts on instinct to get away. However this is very much not the case. She came there intentionally and was prepared to fight. (She didn’t bet on them being immortal Satan worshippers though.) Those reveals are pretty good as is the first fight in the bedroom and then a later one in a dining room with a flaming axe.
There are some cool visuals, both those fights and the devil at the end. And seeing Asia kick these peoples asses, using her environment when she looses her weapons, is pretty cool. And props to the effects people for all the kills.
I think one of the things that lets it down are the villains are underdeveloped, like they’re a tad one note. (Also one is Tom Felton which was funny). Lily, the head of the building, is served better, even has a slightly sympathetic backstory.
It was a fun time though, just, like I said not quite as good as I was expecting and I’m more annoyed that I can’t pinpoint exactly why,
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Ready Or Not Here I Come thoughts now. As a whole I liked it, but it does feel a bit of an unnecessary sequel (thoughts on that below). The premise is that after the first film, Grace is taken again to participate in another games this time with her sister in tow.
I have further thoughts but they’re spoilery so…
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The main issue I have with this is one I’m sure most people will have. The first film felt like a nice, self contained story. The second film feels very much like an excuse to do that again. In the first film the game made sense cause the Le Domas family business was games so doing it again without that context just felt a bit.. odd. And it very much felt like an excuse plot. (Grace winning the game triggering some ancient law of a powerful council that the Le Domas’ were part off which, I just don’t feel they had that vibe.)
The premise of ‘members of each family hunts Grace down, the winner gets to control the council and thus the world’ felt very much like Exquisite Corpses only with the demonic element (I need to read more exquisite corpses I keep meaning to set a day to read the issues I have). And it does feel, again, that the villains are one note. You don’t really learn what each of the families actually do. You just know they’re powerful.
But anyway, enough of that, onto the good parts. First off Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Ursula is easily my fav of the new characters. (She really doesn’t have a bad role does she?) she and her brother are the main focus of all the hunters and she’s easily the best one (I hate her brother so many). Also Elijah Wood as the lawyer is really good too. Those two were my main draws to see it and I’m glad they were great in it. And I did like the actress that played Wan Chen Xing, she was really good (shame she wasn’t in it more)”
(Grace and Ursula should’ve been endgame I said what I said)
There’s some good kills, some fun and funny moments. But I’m not sure how effective Grace and her sister Faith’s relationship is. (Grace saying she had no family in the first film is kinda handwaved away.) but once they worked out their differences they were a nice parallel to Ursula and her brother.
Like I say though, it was a good time and the better of the two films. It’s just the basic issue of it being a sequel to a film that probably didn’t need one.
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Now though I’m gonna bundle up and tomorrow is gonna be a rest day, I might go out on Saturday to get the Lego make and take from The Entertainer and see Mario Galaxy and Arco but we’ll see. Plus the newly found Doctor Who eps go live tomorrow too.
In town I picked up some things mum wanted, feminine stuff she had vouchers for and the Lego Easter sets before going to the cinema.
I got the Mario Galaxy cup they had, which came with a keyring! I chose bowser which is pretty cool. (I got early because I knew how crazy the next days would likely be). Pics tomorrow in light. (They also had a popcorn tin but that seemed pricy and basic) After nomming some waffle fries I went up for the films.
But first, trailers! These were the same for both which makes sense given they were the same genre but it felt a shame there wasn’t even one different. They were:
Scary Movie: I’d seen this one before, it looks like it’ll be really funny and dumb, I’ve not seen the scary movie films for awhile so I’ll have to look them up
Passenger: Same trailer as before (well more a short scene) and I’m still super curious about it
Obsession: New trailer that I’d not seen. This one has made me jinda curious, especially how the woman’s face is always hidden which is kinda sus and intruiging
Hokum: new to me trailer, I’d seen another longer one which had made me curious, the vibes look really good
The Mummy: a different trailer than before, but I dunno I didn’t vibe with this one as much. I’ll still probably see it since I’ll be in town anyway
Undertone: I’m so sold on this one, cause I’m a sucker for haunted tech and thags the vibe I’m getting. Also the way it used the cinemas audio in the trailer alone makes me excite for it.
Before I get into them it is kinda funny that two films with similar themes came out so close to each other. They probably would have worked better not releasing as close but then maybe someone thought that’d capitalise on a double bill which… well it worked on me so I guess there’s a point there.
Thoughts under the cut for They Will Kill You then Ready Or Not Here I Come.
Of the two They Will Kill You had the smallest audience. I think there were three people there, myself included. Ready Or Not 2 had at least triple that.
First off the premise, a woman, Asia, is starting work as a maid at building, but things go wrong and it turns out she has been lured them as a sacrifice. But she is not as helpless as they hoped.
So yeah the basic premise is she’s lured to this building, trapped inside with everyone trying to kill her. In a way it’s a similar premise to the original Ready Or Not (though this time they knew they’d be sacrificing her from the start). I liked it well enough though not as much as I hoped and I can’t place why exactly.
(Now spoiler thoughts framed by *)
***
The trailer makes it seem that Asia has just been lured into the job and when they try and take her from her bed, she just improvises and acts on instinct to get away. However this is very much not the case. She came there intentionally and was prepared to fight. (She didn’t bet on them being immortal Satan worshippers though.) Those reveals are pretty good as is the first fight in the bedroom and then a later one in a dining room with a flaming axe.
There are some cool visuals, both those fights and the devil at the end. And seeing Asia kick these peoples asses, using her environment when she looses her weapons, is pretty cool. And props to the effects people for all the kills.
I think one of the things that lets it down are the villains are underdeveloped, like they’re a tad one note. (Also one is Tom Felton which was funny). Lily, the head of the building, is served better, even has a slightly sympathetic backstory.
It was a fun time though, just, like I said not quite as good as I was expecting and I’m more annoyed that I can’t pinpoint exactly why,
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Ready Or Not Here I Come thoughts now. As a whole I liked it, but it does feel a bit of an unnecessary sequel (thoughts on that below). The premise is that after the first film, Grace is taken again to participate in another games this time with her sister in tow.
I have further thoughts but they’re spoilery so…
***
The main issue I have with this is one I’m sure most people will have. The first film felt like a nice, self contained story. The second film feels very much like an excuse to do that again. In the first film the game made sense cause the Le Domas family business was games so doing it again without that context just felt a bit.. odd. And it very much felt like an excuse plot. (Grace winning the game triggering some ancient law of a powerful council that the Le Domas’ were part off which, I just don’t feel they had that vibe.)
The premise of ‘members of each family hunts Grace down, the winner gets to control the council and thus the world’ felt very much like Exquisite Corpses only with the demonic element (I need to read more exquisite corpses I keep meaning to set a day to read the issues I have). And it does feel, again, that the villains are one note. You don’t really learn what each of the families actually do. You just know they’re powerful.
But anyway, enough of that, onto the good parts. First off Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Ursula is easily my fav of the new characters. (She really doesn’t have a bad role does she?) she and her brother are the main focus of all the hunters and she’s easily the best one (I hate her brother so many). Also Elijah Wood as the lawyer is really good too. Those two were my main draws to see it and I’m glad they were great in it. And I did like the actress that played Wan Chen Xing, she was really good (shame she wasn’t in it more)”
(Grace and Ursula should’ve been endgame I said what I said)
There’s some good kills, some fun and funny moments. But I’m not sure how effective Grace and her sister Faith’s relationship is. (Grace saying she had no family in the first film is kinda handwaved away.) but once they worked out their differences they were a nice parallel to Ursula and her brother.
Like I say though, it was a good time and the better of the two films. It’s just the basic issue of it being a sequel to a film that probably didn’t need one.
***
Now though I’m gonna bundle up and tomorrow is gonna be a rest day, I might go out on Saturday to get the Lego make and take from The Entertainer and see Mario Galaxy and Arco but we’ll see. Plus the newly found Doctor Who eps go live tomorrow too.
