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The Bye Bye Man (2016)
Topic Started: Dec 12 2015, 04:26 AM (509 Views)
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The film recounts a series of terrifying events experienced by three Wisconsin college students, played by Smith, Bonas and Laviscount. Trucco plays the brother of one the students, whose mind has been invaded by the unstoppable Bye Bye Man (Jones).
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A movie released in January doesn't mean it's bad. Period. Fact.

Frankly, I couldn't give less of a shit what a studio head thinks or a critic thinks or an article writer thinks or whatever. People are WAY too hard on movies and are often unbearably hard to please and I honestly find that hilarious and depressing in equal amounts. I've seen more movies than many, many critics out there. I know what is actually good and what is actually bad. Bad and good movies can come out at any time, any day, any month. Writing a film off or being overly hesitant just because it happens to be released in January instead of December or February just because of some random Hollywood "rule" is honestly disrespectful to the art of filmmaking and it makes me doubt whether or not someone is as much of an expert as they think they are, lol. *shrug*
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Sep 20 2016, 05:45 AM
A movie released in January doesn't mean it's bad. Period. Fact.

Frankly, I couldn't give less of a shit what a studio head thinks or a critic thinks or an article writer thinks or whatever. People are WAY too hard on movies and are often unbearably hard to please and I honestly find that hilarious and depressing in equal amounts. I've seen more movies than many, many critics out there. I know what is actually good and what is actually bad. Bad and good movies can come out at any time, any day, any month. Writing a film off or being overly hesitant just because it happens to be released in January instead of December or February just because of some random Hollywood "rule" is honestly disrespectful to the art of filmmaking and it makes me doubt whether or not someone is as much of an expert as they think they are, lol. *shrug*
I have never said that all of them are. You asked why people are hard on it and call it dump month, I answered. You don't need to be rude and attack me because you're not happy with what the answer is. If you aren't actually interested in it, don't ask the question and complain about people having a differing opinion than yours. If you have faith in and like January movies, that's awesome. My experience and that of many other people is the opposite. We don't deserve to be singled out, targeted, and attacked for having a differing viewpoint

And no. Stating how studios factually work isn't disrespectful to the art of filmmaking. It's stating a fact. Especially because release dates are set by advertisers and studio heads, nor directors.
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I definitely think the Janaury "rule" is stupid because at the end of the day you are the person who decides what you like and that can be a movie that comes out at anytime lf the year. This conversation is so tired at this point but I think it is just dumb to not give movie chances because of when they are released.
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And I'm not singling you out or attacking. Note that never once did I use the word "you" when describing the people and behaviors that leave a sour taste in my mouth. And of course, I understand who sets release dates and how they are set. Doesn't mean I can't have an issue with that because there have been many good movies released in January. Perhaps January isn't a very good month for movies because so many people are silly and naive enough to assume a movie will be terrible if it's released in January JUST because they were told to think that because of 'the way things are?' I guarantee that if a lot of supposedly terrible January "flops" had been released in any other month, they would've made a ton of money. I really don't get why January is the hated month when honestly, February and March are just as 'unimpressive' from what I've seen over 24 years and countless films watched.

Letting the 'January rule' dictate whether or not someone bothers giving something a chance = disrespectful to the art of filmmaking. I just find it pitiful that so many people are willing to completely rule out watching like ten percent of releases JUST because they're released on January 1st instead of December 31st, lol. If those people are willing to ignore over ten percent of releases because of THAT I cannot begin to imagine how many thousands upon thousands of other, possibly good films they've totally ignored for reasons that are just as small.

Movies themselves matter. Release dates don't. In many cases, at least.
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Sep 20 2016, 05:57 AM
I definitely think the Janaury "rule" is stupid because at the end of the day you are the person who decides what you like and that can be a movie that comes out at anytime lf the year. This conversation is so tired at this point but I think it is just dumb to not give movie chances because of when they are released.
If one came out that I thought looked good, I'd break it. If one comes out that I'm interested in, I'd break it. The new Amityville has been slated for January and I'd break it for that. Am I going to break it for generic supernatural movie with a dumb title and a lame trailer? Not a chance. No one plays it as a hard and fast rule, but I know trends and I take them into account

And judging by trailers and the like is completely valid considering people are paid to make a trailer that makes me want to see the movie. The whole point of them is to convince me to see it, that's what these people are paid for. Otherwise I've got other stuff to spend money on. Basically, they're responsible to sell me on seeing the movie. I am not obligated to go see it just because they made it.

EDIT: As for feeling attacked, it's the tone. It feels very pointed and directed towards me, and it read as very aggressive to me. The fact I've been called picky in the past doesn't help it not feel at least somewhat targeted. It very much felt directed towards me. I am sorry for misinterpreting if that's not the case, however.
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January and into the first week of February has been a successful time to release horror films since 2012, so it isn't really true that horror studios save their worst films for that season. They sometimes do save ones with a marketable star, since that does have an impact on the box office during that season. The Devil Inside, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Mama, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (didn't really perform too much below expectations), Warm Bodies, and The Woman in Black were all decently successful and expected to be when they were released in the winter.
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I'm seeing it in the next few days. Pretty excited. Expecting this to be one of the most bashed horror movies of the year. I'm already sick of people making fun of the title lol.
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Its bad.

A waste of my time and patience.

I wouldn't advise leaving the house to see it. Check it out when it hits HBO or SyFy.

I don't for a second believe it was made with the intent of scaring an audience..


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I was guessing that this movie wouldn't be particularly good. The trailer didn't give me any hope, and neither did the fact that this was apparently cut down to a PG-13 from an R rating. The reviews pretty much confirmed all of my suspicions. Half of them have already made the obvious joke: "don't say it, don't think it, don't see it."
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It is odd to me that despite horror fans really hating and mocking it and critics not liking it all that much either its beating the other more high profile films for the weekend like Patriots Day, Live By Night, and Sleepless.
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I was guessing that this movie wouldn't be particularly good. The trailer didn't give me any hope, and neither did the fact that this was apparently cut down to a PG-13 from an R rating. The reviews pretty much confirmed all of my suspicions. Half of them have already made the obvious joke: "don't say it, don't think it, don't see it."
Well I guess we have the uncut bluray to look forward to. :P
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Was there a reason that I put this in the foreign section? I'm guessing that I just got mixed up, because I remember there being a few movies that were kind of tricky that I did the same day.
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This was surprisingly good and I really don't get why it's so hated (but then again, everything is so...). Carrie Anne Moss and the others did a good job with the material. No one gave a poor performance which really surprised me (and I even liked Lucien Laviscount!). No one totally blew me away either though. The concept itself is decent and a fair amount was done with it in just 90 minutes. This also had a really large bodycount which surprised me. I figured this would be one of those "one or two - MAYBE three deaths only" movies but nope, it's in the double digits. Nothing particularly gory happens but it's definitely more harsh than a lot of PG-13 movies. This did a better job with the whole "one person shotgunning an entire family" thing than The Amityville Horror (2005) did and THAT was Rated R. There's also some nice death aftermaths, shootings, stabbings, and so on. It's pretty meanspirited if not bloody.
Not everything in this made total sense at the time but as the film goes on, things come together and if you just think about it for like two minutes, you'll be fine. (lol) It's not overly complex but the execution is kind of funny and certain things go by a bit too quickly. This had some really great secondary characters and setpieces. I almost wish it had been about twenty minutes longer so they could've gotten the most out of certain scenes without having to speed through them. Some of the exposition scenes were a bit too fast but not so fast that you'll end up totally lost. You could probably have a couple beers while watching this and still get it, lol.

It's not TOTALLY original and brilliant though. It's not even one of the very best of the year. It's heavily flawed even with its shocking moments and genuinely surprising ending (it's not really predictable at all when it comes to who lives and dies so this has that going for it). I like teen-paranormal-horror films like this that actually aren't afraid to kill off like 90% of its cast. A lot of paranormal movies play it safe and let all but one or two people survive the whole thing but nope - not this one! I like that. I'm burned out on paranormal movies as well for the most part but I'm fine with ones like this that, while mostly generic, go a bit 'kill crazy' too. :P

I really loved Mrs Watkins (Cleo King) and the old widow (Faye Dunaway - WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!). (love)


5/10 quality, 7/10 entertainment. It's around average. With the amount of hate it's been getting, it almost sounds like people were expecting it to be the best Horror film of the year. That's a grave mistake to make since it was always obvious that while really good (hopefully) it wouldn't be anything overly groundbreaking or amazing.
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Worldwide $29,805,166
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I think it's kind of average. I liked the effects. The director of photography does some pretty great work. He seems to have come out of nowhere and also did Annabelle and Hush, and he has me a little more interested in seeing Wish Upon. The director does a good job of hiding that the PG-13 rating doesn't allow for very much blood at all. They also got a lot of really great locations. I especially liked the house and library.

The casting of all of the small roles was great. I really likef the movie when Cleo King, Faye Dunaway, Leigh Whannell, and Carrie-Ann Moss were in it. If the movie had killed off the leads and switched to following Cleo King's character, I probably would have really liked it even if it kept all the same issues. The leads weren't bad, but Cressida Bonas has a difficult voice and they're all kind of dumb.

The big problem for me is the script. There's a lot of random stuff in there. I don't mind that they didn't explain much of anything about the Bye Bye Man, but they should have stuck with him just causing people to hallucinate. That was actually pretty cool in some scenes. It didn't need him to have a poorly made dog, do stuff with coins and trains, and scratch walls. There are a lot of subplots that don't go anywhere. The script is overall way too disjointed.
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Final worldwide total: $29,867,048
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Blu-Ray:


Movie - Theatrical: 1:36:24
Movie - Unrated: 1:39:48
Trailers (Two Other Films): 4:45 - roughly


Really disappointed but hey, at least I got the Unrated version lol.
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