Full disclosure: I’ve never played Until Dawn. But they did decide to turn that game into this script into this movie so I think any and all comments are valid.
A lot of rich stockholders complain about the death of movie theatres, so let me paint you a picture: you spend $15 on a ticket and head into the theatre at exactly the time it’s supposed to start. You see 5 minutes of ads before the movie trailers start. There’s three ad breaks during this time. Then the movie starts, and while 1 dimensional characters flood you with backstory in the first 5 minutes, the group in front of you decides a movie is the perfect place to take photos and chat.
That was today. The complaints I have about Until Dawn, which is mainly the script and advertising, would probably be small fries if I had seen this on Blu Ray. But I saw it in theatres, and the beginning put me in a bad mood, so every flaw was magnified.
The characters were very 1D and the personal storyline of the lost sister seemingly forced. The movie was advertised like Groundhog Day meets Cabin In The Woods but in reality was more like Groundhog Day meets Shutter Island. And I hated Shutter Island, the ending negated the entire thing.
The characters don’t face new challenges each iteration – it’s all the same shit, same villains, same problems. The protagonists just find new ways for the same shit to kill them, that’s all. It’s not masked murderer one night and a troll the next. It’s a masked murderer every night and one time a troll is seen and then never makes an appearance again.
Look, if I was sitting at home with people who weren’t dick bags, maybe I’d only be disappointed in the false advertising. But I wasn’t. I paid money to experience this. And instead of experience a movie where every night people have to survive something new, I experienced side conversations, ads, selfies, and a movie where the same shit happens each night. Maybe the masked killer doesn’t get them every night, but he’s there every night.
Anyways, I wish I saw Sinners instead. I might not be a vampire fan, but at least it probably was advertised correctly and is too high brow for asshole kids to wanna try and ruin.
