Reviews

One of the best films of the 2010 decade and in my opinion the very best film of 2019. Not only is this a great horror film, but a truly great film. It's a true masterpiece from beginning to end. This is the kind of film where whatever interpretation you take away with this film, is the correct one. My interpretation can be 100% different from yours and we both can be correct. Many have discussed and analyze this film and it's truly interesting to see and read these analysis.

From a new telling of the Greek mythology of Prometheus and Proteus, an allegory of being stuck in purgatory, being an actual literal interpretation in what you see on screen is actually going on and to so many more interpretations, it's truly a film that's worth watching and the more times it's watched, any interpreting one has at the ending of the film can be reinforced or possibly change.

The ending is truly fantastic as it really makes you have to think what you just watched without giving any sort of spoilers. The director, Robert Eggers who made his film debut 4 years before this with The Witch, has said he wanted everyone to walk out with the thought "What the hell did I just watch?" He achieved this and more as this is one of the best psychological horror films I've seen.

The performances by Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are truly incredible. Words can only do so much to properly do justice to their performances. I'll just say the fact they didn't get Academy Award nominations for their performances just shows how more out of touch the Academy is these days. They arguably gave the best performances of their careers with this films. Dafoe gives a great showy performance that has a lot of weight to an old sea dog being the keeper of the Light, while Pattinson gave a performance that's truly ensures Dafoe doesn't have to carry the film on his shoulders. Pattinson gives his all and more in this film as having to take orders from Dafoe, anywhere from minimal tasks to manual labor. This is as much Pattinson's film as it is Dafoe's, especially since the film is from the perspective of Pattinson's character.

This film was nominated for Best Cinematography, which was deserving and should have won the Oscar, but this film deserved more Oscar nominations than just one. This should have been a film that got a slew of Oscar nominations and wins. This should have been up for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Pattinson), Best Supporting Actor (Dafoe), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design and Best Sound are categories this film could have been up for and to me, it would have been deserving of winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Sound.

I've often gone back and forth with this film winning Best Original Screenplay with Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as both films have great fantastic dialogue that's fitting for both films. I could go on and on with this film, but this is an incredible film from beginning to end. One of the best films of 2019 and as time will go on, people will continue to talk about this for years to come and it will be seen as true masterpiece as many have already called it a modern day masterpiece and those people aren't wrong.

I personally thought the film was good. Very good in fact. Now I will say that I do like AVGN, but some of his episodes haven't been the best. Some are better than others, Mostly because it seemed like during 2010 to 2012, when he made a good comeback as well as working on the movie, it seemed like he was forcing some of the things he put into the reviews/episodes, but then again I guess that's not really here or there.

I didn't have a lot of expectations of the film personally, but I thought it was alright. Some don't like it and that's fine. Maybe they like James, maybe they don't. They saw it and they either liked it or didn't. That happens to every movie. People like it, people don't.

The reasons I didn't have a lot of expectations on this film is there are movies based on shows that are terrible when there's a feature film done from a show. Sometimes important elements are left out of the movie, like a character trait or some plot that has been established in the show are either contradicted or just ruined one way or another in the film. Another thing I have to mention is people complain the film looks like garbage or something to that effect with the budget it had. I have an explanation for that, actually James does as he's said it a couple of times that people might not have caught, which is even in this reviews title: The film is attribute to B-Movies. A B-Movie that comes to mind is Plan 9, From Outer Space.

With that said I thought it was appropriate that the film look low budget like the series looks low budget, since you know it is low budget. I just wanted to say that as that's some complaints I've seen on here. But if that had in impact whether or not you like The AVGN Movie, then that's your experience. I didn't see it in a theater, but I rented it online, and I've heard that the experience is different when watching it alone on a computer than it is with a packed theater. But maybe not. That's what I've heard from those who saw it on the big screen and it could be true. I could believe that it would be better seeing it in a movie theater.

In the end, I liked the film. The Nerd's new adventure is entertaining, the story I felt was good with the E. T. game and all. Some complain about the run time, which I think I can agree with. If the film was cut down maybe 15-20 minutes not a lot would be lost. That's one complaint I've got with the film, but it's not major by any means. One other complaint is the romantic part of the story, while okay, didn't really need to be there. It seemed like it was there to help with the plot and I think the plot was good the way it was. I guess I thought the romantic element didn't need to be there or if it was deemed necessary to have in the film, then it maybe should've done in a different way. But the overall plot and theme of the film was good in my opinion.

The new characters are alright, but aren't anything too special. James as The Nerd is still just as great as he is in the show, IMO. Some may disagree and that's fine. For what it is: the acting, production quality and all that other stuff I didn't cover I feel is good and helped give the film a certain charm to it.

I do feel this is going to be a cult film one day, or at least has the potential to become a cult film. I'm sorry if I didn't spoil anything major for you, but there are some spoiler reviews and honestly, I feel people should see the film for themselves. That's just me, like it or not.

I would like to see a film made by James that's not AVGN related though. I think he has talent enough to do something non-AVGN related, but at the moment, people want AVGN and that's fine. I'm sure there's more to him than that, hell he's even said he has other film ideas that aren't related to AVGN.

Whether people want to see that film or others that might be like one he's got on his mind is another story. On one hand he has his fans who he wants to please, and that's fine and understandable.

But on the other hand, he wants to show he's more than just The Nerd. He has other ideas, that I, frankly would like to see one day. That's just me though...

I give this film 8 out of 10. It's very good. And not as bad as a lot of people say it is too. If you watch this film, go in with an open mind. Trust me, I did and it helped the movie experience. Don't come in with high expectations, have low expectations, but not too low, where you might not like it as you might of had a negative feeling before hand.