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Post by Bartwald on Apr 13, 2004 12:19:32 GMT -5
It isn't in my opinion, I can tell you that! But if anyone thinks it is - and May has been one of the most praised horror flicks recently, so it's easy to become suspicious about it - the place to argue is right here!
Myself - I still can't believe how dark this movie was (I saw it an hour ago); even though most of it was happening in bright daylight, this was a masterpiece of dark atmosphere! Also the main actress has to be mentioned here as a totally magnetic girl! The plot wasn't astonishing maybe but a good one for sure, and I liked the little 'common' events in the first part of the movie when it wasn't yet horror - like the scene in the cafeteria when May couldn't help approaching her 'dream man' when he fell asleep.
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Post by embalmer on Apr 24, 2004 14:46:24 GMT -5
Nope,I found it fascinating.I mean,Angela Bettis is absolutely stunning as May.She is such a lonely and sad character.This film left me speechless and I can't wait for another project of its director,Lucky McKee.A masterpiece that needs to be seen by many horror fans!
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Post by Father Red on Apr 27, 2004 18:25:23 GMT -5
May is one of my favourite recent films, but not because of the supposed artistic merits it sports or the atmosphere it creates - I actually found the overall story a little boring and in some ways unoriginal.
It does feature my two favourite actresses (current) though, and in some lesbian business no less. How can a movie with that be anything less than great?
The DVD's lackluster though.
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Post by Bartwald on Apr 28, 2004 12:27:39 GMT -5
It does feature my two favourite actresses (current) though, and in some lesbian business no less. How can a movie with that be anything less than great? Uh... yeah... hard to disagree with this... So Anna Faris is this second favourite actress of yours, Father Red? I like the girl, too, but it's sad she doesn't play much... Scary Movies, The Hot Chick, Lost In Translation, this... anything else? - and she should have like twenty movies on her already, shouldn't she? |
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Post by Father Red on May 13, 2004 7:00:56 GMT -5
She's one of my current favourite actresses, but I must admit I'm not a fan of too many actors in the last 20 or so years.
It is odd that she hasn't been in as many movies as her forth form chums, but I guess it's quality over quantity (well, with May anyways).
PS, forgive the lateness of my reply.
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Post by Bartwald on May 13, 2004 11:58:54 GMT -5
...forgive the lateness of my reply. But of course I forgive you!  |
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Jul 9, 2007 8:13:48 GMT -5
I found it a bit overrated.
It's a nice performance by Angela Bettis, but IMO the movie as a whole was too slow paced and too disjointed, is it horror, is it dark comedy, is it art film? It's all over the place.
May is supposed to be weird, but everybody in the movie is weird. No one to relate to.
Dissapointing.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jul 9, 2007 10:28:58 GMT -5
Wow, can't believe I missed this:
It's an absolute, first-rate flaming piece of shit. Nothing happens but one of the most drawn-out love stories of all time, none of it interesting or exciting. No horror elements (that ending could come from just about any film, not scary at all) and a just all-around waste of time. I never wrote up a review for it, and I never will include it in my collection. One of the few films I can say that I want my time back from watching.
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Post by Quorthon on Jul 12, 2007 19:34:53 GMT -5
I thought May was alright. Nothing super special. Enjoyable, but not really "a hit," I guess you could say. That blond chick was gorgeous.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jul 13, 2007 10:13:58 GMT -5
I was just super-bored with this one. Characterization and action can go together to create a classic (Jaws and Psycho for two I don't have to even think about at all) but this was just mind-numbing. I fast-forwarded it three times in the vain hope something was going on and all in the first thirty minutes.
I also call on the "horror" labeling. When exactly does the horror come in? The last twenty minutes in an hour and a half movie. What exactly happens to call it horror? Two mildly bloody kills and a surgery scene so bad it was rejected from ER. There's not even an attempt to put in horror themes or ideas throughout. It's just a relationship drama plain and simple. I've seen scarier films off Lifetime, which at least had the grace to pepper in some attempts at scares or suspense throughout before piling the real action into the end. It doesn't deserve to be called a horror film, and was just a colossal waste of time.
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Post by Fenril on Nov 16, 2007 22:10:59 GMT -5
Saw this one recently; as I had heard a lot of things about this movie (both good and bad) I didn't quite know what to expect, which helped...
I enjoyed it a lot. BUT I definitely agree that it isn't an horror movie as such --there are killings and some gruesome stuff (the scene with blind children on broken glass, for instance), but at core it's a character study / really black comedy.
I liked it in that vein, I found the characters very likeable because of how quirky they are, and found their interactions believable (it probably helps that I know a lot of people like the ones in the movie. Yes, even people like May herself, sans Frankenstein doll). Even the somewhat forced ending worked for me, more because of emotional impact and ambiguity (by this point you can't really tell if it's happening or not) than as a surprise.
I also checked some other things by the director Lucky McKee... loved his "Masters of Horror" episode "Sick Girl" (but I seem to be in the minority) --again, through, it's more a comedy than anything else.
Didn't much care for his supernatural thriller "The woods"; it took itself far too seriously or not seriously enough (i. e. it was too "middle ground" for my taste) and was full of unrealized potential.
I'm curious about "Roman", supposedly the counterpart to "May" (starring Lucky himself as a male "May").
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Post by slayrrr666 on Nov 17, 2007 11:15:23 GMT -5
I think the fact that it keeps getting lumped in with the horror genre when nothing scary happens or even comes into play is where this one messes up. It's not bad, as you said, as a black comedy or even character study, but when viewed as a horror film, it's excruciating.
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