A Cure For Wellness was pretty bad.
I was extremely disappointed by this movie.
I've kind of trained myself at this point to not get hyped for movies.
Since whenever I see a good trailer
nine times out of ten the movie itself sucks.
(Man Of Steel Trailer) In time, they will join you in the sun.
But A Cure For Wellness had much more behind it.
Not only did it look visually stunning
But the concept itself was so bizarre.
And the fact that the movie itself
was shrouded in mystery made it that much more intriguing to me.
Plus it's directed by a fantastic director, Gore Verbinski.
His track record isn't perfect, sure. But the movies he made that work
really work.
Rango is one of my favorite animated movies. Or just favorite films of all time.
The Ring is a solid horror movie, Pirates Of The Caribbean is a solid action/adventure movie.
Even the two not-so-good Pirates Of The Caribbean movies he directed are
not that bad.
In terms of cinematography and action, almost all of his movies succeed,
even this piece of shit.
Basically what makes or breaks his films are the script.
Although this movie isn't good,
there's a lot I like about it.
But for every positive
there's also a bunch of negatives.
Like the rest of Gore Verbinski's movies, the film is gorgeous.
The set design, the costumes,
the way everything is framed,
the look of the castle, the color palette, sound design.
It's all A+.
The visual effects are pretty fantastic.
But there are also some effects that are terrible.
There's a scene in the movie were a car
they're driving hit a deer
and the deer looks like a fucking cartoon.
Another thing that makes or breaks
Gore Verbinski's movies is the cast.
The guy who plays the head doctor
Whatever his name is, Jason Isaacs,
is actually really good and intimidating.
(Interview with Jason Isaacs) When I read the script, I had the same reaction that the audience has which is
I had no idea what was happening.
The girl who plays Hannah, who I've never seen in anything before, is really good as well.
She might be the best character in the whole movie
and whenever she was on screen
You can tell the audience is much more invested in what was happening.
But then we got Dane DeHaan.
I mean, yeayhh uhh.
Who I'm now convinced is an awful actor.
I like him in Chronicle, he's okay in Place Beyond The Pines
He's okay in Lawless.
But now I've started to notice he kind of place the same character in everything.
And he just fucking stinks in this movie
I mean it's what, you know, it's what I do. (Laughter)
He is so fucking boring.
His line delivery is awful,
he has the same dumb expression the entire movie.
He fucking stinks
He's basically playing Harry Osborn from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 again.
(TASM2) Whatever dude, he wears spandex to rescue kittens from trees.
(Marc Webb) Good, good, got it, got it, great, good.
Even the character himself, regardless of Dane DeHaan's awful performance,
the character itself stinks.
He's completely unlikable.
He's greedy, he's an asshole he doesn't give a fuck about anybody.
He doesn't have one redeeming quality throughout the entire thing.
He's kind of nice to the girl. That's it
If there was one word I could use to describe this movie, it would be
inconsistent.
Biggest failure of this movie, besides the fact that the lead actor stinks,
is that the script is just incoherent.
The dialogue isn't very good,
The pacing is way off.
40 minutes can easily be cut out of this movie
And just the plot itself, like, they're marketing this movie as if, like, they want to keep the plot a secret
I think they're marketing it that way because I don't even think they know what the plot is.
I saw the movie I don't even know what the plot is.
(Interview with Gore Verbinski) Well, I think that
look, we're trying to
We're trying to tell a, you know, a contemporary
a contemporary
movie that deals with our, you know, our own fears. (Mumbling)
But it's firmly seated in the genre as well
But I'd like to
You know, we set out to make a movie where when the curtain closes
It's not like the movie's over.
We're still somehow affected, right?
If you really want to watch it, I'd recommend, like, renting it so that whenever the movie gets boring
You can just leave the room or go on your phone
'Cause this movie is two and a half hours long and it felt like it was four hours
I gotta give the movie like a three or four out of ten.
There's a side of me that wants to give it a four out of ten just because of how fucking bizarre it is.
And how much entertainment value I got from that.
But at the same time the acting and screenwriting is on the level of like Batman VS Superman.
Just fucking nonsense
