The Reel Rejects - LONGLEGS (2024) MOVIE REVIEW!! | First Time Watch

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

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I'm sweating. Let's watch this, guys. Hermana, Hermana. Yeah, that was awesome. Really good. Not enough spiders. Not enough spiders. I don't think I saw a single spiders.

Yeah, I felt like the performances were great. The story was interesting. I loved the dialogue, the visuals, the sound. It was like all the things that make for a really good horror thriller. Serial killer movie. Watch credits Yeah What are you?

Do you like it? Hold on I'm taking into credits Okay I can't talk And This is cool Just find out who

The line producer was Black and red Scroll credits Interesting Oh I see who the co-producer is Very good I'm glad we're doing this I like to give people there do

I like how the Such a short cast Right like we're not going to see more than this Did you notice that the credits are going in reverse yeah i do but their names are at the bottom going out yeah very small cast there's stunt bubbles in that makes sense makes so much sense have you got in what you want from this just talk we can just i like it just do you like why are you being so bizarre No, I just like to see.

You never know what could happen. That's true. It's very true. Anyway, guys, we watch Long Legs. It stars Nicholas Cage, Micah Monroe, Blair Underwood. So my first question is, why us? Why did they want us to watch us? Why do people want us specifically to watch it?

Why did the devil choose us for this movie? We've done some horror movie stuff. But this is so, like, not, like, the fun horror movie. Oh, I felt like it was fun. You thought this was fun? Yeah, because he's toying with them. Yeah, but I wouldn't agree with you on the word fun. My God, you thought that was fun?

That was, like, so dread heavy. Dread, yes, but, like, so was, um, what's that movie you made me watch? That was so good, but I, like, talk to me? Yes. Um, we've done movies like that, you know? Yeah. That's, like, about teens, party. and like messing up this is like a slow

deliberate serial killer investigation movie it seems so like different than anything we've ever done I was like kind of looking for that similarity of like what was it about us well we've done a lot of horror definitely predicted way more right than I got right

yeah I feel like I've been watching a lot of horror stuff you know the only thing I read are scripts I read multiple scripts a week so I really and I watch a ton of movies so I feel like I start to understand stand when in the editing process what they're trying to tell us sometimes and sometimes I'm dead wrong about it um oh that's interesting the slider by T-Rex uh which was the quote that we got

from the beginning to yeah um so sometimes I I pick up on things and I wonder who Don Durbin is because this is a memory of Don Durbin sometimes I pick up on things and that I just felt like I for sure they were telling us this is this girl this is her yeah he picked up on the visual cues of it i thought it was really i thought it was great i thought was really great i especially love how it's like actually setting up for a typical type of a cop you know hunting down serial killer story yeah like true detective style story and yet it starts to like take inverses on things you know the serial killer goes to her house so early on you're like how is this possible and then the whole thing with like devil satanism cult most movies

would take the approach that that's just that they worship but we're in the real world and as the movie kept going i was like i wonder there is that man i kind of doubted it up until like close to the last like 15 minutes of the movie when it became crystal clear like oh no there is a actual um devil in this movie there is an actual like supernatural entity um demonic. But we still don't really fully know what it is, right? Like, we know that Nicholas Cage was the man downstairs. We know that there's this voodoo element to it. We know that he is working for who he deems to be the devil, but whatever, like, version of that there is. Well, let's say the reality is that there's a real, like, actual supernatural thing that's going on. Yeah. Yeah, we don't

know exactly what, but something. Yeah, and I like that the movie decided to commit to that, because there was always that tone, and I kind of just thought it was the tone of the movie. But then they do have, like, kind of the hints that with our main character, Lee, that she does have some type of, like, hyperactive, intuitive ability that's borderline psychic, you know, which is already a little bit, which I think allows it to sell on, yeah, the Satanism part is real. But when she sees things and she feels things and she senses things, we know she has a doll out there.

Yeah. And that's part of the psychic ability is the voodoo to it all. And, you know, when he says, when you decide to be a cop, we laughed. Yeah. And it's like he's been following her, but she's also. Who's been living there this whole time? Right. That is so disturbing.

It's a disturbed. Like the last 20 minutes. Yeah, the last 20 minutes is a very disturbing review. Yeah. That was really, really solid. Like, excellent performances, too. I mean, I feel like she sold this movie so beautiful. beautifully. I'm curious what else she's been in. Because you and I both said we kind of recognize it, right?

Yeah, I can't pinpoint it. I don't know. She just has one of them faces. But yeah, she had the, like, she's a, it's a very body language performance. And like you kind of have interpretation of what her performance is early on of like this psychic ability kind of haunting her a little bit, like a medium in the field. And then as it goes, you start to understand what it really comes from. but you know she she also carries herself as a very believable cop too i think like when she has the gun she's packing and everything she's still very believable as a cop cannot believe i didn't pick up on this so upset with myself right now all with who she is who is she this is the effing girl from it follows oh is it yes oh my god the blonde girl yes oh shit the main that's so annoying on that wow there's a bit of it it follows vibe yeah this is the blonde girl from it follows which was 10 years prior to this wasn't she another movie called like watcher or something like that um let me see but that's crazy because i just watched it follows here yeah um okay she was in

the guest oh i didn't realize she was in independence day resurgence the fifth wave solid movies god is a bullet sure Watcher. There it is that one. Flashback. Wow. She, I mean, she's unbelievably good. Now, she's grown up.

Yeah. You've grown up, my God. She's really, really good. Yeah, I thought she was an excellent performer. Holy shit. I can't believe I didn't clock where she was from. I can't believe I didn't clock that either. That actually surprised me.

Wow. That's wild. Well, yeah, like she was great. Nick Cage. What do you think? I think that he is such a. like I don't know how to phrase this perfectly but like an actor's actor

you watch him as a performer if you are a performer and think like how the is he doing this and I think even if you're not a performer you think that but like I think he's brilliant I think he is

he gives every inch of himself like never have we ever seen Nicholas Cage ever not once phone in a role like he just you know what I mean you just really truly gives all of himself

to it. I thought that was so good. He just does. I feel like he doesn't care about being judged at all. Like he just goes all. He makes choice and he commits regardless. And I think where he's out in his career is a really fascinating one. Because he's had that period where he became like

the meme. But now he can kind of just do any movie he wants it. You know, he could do like something that's like, can't be a terrible or he could do a long legs, you know? Yes. He could hop between all these different films and no other actor really has that career right now the commitment is unbelievable it really is that you hit the nail on the head with that word it's like man he's just phenomenal um and shout

out to the prosthetics and hm you team on this one i thought they made him look so creepy and a lot of acting is from that a lot of it's from the inside out but a lot of it's from the outside in you hear a lot of actors they can't really get into the role fully until they feel it from the outside yeah And he looked like your worst nightmare. He did. He was just, they did a great job with that. It had to cover multiple different periods here. And that's hard to do also as costume designers with the changes in dialogue, HMU.

And they did a great job with that. Set design. Yeah, this had everything. This had everything to make a really, really, really good horror movie. And the supporting cat, the other cop, the lead cop. Black cop? Yeah, Underwood. He's amazing.

He's really good. We've Blair Underwood. We've seen him in a million things. He just brings that like believable, relatable cop personality to it. And I thought that ending was very tragic. Like when you hear the murder going down in the kitchen, oh man, that was so heartbreaking. So heartbreaking. So heartbreaking.

Yeah, he's really good. He's got 100 credits. I did predict the second they got to the house before they even went in that the family would die. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Hollywood. Yeah.

And then the... Really good. The cinematography on the film was also just so excellent as well. A lot of the scene, I felt like they had like specific color choices for everything. They would have scenes that were just perfectly yellow, other scenes that were really like hard red and blue. And I thought the choice of switching the camera, I'm still, I haven't quite pinpointed it. Switching the frame. Aspect ratio.

ratio i'm still not a hundred someone can tell us in the comments it was just the flashbacks anything from the 70s was like that and anything from the 90s was open because of 70s movies and stuff yeah because that kind of like camera they had yeah that worked for me i thought that was great uh you want to hear some things yeah like i like things you like things uh this is a a little goof i think this is interesting despite the movie being set in the 90s the theme for the price is rice the theme for the price is right can be heard on the TV is the version that's been used since 2007.

Oh. Got him. Epic fail. That's funny. There was a lot of people in the audience that day. Many of Longlegs encrypted messages contain misspellings and poor grammar after being decoded.

This is an homage to the Zodiac Killer who was also known for his coded messages containing typos, which often made it more difficult to decode his message. Well, that's one of the things I liked about it was that it first feels like a true crime story Even the way they like use the motif Of the investigation photos, the snapshots on them

Makes it feel real Who doesn't like a good true crime series And it felt that way So I thought that was smart to immerse you into the reality Before I agree with that I really agree Despite the praise and acclaim of his portrayal of long legs Nicholas Cage has stated

This will be his first and only portrayal Of a serial killer for film In interview with IndiWire Cage said I know that the phone's going to be ringing off the hook to play serial killers after long legs and that's not really what I like to do. I don't like violence. I don't want to play people who are hurting people.

Really? Him? Some crazy ass roles. Yeah, he really has. Some crazy roles. You think about something like pig though, right? I haven't seen pig. I heard he's reasonably all right in that movie.

You're a joker? I know, he's amazing. You got to watch it. And I won't say what I was going to say. These fights are psychopaths, but we're so crazy people before. Nicholas Cage and Oz Perkins made the movie as a tribute to their mothers. Oh, fascinating. That's a fascinating.

I trade tribute of a film right there, especially with what they do with a mom in this is a really weird tribute. Weird. Long Legs quotes the poem Satan Says by Sharon Olds in his message. His poem is about a girl locked in a cedar box being told by Satan. uh that he can get her out of the blasphemous against her family uh she doesn't she does so but satan then seals her in the box and leaves her there oh scary satan's a bad guy can't trust the devil yeah trust me he's dicked me over many times like what um i he took one of my french fries

ones and you do not take one of my french fries this one's long but has a lot of likes so let's that they had to say. Well, often compared to other great leading men due to skills as an actor, Long Legs, director Oz Perkins, recalled the story from production during an interview where he learned Nick Cage has a particular skill that he says no other actor possesses.

The ability to recognize how high or low he's able to speak without messing up the audio. That's interesting. The story goes, according to Perkins, the sound guy came over to me one day. He comes up to me a couple of days into Nick being on set, and he's like, Oz, I've never seen anything like it. When Nick is miced, I'm watching the dials.

When Nick goes big, he goes right to the line. Anything more, a decibel or two over that, and it would be hard to use. Then he goes down. He goes soft and his whispering, he's barely talking. He goes right to the line. Anything past that line, you wouldn't be able to use it. He knows where the lines are. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.

That is every. It must be one of the many reasons people love working with it because, yeah, Mike problems are a very common issue. Tara and I also know where to go with the line. Not loud. Okay. This is, if it wasn't Nicholas Cage, do you know who Oz Perkins had thought about to play long legs? Hugh Jackman.

Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt? Nah. I don't think. I don't think so. That'd be kind of hard. I feel like it would have been a much more subtle performance. I wonder why.

Like, why Brad Pitt? Brad Pitt. Well, I did get seven vibes, so it could have been a fun tribute. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you did say that at some point. The movie had a budget. Have you seen an assassination of Jesse James? No.

Brad Pitt's a pretty good villain in that movie. Okay. I think Brad Pitt's awesome. I just don't think of him as, like, kooky. I feel like he could pull off a version of this. Cool. Yeah. Reject Nation, I just want to take a quick second to thank today's sponsor because as a business owner,

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is what it made on the opening day. Wow, that's cool. Good job, team. This is why horror movies make budgets. I almost just fell out of the chair. Well, this is a cultural impact. of a movie. It's got like a 95% Ront Tomatoes or something.

Is that true? It's really highly rated. It's a reasonable decent audience score. I think the audience, this is the kind of movie I could totally see the audience is not being too thrilled about. I really like that.

Like filmmaker, cinephile people might really like this a lot. Why wouldn't an audience is like this? I think when you advertise this movie, nah, I just think when you advertise this movie, it's like, it's like, you know, there's 824 neon horror movies. It's like slow and it's not full of like

fun. jump scares and stuff. This is an 85% on the tomato meter. That's pretty good. And a 60 on the popcorn. There you go. That is a divisive score. Right.

That is lower than I thought it would be. The 85 or the 60 or both? A 60. That is almost a solid 50. I feel like the 85 is pretty low too. I know that critics are tough on horror movies. But that, like, that means that 15% of people thought that this was rotten. That's a lot.

Like what? It was so well done. I don't know. But this, but the, what don't they like? Go to the negative capsules. Maybe we'll be like, hey, yeah, you know what? That's a decently solid point, this one sentence I read of you. It's not a bad film, but it's not the movie that influencers and marketing people sold us.

Oh, so that's an expectation for a boom based off of what you saw. That's such a bad way to review. Like, you should have your thing taken from you. That's crazy. Long Legs holds few surprises, a problem that originally. on the page. Okay. Sounds like you're being nipicky, but I haven't heard of the whole review.

As a psychological horror, it has a tense start that sends signals to my spine with each of its questions. But unfortunately, its narrative loses its intriguing effect when it goes down the predictable paths of police thriller. I mean, how predictable. I mean, some of the biggest plot points were able to be guessed in advance, but I still thought that the execution. of them were still creepy i agree i think sometimes people don't like a movie when they feel like oh i've i've smarted the twist or something like that this one says wanting to be a mixture of the exorcist in silence of the lambs this film aims high and just barely misses wow all these people are being so harsh like or like not the the score is harsh because what you're saying is

not well i mean i feel like kind of negates the point i feel like it's trying to be exorcist at all Like, it's kind of a, it's a super strange point to me. Well, the one thing that I do think is that sometimes people don't like when things aren't explained. And, like, the balls, not explained. Yeah. The actual relationship with the devil, not fully explained. But do we need that? I don't.

Yeah. But those three people do. Maybe. Yeah. Mr. This isn't what my favorite TikToker told me to watch. That one was crazy. That one was crazy.

There's more than that obvious. but I'm just saying I think some people they do really want answers it's like why some people are so obsessed so upset about lost not just the finale but like not getting answers to so many

the things I know you didn't watch that show otherwise I was just going to start referencing things but people don't like shows and movies asking questions sometimes and not giving them answers well I feel like they answered all the things they need to answer they answered all the things I needed them to answer for sure yeah i don't care about the i probably check out during the details of like whatever goes on it's like

tell me what's in the computer you know like i'll check out of the details i think like the main stuff life leaves you asking questions so it's okay for movies too like what is that ball how does that work is voodoo real here does she really have all those memories suppressed or did she actually know some of them and she just couldn't get herself to say like i have so many questions but those or what I should have. Well, I like the idea of, like, the mom who, like, morphed throughout this. And she even sounds like she formed a relationship with long legs, like, an actual, like, bond with him. Sort of living there, you know?

Are you implying that they boned? I wouldn't be surprised if they did. It's crazy. I know. What it's trauma. I love a sequel to this. I love a sequel to, like, her, at least. I can't really see it.

Longer legs. Well, because who. now she killed the mom yeah i know but i still feel like this opens the door for like i like the world it's in you think it could be inside her maybe no i'm saying i'm not saying you continue this exact story but you can pick up somewhere else yeah pick up with this this cop character this lee character later and then some other case comes along like i like the world that oh that's cool that you did your like you know your seven movie but put a put a but a religious horror vibe on it you know I hear you

I think that would be a really neat thing And she's she just so good I wouldn't mind watching She is so good Yeah She's so good And she was so good And it follows

I mean she'd probably retire As a car I'd imagine being a cop She'd probably retire Hmm It's There you go Anyway

This was no Abigail This was no final destination Do you feel that way This was long legs You don't But you didn't prefer this to those movies Um

I wouldn't really compare them. You just did. You said this was no. I knew this is going to be a more serious film. I kind of use a fun movie in my life right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. To be totally honest. I was like, all right, it was like really heavy,

serious. They were like families getting murdered. But at least it was, like the Nicholas Cage parts were fun for me to watch, like how kooky he was. True, true. Yeah. I'm like, talk to me, which the whole time I was like, oh, no. Amazing

movie, but I just was like, this is so painful to watch. Suffering. Someone doesn't like watching me until suffer. You should watch Passion of the Christ. He's not in it. Are you trying to get me canceled? He's not it.

You're killing right now. He's in lethal weapon. All righty, guys. well long legs would you rate it as 60% or an 85 leave your thoughts down below is it overblown what is arcadian it's an amc plus i was just looking at that i was like what the hell is it's an amc plus exclusive it's a shutter movie huh i wonder how it is nicholas cage doesn't stop working i mean i think he needs the money really yeah there's a time he went like completely broke

but still now yeah i feel like he likes to spend money okay Anyway, guys, thank you so much for being here. I hope that everything turns out well in your life. And pray, it might do you some good. Roxy, got any last words before we head out? Actually, what this movie taught us is praying doesn't do you any good. It's because they didn't believe hard enough. Oh, believe in you shall achieve.

Exactly. Oh, get your, get your she-jack stuff. Get your she-jack stuff. Or just clothes in general. I think if you're not willing to wear that black sweater in a hundred 20-degree weather, you're not really rocking it. You're not really supporting it.

I'm willing. All righty, guys. That's Roxy Stryor. I'm Tara Erickson. We'll see you guys soon. Eric Horstman. Take it away, John. Eric Horstman, look.

If there's anybody who, I don't even know what this movie's about, Roxy thought it was about a spider, so after seeing it, she thought it was about it. Well, if I, listen, I know it's got some similarity to silence of the lambs. So what I think you should do is you should fly out here, and then we'll both try on some billowing, you know, silk scarves, and we'll tuck our junk in, and we'll, you know, dance at each other and, you know, scream, you know, do some kabuki, let out of our emotions.

And then you and I will go get a tattoo of each other. faces on each other's butts. So long right now. Then we'll also get a tattoo of each other's butts on each other's faces. Oh, geez. And then there's juice flowing out of me. There's so, yeah, juicy Eric. That's what we like to call you, because you're always, you're always secreting, you know, something or other, some kind of pleasant fluid, just like a spider, just like a spider, just like the webwe.

Weaver himself. Just like the long legs. You just, you know, one day I just want to look up into the corner to the ceiling and see Eric and just like a milky, you know, net of goodness of Eric goodness. I like where you're going on. Just watching us, you know, just voyering over, you know, every little moment in between shoots that the people don't see Eric sees it. He's watching.

He's got the long legs. And he does. And he's a daddy. I'll tell you that much. I'll tell you that much, Eric Horstman. I feel like my skull's on fire And maybe I should get a An STI test

Like high school? Yeah We're gonna I didn't score high on my STIs Really? Yeah, I got all the STIs I scored high in every section of the test That's good for you went to my doctor

They came back and they're like you've got every one Oh no wonder you did well in your STIs because you went to a doctor That's right That's right. I got help from a professional. Like Eric Horstman. He's a medical professional. But I'm not going to do it.

But you can put it together. Close it now. I love you, buddy.