The Reel Rejects - SINISTER 2 REVIEW – THESE KIDS ARE PURE PSYCHOPATHS! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:01:50 Muam, one, blah. All right, we are going to use Patreon questions to help us do our review. However, before we do that, I just want some brief thoughts

Starting point is 00:02:00 from my girl Tara on Sinister 2. Yeah, I'm with you. Like, in the beginning, I was pretty in, invested and then I guess the further into the movie at God, I was like, where are they going with this? There was a lack of motivation, I think, within the script and the plot, the further we went along. There weren't as many cool explanations as I think I wanted as to why they, I don't

Starting point is 00:02:27 know, the story went that way. I think there was just parts of it, a little melodramatic, somewhat predictable. It seems like the scene with the dad and then James or whatever we're calling him. What is the detective? I don't know. The detective and the dad, but it seemed a little bit like a Hallmark movie scene.

Starting point is 00:02:50 Like there were scenes like that. And the Milo kid seemed a little melodramatic at times. I still. I still don't, like, I don't really know why it was made this way specifically. Because I don't, I wasn't, in the beginning, it was cool. And then I feel like it lost, kind of lost some traction there. But I agree that.

Starting point is 00:03:19 Terrible. I just was like, where are we going with this? It got a little, it got a little off the rails. But that's okay. I do agree with you, the kills were gruesome. Really scary. very vicious. And there was a couple

Starting point is 00:03:34 jump scares in there, which definitely got me for the sake of being like, oh, is it a good movie? Would I recommend it to people? No, but I'd be like, if you want to be scared a couple times, maybe give it a go.

Starting point is 00:03:48 Right. I think I liked it a little bit better than you. However, I had all the same qualms that you did. Yeah. Like, I thought that the first act was strong, then the second act was a little weaker, and then the third act was the weakest. And that's not the...

Starting point is 00:04:02 That's not the order you want a movie to go in. Totally. But I did still really like the first two acts. And the third act, I mostly had issues with kind of like the pacing and the visuals of it. There was times like, Homeboy got his fingers cut off. We like barely kind of saw that. But then they see it after. And since it's all on that shaky cam, because that's how we're filming, I get why

Starting point is 00:04:25 artistically they tried to do that. But I just think there could have been more reactions. It's kind of lackluster that the dad dies. Like I wanted to take kind of a moment too. Me too. Yeah. And also, the guy who told him about the old time radio, we don't really finish up with that storyline.

Starting point is 00:04:42 I do really like that with this one. We go with the two siblings that can both see the monster. Sure. I thought that that was kind of cool. And like one of them is more like the dad. One of them is more like the mom. But I'm not sure what our takeaway of that's supposed to be. Like some kids are bad eggs.

Starting point is 00:04:58 Yeah, I guess so. Especially because like usually it's hurt people, hurt people. Totally. But Dylan was the one who was being abused and he's the one who also was like a sweetie pie. So yeah, there was just like a few questions that I had still. But I don't think, let me see if it actually was a 13%. Zachary was viewing his father until he learned those behaviors. But also.

Starting point is 00:05:21 You're 14% dude. Like weird ass moment that the detective chooses to run the kid over at that that point we are not sold on the storyline that the detective knows that the kid is now the one in charge and is going to murder the people he doesn't know that the last we heard of him he knows the two kids he doesn't know that he's the one burning him at the stake he's just the kid has a camera and he runs him over i well i needed an explanation for that from the detective didn't get it i'm glad he ran him over sure great but it doesn't make sense it not make sense to me me at all. And that was, especially during that third act, I was like, we are, we're off the rails now.

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Starting point is 00:07:25 slash rejects. That's Shopify.com slash rejects. Thank you, Shopify for sponsoring this video. Hi, Terran Roxy. And Sinister 2, which aspect unsettled you more, or the idea of Begul actively targeting the kids or the fact

Starting point is 00:07:41 that they start choosing to go along with it over time? I think that's kind of one, too. Yeah. Like he was targeting him, then they go along. I think that's the unsettling thing. Right. Those aren't like opposite things that you're saying, J. Dell. Right. They go together. I think the choosing to go along with it is an easy writing in the plot because we know that he wants the kids and stuff. But I think they really tried to sell us on that Zachary is like his dad. So he's going to fight for this role in this weird dead kids club. And he's like, why'd you pick my brother? You should have picked me. He's weak.

Starting point is 00:08:23 But that was the plan all along. That was the whole plan. Yeah, it just, I don't know. I think it should have hit harder. Yeah. I like that Dylan was like, nah, I don't want to be like you. Yeah. I did enjoy that.

Starting point is 00:08:36 He's the embodiment of better not bitter. Tear heads with Jaden. Yeah, where I, Jaden Rhodes says, where I absolutely love the first movie, I found myself quite disappointed in this sequel. I find it lazy, kind of boring, the actual story, not captivating in the slightest. I'm curious if y'all agreed to you all think it's up par with the first movie.

Starting point is 00:08:54 I wouldn't say on par with the first movie But I definitely didn't find this to be not captivating in the slightest I was really into it for I was really into it for 45 minutes Like yeah I was into it so so that means a whole other hour Not as much Well it's an hour and 37 minutes

Starting point is 00:09:14 Oh right yeah you're right Yeah so like half of this I really dug Yeah yeah yeah I think I was too but when I'm I am absolutely Jaden I'm agreeing with your thoughts when I'm reading this I think the reason why

Starting point is 00:09:34 is because I didn't get explanations for certain things and some stuff in the acting when it got to be melodramatic certain parts with like the dead kids and they're in the corn why are we shooting the dad with the golf she's sitting there reading

Starting point is 00:09:51 there's just certain things that I go Yeah, not captivating. I don't know why they're showing us this. There should be a reason that they're showing us this moment to either build up the dad. I thought the dad was like going to do something weird with the golf club and we hate him even more. So that when we do burn him alive, it's a bigger payoff. But there's certain parts of this film where I'm like, I don't know why they're showing us that. He did feel a bit like a character church too, the dad.

Starting point is 00:10:15 Like you would think the first night back, like usually abusers attempt to play nice for a little bit or whatever. Apologize with the thing. Like the way he comes out, it was like line, line. Yeah. Like, I was like, that seems corny to me. Yeah, I'm with you. Jay Rushden. Question, would you like career behind or in front of the camera there?

Starting point is 00:10:40 I think you know both of our, I mean, we both is my, I mean, I think, probably would say both too. Right. But of course, we love to be on camera. Tara and I both came up as actresses. We love hosting as well. I love writing and you know hopefully I'm lucky enough one day to work enough and then become be able to direct something but that's so far down the line right but I mean not really it's like we both I think we in being two people who've been on set enough that we would understand

Starting point is 00:11:11 the behind the camera the producing the directing the parts of it probably pretty well and it would be fun it's always fun being on set I think we both have experienced it enough to go like set rocks yeah Agreed. Good times. Thanks, Jay, for that question. It's very sweet when you guys take interest in us personally. Appreciate you. Final question from Jay Dell, more of a trivia. Duh. Creepy home movies were all filmed using practical effects and relocations.

Starting point is 00:11:37 And each one had different director-style approach to make them feel like they were created by different children under Bogle's influence. That's interesting. I wish the last one was created a little clearer. Yeah. because it just seemed like a callback to what we opened the movie with. What we opened the movie with, though, was his vision when he was lying. Yeah, so that was what it was. You're right. You're right. You're right. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I mean, I liked the practical effects. I could tell that it wasn't CGI when they're hanging there and they're getting like electrocuted, like all that stuff. The lighting probably helped. I don't know if it was all practical makeup and stuff like that, but it probably was. I like all the practical stuff.

Starting point is 00:12:21 I just think because the rats. The rats was great. Looked sick. The rats looked great. And the alligator chomping those people looked amazing. That looked amazing too. That looked really good. All that stuff was a good time.

Starting point is 00:12:35 It's just the script and the plot. Meandered. Yeah. It wandered. Yeah. I don't think that we need to harp on it for too much longer than that. Sinister 2 was. It was a movie.

Starting point is 00:12:50 We enjoyed the beginning of it, but yeah, fell off the rails. I do you feel like there could be room for a Sinister 3? Yeah, for sure. Like bring back the OG director. Yeah, Scott Derrickson. Unfortunately, because of the passing of James, I don't know exactly what direction we would go in. I agree. I feel like we would have to get on.

Starting point is 00:13:09 Start new blood. Yeah, something. But I like the premise of these movies. Me too. And they are interesting. And they kind of combine, like you talked about evil dead. There's a lot of elements of. But I also felt like there was a lot of.

Starting point is 00:13:20 lot of elements on nightmare on Elm Street. Like don't fall asleep, don't go to sleep. Exactly. All those kind of things. So, yeah, I would be interested in more of this franchise. Other than that, thanks for being here with us. And we'll see you next time. Later, Rejects.

The Reel Rejects - SINISTER 2 REVIEW – THESE KIDS ARE PURE PSYCHOPATHS! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

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