MaXXXine

This trilogy is so vapid and annoying.

Basically this whole trilogy thematically is about life and more specifically how one is used for their beauty but not as a person.
This is especially the case with woman but thats just the thing, every character is never allowed to be more then 1 dimensional. I despise ti wests writing, no, just because one of your female characters is written to be a bit crazy doesn't make them interesting.
MaXXXine especially floats around for most of its runtime, going multiple directions while also going nowhere at the same time.
Character after character, twist after twist, its never enough for the film and it becomes all the more egregious that the cast is THIS talented and yet all of them have so little to do.

The cinematography is fine but ti west uses great costume design and aesthetic to a specific era to mask how empty his direction feels in allot of scenes, at least, in this one.
Kevin bacon sounds bored as fuck and mia goth feels like she's sleeping walking through it.
Giancarlo esposito, my goat finally gets a role thats not just gus fring and i like that i guess but he gets like 4 min of screen time and so his character doesn't have an impact. His performance was pretty good tho.

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This is my favorite of the trilogy. I can see it being the least favorite for horror fans, since it is definitely a murder mystery before it is horror. Having just watched the others for the first time in the past 36 hours, this is the one that I was most engrossed in from start to finish.

Mia Goth is really great in it. Kevin Bacon and Giancarlo Esposito seem to be genuinely having the time of their lives. Also I love Halsey.

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