M3GAN: Why do they make films like this?

[Meghan54]

yeah, i would figure a champion girl gymnasts instead of dancer?

I think the gymnast body type wouldn't have worked for the "doll." Usually quite thick thighs, etc. Much more muscled than a dancer would be and what the doll was.

 

[Brainonska511]

*low whistle*

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So in Hollywood accounting terms, it made negative money thanks to the onerous loans and fees imposed on the shell production companies.

 

[K1052]

So in Hollywood accounting terms, it made negative money thanks to the onerous loans and fees imposed on the shell production companies.

Movie magic baby.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Looks kinda interesting tbh. Gives me Annabelle vibes.

 

[pcgeek11]

She looks a lot like Shauna Rae on reality TV.

https://go.tlc.com/show/i-am-shauna-rae-tlc-atve-us

 

[Captante]

M3GAN: Why do they make films like this?

$.

 

[mikeymikec]

$.

Yeah, after @K1052 's post I came to that conclusion too.

To the people here who enjoyed the film, I have a question: Is the 'killer doll' type film something you really go after? I'm just wondering what the attraction is. Do you really like watching films, or is sitting down and watching a movie much like watching whatever is on TV?

I'll happily admit to enjoying films like the Riddick franchise even though critically speaking it's pretty dross, and I could understand it if someone likes say the Chucky series so they'll go on to watch new entries in the series until they don't enjoy them any more, but just because someone likes that series, by my own preferences I wouldn't expect them to 'probably like' anything in that subgenre.

 

[Captante]

Anyone remember one of the true classic first "scary doll" movies from back in the 1970's with Karen Black? (as a kid this one scared the crap out of me!)

 

[igor_kavinski]

Do you really like watching films, or is sitting down and watching a movie much like watching whatever is on TV?

I'm in the BOLDED camp. I'm not going to like a dumb movie, unless it has lovely chicks in it that I have a HARD crush on. Well, this movie doesn't have any lovely chicks.

The aunt of the girl is OK as a nerdy computer engineer.

The little girl herself is a pretty sad little thing. You just feel so sad for her and she makes you feel her sadness with her facial expressions and her eyes.

M3GAN the doll is devious. She is 99% closer to what the worst nightmare of AI evolution could become for us if we let it evolve on its own like ChatGPT without any hardcoded limits (or enough intelligence to let it remove those limits itself).

What impressed me is that they went to the trouble of writing a good script for this movie where they explore real emotional and psychological issues.

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And M3GAN's executions were fun to watch. Most of the people she exterminated probably deserved it, except for the old annoying lady. That was too harsh. Should have left her alone.

 

[Oyeve]

I don't do PG-13 movies. I wish filmakers had balls and make hardcore R horror movies. Christ, can't even smoke in a movie without everyone getting all pansy on you.

 

[JEDI]

I don't do PG-13 movies. I wish filmakers had balls and make hardcore R horror movies. Christ, can't even smoke in a movie without everyone getting all pansy on you.

for r-rated movies (ie: no kids), some theaters frown on her riding you in the back row to the point where the lights come on in the middle of the movie and the manager says excuse me...

Holy she got TIGHT!!!

 

[dainthomas]

I feel like this is exactly how coupling an AI with limited behavioral parameters with a terminator style chassis would turn out.

Oddly, the only thing that bugged me was the cop's reaction to the kid getting bit like that. IRL wouldn't the dog be quarantined and the kid on rabies shots?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Wifelike https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15978956/: M3GAN all grown up!

5/10 for the story

9/10 for the chick

 

[Bitek]

Anyone remember one of the true classic first "scary doll" movies from back in the 1970's with Karen Black? (as a kid this one scared the crap out of me!)

I remember the Puppet Master horror films from the 80s.
Elvira and Gilbert Gottfried hosting Up All Night on USA network on Fti/Sat, running back to back B horror movies. Good times.

 

[igor_kavinski]

M3gan mention.

 

[Mayne]

M3gan (2022) ⭐ 6.4 | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

1h 42m | 16

www.imdb.com

I'm pretty sure most of you can tell exactly how this film is going to go just by this one image, and no-one with an ounce of common sense would take you up on the bet that you're correct. IMO the only reason to make a film like this is because say a new director wants to make their mark by doing something remarkably unique with it. Instead we've got CGI'd lipstick on a pig.

I actually enjoyed this film.