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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9i2vmFhSSY

Hugh Grant is entering a new phase in his career and I am for it. Don't know why this isn't coming out for October but maybe it's just really good.

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I love Grant's reinvention as an actor as well. It kinda started with Cloud Atlas and has only continued to evolve since then. It's made me realize in general how great he's always been, he just didn't have as much variety in roles at first.

Excited for this. I’ve always really liked Hugh Grant.

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I have not seen him for a while, and recall him as an exceedingly British actor and mainly as a rom-com guy, or if it was being remade yet again, a famous passenger on the Titanic. The scary Hugh Grant looks like a different career direction.

Originally Posted by skizzerflake (Post 2469752)

I have not seen him for a while, and recall him mainly as a rom-com guy. The scary Hugh Grant looks like a different career direction.

That’s assuming he can pull off being scary.

Lucky you if you avoided the mess that was Wonka

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I am very, very intrigued by this and very excited to see it.

Originally Posted by AgrippinaX (Post 2469754)

That’s assuming he can pull off being scary.

No problem. I always thought that the rom-com Grant was scary. He's the guy who gets minimally aggravated at your lack of formal British manners and, in a witty way, calls the servants to have you locked up in the Keep.

Originally Posted by skizzerflake (Post 2469761)

I suppose I see your point. I fear I’m rather too used to such types.

Originally Posted by FilmBuff (Post 2469756)

Lucky you if you avoided the mess that was Wonka

Oh god, sadly, I didn’t have the sense to avoid it… it was… unfortunate. But then, I should have known better, I should have known Wonka wouldn’t be my cup of tea, because I got a surprise ‘oops’ screening when I went to the Poor Things opening night and they accidentally gave us Wonka instead. I could tell something was deeply amiss because of the PG Warner Brothers trailers, and I never got to see Hugh Grant before the movie was changed to Poor Things, but I should have known then it’s best left alone. No idea what possessed me to watch it after that.

What was it he said in an interview, I’ve got young children and so I agreed to do this? The mind boggles. Let’s hope he makes a killing with this one, I guess…

He was pretty annoying in Wonka, but he was a bit more amusing in Unfrosted.

As for this movie... I don't know, it might hit a nerve and find an audience, but it might also turn out to be something totally generic. We'll see.

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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heretic_2024/reviews

Glowing reviews right now...could spell an Oscar nom for Grant

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I'm really excited about this. Grant's great, I love him in weird little roles, and the subject matter looks fascinating. I'm trying to learn as little as possible beyond that initial trailer.

Well, having slept on it, I absolutely loved this.

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I do have a theology degree, and never did I think I’d live to see the day when theology would be addressed in a horror film in ways I relate to…

Lo and behold.

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Back when I was reading theology, I did an awful lot of my research on why and how religion and horror are connected, given that it’s a relatively common perception that horror is the most ‘religious’ of genres. But again, I didn’t think that kind of thing could be explored so academically, for lack of a better word, in an actual horror film. So yeah, I can see how people might be underwhelmed by the third act, and how the whole thing might feel too polemical/lacking in action, but I loved precisely that about it. I’ve spent so many years of my life talking to people about religion and how different people process it differently, and the characterisation here seemed, if a tiny bit simplistic in some ways, largely true to life when it comes to the big things (in my view anyway). Reminded me of The Body — understandably, I suppose.

It isn’t perfect, obviously, and there are plenty of little things to nitpick if one wanted to, but I feel conceptually it just… works.

God bless A24. Not the first time I’m thinking this.

Originally Posted by AgrippinaX (Post 2504538)

Well, having slept on it, I absolutely loved this.

View Spoilers

WARNING: spoilers below

I do have a theology degree, and never did I think I’d live to see the day when theology would be addressed in a horror film in ways I relate to…

Lo and behold.

View Spoilers

WARNING: spoilers below

Back when I was reading theology, I did an awful lot of my research on why and how religion and horror are connected, given that it’s a relatively common perception that horror is the most ‘religious’ of genres. But again, I didn’t think that kind of thing could be explored so academically, for lack of a better word, in an actual horror film. So yeah, I can see how people might be underwhelmed by the third act, and how the whole thing might feel too polemical/lacking action, but I loved precisely that about it. I’ve spent so many years of my life talking to people about religion and how different people process it differently, and the characterisation here seemed, if a tiny bit simplistic in some ways, largely true to life when it comes to the big things (in my view anyway). Reminded me of The Body — understandably, I suppose.

It isn’t perfect, obviously, and there are plenty of little things to nitpick if one wanted to, but I feel conceptually it just… works.

God bless A24. Not the first time I’m thinking this.

Sounds like something I would enjoy.

Originally Posted by MovieGal (Post 2504539)

Sounds like something I would enjoy.

I would bet on it. Again, it is by no means perfect but really very unique indeed.

Originally Posted by AgrippinaX (Post 2504543)

I would bet on it. Again, it is by no means perfect but really very unique indeed.

As long as it addresses a religion and its horror. It's my thing.

I could go on and on about the Inquisition and the European and Salem Witch Hunts. Even War, they use Killing in God's Name, to justify.

I hear A24 is selling blueberry candles to celebrate the release of this.

Originally Posted by FilmBuff (Post 2504547)

I hear A24 is selling blueberry candles to celebrate the release of this.

Good for them!

Originally Posted by FilmBuff (Post 2504547)

I hear A24 is selling blueberry candles to celebrate the release of this.

Cinnamon ones are so much better. Even masculine scents, like patchouli, leather, sandalwood, etc but fruit ones are ok.