The Substance (2024)
★★★★
This review may contain spoilers.
I liked this a lot, I can completely understand why it is a top contender for the year, it is truly jaw dropping from the music in the soundtrack to the acting but more impressively for me is the make up and hairstyle of the film, the special / practical effects here are absolutely jaw droppinging-ly creative and fantastical, the costume design is stunning in both the way they coordinate the colors with the backgrounds and how they pop on the screen is great, I am just deeply impressed by the film on a technical level.
my one gripe and this is a personal gripe but I feel it runs a tad long, in the middle I feel we could trim a few minutes or so in the middle of the film but that is just me personally really everything here is very strong and well paced. it could just be my adhd brain or something about the timing or maybe it works on a second rewatch. but like the poster says "Absolutely F***ing Insane"
look forward to a rewatch.
notes below
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- every time I watch a film with a lot of company logos I think about the family guy cutaway gag.
- I love the opening track, the tentive building along with the big brash-ness of it is cool.
- the disco song kind of gives me disco queen from phinnas and ferb lol.
- wow the set dec is impressive in this hallway, the blocking and framing as well.
- dude eats like a five year old lol.
- that tracking shot on the car crash was really well done.
- the way the film uses this wide lens is really great, love it.
- the distortion in the soundtrack with the bass and drums is cool.
- also her costume design looks great, that jacket paired with those glasses and ear-rings, very bold.
- like that transition on the bass drop thing (from hallway to white room.)
- the font choice for the film is great, very bold, stylistic.
- cool visual effects in this section.
- cool POV shot.
- the sound design in this part is pretty stellar.
- nice prosthetic used there for the stitching scene, very cool.
- oo that photo with the shattered eye is very cool image.
- the close ups with the slow motion and push in's give a very edger wright kind of homage.
- should get a bed or something for that room.
- the make up team did a fantastic job in this movie.
- the costume department did really freaking good to, the popping color design looks great.
- aww she stood him up :(
- ew gross that is all -- also those sheets look comfy.
- I like how "it changed my life" came back but darker here towards the twist, very cool.
- seriously the make up and hairstyle and costume team out did there selves.
- I like that the film plays with the luminal spaces kind of set design.
- great sound design on the heart beat stopping wow that was impressive.
- this last home stretch is truly something, it will and should be written in the history books I feel.
