MAXXXINE - Movie Review 

she just meant it was really colourful. nothing at all like wizard of oz.

⁠@@MicahMicahel there’s some good scarecrow work though.

She did...she just kept saying "she wanted more of this...more of that....etc". I just don't understand sometimes. Its an hour and a half to 2 hour film. What MORE do you want in a nearly flawless film like Pearl? I get the sentiment as a huge film buff, but Ive never seen this girl ever be satisfied with a film during her reviews. Its ALWAYS in hindsight (many times years later) where she will speak highly of said film(s)... I do like her style of reviews, but at times its just pretentious.

@@iskywalking420 she never likes anything and when she does im not even sure she actually likes it, maybe she should make a film because it is starting to look like frustration. i unfollowed her , it's giving 2010 coffee shop hipster vibes

​@@disierra-amado5596 lmao😂😭

Preach.

Me too.

I just watched the Oscar Expert and they offered nothing but this film is meh. I'm like this review gives me NOTHING

Agreed

Ya know...ditto.

He borrowed from Alfred Hitchcock.

Both

@christiancoursol7825 No, he did not. Giallo (especially of Argentos variety) is far removed from the influence of Alfred Hitchcock.

@@brannonwestbrook8339bro you ever watch a de palma film? He basically homaged and remade heavy aspects of psycho with dresses to kill and body double is rear window/vertigo and sisters if i recall is heavily hitchcock influenced. He’s literally said from his own words “it all started with hitchcock”. You’re too busy being a pedantic film bro about giallos that you miss the obvious. He was influenced by both heavily.

Maxxxine was mid, nothing interesting comparing it with 'X' and 'Pearl'.

I loved the first two acts 🤷‍♂

also 'Maxxxine's Existential Funhouse' sounds like one of her more arty, 'european' adult films haha

it was obvious from the beginning with that homemade video 😂

​@@ajewishchristianmuslimI didn't see it coming tbh, largely because I wasn't at all focused on trying to figure out who the killer was. The who was irrelevant to me - what mattered is how Maxine as a character was suppressing/dealing with the reality of it. I agree the reveal fell flat but I'd say that has more to do with the limited character/thematic exploration of the killer's relationship to her. It still doesn't quite "make sense" that he would choose that level of violence as a means to his ends.

Depends on how you look at it... SPOILER: While I agree that the killer not being in act 1 or 2 of Maxxxine was a detriment to its act 3, especially for people new to the franchise, fact is that her father was peppered across X and most prominently at the end. In fact, him being setup at the end of X was the very thing that got me excited to see a followup - at the time, I was expecting either a prequel or a sequel to dive into how her religious upbringing must've been the very thing that pushed her away. The franchise's thematic exploration is precisely what had me waiting for Maxxxine to finally get done. My guess is that Ti West assumed that anyone watching Maxxxine would've remembered that tv footage in X dovetailing into the intro of Maxxxine and that that way enough. He didn't need more screentime necessarily, the dialogue just needed more clever subtextual referencing to his existence... The only thing that turned me somewhat off with him as the reveal is that it felt like a stretch that he would choose violence as a means of getting her to show up. Granted, real people do things for dumb reasons sometimes...but a better narrative foundation wouldn't made it makes sense that he thought that way, despite his logic being flawed. I didn't spend the movie focused on trying to figure out who the killer was - how Maxine as a character was dealing with (or trying to suppress) that reality was the bigger point.

@@chrisjfox8715Nah, that reveal was super flimsy, and the OP is right- the father needed more screen time, or at least some mention of his impact on Maxine’s life throughout the film in order for us to have some emotional attachment to these characters and their conflict. Without any buildup, we don’t care, and it seemed as if they couldn’t find a way for Maxine to care either. It’s just shoehorned in and feels like an 11th hour on-set script rewrite.

Agreed, that’s why after X Pearl was such a pleasant surprise. Prequels hardly ever are great, let alone better than the first movie but Pearl is 🍻

that was one of my favourite scenes because it showed how truly unhinged she is. Not in touch with reality at alllll

Perhaps it is deliberate because it is an '80's slasher the way X is a '70's folk horror.

big same

X is the worst of the trilogy. I didn't care for it either. Pearl was fantastic. Maxxxine is better than X but some incredibly stupid sequences.

The set-up in X was good with all those different conflicts going on between the crew. But then I guess Ti West said "fuck it" and it turned into a typical boring slasher with a hint of thematic depth about aging I suppose. I was so disappointed by that second half.

X is decent; Pearl is extremely overrated.

Thought I was the only want. i really don't know what Kool Aid people are drinking, X was a terrible movie. I literally yelled F*ck You at the screen.

There’s a bit of contradiction going on here. You say that you don’t like the way it was shot, but It was intended to look like an 80’s B movie, which, as you stated, you loved.

@@eyespy3001 yea I meant the actual shots of the scenes were too up close.. am I allowed to say that?

@@Diamond_tip But that _is_ the style; that _is_ the intention. You seem to be positing it as some sort of flaw on the filmmakers’ part, but it’s not. It’s the intended effect, which is cribbing from its influences in order to pay homage.

I’m curious as well.

I wanna know this too!

Most likely some type of connections due to her channel..."critics" get to view first.

when she walked down the stairs in her moms red dress, Carrie popped into my head. The similarities were interesting.

Yeah, my bad. I guess I was thinking more about the pop culture influence when I said that.

​@@deepfocuslensWW2 would have made more sense imo given the influence of Technicolour movies on the production. It felt like the only reason to have it in 1918 was for Pearl and Howard to be in their 80s for X.

underrated or forgotten movie now.

She’s intellectualising 😂Allow her

Anyone comparing the two can safely be ignored about anything film-wise.

Definitely watch X bc Maxxxine is a direct follow up to it. Pearl gives context to X and I'm sure it will be relevant to Maxxxine, but X will be more important for seeing Maxxxine.

They made the movie suck on purpose in order to emulate what they’re criticizing is certainly a take