But of course they picked the E.T./Short Circuit voice. How very original.
The discomfort of having to look at Ryan Gosling for two and a half hours is somewhat alleviated by the fact that his role is Ryan Reynolds and his make-up is Alec Baldwin from Beetlejuice.
Daniel Pemberton saves this movie.
This movie can only be perceived as horror by people from a culture that makes them feel entitled to lying, stealing, desecrating, or otherwise loudly interfering in something where they are mere guests and should be flies on the wall. (For example, a character [and the audience by proxy] seriously, in all sincerity, needed it spelled out to them why peeing on a sacred object upsets believers.)
Not saying the "sacred" parts of the entire plot were, uh, all that…
Good parts when losing the grip on reality. I was really surprised in every such instance. Other than that, a fairly "empty" horror movie (=not nearly as filled with thrilling scenes as I expected it to be). In comparison, "Truth or Dare" has a similar premise, but is much tighter built up.
At 94 minutes, it's a criminally brief and superficial look at the hidden wizardry of movie scores. While I acknowledge how underfinanced documentaries typically are, this subject could use at least another hour of runtime and score forensics.
One significant aspect of a movie composer's job is, or at least for decades had been, the remote, hermit-like nature of composing a score to match what is a living, changing, typically subject-to-ongoing-editing filmed material. "Score" barely even brushes upon that, leaning towards the portrayal of a composer's job as glamorously mysterious.
But still, beautifully made and definitely brings emotions out right from the first scene.
