To start of well, technically late start off to the month of love aka February as well as Valentines Day. I'd start with a movie that's been ten years since I watched in the movie theater and had mixed emotions about it and yet ten years today I still have mixed emotions about the movie and yet watched it any way just because it's streaming on Peacock and I'm not purchasing the movie for which is the least of what I want to do personally so, I figured why not give this movie a watch and see if it changed my thoughts, ten years ago. Crimson Peak is a mix of horror and romance created out of the strange mind of legendary director Guillermo del Toro, a director that has the same bizarre inspirations as Robert Eggers but in my personal loving experience I would choose Guillermo del Toro over Eggers because del Toro's work I can understand and appreciate more than Eggers work in a heartbeat well, besides this movie.
After marrying the charming and seductive Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), young Edith (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself swept away to his remote gothic mansion in the English hills. Also living there is Lady Lucille (Jessica Chastain), Thomas' alluring sister and protector of her family's dark secrets. Able to communicate with the dead, Edith tries to decipher the mystery behind the ghostly visions that haunt her new home. As she comes closer to the truth, Edith may learn that true monsters are made of flesh and blood.
The first time I watched the movie or to better go into great lengths I saw the movie trailer and though "well, it's typical Guillermo del Toro's weird gothic vision of a haunted house and great has great list of actors so, why not check it out", and really at the time I was working morning shows and I didn't have a whole lot of fun time I just go to the earliest shows possible and get free popcorn and soda basically using cheap tactics as possible. And, my first thoughts while watching the movie especially going into the beginning of the second act of the film, and realized how awful Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain's house is in terms of wanting to live there and even in the scene where the character of Edith is carried by Tom Hiddleston into the house, I was just horrified of how sh*ty the house looks especially when there's no roof and at times begin to decay and even times when you see moths appearing in the final act, like there more character growth's in the mansion then the entire cast I feel when watching the movie. Self-assured, that this film is supposed to be Gothic/horror and romance, almost as if Edgar Allen Poe would of written for his life's work, but I who has seen many movies consisting of haunted houses I personally feel that Crimson Peek is one of those movies that lacks the originality of its purpose. Moreover the fact that it's supposed to have the horror or scary elements as well as consisting of ghosts, there's hardly any scary moments in the film, I mean films like The Haunting or Alien hell, any classic horror movie that you can point to and say that movie creeps you out, this film has none of that like even in times when the ghost appear and Edith is wanting to talk to the ghost, it seriously feels almost like a reality ghost show you find on cable TV especially those shows where you most certainly feel their full of sh*t. Jessica Chastain, who I've liked as an actress moreover respected though that part at times I question but as an actress when I first watched her was I believe Zero Dark Thirty and respected a lot because she always does a great job portraying a tough woman or playing an attractive woman on screen and for real she always played that actress that you can most certainly respect almost like Charlize Theron or Sigourney Weaver, and this was 2015 she most recently came out with the movie the Martian for which she does a great job playing the commander of the film, and this movie I believe came out weeks or months before the Martian sometime in October. And this was probably the first time ever where I slowly began to realize that Chastain was defiantly that kind of actress where she literally chews the scenery and this film was a great example of that furthermore she does a great job playing the antagonist of the movie, because re-watching the third act where she's chasing the character of Edith I thought she was terrifying as if I was being chased by a crazy woman I would find the nearest shotgun and blow her away, then tell the cops that it was self-defense. But then till the end of the film she goes back to chewing the scenery with her famous quote "I won't stop, till you kill me, or I'll kill you" which really explains the movie in all fairness. Ten years ago seeing this movie in the theaters I had mixed emotions about the movie, now I still have mixed emotions about the film though this is most certainly a film that I really don't need to watch again in the next ten years, I mean it's one of those films that I'm sure, every person addicted to wearing black or wears makeup, dyes their hair black or goes to Hot Topic every week, will most certainly love this film and if your that person that loves all of that I'd say go nuts buddy, it's on Peacock. But, for me if I wanted to watch any of Guillermo del Toro's work I would most certainly watch Nightmare Alley, Pacific Rim, Hellboy and the best Blade movie Blade II, but when it comes to Crimson Peak I believe I'm done watching this movie in my lifetime or if somebody pays me to watch this and make fun of the film, I will most certainly say sure, everyone needs the money once in a while ask Michael Strahan. But for certainly this may be odd to say but if I had to choose between the most boring not so scary movie, like Crimson Peak or The Lighthouse, I would choose Crimson Peak despite that sounding a little dirty if you ask me.
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