M3GAN (2022)

[Tino]

Title: M3GAN (2022)

Tagline: Friendship has evolved.

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Director: Gerard Johnstone

Cast: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Jenna Davis, Amie Donald, Jen Van Epps, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Ronny Chieng, Stephane Garneau-Monten, Michael Saccente, Arlo Green, Kira Josephson, Jack Cassidy

Release: 2022-12-28

Runtime: 102

Plot: A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

Currently 97% at RT. Wow.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/m3gan

 

[Tino]

M3GAN

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out's Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher...

www.rottentomatoes.com

 

[Tino]

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[benbess]

I plan to see this tomorrow. RT 97% so far.

 

[Wayne_j]

Insanely high Rotten Tomatoes for a horror film. 98% with 42 reviews.

 

[Alex...]

Love her creepy af dance

 

[TravisR]

Love her creepy af dance

I don't care how advanced and cutting edge it's supposed to be, that's obviously an actor in a mask and not a robot. Maybe I'm crazy but that's where the trailer lost me.

 

[benbess]

‘M3GAN’ Review: A Robot-Doll Sci-Fi Horror Movie That’s Creepy, Preposterous and Diverting

Allison Williams plays a robotics wiz who invents a doll that seems fake and real at the same time.

variety.com

 

[Wayne_j]

I enjoyed this movie but I don't think it is nearly as good as some of the reviews were making it out to be. It took a while for the story to get going and when it did the movie was more funny than scary. This movie could have also been made as a sci-fi film since it has a lot to do with AI gone bad.

Best audience interaction happened when...

Spoiler

One of the lab technician poked M3GAN in the face

and several audience members screamed out "Why you do that for?"

 

[Tino]

Seeing this today. I seriously think this film is going to come in way under box office projections. I say $12 million for the weekend.

 

[TravisR]

Seeing this today. I seriously think this film is going to come in way under box office projections. I say $12 million for the weekend.

If it does, I blame the dancing "robot".

 

[TravisR]

Seeing this today. I seriously think this film is going to come in way under box office projections. I say $12 million for the weekend.

I saw it this morning and hated it BUT I do think that the audiences that will turn out for it are going to dig it so I'll guess somewhere around $20 million (bolstered in large part to being PG-13).

 

[benbess]

For me it was a pretty good grade B comedy/horror movie. I enjoyed it. In fact, my overall grade is probably a B+.

 

[Tino]

Seeing this today. I seriously think this film is going to come in way under box office projections. I say $12 million for the weekend.

Welp

‘M3GAN’ Making Moola With $26M+; ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ To Cross Half Billion At Domestic Box Office – Friday PM Update​

FRIDAY PM: For an early January weekend falling after New Year’s Day and before MLK, it’s sure not sleepy. Some adult films may have a hard time working at the box office as moviegoing comes out of the pandemic, but you can bet the house on horror films. Universal has a vibrant No. 2 winner in Blumhouse’s creepy posh doll film M3GAN which is looking at a $26.7M opening after a $11.4M Friday (plus previews) at 3,509 theaters. The Gerard Johnstone directed PG-13 horror movie has landed at 94% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with critics and a current audience score of 78%. This movie is in such great shape, they’re already kicking around ideas about a sequel for it, I hear.

 

[TravisR]

The Gerard Johnstone directed PG-13 horror movie has landed at 94% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with critics and a current audience score of 78%.

I am utterly dumbfounded how this movie got a RT score that high. There's not one moment of suspense or anything scary in it and all the characters (even the little kid who is an orphan) are so horrible that you simply want the robot to kill them and then when she does kill people, it's not violent or cool. Even when I don't agree with the critical consensus on a movie, I can generally see what/why they liked the movie but in the case of this, I feel like I saw an entirely different picture.

Even crazier is that the writer's last movie (Malignant) was great and that had a rockier critical reception.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I am utterly dumbfounded how this movie got a RT score that high. There's not one moment of suspense or anything scary in it and all the characters (even the little kid who is an orphan) are so horrible that you simply want the robot to kill them and then when she does kill people, it's not violent or cool. Even when I don't agree with the critical consensus on a movie, I can generally see what/why they liked the movie but in the case of this, I feel like I saw an entirely different picture.

Even crazier is that the writer's last movie (Malignant) was great and that had a rockier critical reception.

Perhaps, more people look at the film as more of a black comedy than horror film.

 

[TravisR]

Perhaps, more people look at the film as more of a black comedy than horror film.

Maybe but I don't think it worked at all on that level either.

Normally, I don't piss and moan about movies here (and I won't keep doing it for this one either) but the critical love for this one is just completely confusing to me.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Maybe but I don't think it worked at all on that level either.

Normally, I don't piss and moan about movies here (and I won't keep doing it here either) but the critical love for this one is just completely confusing to me.

It happens in which a movie doesn't work for you, however, it does so with other people. The same thing happened to me with The Menu.

 

[benbess]

I wished at times M3GAN could be funnier and scarier, although it had moderate amounts of suspense and amusement for me, making for a diverting couple of hours from my pov. There's a low cost homage/ripoff of scenes from one of James Cameron's movies at one point.

Several years ago Spielberg was thinking of doing a big budget movie called Robopocaylpse, which apparently collapsed because of budget and screenplay reasons. This seemed like a cheap attempt to do a little bit of that.

One amusing line for me early in the movie is from a commercial for a different kind of robot pet, and the ad man says, after showing a family grieving at their dog's grave: "Buy a pet that lives longer than you do!" This reminded me a bit of the fake ads in the original Robocop from 1987, but they mostly lacked the edge of that movie's dystopian ads.

 

[benbess]

‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots?

In the movie “M3GAN,” a robot doll’s sinister virtuosity plays on the mixture of amusement and deep unease that dancing robots often provoke.

www.nytimes.com