Blu-ray Review X – Bluray review (1 Viewer)

[Sam Posten]

It’s 1979 and Porn is going mainstream.  Leading lady Maxine (Mia Goth) has it, the “X-factor” and is on the cusp of being a star and a household name.  She’s got a coke addiction, morality that lets her act out her fantasies on film while still being committed to her boyfriend / manager Wayne (Martin Henderson) and a desire to do anything to make it big. Wayne arranges a shoot at a remote farmhouse owned by Howard (Stephen Ure) and Pearl (Also Mia Goth), and they set out along with second couple Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow) and Jackson (Kid Cudi) along with auteur cinematography wannabee RJ (Owen Campbell) and his mousy girlfriend Lorraine (Jenna Ortega).  Worlds collide as Howard and Pearl’s views clash with the crew.  As they say… “There will be blood”.



X (2022)



Released: 18 Mar 2022
Rated: R...

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[Robert Harris]

Sounds like a pity as I enjoy Ti West’s work. And also knew quite a few of the ‘70s porn actors. Good people.

I should have a copy early next week, and am trying to look forward to it.

 

[TravisR]

Sounds like a pity as I enjoy Ti West’s work. And also knew quite a few of the ‘70s porn actors. Good people.

I should have a copy early next week, and am trying to look forward to it.

I dug it but I'm in the minority on that around here.

 

[Richard Kaufman]

Strange film ... seems like it was made in another time.

 

[Sam Posten]

It actually has a high metacritic. It might just be me not liking it!

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

It actually has a high metacritic. It might just be me not liking it!

I think your points on it are valid. It really exists only to show West clipping stuff from other pictures that he likes. Which is fine and fun but that's all the film amounts to. It is not cohesive, and the porn and horror don't particularly hang that well together here.

Actually, the high point of the picture is the scene where they do the acoustic version of Landslide. Really a cool moment and the one point in the film where I thought "Wow, did not expect that!"

It sort of seems like West could have done a good movie about some people setting out to make a porn film in the late 1970s or he could have made a horror film set in the late 1970s.

The porn aspect of this film is a bit more interesting than the horror side, I thought anyway. It probably would have been more interesting to watch these characters go on that journey than watch the picture devolve into a film where they just become fodder for a couple of geriatric creeps.

West has made better horror than this, as the horror side of this is really by the numbers. The elderly killers are really not that interesting and oddly I think West is turning this picture into a trilogy, which I hope gets better as I really did not finish this picture and think "Wow, I need to see more of this!"

 

[JohnRice]

This just seems like an inherently hit/miss type of movie. I plan to give it a try. Hopefully it will hit a streaming service I have, but that's probably unlikely.

 

[Clark Green]

This just seems like an inherently hit/miss type of movie. I plan to give it a try. Hopefully it will hit a streaming service I have, but that's probably unlikely.

Rent it in HD for $5 on Google Play

 

[JohnRice]

Rent it in HD for $5 on Google Play

I'd rent it on iTunes, which has it in 4K DV Atmos for $6. I'll wait for it to go on sale, though.