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[ghost-papers]

Therangertea did it again 🤣🙌🏽 PR actors in a horror/thriller movie 🧵:

The movie was hilarious in a good way 🤣 everyone should go watch it, it's like a black mirror episode with a dark comedy tone.

And yes, I was rooting for Zayto's mom lol

[badflicks]

M3GAN (2023) 🍕🍕🍕🍕

The story of a roboticist toy maker that has never heard of the 3 Asimov laws of robotics. What could go wrong? 🤣

[loveboatinsanity]

[spookytuesdaypod]

spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

she’s here, she’s queer, and she’s ready to make all your enemies disappear. on a new episode of spooky tuesday, we’re worshipping at the altar of M3GAN (2023), the new state-of-the-art model 3 android built to — ahem, let us check our notes — protect her primary user from harm, instill proper manners and good habits, and serve cunt on the daily. with her pitch perfect pipes and gossip girl style, M3GAN isn’t just powerful. she’s an icon.

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[moviehealthcommunity]

M3GAN (2023)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

M3GAN has extreme flickering lights and harsh emergency vehicle lights in the final 15 minutes. There are about 2 or 3 very mild and brief flickers of light earlier in the film.

All of the camera motion is either stationary or very smooth. A few scenes take place in moving vehicles.

Flashing Lights: 9/10. Motion Sickness: 1/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: A child deals with intense grief throughout the film.

Image ID: A promotional poster for M3GAN

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M3GAN (2022) Gerard Johnstone

July 29th 2023

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W ⋀ T C H I N G

(Unrated Edition)

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Megan 2022

[20yearsofmovies]

Time 18-Jan-2023 17:00 Day Wednesday Where Cineworld - Rushden Lakes Screen 12 Seat J7 Price £9.70

[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: M3GAN (2022)

When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her 8-year-old niece, she decides to give the girl an AI prototype, a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences.

M3GAN is a 2022 American science fiction horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone, written by Akela Cooper from a story by Cooper and James Wan (who also produced with Jason Blum), and starring Allison Williams and Violet McGraw, with Amie Donald physically portraying M3GAN and Jenna Davis voicing the character. A young girl named Cady and her parents are involved in a car accident in the snow,…

[rookie-critic]

M3GAN (2023, dir. Gerard Johnstone) - review by Rookie-Critic

What a way to start off the year. M3GAN was massively impressive from an FX angle. M3GAN, the titular android doll that serves as the film's antagonist, from what I could tell, was entirely practical. The filmmakers uses a combination of a real actress, Amie Donald, in prosthetic makeup and an animatronic puppet to bring M3GAN to life, and it's intensely effective. M3GAN feels like a real character in a way that a CG'd version could just never achieve because she actually exists in frame with the other actors. Allison Williams and Violet McGraw's performances feel so natural when interacting with M3GAN because they were actually in the space with something tangible talking back to them. I am in no way anti-digital effects, the things that people like James Cameron are doing with that craft deserve an insane amount of praise for what they're doing, and I'm sure Williams and McGraw would have still done beautifully had they needed to do this Roger Rabbit style, but there's something about the dedication and craft of practical effects that give a movie an extra quality push. Speaking of McGraw, let's take a quick aside to appreciate her performance here. Child actors in horror tend to go campy, and while M3GAN's premise is undoubtedly ridiculous (more on that in a second), McGraw does an amazing job and her performance feels very grounded. I've been a fan of hers since seeing her in Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House show on Netflix (really I've been a fan of everyone in that show since it came out), and I'm glad that she is getting major roles like this one, because she is a real talent.

Another one of the great things about M3GAN is its ability to balance tone. This is truly a horror comedy and blends both genres to amazing effect. I will always be down for a film that understands how absolutely absurd its premise is, and will lean into it hard with a self awareness that is unparalleled. It's probably the biggest reason that I loved Malignant when that came out in 2021 (an apt comparison considering James Wan, who directed Malignant, produced and co-created the story for M3GAN). Movies like this work because they're goofy and don't take themselves too seriously, but at the same time they don't sacrifice their horror moments in service of the humor, and vice versa, with both often living in conjunction with one another in the same moment. Seeing M3GAN do a TikTok dance right before chasing down Ronny Chieng's character (a scene that I'm not considering a spoiler as it is one of the more memed moments of the past couple months) is both hilarious and genuinely unnerving, and this is due in large part to the fact that the film isn't really trying to present this moment as scary at all (although, I will say that it felt a little random and out of place).

My big complaint with the film, and it's a shame because the film works on so many levels, is that its messaging, especially in the first half, comes off less like a film warning against the dangers of letting artificial intelligence get out of hand and how parental guardians can find a healthy balance between technology and real-world interaction, and more like a film that just feels afraid of technology in general. It openly mocks parents who "raise their children with technology" and frequently casts a judgmental eye on our protagonist Gemma for allowing Cady, McGraw's character, to have unlimited screen time and... *checks notes* not allowing her to play with her very expensive collectibles because... they're just toys, I guess? There were honestly so many heavy-handed "technology is bad" jokes and jabs in the beginning section of the film that I thought my eyes were gonna roll themselves right out of my skull with how much I was rolling them. Again, it's such a shame that the film presents this incredibly bad and out of touch take as moral and right because, outside of that, I thought M3GAN was a great success. Thankfully, in the film's third act it does come more around to the sentiment of not allowing children to form an unhealthy or damaging emotional or physical need for technology instead of its earlier mantra of "parents who allow their children to breath on a smart device are bad," and it brings the film back to a place where I feel comfortable and confident in recommending it as a fun and quite impressive horror comedy. 2023 has started off an a good note.

Score: 7/10

Currently only in theaters.

[genevieveetguy]

Don't worry, Cady. I won't let anything harm you. Ever again.

M3GAN, Gerard Johnstone (2022)

[milliondollarbaby87]

M3gan (2023) Review

Gemma a robotics engineer at a leading toy company builds a life like doll and uses it on her niece Cady who’s parents died in a car crash, at first M3gan seems to be perfect but she is evolving quickly. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

[randomrichards]

M3GAN:

Robot engineer

Makes android girl for her niece

Who gets murderous

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

M3GAN (15): The moral is, 'always install an off switch'.

#onemannsmovies review of "M3GAN" (2023). #M3GAN. A fun sci-fi comedy/thriller that's doing a storm at the box office. Recommended. 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “M3GAN” (2023). The cinema has had no end of doll-like things like M3GAN to creep us out over the years. In my youth, it was a young Anthony Hopkin’s ventriloquist dummy in “Magic”. But we’ve also had “Chucky”, the antique doll “Annabelle” and that wretched clown under the bed in “Poltergeist“! Add a bit more computer gadgetry and you get Yul Brunner’s killer…

[oceanusborealis]

M3GAN - Movie Review

M3GAN – Movie Review

TL;DR – A weirdly wonderful film, full of camp and tension. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit sceneDisclosure – I was invited to a press screening of this film. M3GAN Review – Artificial life discovering sentience is one of those thematic moments that can land you on the whole spectrum of cinema. It can be thought-provoking life After Yang, menacing like…