The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
I had higher hopes for this. After all, it's based on a pretty good Clive Barker story. But it felt like a film I've seen a hundred times, done better. Guy pushed by ambition to cross his own boundaries and ends up getting caught up in something supernatural and even Eldritch. Except this film felt so rushed that it felt less like he was falling into this thing and more like he always was that way. Like, if you want me to notice the contrast of before and after, your progression from light to dark has to be more progressive. I always get the impression, in every film I've seen him in, that Bradley Cooper is really intense and he's playing it really intense. He's got that stare...
Less creepy or moving and more "stuff happens and then characters do this" type movie.
I had higher hopes for this. After all, it's based on a pretty good Clive Barker story. But it felt like a film I've seen a hundred times, done better. Guy pushed by ambition to cross his own boundaries and ends up getting caught up in something supernatural and even Eldritch. Except this film felt so rushed that it felt less like he was falling into this thing and more like he always was that way. Like, if you want me to notice the contrast of before and after, your progression from light to dark has to be more progressive. I always get the impression, in every film I've seen him in, that Bradley Cooper is really intense and he's playing it really intense. He's got that stare...
Less creepy or moving and more "stuff happens and then characters do this" type movie.