La Mort d'une licorne

Am I the only one who thought this movie was absolutely boring? It didn't go nowhere, nothing really happened.

The takeaways: Don't drive distracted. Listen to women. Animal abuse is a karmic bitch.

the unicorn were super cute 🦄

Really didn’t like it. It felt like a few different film ideas combined, and that mix really frustrated me. It has few subtle jokes (Griff carrying a grandfather clock…), but mostly just awkwardly placed humour in dark scenes. A few moments towards beginning of the film lack coherence that I wasn’t sure if I nodded off, or just exposition was forgotten about or carelessly edited away. _Half the cast are wasted in this._

_Lisa Frank never prepared you for this level of violence._ Death of a Unicorn is an over the top mildly bloody and gory dark comedy about a group of people who kill a unicorn and discover the neigh unlimited healing powers it's body possesses. Some are against exploiting the beast, more are for it and drama ensues when they learn it might not be safe to keep the body. The first thing to be wary of given it's subject is the CGI unicorn. I'm not a corridor professional but the beast looked good. I think (hope) they made good use of physical prosthetics when they could. But point is they looked good and barring one weird timeline jump from night to day they mostly showed them at night but not in a way that felt like they hadn't finished the CGI and were using night to cover it like pretty much every CGI action movie (Black Panther, Wonder Woman). The concept is pretty absurd and mixing the absurd horror into some humorous elements is a tough sell. I think if anything it might have been easier on the heels. Poulter, Grant and Leoni really got to chew the scenery. They were clearly having a great time playing villainous characters. Leoni's "impotent" death scene in particular struck me as particularly amusing. I think the worst character personality wise would have to be Paul Rudd's Elliott. He starts off sympathetic as a father to a daughter that isn't connecting and you kinda expect they're going to connect by the end of the movie but what you don't expect is for him to reach out in the opening only to then deny Ortega's Ridley again and again. She constantly has ideas that are relevant and interesting and compelling but, while you expect her to get shrugged off by the rich douches, you don't expect it from her Father who hours ago was trying so hard to get her to open up to him. I think some of Jenna Ortega's dialog sounded pretentious. Not that the sentiments were wrong by any means. They were 100% on the dot but the WAY she presented them, her exact diction didn't read right to me. It felt like maybe Jenna was saying it and not the character Jenna was playing. Jurassic Park is also an absurd comic horror film. I think it leans to the Horrific then Absurdity then Comedy. Using that metric Death of a Unicorn leans to the Absurdity then the Comedy then the Horrific. Jurassic Park is a more subtle movie thematically but the lack of subtlety is part of the humor in Death of a Unicorn.