Candyman (4)

[Andrew NDB]

Saw it. It's pretty good if you kind of squint at certain moments. It's brutal when it wants to be, in a good way. Tons of nods to the first movie and Tony Todd is in there. In new stuff, in surprising ways. Also... I felt the same sort of abrupt ending that Quiet Place 2 had. WHAM! The end! Wait... can we get like an epilogue or something?

But yes... it is agenda-driven, way more than the first one. Literally EVERY white character in the movie is evil or racist, and all the cops. Every single one. The only white character in the whole movie that isn't a bad guy is a barely there gay dude.

Also if you wait to the end of the credits, you won't find a Marvel-style after the credits scene setting up Candyman 5. What you will find is a literal PSA with a URL where you can go to get more information about white on black violence. Pretty telling.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Also if you wait to the end of the credits, you won't find a Marvel-style after the credits scene setting up Candyman 5. What you will find is a literal PSA with a URL where you can go to get more information about white on black violence. Pretty telling.

LMAO They can't even make horror movies without cramming a 'woke' message in there anymore. Now they even gotta add extra PSAs just in case all the sledgehammering STILL didn't get through the viewer's thick skull. Sheesh.

Eventually we need like a 'white actor' walk out where they won't come back til they stop with this nonstop 'white people bad' stuff.

[The Deadman]

Lol you're complaing about this but again, the original Candyman played on race. The literal book was about race. I can understand other movies being woke for the sake of being woke but this film isnt one of them.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

Lol you're complaing about this but again, the original Candyman played on race. The literal book was about race.

No, not the same. There was a strong racial component to Candyman 1 but it wasn't preaching and it wasn't even exactly demonizing anyone in particular. More it was lamenting a cultural shift and even a divide. There were plenty of white characters in Candyman 1 that weren't bad guys, or racists.

It'd be like seeing a "Chucky 8" where everyone is a voodoo priest and all they do is sacrifice chickens in the movie nonstop for 90 minutes, people complaining about it, and then someone telling them "Hahah... stupid on you idiots, there was voodoo practiced IN the first movie!!! Did you forget? Hahahaha!!"

Sidenote: after having seen the movie, I didn't come out of it with any really compelling reason why they didn't just use Tony Todd throughout the whole movie as Candyman, rather than create this other guy who was killed in the 70s (it even muddies things a bit... like, why didn't this cop-killed guy from the 70s ever show up when people were summoning Candyman in Candyman 1-3?). It even would have saved time. The only reason I can come up with is because they really, really wanted to show some cops killing an innocent black guy, they felt like that was important and that's about it.