{"id":13566,"date":"2020-06-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/followed-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:42:00","slug":"followed-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/followed-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#Followed Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ccb8db743f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ccb8db743f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/followed-movie-review\/#Simon_Abrams\" >Simon Abrams<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/followed-movie-review\/#Followed_2020\" >Followed (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Followed<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/followed-movie-review-2020\/followed-movie-review-2020.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>Do the makers of the surprisingly effective found-footage horror movie \u201cFollowed\u201d know how funny their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> critique is? Their movie\u2019s generic scare scenes are never as startling or cruel as any time Mike (Matthew Solomon), an obnoxious PewDiePie\/Logan Paul-type vlogger, reminds us of his rinky dinky goal of earning 50,000 subscribers with tasteless videos about the Hotel Lennox, the haunted site of some grisly unsolved murders. I\u2019m still shocked that \u201cFollowed\u201d is as funny as it is given that Mike is as obnoxious as you might expect given his very online, anything-for-the-lulz persona. He\u2019s a cartoonishly loud, entitled millennial who never stops reminding us that he only cares about the sound of his own voice. He\u2019s also sometimes unintentionally hysterical?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Still, the darkest thing about \u201cFollowed\u201d isn\u2019t the movie\u2019s grasping, and mostly underwhelming horror scenes, but rather Mike\u2019s deathless drive to earn a $250,000 sponsorship from a Hot Topic-like boutique called \u201cHaute Gothic.\u201d Mike thinks that everything but money and status are meaningless, because he\u2019s a caricature of a straight white 20-something. He\u2019s so desensitized that he wonders aloud if he could pay a black guy $50 to do a back flip. Mike\u2019s also the kind of character who, when he interviews a relatively serious true crime expert (John Savage) about the Hotel Lennox, can\u2019t help but mug for the camera with snarky nonsense like \u201cA devil worshipper, how cliche\u201d and \u201cFollow Satan, you will.\u201d Kids these days, always with the Yoda jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Mike\u2019s comeuppance is inevitable, especially given the many scenes where he\u2019s contrasted with Chris (Tim Drier), his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriately meek lapsed Catholic cameraman. And, to be fair: the Hotel Lennox\u2019s undead residents are somehow even more underwhelming given how much more effective the movie\u2019s unsettling pregnant pauses are compared with its underwhelming jump scare climaxess.<\/p>\n<p>So \u201cFollowed\u201d isn\u2019t a good social media critique, nor is it a clever variation on the \u201cScreen-Life\u201d horror-thrillers that Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov has recently cornered the market on. Yes, \u201cCreepypasta\u201d-style Internet hoaxes <em>are<\/em> real enough, and YouTubers <em>are<\/em> often scuzzy morons who are both old enough to know better <em>and<\/em> too young to be taken seriously. But there\u2019s only so much blood left in this well-tapped anti-vlogging vein, as is apparent during laughable interstitial scenes where an unidentified computer user breathes heavily while they upload Mike\u2019s last known footage to his website. Take that, you unaccountable and (literally) mouth-breathing whippersnappers!<\/p>\n<p>With all that said,\u00a0<span><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span>\u201cFollowed\u201d is often disarmingly mean, which goes a long way in these sorts of post-\u201cBlair Witch Project\u201d genre exercises. For starters, Mike is an irresistible target thanks to Solomon\u2019s enthusiastic performance. Solomon makes it easy to imagine that somebody like Mike exists in real life, if only in small doses. He does a credibly unfortunate happy dance when Mike shows Chris and his fellow cameraperson Danni (Sam Valentine) to their room: #1428, the infamous residence of devil-worshipping serial killer David \u201cNight Crawler\u201d Olmos (Ethan Alexander). Solomon is also believably petulant whenever Mike tries to shock his friends with the grossest thing that comes to mind, especially when he suggests making shish kebabs after he spots an air vent that may or may not have been the final resting place of ex-lodger Meghan Kim (Sarah Chang), whose corpse was inexplicably burnt to a crisp.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Better still, Solomon whines like a champ whenever he has to deliver already preposterous lines of expository and\/or declamatory dialogue. It\u2019s honestly hard to tell if Mike is meant to be funny given how risible some of Chris\u2019 dialogue can be, like when he scoffs that Mike\u2019s group couldn\u2019t possibly get \u201ca good night\u2019s sleep in this place\u201d to which Mike understandably replies with a \u201cnut tap.\u201d But Mike\u2019s funny on a regular basis, like when they discover a bloody eyeball (in his hands, no less!), and he tries to reassure his team that \u201cIt&#8217;s probably from the same animal as the [rotting] tongue and the entrails\u201d that they found earlier. Which is almost as funny as any when Mike complains about how uncooperative Chris is\u2014\u201cAre you seriously gonna ditch the vlog over one hotel\u201d\u2014or when he earnestly insists that, \u201cMy followers are expecting us to go into the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike\u2019s lack of survival skills often makes his lack of character even more unfortunate: he notes that the hotel\u2019s basement \u201cdoes not smell good\u201d right before a hail of mannequin limbs mysteriously hurl themselves at him. So while \u201cFollowed\u201d won\u2019t lead you to any conclusions that you can\u2019t get reach by yourself, it\u2019s sometimes fun getting there anyway.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon Abrams\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/simon-abrams\/featured_Simon_Abrams.jpg\" title=\"Simon Abrams\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Simon_Abrams\"><\/span>Simon Abrams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured Esquire, the Village Voice and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Followed movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/followed-2020\/large_followed-movie-poster.jpg\" title=\"Followed movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Followed_2020\"><\/span> Followed (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <meta content=\"R\" itemprop=\"contentRating\"><\/meta> Rated R for language, violent\/disturbing images, and brief drug material. <\/p>\n<p> 96 minutes <meta content=\"PT96M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/mzs\/30-minutes-on-the-manchurian-candidate-2004\/thumb_Screen_Shot_2020-06-10_at_3.34.33_AM.png\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 2 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/no-small-matter-a-documentary-on-americas-child-care-infrastructure-to-be-released-online-thursday-june-25th\/thumb_104410970_1803057279834851_1787663905023384767_o.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 2 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/tributes\/joel-schumacher-1939-2020\/thumb_schumacher.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 18 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/revisiting-john-williams-score-for-jaws-45-years-later\/thumb_jaws-image.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/followed-movie-review-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Followed&#8221; Do the makers of the surprisingly effective found-footage horror movie \u201cFollowed\u201d know how funny their social media critique is? 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