Is Roman Better Than May?

I think May is one of the best horror flicks made in the past decade. Wonderful work from everyone involved. Angela Bettis rules!

I think the first season of Masters of Horror was great except for Mick Garris's shorts. I've got the season on Blu-ray. After that it was all downhill.

It's on the list man. Chris's review got me wanting to see it. I did subject myself to the remake though. To be honest I haven't watched much of anything in a long time. I honestly don't have time to enjoy myself. I've had Netflix streaming for a month and have watched 2 movies so far. I had Comcast internet installed a couple of days ago and it streams like a champ now. I did watch Fire in the Sky and Winter's Bone last night. Winter's Bone is a great one. I keep wanting to set aside time to relax but people keep wanting to talk to me. It doesn't stop I swear. It's a damn good change, something good must be happening with the economy but I'm getting burnt out.

I just finished watching Roman so now I can comment!

While I have heard that the true Roman lovers do so when they have seen the film a few times, after my first viewing I'm going to have to go with May. I did enjoy Roman and found the whole thing to be so quiet, and sad. The one thing that puts May miles above Roman in my opinion is the characterization of May. We seem to not know anything about Roman whereas I feel like I know May. Again, this may have something to do with Angela's acting being so fantastic, and Lucky's being... ehhh not so great. But I don't know is it?

Roman's character isn't that fleshed out. We know very little about him, with little or no hints about his past or anything. This isn't necessary for the story to work of course--and it still works I should add, but when you put it against May that's ultimately its downfall for me. I cared much more about May than I did Roman. Roman's craziness wasn't as attainable for some reason. Maybe because we got that nice glimpse into May's childhood---but Roman just seems to be a blank slate.

Anywho that's where I stand as of now. Who knows maybe it will change after more viewings. Time to write my review. Of which I'll probably just say exactly what I just wrote...hmmph.

Angela is totally cool to talk with I met her at Texas Frightmare and I spent like a good 15 mins talking with her. They were even selling the May doll "Susie", but that was so extremely expensive I totally wanted to get it. I would say I do like May more it is much more established movie and you feel for the character. Roman is good, but again you don't really know him all that much. It was funny I think at the time all I had was my Girl interrupted dvd and that had her in it and she signed it. She was like "Good I can sign all over Winona's face!"

You know, it did sneak up on me. I thought he would find a dead guy in a bath tub, or that he would become Eva's victim. So that definitely caught me by surprise. But yeah I just would never assume that someone who typically dressed as a woodland nymph, and loved nature would want to do that....But as someone tweeted to me yesterday, that is apparently part of the larger theme about things not being as they look on the outside. Which makes sense, but I don't know if I like that so much.

Well, Lucky might not be a great actor, but I believed him as Roman. Whether it was due to Angela's direction, or the editing, or whatever. I believed him, and I guess that's what matters. It's not the best flick, but it's an interesting flick. And interesting is way better than uninteresting.

I agree with that, I thought he did a decent job acting wise.

I felt duped with The Woods. Angela was nowhere to be found after seeing her name attached, and it turned out she was narrating bits of it. Other than that, kind of serviceable horror fare and not all that original.

Yeah, I think The Woods could've been good. And it's not terrible...just...blah.