![]() "Whereas I didn't prepare as well, and I only brought like the platform, burner boots that absolutely got wrecked in the mud and everything fell apart. "One of our friends brought a pair of galoshes, and he was totally fine," Liu said. Liu had brought plenty of supplies in an effort to be prepared for anything, but this year's festival highlighted what was missing from her kit. This was the third burn for 29-year-old Maggie Liu, who said she and her two friends were fortunate to be in an RV when the weather rolled in. "The warnings do sound very dire, and of course, the organization has to tell people to take care," said Claudia Peschiutta, an editor with NPR's Morning Edition who attended the event, but "I haven't seen one person who seems worried about it at all." "It's like any other Burning Man, just muddy," he told NPR on Saturday evening. ![]() The challenging conditions are testing a community of so-called burners, which touts self-reliance and communal effort among its core principles.Įvent volunteer Josh Lease said that in true Burning Man spirit, people were sharing warm clothes and phone chargers where they could - and they kept the music blaring. Review by Erik Samdahl unless otherwise indicated.National At Burning Man, storms keep festivalgoers stranded in the mud Brightburn isn’t perfect, but it’s a fun little film nonetheless. If anything, and with a larger budget, it would have been fun to see what comes next-but alas, that isn’t what this movie is about. Brandon, when wearing his mask and donning red, laser-beam eyes, looks pretty damn terrifying. Even more, the film gives a strong indication the first time we see Brandon as a teenager. More so, the characters around him aren’t always super convincing-most notably, his father (Denman) pivots to “kill the bastard” a little too quickly.īut in those 90 minutes, Yarovesky and the Gunns give us a satisfying little horror flick that has a couple okay jump moments, a few creepy scenes, and some seriously satisfying death scenes (in short: the movie isn't scary, but it is gory), which become increasingly gory as the bodies start to stack up. In the movie, the shot we saw in the trailer of the bright object in the sky does NOT appear, and Brandon’s parents always refer to him, not as having fallen from the sky, but as something they found in the forest. It would have been more interesting to see little Brandon become more and more troubled rather than “possessed” by some frequency emitted from his spaceship, which makes things simple from a storytelling perspective but is never adequately explained. The filmmakers make the most of the money at hand, offering up a tight, to-the-point story of what would happen if a psychopath with Superman-esque powers were to flip out and go on a killing rampage.Īt only 90 minutes long, it can easily be argued the film is too short-character development is heavily sacrificed, and character development is what could have lifted Brightburn from good to great. James Gunn ( Guardians of the Galaxy, but also the horror movie Slither) was marketed heavily as being involved with Brightburn, but he’s only a producer brother Brian Gunn and cousin Mark Gunn wrote the movie, with David Yarovesky (no relation) helming the film. Starring Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. It’s certainly not an original concept-DC Comics has taken the “nurture” approach with Superman: Red Son-what if Kal-El crash-landed in Soviet Russia, not the United States?-and plenty of other comics have presented alternative “What If?” takes on their heroes-but it’s a concept that largely hasn’t been seen on the big screen.īrightburn certainly doesn’t make the most of its fucking awesome premise, but it largely delivers on expectations despite a limiting $7 million budget. Brightburn is a 2019 American superhero horror film directed by David Yarovesky, written by Brian and Mark Gunn, and produced by James Gunn and Kenneth Huang. Flip that on its head and you have a nightmare scenario indeed. ![]() The premise, to be blunt, is fucking awesome-everyone knows the story of Clark Kent/Superman, but he’s always viewed as a virtuous being here to protect mankind. His parents, played by Elizabeth Banks and David Denman, love him-that is until he breaks someone’s hand in gym class and other bad things start happening around town. Dunn plays the 12-year old Brandon Breyer, a seemingly even keeled if slightly odd kid who gets lightly bullied-though the cute girl in class clearly likes him. ![]() What if Superman were a psychopath? That’s the basic premise behind the entertaining if slight superhero-horror movie Brightburn, which entails a couple who live on a farm, find an alien baby who has crash-landed in their back year, raise the child as their own, and discover he has superpowers. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD ( Buy on Amazon)
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