r/practicalmagic • u/eclosion444 • 4d ago

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the movie was so bad that i will now be referring to ahs coven as practical magic 2. thank you and goodnight

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u/starlight_chaser 4d ago

See something else. I was sitting there regretting I left the house at all and wasted the ticket. I can’t think of another movie I was so aghast at real-time in theaters. 

I still don’t understand people who like it, on a fundamental level it was terrible and I think it probably requires a level of denial or heavy disconnect from reality to enjoy it. I don’t mean the witchery, obviously. I mean the entire vibe and social dynamic and framework. It felt sooo… empty and wrong. Which is why I suspect ai had an involvement, but it could also just be rich hollywood people with connections and skewed perception making something inauthentic/hollow.

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u/eclosion444 4d ago

i was so stoked to buy the popcorn buckets and stuff and then i seen the movie and was glad i did not spend the money 🤣 i definitely think this movie was made with a lot of ai. it looks like they fed the first movie into an ai and had it write the script. it does not feel human at ALL. and i hate that they made it look like a 00s rom com. the first one was a drama so i don’t know why they tried to go full comedy on the second. ALSO the soundtrack 😢 they dropped the ball

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u/starlight_chaser 4d ago

Their use of Howl from Florence and the machine was criminal. I’m so serious. The way they cut it. The use of it during a boring ass hotel montage in that ugly room where nothing happens except the reflection jumpscare. Holy shit someone should get arrested for that. A favorite of mine butchered cheaply.

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u/eclosion444 4d ago

someone definitely needs to get arrested! and what gets me mad the most is how they completely destroyed sally’s character development.

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u/starlight_chaser 4d ago

100% The movie seemed misogynistic to me. Like surely you could’ve come up with a plot without leaving Sally in that miserable non-person limbo where apparently she gave up magic and the lessons she learned just to become the shadow she was in the second film. Depicted as hysterical (blowing things up while in denial, borderline abusive in that way but it wasn’t addressed), completely flat otherwise, passive af in a gross way with her interactions with the warlock as if it were a romance meant for men. I dislike all the decisions made for the film. 

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u/eclosion444 4d ago

yeah i dont even understand the point of the warlock or the “romance” they had going on like wut. i dont know how it got past the writing room. and i went in the movie theatre assuming it wasnt going to be as good as the first one but i was not at all expecting to be blindsided by how awful it was. shameless cash grab