Damsel & The Netflix Movie Curse

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A movie about a girl scrambling through the dark to escape a dragon for a whole movie would actually be really really good in the right hands.

Netflix producer: What if... Other Netflix producer: Yeah? Netflix producer: ...damnsel...not in distress? Other Netflix producer: You damn genius.

Ya know, Damsel would make a kick ass game with diff levels inside the cave and with diff endings the player can choose

the one real thing the movie has going for it is that the costuming is EXQUISITE. the costumers really paid attention to different layers and parts that go into a period-inspired gown. the scene where Elodie is dressed for the wedding is soooo well-done. i legit am excited for if/when someone like Bernadette Banner reviews the costuming in "Damsel".

We're consuming movies and series like we consume news articles. We consume it once and forget it ever existed.

Elodie never actually tries to explain to the dragon that she's not an actual blood relative. Also, why even have the need for a fake marriage at all? Nobody from the village seems to think that it's remotely suspicious that the Prince keeps getting married, and all of his wives mysteriously disappeared after the wedding.

What's annoying is that doing a medieval horror version of Ready or Not with a dragon is actually a really good idea and the hollywood/netflix content pipeline ruined it

Oh Looooord. I remember Bright. It has the honor of being the movie that made me realize 'You know what? My life is getting more finite everyday. I don't need to sit here and burn hours suffering to finish something simply because I started it.' Now, if I find no enjoyment in a piece of media, I just put it down and no longer feel guilty. Thanks, Bright, for teaching me a valuable lesson!

I did appreciate that they wrote the Stepmother to be sympathetic, and not a clichéd Evil Stepparent. She was suspicious of the Queen, and tried to warn Elodie. Though it felt a little distracting that Elodie kept addressing her as "Stepmother", and not her actual name.

The woman who does the voice of the dragon is Shohreh Aghdashloo. She is an Iranian actress with this unique great smoker's voice. Her best role might be in The Expanse where she plays a foul mouthed politician. I really recommend the show.

I also just loved how they glossed over the fact that not only has this dragon been killing innocent young girls, she has been punishing women for the decisions of a man. Like, yeah it's not ideal to have to sacrifice your daughter, but at the end of the day, they suffer the most. And I can imagine parents of later generations just distancing themselves from their daughters so it hurts less/not at all when they get sacrificed. Obviously in the movie they got around the pain differently, but I feel like if they hadn't taken that route, they would've found another way to lessen the pain, which to the dragon is the reason to do this. So yeah, using women to punish men for their actions will always just hurt the women...

That whole sequence of you begging the dragon to kill her is comedy gold

Hilarious that the best netflix movies are the ones that they had no involvment in, they just distributed to other countrys

The saddest part to me is it seems like the CGI department really put their all into making the visuals look phenomenal for this movie to just be… well what it is. And idc what some people’s opinions are CGI truly is one of the most impressive forms of art when it’s done well.

Netflix found that many of their users like having shows playing in the background as they cook, clean, etc - and it looks like they've optmized their output for that purpose

I watched the trailer for Damsel on Netflix and said "well I feel like I've seen the whole movie" and then promptly felt like I could move on 😂

Damsel has one of those premises that get posted on tumblr like "what if the princess saved herself from the dragon! It'd be so good" but without the addition of like the princess then riding off with her girlfriend into the sunset or whatever

I feel like a better twist would’ve been that the dragon didn’t care she was being tricked. She just wanted to murder and torment helpless girls.

22:06 “And she’s dead. End of the movie” ”bring me to life” plays 🤣