This month in movies I don't get but everyone else seems to love...

[Dark Jaguar]

It Follows

I can appreciate it on a technical level, but while The Babadook seemed to have a really important lesson about a fundamental part of the human psyche, It Follows just seemed to be about an STD style monster. I didn't really understand what made this so "important" and "thoughtful" to, well, everyone else.

Combined with my utter inability to "get" a number of other movies around here, can anyone put together a common thread demonstrating exactly what part of the human soul I'm missing?

[Great Rumbler]

All parts.

[Dark Jaguar]

Huh... maybe I need to harvest those parts to make myself complete? Alright, I'll go get the shovel...

[Great Rumbler]

Just nip down to the local Planned Parenthood and pick up all the parts you need. It's that easy.

[Dark Jaguar]

Yeah! That documentary with the talking jet and mashed potato man told me I could get free baby brains that way.

(What? That sentence of mine made about as much sense as anything else said in that "debate".)

[A Black Falcon]

Is this some horror movie? I've never heard of it.

[Dark Jaguar]

It's one of those cult hits, like the Babadook.

Oh, incidentally, did you enjoy the Lego movie?

[A Black Falcon]

If Babadook is a word I have no clue what it means, don't think I have heard that before.

As for the Lego movie... why haven't I watched that yet? I have no good excuse. I should soon. I don't watch movies very often (this is the primary reason I haven't seen it), but this is one I really should see, for sure...

[Dark Jaguar]

Babadook is not a word, it's a nonsense word that a kid's book would come up with.

[A Black Falcon]

Wait, you're confusing me. Is that something from a movie, or not?

[Dark Jaguar]

The Babadook is what the movie is called. It's an Australian movie about a children's book monster come to life. It's also WAY more than that (and not at all that), so don't write it off as yet another stupid monster flick like that premise sounds.