r/SmileMovie

I don't have much to say. I just wanted to say that I loved it. I watched the first one last Halloween, and thought about watching the second one once every month or two, but wanted to save it for Halloween. Unfortunately I had the ending spoiled, but I loved Naomi Scott's acting, it was great. It's not as scary as the first, and I prefer the ending of the first (probably because of the spoiling) but the acting and writing were better, and Smile 1's best qualities were already the writing and acting.

I'm currently writing this in bed, with the lights on, checking behind the bed, and on both sides of the bed every few minutes. The mirror jumpscare, that got me more scared than anything else in the series besides Lollipop's design.

For a mainstream studio movie, I’m shocked at how dark it is. And I’m surprised how deep it goes into exploring mental illness, guilt and trauma. You can see how her plight of no one believing what she’s going through feels like how people must feel when they are suffering from mental illness and no one can understand what they’re going through. The ending was legit horrifying. I can’t believe this was such a huge hit. With the general public given how grim it is, but it actually was a very good movie.
Why do they play the song “lollipop” at the end credits? Is there some significance? Curious to watch the second one now,I assume it’s more of the same?

As much as I would have liked to have seen Kyle Gallner have more screentime as Joel, the more I thought about it, it would not be a good thing. If Joel survived and then had failed to save Skye after already failing to save Rose who he clearly still loved, it would just be a complete disservice to his character. Also he had just completely blew up his original mission to kill the drug dealer and pass the curse to his brother, instead killing both of them and passing it to Lewis. He likely would have been too grief stricken to have helped anyone else and would have gone about his life. Also, a movie where he's being the lead would have been likely too repetitive to the 1st one and also movie wise probably wouldn't be entertaining. We already saw him doing the whole investigation part with Rose, we didn't need a repeat. Smile 2 works so well as it is because it introduces an entirely new protagonist, a protagonist not typically seen in horror movies, a popstar. I'm satisfied that it was made that way in order to raise the stakes and have the sequel be set in a world with a completely different setting and where the sequel isn't a carbon copy of the first film.

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Look at that lil goober peeking out, such a silly lil prankster

That doesn’t mean the government will literally be able to do anything about it, but all that extra attention, preparation, and prevention could still make things harder for “Smile” Genius plan or should the demon tone down its ambitions?