Mandy review axed (and why) (plus review notes)

So when I went into watching Mandy I don't think I knew that Casper Kelly had directed the Cheddar Goblin segment, or I only had a very vague idea of it. I am not close friends with Casper or anything but I do know him through Atlanta film/comedy stuff and he's familiar with my work. Recently I paneled at Monsterama, an Atlanta horror con, and got added last minute as a moderator to a Nancy Collins panel and as the panel started I realized Shane Morton, the guy who designed the Cheddar Goblin, was also on the panel with me. They both follow me on twitter now and I would feel really weird about reviewing a movie they both worked on after interacting with them both. It's a small segment of the movie but it's what a lot of people have talked about too and it would feel uncomfortable and unethical to me to do a review of it now even though neither of them wrote or directed the full movie or starred in it or anything.

Here is me and a Cheddar Goblin at Monsterama- https://twitter.com/plentyofalcoves/status/1048959654120902656

here is more Cheddar Goblin info- https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/mandy-movie-cheddar-goblin-too-many-cooks#

Here are my notes on it which I took by hand and then transcribed, completely unedited. I don't remember what all of it means lol. It probably has spoilers depending on how spoiler-sensitive you are. Here's a stream-of-consciousness look at my thought process as I watch a movie-

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Font grainy 44? Color VFX hyperstylized vibrant female lead- looks Antichrist surreal slow-paced not idyllic? Menacing weird chapter titles weird villain Crystal lake not cartoonish good use of sound cliched dialogue Hellraiser sound and light- music cues, abstracted, the natural world- animal victims, effective layered images, gentle, shy, talented artist, honest, cheap animations, Adaptation- casting, camera stability issues, fatphobic, weirdly quiet, Mad Max, Carpenter music, Evil Dead but blacksmith, John Wick, animations- like something out of adult swim, striking images, “You have a death wish” “snowflake”, art film sensibility, Drag Me to Hell, ridiculous, filmed close up a lot, dark, murky, A+ practical effects, SHE, hard to hear/understand sometimes, Valhalla Rising, nonsense, this movie over my head, nature - cute, magnificent, innocent, deliberately constructed, phallic, Texas Cahinsaw/II, reverse smoke, Cage's wild eyes, set design, dilated pupils, good performances, weird symbology, but meaning?, still a revenge movie Scariest parts most shocking visuals not the fightsI do want to check out beyond the black rainbow now The Cell