{"id":37065,"date":"2022-04-06T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=37065"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:56:28","slug":"bryan-loves-you-2008-collectors-edition-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/bryan-loves-you-2008-collectors-edition-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Loves You (2008): Collector\u2019s Edition [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bryanlovesyou-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bryanlovesyou-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bryanlovesyou-still.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bryanlovesyou-still-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bryanlovesyou-still-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>Director Seth Landau\u2019s \u201cBryan Loves You\u201d is the prime example of a movie that has a great idea but never quite sticks the execution. With the film\u2019s trademark mask and set up, \u201cBryan Loves You\u201d has every single chance to be a terrifying tale about cults, hive minds and indoctrination. Instead, a lot of what unfolds is rambling filler that never quite amounts to much of a movie.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Landau also makes the mistake of setting his film in 1993 and compensates for the found footage format by literally explaining that \u201ceveryone on the compound has a camera.\u201d But, of course. \u201cBryan Loves You\u201d starts off fairly well, exploring a small town in Arizona being consumed by a cult. Working off the convoluted myth of a man named Bryan who was involved in a holy war of some kind. His legend lived on as his followers don the mask symbolizing him, and furiously protecting his honor. Landau does a great job of setting the picture with protagonist Jonathan hoping to infiltrate the cult.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s even a great shot of a very loyal class room of high schoolers who adorn his mask during the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a perfect chance for social commentary but Landau never quite takes advantage, compensating for the limited budget. \u201cBryan Loves You\u201d could be a cerebral horror film with some interesting ideas about the appeal of the cult lifestyle, and how fascism can creep up on small areas of our world. But nothing ever really develops in to a complete horror film with a concrete message. So much of it feels under developed and half baked, relying on more surface level tension, rather than getting under our skin. I appreciate the effort of \u201cBryan Loves You,\u201d it just fails as psychological horror, found footage horror, and drama.<\/p>\n<p>The Blu-Ray for \u201cBryan Loves You\u201d includes \u201cThey&#8217;re Still Talking About Me,\u201d a forty five minutes Zoom interview with George Wendt conducted by Seth Landau. \u201cYour Attitude Needs to Change\u201d is another fifty minute Zoom interview with Tiffany Shepis conducted by Seth Landau. \u201cGet Out of Here\u201d is an hour long Zoom interview with Daniel Roebuck conducted by Seth Landau. Daniel Schweger later joins in. \u201cHave a Pleasant Day\u201d is a thirty minute Zoom interview with Brinke Stevens conducted by Seth Landau. There\u2019s a new 2022 Audio Commentary with Seth Landau, which can be accessed under the Setup Menu, and the 2008 Commentary with Seth Landau, James Oster, Elissa dowling and Dr. Phillip Baker, which can also be accessed under the Setup Menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Seth Landau\u2019s \u201cBryan Loves You\u201d is the prime example of a movie that has a great idea but never quite sticks the execution. With the film\u2019s trademark mask and set up, \u201cBryan Loves You\u201d has every single chance to be a terrifying tale about cults, hive minds and indoctrination. Instead, a lot of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37067,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065\/revisions\/37067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}