Nanticoke (2025)
Last Watch Date - November 1, 2025
Total Times Watched - Once
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I know for a fact that this movie was NOT made in 2025 because I know people who saw its premiere last year! And they mentioned this was like 10 years in the making. Things move a bit slower in Nanticoke. If you happen to go to the area, you'll see it's still stuck in 1901.
This movie... Let me explain the plot to you. I know you're thinking "Hey spoilers!" but what I'm going to tell you has no bearing on the actual story itself. This whiny dude is a failed baseball player from Nanticoke who .. then moves back to Nanticoke later. He fails because his knee blew out, but for whatever reason they're naming the local little league field after him and giving him the key to the city! There's no reason for this to be in the movie, it does nothing to move things along. There is also some sort of military mixup in THEORY but really the military isn't doing anything in this movie either except getting blamed for something that I never see them doing. In fact, there's a scene with a military dude saying the police chief is on his ass. So the police are the ones doing it? Again, this doesn't matter as it has no effect on anything plot-wise. It's just kind of filler.
Stephen King is notorious for not knowing how to end movies, but this takes it to a whole new level. It just sort of ends. It's a whole bunch of cuts between totally different places and then poof! we're done.
I appreciate that this is someone's dream to make, but they desperately needed an editor and a sound guy. There are scenes that drag on for no reason other than to pad time. There is a bunch of random exposition dump scenes, like one in a STROBING HALLWAY. WHY? And why do none of the people in this scene suggest moving to a normal room? Because they didn't have an editor, that's why! The sound fluctuates between being completely unintelligble and distorting from how high the levels are. It's a clown show of poor decisions.
This is super nitpicky but what is up with the generic royalty-free music for the end credits? It sounds like something you'd hear in an outlet mall. Not only is it BAD but it doesn't fit with the theme or mood of the movie AT ALL.
There was precisely one part of this movie worth watching and it was when Failed Baseball Guy's mistress said she was going to get her cake too, then ordering a funnel cake at a little league concession stand.
Recommended?
This movie, like the city it's named after, should probably not exist.
