July 8 -
August 27
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And... I can't BELIEVE this film got so many negative reviews from UD-ers here. I laughed my ass off!!! I haven't laughed so many times watching a movie since... the very early 1990's watching the Z.A.Z. comedies! It was hysterical! One of the last great funny movies I've seen. Mainstream entertainment just does
not get any better than this in the new millennium!
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A huge disappointment, I'd heard it was a masterpiece. It's not funny at all for a horror-comedy. There are actually too many in-references - they even pile them on top of each other. One of the guys is named Chris Romero and the other guy is J. Carpenter Hooper. C'mon - 3 in a row, 2 in the same name? Pace yourself, Fred. Stylistically, there were a few really good horror moments. But overall, it's just not really satisfying. The writing falls flat as comedy and the direction isn't interesting enough to hold my attention. Plus, most of the casting choices are bland. I knew it wasn't a good sign when they got the actor who played Rusty in National Lampoon's European Vacation. He's not a strong enough actor to play a lead. Tom Atkins is the best thing in the movie and he takes his role way too seriously. Even when he's spitting out 14 one-liners in the space of 30 seconds.
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What's there to say? It's one of the greatest mainstream comedies ever made.
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I think Saw now wins the dubious honor of replacing whatever I had ranked #1 in my: Worst Horror Movie I've Ever Seen list. And there are some unbelievable stinkers I've forced myself to sit through. I don't think a single one irritated me as much as Saw (although, Blair Witch Project comes
really close). The film is a failure in every way a movie can fail. It is poorly written, poorly acted, poorly visualized. It's boring, it's ugly, it's pretentious, it's crudely dramatized, the music is awful, the dialogue is terrible. It's not scary, it's not shocking, it's unintelligent, it's uninteresting. The characters are stupid, the filmmakers are clearly morons. And it as well as its' sequels, are ripoffs. Of- Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, and Argento's Deep Red, among others I assume. It is a completely worthless piece of trash that thinks it's being brilliant. It's nothing more than a relentlessly amateur and pathetic imitation.
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Not a horror movie, as I expected (it's an action / drama / thriller). But it also is not entertaining. Unless you hate everyone in the entire world. But the reason people fight and get angry and argue? Because they know there is good in the world and there are people worth liking. If you hate everyone... This movie is for you. However, I give it credit for being technically slick. Which it is. If you like today's video games and action movies more than horror, I'd recommend this to you.
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My expectations with this one were about as low as they could be. And surprisingly, it works
very well for about an hour. It's a much better set-up than I expected, the energy level is high, the characters are surprisingly tolerable, and there are some genuinely shocking sequences that even distrubed
me. But when the movie only features the trucks causing terror, the whole concept becomes less intimidating. Then when you find out they can communicate with us? All the scariness goes right out the window and it becomes pure silliness. Plus - the AC/DC soundtrack is way too repetitive, as are the shots of bodies just laying around all over the place. Watch if you've nothing better to do.
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I was
dying to see this for years now. At first I thought this about cars that could move by themselves. But it's really about a gang of people killing people with their cars. I guess. Another Peter Weir movie (director of Picnic at Haning Rock), a very interesting director. The story is hard to understand and even harder to describe. But the style and atmosphere are pure '70s excellence. It's one hell of a movie. Maybe someone else can explain it to me.
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And here's one I had no idea it would be any good. It's basically more of a supernatural thriller than a horror movie. But there's a very memorable scene where a couple of people trapped in a nightmare are hassled by dead people trying to make them feel guilty. Elizabeth Hurley is great in this one, and the lead Craig Fairbrass is built and buff as hell then spends the last 5 minutes with his shirt off as well as other scenes. The acting is excellent, the writing is good, the direction is stylish. The special effects are okay. The only problem with the movie is that the ending is a little too wacky. It gets long, drawn out, and there're too many fight scenes. Gets downright boring. Which is a good thing the guy's shirt is off or else I don't know how anyone would get through that ending.
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Are the Horror-Gods trying to
punish me or something??? Another member of the "Thank God I didn't blind-buy this on DVD" Club, for sure. I had heard some people say it was pretty good. It's not. It's awful. It's almost completely cliched. Just a rip-off of: Carrie (& The Rage: Carrie II), The Craft, May, Devil in the Flesh (with Rose McGowan), and the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies. The acting is awful, the writing sucks, the music score is beyond abysmal (completely feels like a made-for-TV thriller), the blood / gore is unimpressive. You name it - any flaw a movie like this could have, this one has it. There are however, maybe 2 good ideas here both happening at the end. So... If you like torture, check it out.
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Very good. The ending gets a little too goofy, but this is a surprisingly well-made little "sleeper" type horror film. A supernatural kind of twist on Alfred Hitchcock's classy, camerawork-driven suspense horror. Good production design, good acting, a lot of great little elements. Not surprisingly - to me, it's written by the guy who wrote the controversial Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.
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Bad. Total cliche! Everything was cliched. The music, the story, the "drama" music, the "scary loud rumbling" music... WTF?!? How could the director of Ginger Snaps be so clueless?!! It was stupid beyond stupid! There are only 2 good things about the entire movie. 1 was the scene on the cliff with... let's just say "the sheep" (with a scene that surprising, it shouldn't be spoiled by me). And the scenes with the little girl Ebrill
not acting like a freak. Which is what her performance predictably turns to, for the purpose of a cliched ending. I honestly expected this movie to be better... It was idiotic, condescending, boring, and completely cliched.
Life's too short to have to sit through movies that don't remind you of several other movies.
Great laughs!
